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Post by qs on Oct 3, 2016 13:01:20 GMT -5
65 years ago there was a shot heard 'round the world! I was in the New Rochelle public library when it happened. Where were you?
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Post by GuyF on Oct 3, 2016 14:42:53 GMT -5
Swimming around my dad's testicles as he traveled Europe with the US Army.
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Post by ic59 on Oct 3, 2016 15:23:56 GMT -5
I was playing an intramural BB game in the Harris Gym (Iona Prep). It's now the Rudin Center, and soon to be a Performing Arts Center. Some kid stuck his head in and yelled, "Bobby Thompson just hit a HR and the Giants won the pennant." Being a Cardinals fan, I didn't get very excited.
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Post by chelseadal on Oct 3, 2016 16:41:40 GMT -5
Waiting to hear OT tell us "did you hear that shot, the world is ending."
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Post by Z-73 on Oct 3, 2016 17:43:23 GMT -5
I was born on September 10, so I was enjoying my 24th day on earth. I was in Bay Ridge (probably in a crib) but I think I heard something about some Giants winning a pennant. I didn't know what that meant.
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Post by gregcrow on Oct 3, 2016 19:00:14 GMT -5
Swimming around my dad's testicles as he traveled Europe with the US Army. Didn't need that picture! |
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Post by oldtimer on Oct 4, 2016 15:56:22 GMT -5
Waiting to hear OT tell us "did you hear that shot, the world is ending." CHELS.......I was playing poker with 6 friends in 2nd floor apt...Their all gone now...We actually had to restrain one of them from jumping out a second story window in celebration... It was mild compared to an early eve when the sky lit up in a blaze over the Pacific ocean over the eastern coast of Okinawa...We were on a hilltop preparing for the invasion of Japan...Off in the distance we observed the first of the thousands upon thousands to follow anti-air craft shells explode...As we watched the sky became brighter and brighter as the explosions came closer to the coast and the thousand of ships that cluttered the inner harbors... ''What the hell is going on'' was the question cry as we ran for shelter from the falling burst shells...The sky got brighter as the shelling increased...The sky became a sight that would put the largest Macy Day firework display to shame... Then the word reached us....THE WAR WAS OVER...THE JAPANESE HAD SURRENDERED.......We would soon be going home and not to Japan where the our predicted chances were not very good... Bobby Thompson's homer was a great thrill and a moment in sports I'll never forget but that far away early eve celebration will never be beat...  |
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Post by Super on Oct 4, 2016 16:24:31 GMT -5
OT on topic again.
I won't bore you with Hanoi stories-- not the "greatest generation" only the result of them.
I don't remember '51 for my Giants--only '54.
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Post by oldtimer on Oct 6, 2016 11:23:01 GMT -5
Memories....Thank God for giving them to us....If I have told this related story before please forgive...
As a child brought up in a immigrant Italian neighborhood I needed to learn to speak that language.....I subsequently by a very early age could speak it fluently and even read some.....As the years went by its use was lost by deaths and movements and I was also a victim....Some 60 years later at the 85 I suffered a stroke which left me in a semi-coma for about 6 months...One day in my recovery stage, I suddenly had a revelation and was struck by the ability to talk the forgotten language I had not used for at least 60 years....It's memory and use has increased daily....
I discussed this with the visiting psychologist who likes to stop in my room to discuss sports...On one of these visits I questioned him about the above story...He answered.......''You have made a good observation...We are only beginning to understand the workings of the mind...It's storage space is vast and somewhere and somehow you unlocked the long lost memories...''
That episode fully further convinced me that there is a much deeper explanation then the accepted theory of evolution.....!!!!!
59..........I promise as soon as practice starts to concentrate on basketball and its future and let the memories simmer in their storage space.....I am making plans to attend next Saturday's events...I now need some extra attention, as my electric wheelchair has been in repair for over a month...I seethe with anger, but accept its long repair as a reflection of today's work habits...It is probably sitting in some forgotten corner of the factory...!!!
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