Honored 52 Years Ago Today!

Yep, it's from the August 16, 1969 Tulsa World.

Check the entertainment.  Who wouldn't want to see Bill Dana, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Ames, and Flip Wilson?!?  That's the greatness of America, buddy!

See you next week.  In the meantime, I hope somebody honors you.

  

Courage!

It's from the July 25, 1969 Time.

Beyond the profundity of the written word, for the past 50 years I have always felt that this 1909 photo of Robert Peary was emulated in 1932 by Bela Lugosi as the Speaker of the Law in The Island of Lost Souls.

What do you think?

See you next week for more silly seriousity!

  

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!

  

Getcher Own Miniplanet Right Hyar, Folks!

From the Tulsa World of August 23, 1969:

Don't sneeze on the asteroid Geographos, they say.  You might catch your death!

See you next Monday!

 

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!

  

Plaque on the Moon!

From the July 14, 1969 Newsweek, we have a summary of the plaque attached to Apollo 11.

See you next Monday.

  

Cross the Country! (from ground level)

From the August 13, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise:

I mean, they'd already crossed the country from space, over and over!

See you next Monday.

 

Gitcher Moon Rock Duplicate Right Hyar!

 From the July 22, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise:

Well, it's like the Moon Rocks.  I mean, they have rocks on the Moon, and they have rocks in Hobart.  So, yeah, this guy's rocks are like Moon Rocks, right?

Let me know when you hear back from the philosophers on this one.  Until then, just come back next Monday and see what I dig up for next week!

  

All Aboard for Mongo!

From the August 4, 1969 Newsweek.

Where do they get their far-out ideas?

See you next Monday.

  

Don't Let the Mystery Fade!

 In the Tuesday, July 22, 1969 Tulsa World, Billy Graham's syndicated column worries that learning more about creation may make people take creation for granted.

That's just a silly worry, don't you agree?  The more we learn, the more we learn that we don't yet know!  But I suspect that Graham and I agree that the pie-in-the-sky optimism of STAR TREKlike worldviews are silly.  Greed will always be a human trait.

See you next week.

  

Available from Clarke's Good Clothes (in 1969 That Is!)

 From the Tulsa World of July 22, 1969.

Au revoir until next week!

  

We're Supposed to Be on Mars!

 From the August 20, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise:

See you next week!

  

Next ... A Casino on the Moon?

 From the July 22, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, a pair of Moon bits printed side-by-side.

See you next week.

  

Get Ready for a Moon Walk!

 From the July 19, 1969 Tulsa World:

How convenient to have all the continued stories' continuations printed together on the subsequent page!

See ya next week.

  

The Emerging Face of the Moon -- Peek-a-Boo!

From the August 8, 1969 Time Magazine:

See you next week!

  

Salute to the Loneliest Man in the Universe

One of our Space-Age heroes, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, died April 28.  The title of today's blog post certainly applied to him as he piloted Columbia while Aldrin and Armstrong descended to land on the Moon.

This article is from the August 18, 1969 Tulsa World.

See you next Monday!

  

"Astronauts Land on Moon"

 Page 5 of the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise comprised various photos concerning the events of this historic Moon-day.

See you next Moon-Day!

  

The Crew at Home

From the August 15, 1969 Tulsa World:

See you next Monday, it's a date!

  

Russki Salutes!

From the July 22, 1969 Tulsa World:

See you next Monday, right?

  

No Picnic -- But No Ants Either!

From the July 15, 1969 issue of Look: