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Paul McCartney's personal photos of the 1964 trip to the USA.

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www.theguardian.com

‘Suddenly, we were in Wonderland’: Paul McCartney on his lost photos of Beatlemania

The pictures the singer took of his friends and bandmates give a Beatle’s-eye view of the mania around the band in 1964. Seen here for the first time, these extraordinary behind-the-scenes moments capture four young men on the brink of immortality
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

I remember watching their first appearance on that Ed Sullivan show.

memories, memories ...
 
NutmegCT said:
Paul McCartney's personal photos of the 1964 trip to the USA.

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www.theguardian.com

‘Suddenly, we were in Wonderland’: Paul McCartney on his lost photos of Beatlemania

The pictures the singer took of his friends and bandmates give a Beatle’s-eye view of the mania around the band in 1964. Seen here for the first time, these extraordinary behind-the-scenes moments capture four young men on the brink of immortality
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

I remember watching their first appearance on that Ed Sullivan show.

memories, memories ...
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Me too! Feb 9th 1964. After that I would spend lots of time flipping through the Sears catalog looking at electric guitars.
 
John Turney said:
Go ahead, just make us feel old. :jester:
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Yeah.
Half way through my thirteenth year for the Beatles Sullivan first appearance. Completed the first year of college when Armstrong and Aldrin stood on the Moon. Then-girlfriend and I watched in my family's living room with my parents.
 
Doc and I are the same vintage. Watched the Beatles on Sullivan with mom and my two sisters. Mom's observance: "They're cute!" I wanted Beatle boots in the worst way!

Watched the lunar landing in the student union cafeteria at LSU.
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Doc and I are the same vintage. Watched the Beatles on Sullivan with mom and my two sisters. Mom's observance: "They're cute!" I wanted Beatle boots in the worst way!

Watched the lunar landing in the student union cafeteria at LSU.
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I did the same... watched the lunar landing AND the ping-pong selective service numbers being drawn in the student union.
 
John Turney said:
You all aren't helping. I was in grad school for the lunar landing.
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I have your back John. Obviously he had a typo in his post.... he meant to say

"I was in grade school for the lunar landing."

There, all better! :cheerful:
 
I was Engineering Manager at a medium-size company, when someone noted that I had graduated from college before any of my employees were born.
 
I was a month shy of getting out of the Army at Ft Hood for the Beatles. 3 months shy of 30 yrs old for the moon landing. I’m surprised I still remember them.
 
I watched the Challenger catastrophe in kindergarten.
 
I was about 11 when Armstrong walked on the moon, watched it with my brothers in the family room at the time. Challenger, was out to lunch when it happened, we spent the afternoon watching coverage on a rolled in tv instead of working. Some members of management were upset that we "wasted" the half day yet still got paid.
 
Gliderman8 said:
I did the same... watched the lunar landing AND the ping-pong selective service numbers being drawn in the student union.
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Oh, yeah - forgot about that! Same here; my number was 262. Never will forget THAT! (Sure spent a lot of time in the student union...)
 
And my lucky number was 1.

No happy campers in my family that day.
 
Can't say I recall my draft number. I'd gone to the Air Force recruiter and taken the "tests" for enlistment soon after my sophomore year was over, all set to go but got the draft notice anyway. Left for service in August '70.

One other event in memory is the Kent State one. My HS pal and I had gone to the Kent campus the month before, to visit one of my cousins and look the place over. It was absolutely bucolic. Some called it "Apathy U."
 
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