Just Another Country?

This full-page ad is from the July 18, 1969 issue of Time.

No, it isn't the right side of a two-page spread.  This was it.

Grand idea, ain't it?  Everybody on Earth feeling connected and family-like?  Until next week, do your part to help it happen.

  

Say Hello to "aJn"

You can tell that "old" newspapers' texts were typed by humans because of simple little transpositions as found in the caption of the photo below.

This happy image is from the July 18, 1969 Tulsa World.  See you next week -- I'll try to be on time!

  

Not a Lot Earlier

This is from the July 18, 1969 Tulsa World.

Actually, the steps took place about 15 minutes later than this, about 40 minutes after the hour, not 20.  But who's quibbling?  What excitement!  (Please pardon the tape discoloration.)

Were you watching?  I think I was put to bed, and had to watch one of the zillions of playbacks the next day.

See you next Monday.

  

A New World!

 It's been awhile since I shared a big excerpt.  This hunk o' history is from Time's July 18, 1969 issue.

Thanks for viewing this 600dpi wizadry!  See you next Monday.

  

Two Filler Moon Mentions

The Apollo missions and NASA so filled the air that little tidbits which could be tied in became good filler pieces.

These two adjoining bits are from the July 18, 1969 Tulsa World.  Regarding the last sentence of the "coffee" blurb, what a societal change coffee-drinking has undergone!  "Sure beats stone-cold coffee."  Take that, you elitist cold-coffee drinkers!  

See you next week after I subdue my outrage.  See you then!

  

You May Need a Napkin!

 ... According to this gag photo in the July 18, 1969 Tulsa World.

Of course, this was a modern-day riff on the 1902 Georges Méliès flick A Trip to the Moon.

See ya next Monday!