Where were you 30 years ago today?

[vping]

I still remember it as if it were yesterday. I was 13 and in an airport on St. Croix. Devestated me as a teen.

 

[Basil]

I was in Albuquerque New Mexico working on my BSEE studying for an upcoming test in my electro-magnetic fields and waves class. I am a life-long fan of the Beatles' music, but that's as far as it goes for me.

 

[martx-5]

I was home (same house I'm in today) when I heard the news.

 

[NutmegCT]

I was working in a furniture factory in southern Wisconsin, rubbing English Oak stain into an office chair frame. We had the radio on.

The whole room came to a halt and we stood in complete disbelief.

Soon after, I began wearing "Lennon-style" round lens glasses. Tho' my eyes have changed a bit (!), I still have those frames upstairs somewhere.

Tom

 

[PAUL161]

We were building a casino in Atlantic city, NJ. The whole job shut down for the rest of the day. It was a horrible time.

 

[DNK]

Connecticut Ave on the way to a job in DC. Stopped off at a 7-11 and heard it there.

 

[drooartz]

I was in 2nd grade at the time -- I do remember (vaguely) coming home and watching about it on the TV. Sad stuff.

 

[DrEntropy]

Just leaving Sewickley for Florida. We sent a card of sympathy to Yoko. Just signed our first names.

Always wondered if she ever looked thru the piles of those things.

 

[scoutll]

Stationed at SHAPE in Belgium.. It was kind of a shock, but not near the way The Kennedy assassinations, or the attempt on Reagan' was.

 

[DrEntropy]

Agreed. It was a nonsensical event. Who could be so deranged as to consider <span style="font-style: italic">that</span> as something worth the consequence.

"They walk among us."

The human world is a strange and amazing place.

 

[vagt6]

Lennon was very connected, didn't rest on his laurels. Amazing artist.

One of our worst fears, to be struck down by a raving lunatic. Like Doc said, it's a crazy place, this world.

 

[Basil]

Lennon was very connected, didn't rest on his laurels. Amazing artist.

One of our worst fears, to be struck down by a raving lunatic. Like Doc said, it's a crazy place, this world.

I loved his early (Beatles) music (I even have a John Lennon Signature Rickenbacker). However, I will keep to myself what I thought of him outside of his musical talent.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

"You may say I'm a dreamer; but I'm not the only one..."

I wrote a sermon several years ago based on that line. One of my better attempts, if I do say so.

 

[14dna]

My favorite.
Read my signature line.


Dave

 

[Shinsen774]

I was in graduate school. Just bought the album a few days prior.