My sister will call today and remind me Feb. 23 was our folk's anniversary.
But...did you know on this date.....?
1836 - The siege of the Alamo began.
1945 - Marines raise flags on Iwo Jima.
1954 - Children first given polio vaccine.
Fifty years ago today I returned to school a little bit late after having Washington's Birthday off the day before (a Tuesday). My parents had taken me with them on the 22nd to a huge Farm Equipment Show held in downtown Kansas City, Missouri and then spent the night at my sister's apartment in Topeka before returning home the next morning. My sister had one of those itty bitty little TV's with a screen about 4" x 4". I stayed up past midnight watching Mickey Rooney in Boys Town (1938).
I'm no Marilu Henner, but I remember some of the craziest stuff that everyone else forgets.
Holy Cow, post: 359181, member: 50 wrote: Fifty years ago today I returned to school a little bit late after having Washington's Birthday off the day before (a Tuesday). My parents had taken me with them on the 22nd to a huge Farm Equipment Show held in downtown Kansas City, Missouri and then spent the night at my sister's apartment in Topeka before returning home the next morning. My sister had one of those itty bitty little TV's with a screen about 4" x 4". I stayed up past midnight watching Mickey Rooney in Boys Town (1938).
I'm no Marilu Henner, but I remember some of the craziest stuff that everyone else forgets.
I lol'd at the Marilu Henner reference
Also the day that the new ALTA Standards take effect.
Holy Cow, post: 359181, member: 50 wrote: ...I'm no Marilu Henner, but I remember some of the craziest stuff that everyone else forgets.
I wonder what she was wearing that day....:snarky:
She can tell you. Also if it was a standard February day or abnormally warm or cool or windy or calm.
Mr Holy Cow,
I am positive that we saw things live on TV that they don't allow the public to know about these days.
:beer:
Like Jack Ruby taking out Lee Harvey Oswald and astronauts attempting NOT to drown in the ocean?
The pop, pop, pop heard just before seeing Robert Kennedy dying?
Head bashing in the park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
Viet Nam at the supper table, live and in color.
Watching Oral Roberts heal the infirm just by touching them on Sunday morning?
Or did you have something else in mind?
This discussion of Feb. 23rd on a surveyor's website would be incomplete without a reference to this ancient Roman festival:
Holy Cow, post: 359181, member: 50 wrote: Fifty years ago today I returned to school a little bit late after having Washington's Birthday off the day before (a Tuesday). My parents had taken me with them on the 22nd to a huge Farm Equipment Show held in downtown Kansas City, Missouri and then spent the night at my sister's apartment in Topeka before returning home the next morning. My sister had one of those itty bitty little TV's with a screen about 4" x 4". I stayed up past midnight watching Mickey Rooney in Boys Town (1938).
I'm no Marilu Henner, but I remember some of the craziest stuff that everyone else forgets.
1966, OK was 13 years old, have no idea where I was or what I did. If it was a school day I probably went to school. If a Sunday my dad made me go to church. If a Saturday probably worked with dad on the farm.
