Where Were You In 1969?
Where Were You In 1969?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#0Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:17pmi was still a Hershey Bar in my father's back pocket.
#1re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:19pm
I was buying my first real six string.
I bought it at the five and dime.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#2re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:22pmI was doing THE PAJAMA GAME and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN with people like Melanie Mayron and Pat Quinn, among others.
#3re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:24pmI was hanging out in my 13 year old mother's ovary.
#4re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:35pm
Pat Quinn was in The Pajama Game?
How was he?
#5re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:35pm20 years away
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#7re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:55pm
JB2, such a tragic death! So young. My wife is an AEA actor and I appreciate all that the union does for the profession!
I was 2 and in a small town in diapers in 1969.
#8re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:57pm
Oh! Hehe, I was making a joke, but I thought you were actually referring to
this Pat Quinn. 
Oopsie.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#9re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:16pm
WW, you should at least look up the other Pat Quinn.
The Illinois Pat Quinn is a well respected man of integrity who has devoted his life to the citizens of this state!
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#10re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:18pm
JB2, such a tragic death! So young.
Yes! Of course, we were really young in 1969. My wife worked with him, the very next year (although, I didn't meet her until 1973). He, Melanie and I watched the moon landing together; and, Melanie and I were together when we heard of the horrible deaths of Sharon Tate and her house guests. What a crazy summer 1969 was!
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#11re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:25pmI was 12 and had zits and bad hair.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#13re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:28pm
WW, you should at least look up the other Pat Quinn.
You know, I'm unfamiliar with him so I've been trying to look him up ever since JB2 posted that pic. All I get is Magenta, the Lt. Governor and a hockey player. I'm sorry to hear it was a tragic death. Where could I look to find out more? I didn't mean to be insensitive with my little joke.
The Illinois Pat Quinn is a well respected man of integrity who has devoted his life to the citizens of this state!
I found that pic on his website, and from what I read he does sound like a wonderful man. I wish we could have more politicians like him.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#14re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:32pmTry searching as Patrick Quinn. He was president of Equity.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#15re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:33pm
and, for the record, this is Melanie Mayron. Anyone remember her?
#16re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:37pmThank you. I had tried that, but adding "Equity" to the search took me right there. I do remember reading about this at the time.
#17re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 1:28amI love Melanie Mayron. She was my favorite on Thirtysomething. I even wrote her a letter and told her have much I enjoyed her acting. She wrote me back and sent me a picture. I think she is a great actress. I wish she would do a play on Broadway.
#18re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 2:25amI was turning 16
#19re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 8:07am
My mom was only 8 years old at the time, so use your imagination.
#20re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 8:21am
I was being born.
n69n - I love that song, by the way.
#21re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 8:22amMy MOTHER wouldn't even be born for two years.
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#22re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 8:28amChanging high schools that year - best move I ever made.
#23re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 8:32amMy 'straight' boyfriend's Mom is a year younger than me..that's just sick. hee hee
#24re: Where Were You In 1969?
Posted: 11/3/06 at 8:44am
I remember the summer of '69 very well. I was six years old, living in Lawrence, Kansas, and two "events" happened that effected my life for years to come... all of our lives in fact.
I was watching my grandmother's old B&W TV, and suddenly I became VERY upset that they kept showing Dorothy singing "Over the Rainbow," and nobody had told me that my favorite movie was on! They showed her singing that song quite a bit that day... and then my grandmother finally told me that the actress who played Dorothy had died earlier that day. I was stunned as I watched her singing so beautifully, and my grandmother was telling me she was gone now. I didn't know a thing about how her death would set off a chain of events beginning in a small bar in the Village, and what that would mean to me as I became older. But I watched this small B&W TV, and saw the end of a legendary life.
And it was only a matter of weeks that summer that separated another life-changing event. Watching the same small B&W TV, I began to realize that ANYTHING was possible... as my family silently observed the first man walking on the moon.
1969 was also the summer my family went to NY to attend my uncle's wedding... and my grandfather had arranged for me to have a private meeting backstage with Margaret Hamilton while she was performing in the "new" Lincoln Center's revival of "Oklahoma!" Maggie was another Oz alumn, and she would become my pen pal the following school year, when I started 2nd grade.
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