Does anyone remember the total eclipse in March 1970?

[BigmanPigman]

I just took out an old newspaper that I saved from the event. I do not remember much since I was only 7 but I looked it up and it was a big deal in New York and up the East Coast into Canada. It was even mentioned in the Carly Simon song "You're So Vain" and on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It said that it got so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

[Warpy]

1. In Mass, you could see the total eclipse only from a yacht off an island

south of Cape Cod. I didn't have a yacht, so I watched the festivities in Harvard Square, where it was about 95%. It was an open air lunatic asylum and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Yep, I was 9. I briefly looks at it a few times but did the paper and hole thing.

Nah, you could still see. It got dark, like a really heavy daytime thunderstorm.

[catbyte]

3. Oh, yeah. "You flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun"

I was 14 & don't remember it, but it probably wasn't total & March in northern Michigan is dark anyway.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Yes, watched it using a pin hole focused on paper. I was in Columbus, OH.

[rockodman]

5. Eclipse

I remember it. Big Boy Scout Event. Just gotten into Scouts was 11. All the Troops in our town took over South Smithfield Elementary School (it was on a Saturday) and set up reflecting telescope with pin hole rigs, had our home made pin hole stuff and some welding helmets. Street Lights came on and birds roasted. it was very close to 100% because Greenville NC was 100% and that was 70 miles East of where we were.

[angstlessk]

6. I experienced it in Norfolk VA from my balcony on the 4th floor.

I was 19, my son was born july 1969...

I don't remember what I looked through, maybe a pin prick?

[jdadd]

7. I was in Germany....Missed the whole thing!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Yes, I recall it.

I was living in Alexandria, VA at the time and had to work that day so I was unable to get to the path of totality. I didn't have any kind of viewing glasses or a pinhole camera, but I was rather impressed at how strange they daylight became.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. Oh goddammit!!! I can't convince my wife to drive 600 miles for this! (From NYC)

Drives me nuts!!! She isn't into that "nerdy" stuff like I am! I could try to drive by myself, but that would cost a lot of happy wife points if I ditched her for a couple days and she had to take care of our son by herself.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Take your kid and make it a "family outing".

[Brother Buzz]

11. I don't remember the moon landing the year before

So why in the Hell would I remember an eclipse?

[Sancho]

12. I was in the Carolinas and remember it well...

We made various devices in school to observe it, and some filtered cameras to take pictures.

[William Seger]

13. I remember one in '84, driving 3 hours to southern VA and it was cloudy

Looks like it's going to be cloudy here in Colorado tomorrow.
Solar Eclipse Weather Forecast: Will Clouds Block Your View?

[Iggo]

14. I remember it happened. Pinhole boxes and shit. That's about it.

I was about your age. (Guess I still am...lol.)