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Topic: Apollo-era Johnson Space Center cafeterias
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Jay Gallentine
Member Posts: 287
From: Shorewood, MN, USA
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 11-17-2009 08:15 AM
   
I am in search of photographs depicting the cafeterias at the Johnson Space Center. Double points for a shot of Christopher Kraft eating in one of them.Apparently there were two cafeterias there? One just for Mission Control? Additionally, would anyone happen to know what the typical menu choices (and costs) might have been during July of 1969? Did you always have to pay cash? Was it all ala carte? Did they have blue-plate specials? Feel free to e-mail me directly, or you are of course welcome to post here. |
jdcupp
Member Posts: 45
From: Cookeville, TN, USA
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 11-17-2009 09:25 AM
Not to be flippant, but I recall a scene from the Don Knotts movie "The Reluctant Astronaut" taking place at the Johnson cafeteria when it was the MSC. Of course, it could have just been a Hollywood sound stage. |
Jay Gallentine
Member Posts: 287
From: Shorewood, MN, USA
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 11-17-2009 10:00 AM
Many thanks for that reply.I can't believe I forgot this detail in my original post - I was looking for pictures of the cafeteria from July of 1969! |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-17-2009 01:13 PM
Maybe Sy can chime in on this, since he was around back then.When I was working there (just a little more recently) the rumor was that they were using the same trays as back then - kind of cream colored with the (NASA) meatball in one corner. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 43576
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-17-2009 06:44 PM
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Originally posted by kr4mula:
...the rumor was that they were using the same trays as back then - kind of cream colored with the (NASA) meatball in one corner.
They were, until 2005 when the old trays were sold off as collectibles and new trays were put into use. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 11-19-2009 08:09 AM
During the year-long Skylab mission, we had a small cafeteria in the operations side (MCC) of Bldg 30. We named it the "Roach Coach." You can imagine what the steam table food looked like at 3 am. I'll ask my friends in the JSC Film Vault if an pix exist if it -- though I don't believe so. |
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