Thursday, July 16, 2009

Who wouldn't want astro-nuts and moonarshino cheeries??

Fort Collins Coloradoan - July 1969 - Fort Collins Local History Archive

I was doing some research for a little swing frame exhibit poster and found this advertisement on microfilm. The weeks leading up to the Apollo 11 launch in 1969 pushed the country into a deeper space craze, if that was possible. The Space Race had reached its peak and the final race to the moon had captured the world. I think the advertisement from Dairy Queen speaks volumes to that. I also found that businesses in Fort Collins were advertising that they would be closed on Monday July 20th in honor of the moon landing. President Nixon declared the day a national holiday. When is that ever going to happen again? What historical event would ever compare to landing on the moon? Landing on Mars? It's hard to say if that will happen in my lifetime, but I would sure like to have that same feeling that captured the world in the summer of '69.

Here's a great link to an article written by a Fort Collins resident about the launch in Florida.

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