posted 03-08-2005 12:06 PM               

Dave Canneti and I put this gathering together, with much help from many others. That's Dave's daughter I am kneeling with in the middle front. I kept trying to adopt her but they wouldn't let me.

In the center in the red shirt in the rear is Doc Gaveline and his lovely bride Suzanne. Doc is a story unto himself, a victim of the early days of NASA PR hysteria. A more well deserve guy to be an astronaut you will not find. And one of the brightest and neatest.

To the right of them is Gerry Montague. Sitting together on the right hand table are Steve Zarelli and Rob Pearlman. Standing on the left hand wall starts with Roger Guillemette, Bill and Vicki O'Donnell, Gary and Julie Clark and next to Doc, Don Brady. Also visible is Ian ("skippy in space") sitting in front of the left hand standees, next to him Andy McCulley and Jimmy Brown is standing to Gerry's right.

Towards the front on the lefthand side is Rob Sumowski and Garry Laing. Kevin Taylor's wife is on the right table in the front, and Kevin took the picture.

On the right side standing halfway down is Charles Davis, and in the right hand corner is Dave Cannetti standing behind his (then) wife Tammy (in the pink), Matt Scherzi is to the right of my left shoulder with the beard, behind me is Karen Mauer slightly to the left, Gil Huey in the lefthand corner with beard, to the right behind Kathy Taylor is Jerry Matulka and his bride.

posted 08-15-2023 10:02 PM               

After a two-year renovation, the landmark restaurant welcomed back customers June 12 at its original location at 7802 N. Atlantic Ave., owner Vincent Keenan said.

“It feels great. It really does,” Keenan, 64, said of reviving the space memorabilia-packed restaurant, which first opened in 1958.

“The community loves it and it just fixes up that area of town.”

Visitors will find an updated menu and big-screen televisions airing NASA TV and space program-related videos. But the 148-seat restaurant’s signature Moon Burger is still on the menu. And the Moon Room, a banquet area where space explorers often enjoyed breakfast surrounded by autographed astronaut photos and mission patch stickers, is open again and already has been booked by aerospace agencies for special meetings, he said.