The "where were you when...?" thread

[stephec]

Born in 1968 so when Elvis died I didn't really understand all the fuss, same with John Lennon as well.

There's not really many pop star deaths that have made an impression, apart from Stuart Adamson, Kirsty McColl, and watching the video for, 'Days of Our Life,' it's sad to see how Freddie Mercury was fading.

The space shuttle, I was an apprentice fixing a tv when the news came on.

Princess Di, I got up on Sunday and put the TV on for some unknown reason to find nothing to watch except a black screen with sombre music.

9/11 I was in the office for the day instead of being out on the road as usual when someone heard the news and put the TV on.
About a week later I had to go to Ireland for work and all the American gates at Limerick were still closed, there was probably only about ten passengers in the whole airport.

 

[Reynard]

I remember the photos of Challenger exploding in the newspaper next day (dad always stopped to pick up his daily when he took me to school), but didn't see the footage until more recently, as we didn't have a TV when I was growing up.

Likewise regarding the Chernobyl accident. That was all over the papers at the same time Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident on Corsica.

We did hear about all three on the radio though, as Radio 4 was near enough a permanent fixture.

 

[geocycle]

Elvis, I was at scout camp. Leaders seemed in shock and none of us really got it. John Lennon, I was at school, lots of tears from the kids even though most wouldn’t have been Beatles fans. 9-11 was at work, a technician managed to get an old tv to work and I had to stand by the door holding the aerial.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have no idea where I was when the chicken died.

This stupid ap keeps doing this to me.

 

[stephec]

This stupid ap keeps doing this to me.

Old people and modern technology. 😂

 

[Dogtrousers]

I cried when JFK was assassinated. And then crapped myself.

Probably. I was only a few months old at the time.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

9/11 was in one of those "old fashioned" TV shops, with literally dozens of screens showing the first plane hitting the tower as me and the shop staff stood there with mouths wide open.

7/7, at my desk in Birmingham (where I worked at that time) trying to track down one of my Managers who was down on a one day course, in London. Transpired he was on a tube train behind one of those that blew up, with his train being then stuck in the tunnel. He then organised a single file line of fellow passengers back to the previous station, while reminding them continually to stay clear of the live rail. He then walked 10 miles to one of our offices, and got driven home.

 

[Donger]

The first moon landing, 1969:
Me and my bruv trying to watch it from a camp site somewhere in Germany or Austria. (We'll just brush over the whole lederhosen thing and never mention it again).

 

[Beebo]

The first moon landing, 1969:
Me and my bruv trying to watch it from a camp site somewhere in Germany or Austria. (We'll just brush over the whole lederhosen thing and never mention it again).
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Did you see it? 😁

 

[welsh dragon]

Old people and modern technology. 😂

Not so much of the old you

 

[MichaelW2]

The Challenger space shuttle disaster live on tv in student halls in 1986.
The SAS raid on the Iranian Embassy in 1980, interrupting the snooker.
"I counted them out and I counted them all back again", in the school common room tv news.

 

[Marchrider]

I cried when JFK was assassinated. And then crapped myself.

Probably. I was only a few months old at the time.

ha - I was in the bath with my mother - doesn't sound too good that dose it!

 

[Dave7]

Did you see it? 😁

He got a photograph of it on his Brownie 127

 

[Venod]

At work for all of them, but the one that sticks out is John Lennons shooting, I was on the way to work with four co workers, we were all shocked.

 

[johnnyb47]

9/11
I remember I was at work and a truck driver came over and told me the awful news.
He was always a joker with a very dark sense of humour and I didn't take what he said seriously until I saw a group of work mates gathering around the radio listening to the tragic events unfolding.
I finished work at 2 pm and remember my ex wife was really poorly at the time suffering with Crohn's disease and I sat with her in the bedroom watching it on TV.