{"id":9541,"date":"2012-08-27T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=9541"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:52:23","slug":"save-now-for-your-trip-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/08\/27\/save-now-for-your-trip-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Now for Your Trip to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday marked the untimely passing of the First Man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong.<\/strong> I was six years old going on seven during the summer of 1969, and I like millions of people across the world was glued to the continuous television coverage. I remember my young mind racing at the thought of it. When are we going?<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Major<\/a>Being a kid at the time, I had astronaut everything – toys, beach towels, knick-knacks and this ceramic bank. I think I scored during a trip to the wondrous Columbus Farmers Market<\/strong> which was a wondrous place that had EVERYTHING! If you got there early and dug around their flea market, I’m pretty sure you could fine The Lost Ark of the Covenant<\/strong> and wreckage left over from Roswell. <\/strong>I was thrilled to find that Columbus as we used to call it is still operating. They are OPEN FOR BUSINESS<\/strong> and their website can be found HERE!<\/a>
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I’ve had this bank for years and never really gave it a whole lot of thought until Armstrong’s passing. It travelled from one apartment to another gathering dust and losing it’s contents of pennies, nickels and dimes as needed.<\/p>\n

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At the base of the bank it reads SAVE NOW FOR YOUR TRIP TO THE MOON. <\/em><\/strong>It doesn’t say anything about needing a trillion such banks.
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Also in storage was this set of Apollo mission themed window curtains.<\/p>\n

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I think my Mom deemed them too ugly to hang in my room and they remained in plastic since we’ve been sending men to the moon. Of course, I still have them! Two sets in the original plastic bags, and one set still has the sales tag attached.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One dollar? Even for late ’60s\/early ’70s dollars, that was cheap! I guess they were on a close-out sale.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace, Neil.<\/p>\n

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