Moonstone - disappointing!
Probably the most popular place was for the moonstone. I saw it but it was probably only about this big
[gestures to suggest size of a walnut]. It wasn't that big at all! So, I was SO disappointed! We saw it
about two times, but the first time we saw it we were so shocked! [with disappointment] And we said to
ourselves "This is the moonstone?" It wasn't any different to stones here on Earth. P36
I: What do you remember the most? P: The Moonstone! We saw that as a group of three. We went there
with the people in my neighborhood - we went their on a bus. We lined up for such a long time, it was
almost 2 hours… As you would imagine, it was the feeling that we [common people] would be able to go
to the moon soon. But it was really a rare sight. P42
But, at that time everyone was talking about the moonstone, everyone was saying all around that there's a
moon stone! There's a moonstone! So the line ups were just enormous the only things I can see are back
and buttocks. When I saw the stone it seemed like it was quite a distance away, and it was just a stone, I
was so disappointed. It was really just a normal stone. I thought if I saw it up close for real it would be
either twinkling or glittering. I was very disappointed. I said to myself "I lined up for this?!" I
remember that well. P45.
The Hope of the Moonstone
What I was feeling the most was that soon we would be making developments on the moon and moving
forward toward there, and that many things would be happening soon! There was the feeling that
although it was going to take a lot of money there was the feeling that soon people would be able to take
trips there (to the moon) with more ease. Many regular people were talking that way [taking vacations to
the moon] at that time. Just the feeling that this was a REAL moon-rock! And, maybe it was just my
opinion at the time, because I hadn’t been following any other current information, I felt that people
would be able to be going there soon, but in the end it wasn’t that way! [When I was in the Pavilion] I
was saying to myself “it’s real, it’s real”! P40