posted 07-21-2009 02:35 PM               

Most of what I saved is not valuable. The following items have been jealously hoarded-guarded by me for 40 years and an appraisal for the combined lot might be $150. (Because most are in excellent condition)

1. Life Magazine special issue
   
2. Look Magazine special issue
   
3. Time Magazine issues
   
4. TV Guide
   
5. Shell Oil giveaway "We Came in Peace"
   
6. Various pinback buttons
   
7. View-Master set
   
8. Instant paperback "We Reach the Moon"
   
9. Time-Life album and book slipcased set
   
10. Replica mission patches (vintage)
    
11. Bronze Apollo 11 coin

posted 07-21-2009 04:04 PM               

I bought a Revell Saturn V model as a Christmas present to myself in 1968, and even though my model putting-together skills were surely lacking, I bought it anyway. The store did free gift-wrapping and free being my favorite price, I had them wrap it!

I ordered the Time-Life set and played the first album to pieces. That music so entranced me.

I kept the local South Bend Tribune newspapers. They had huge red ink headlines for the moon landing and the splashdown. They are even shown in the book "All We Did Was Fly to the Moon."

My family made a trip to Wapakoneta that very fall. Got stuff there including copies of the local newspaper where they printed "Nail (sic) steps on the Moon" in the lead article. We drove by 912 Neil Armstrong Drive and saw his dad taking out the trash. My parents wouldn't let me out of the car!

My uncle took me and a cousin to Chicago for the huge ceremony on August 13. That was a thrill I will never forget (he just had an 80th birthday and wonders how that happened!), and I did, several years ago, tell him how much I appreciated that and that I kept up with the space program even more so after that. But we did not get one souvenir from that event other than taking pictures.

posted 07-21-2009 09:02 PM            

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Originally posted by Gilbert:
Most of what I saved is not valuable.

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posted 07-26-2009 08:02 PM            

I also spent much of the day of the landing drawing the lunar module, a priceless work of art which I have also kept to remind me of how much an act like that can bring a child into an adult experience or event.

posted 03-07-2022 04:26 PM               

My Dad recently showed me a few old newspaper articles that he has kept (not in pristine condition by any means) throughout the years. In the batch were these from The Winnipeg Free Press, where he was also working at the time. I framed them to try and salvage what what was left of them! They do look wonderful on my wall and have a great story behind them coming from my Dad after all these years.

posted 03-07-2022 05:08 PM            

In addition to the items I previously mentioned, I should add that I still treasure a Penguin paperback I bought shortly after Apollo 11, "The Invasion of the Moon 1969" by Peter Ryan. It's still a useful chronology of the mission time-line.

I also have a set of scribbled notes which I made (mostly without taking my eyes off the TV screen) to record the lunar landing and Armstrong's descent to the surface of the Moon. I correctly noted "Tranquillity Base here, the Eagle has landed" and "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind."

posted 03-07-2022 08:53 PM               

• Apollo 11 lunar plaque replica
  
• Commemorative record of Apollo 11 flight
  
• Launch cover cancelled on July 16, 1969 at KSC
  
• Recovery cover cancelled July 24, 1969 at KSC
  
• Neil Armstrong autographed picture of Buzz Aldrin
  
• Log of Apollo 11
  
• Wood medallion from Wapakoneta, Ohio
  
• "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." containing a transcript of the conversation between Pres. Nixon and Neil and Buzz and a philatelic memento containing a first day of issue of the First Man on the Moon cancelled on July 20, 1969 and Sept. 9, 1969 in Washington, D.C.
  
• A set of five Apollo 11 slides
  
• Columbia Pictures 8mm home movie of Apollo 11
  
• Some Man on the Moon postcards
  
• A folder of eight color 8x10s of the flight
  
• Moonlighter 33 1/3 rpm record
  
• Apollo 11 Mission Report
  
• A reprint of the New York Times from July 20, 1969
  
• The Life Magazine Special Edition "To the Moon and Back"
  
• Life Commemorative Neil Armstrong
  
• "Touchdown on the Moon" Apollo 11 Special
  
• U.S. Navy Recovery Force stamped envelope cancelled on the Hornet on July 24, 1969 when Columbia was recovered that says Apollo 11-
  AS506-Manned Lunar Landing
  
• A commemorative medallion that has a picture on the front of Buzz Aldrin facing the flag and it says "The Eagle has landed - July 20, 1969" and on the back it says "This medallion contains metal from spacecrafts Columbia and Eagle that took Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins on their historic Apollo 11 mission that resulted in the fist landing of man on the Moon."
  
• "The Return" signed by Buzz and a Michael Collins cut signature

posted 03-08-2022 08:45 AM               

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Originally posted by Blackarrow:
I was a little too young to understand that there would come a time when the excited interjections of since-deceased parents would actually be the important thing about the recording.

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