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Topic: Astronaut John Young's boyhood home
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FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-12-2010 03:45 PM
  
I've driven past it a couple of times in the past because it is in one of my favorite Orlando neighborhoods (close to the art museum) but stopped this time to take some photos of the plaque placed in front of John Young's boyhood home. 
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chappy
Member Posts: 231
From: Cardiff, S. Wales, UK
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 11-13-2010 12:38 AM
Wow!!!! Fantastic picture of my hero's boyhood home, even a board explaining about the history of John Young, excellent... |
capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 11-13-2010 07:39 AM
Does someone still live there, or is it unoccupied now? |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-13-2010 11:49 AM
Appears occupied - not something I would normally post, images of a private residence, but the plaque outside is obviously for public consumption. The street connects with John Young Parkway after a couple of miles. A little like NASA Road 1 in Houston, there are also some businesses who have named themselves after the street - such as the John Young Crossings strip mall.  
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-13-2010 12:18 PM
Um... is it me or does the plaque credit Challenger with carrying STS-9/Spacelab 1? Oopsie, heh heh heh.(And I realize there's a lack of space, no pun intended, but it leaves out Young's other Gemini and Apollo flights.)
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Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 11-13-2010 06:14 PM
I imagine John Young's matter-of-fact deadpan reaction to it all is ... "They ought not to have done that."  |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-15-2010 11:50 AM
Am I reading that sign correctly in that he only lived there for 3 years ('45-'48) while he went to high school? That's not exactly the sort of sentimental boyhood home where we might imagine young Johnny (pun intended) running around the yard with his wind-up balsa wood airplanes.I'm curious: do developers need his permission to name a strip mall after him, or is it public use since the road bears his name? |
Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 35
From: Palo Alto, Calif.
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 05-18-2018 11:10 AM
The story about a statue for Roger Chaffee got me thinking. John Young was born in San Francisco so why isn't there a statue erected to his memory in Golden Gate Park near the California Academy of Science? I'd certainly be willing to contribute money for such a project. |
Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 35
From: Palo Alto, Calif.
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 05-19-2018 10:13 PM
If San Francisco ever erects a memorial to John Young they should commission the sculptor Brett Grill. I love the statue Grill created of Roger B. Chaffee and feel he could really do Young justice. The only question is should Young be depicted as he was for Gemini or Apollo or the Space Shuttle. |
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