Where were you in 1967?

[Archae]

That "Summer Of Love," my family and myself went west, we got as far as Utah before heading back.

My Mom and Dad took these home movies of the trip.

The Royal Gorge, Mormon Tabernacle, Yellowstone and "Bedrock" in South Dakota.

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[Skittles]

1. Madison Wisconsin

my favorite GI brat pit stop! Loved it.

[jimfields33]

14. Not born yet. Two years later I was brought into the world.

[Alpeduez21]

2. I was two

it doesn't matter where I was. I know there were lots of cool places to be though.

[elleng]

3. Chicago,

being an adult.

[PJMcK]

18. Chicago,

being a kid.

Actually, we lived in the suburb of Downers Grove. It was a nice place to be kid in those days.

[elleng]

19. Moved there after college, so was beginning of my adulthood

law school (after 1968 Democratic convention!)

(Lived in Hyde Park, Obama's neighborhood.)

[Haggard Celine]

4. I'm not sure where I was.

Where are you before you're born?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Northern VA outside DC, with frequent trips to DC and MD.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. I was taking care of my new born son. I watched the Summer of Love

on the evening news.

[rsdsharp]

7. Summer between seventh and eighth grade.

I spent it playing baseball.

[MontanaMama]

8. I was three years old

living in the mountains around Bend, OR with my dad who was a ranger for the USFS.

[chowder66]

9. In my crib. nt

[Freddie]

10. I was 10

Playing with the neighborhood kids and just being a kid. We got Life magazine and I remember reading about “hippies”.

[Mr.Bill]

11. Summer before I started high school.

I lived in San Jose, about 50 miles from San Francisco. One of my friends had just moved to San Francisco with his family. I visited him a few weekends that summer, so I can say I was actually in the Haight Ashbury for the Summer of Love. Being only 14 at the time, I don't consider myself to have been a participant, but rather an observer. I did smoke my first marijuana that summer, though.

I remember thinking it was a really great party. I also remember thinking every teenager in the counry can't just run away and come here. That just wouldn't work.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Drove from Florida to Victorville, CA with my future husband and his AF Colonel father. Stopped in

New Orleans and saw my first 'girlie' show. I was 18.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Basic training. Drafted in 67.

[pidge]

15. Pregnant with my 5th child.......and last one.

[madamesilverspurs]

16. San Pedro CA

Learning to love living by the ocean after Dad's job moved us from Colorado and New Mexico. First year of college, spent much time having my eyes opened by the new surroundings. Got a job at Ports o' Call in the glassblower shop, learned that craft and worked it for thirty years.


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[Tikki]

17. "Summer of Love" for sure. My husband and I were married in August of 1967...

We lived in Seattle until he was drafted into the U S Army less than a year later.


The Tikkis

[Backseat Driver]

20. Worked my little PT job during the Summer of Love '67.

I walked across Royal Gorge's wooden plank bridge (no cars allowed) and visited Estes Park and Rocky Mtn Natl Park over the next summer - the 1968 family vacation - I seem to remember a paved road to Leadville in a canyon beside a river, perhaps, and so sparse, hot and dry, and always going up. Sedgewick CO was the tiniest town I've ever encountered on a dirt road off the highway where we stopped at a General Store having a dark wide-planked wooden floor and wooden shelves holding canned stuff and hardware. There were bulk covered barrels in front of a wooden bar-like counter and a red brick Post Office across the street; think it had a population of 43 according to signage and folks there lived in smaller frame homes and mobile homes even farther off the street which we did not investigate-it somehow seemed that we'd be invading their snug/secure privacy - but not a McMansion or a Timber Frame with stone and glass to be seen anywhere. Wish someone had taken a photo or two. It's been in the memory bank in my head ever since. Dad said, "Absolutely not!" to driving up Pike's Peak. He said we'd need to back all the way down if we encountered another daredevil trying it, LOL!

[Rhiannon12866]

21. I was at summer camp in Colchester, Vermont on Lake Champlain, my second year

And thanks for sharing the great video, looks like a fascinating trip!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

22. Not existencing.

I was born under the Carter administration.

[Laurelin]

23. That's such a coincidence

I think that's the same family vacation I took in 67, though it might have been 66 or 68. Still wild.

[Archae]

26. A lot of families took cross-country trips at that time.

Gas was cheap, and campgrounds were advertised a lot.

We had a station wagon (4 kids and 2 adults,) and a pull-behind pop-up camper.

[pfitz59]

24. Family road trip in a 1944 school bus converted to an RV.

Placerville California to Naugatuck Connecticut and back. 7 kids, mom, dad and a babysitter. Adventure of a lifetime.

[wnylib]

25. Celebrating high school graduation

at my own party and with others at their parties.

[cloudbase]

27. Pittsburgh.

Well, somebody had to be there.

[malthaussen]

32. I had just left in '66.

If only I'd been there after Chuck Noll took over the Steelers...

-- Mal

[Nittersing]

28. I was 13, so probably Glen Spey, NY at Girl Scout camp. nt

[Marthe48]

29. northern Ohio

1967 wasn't too bad

Nice video. My Mom and Gram drove with us 5 kids from Cleveland to N.M. and back in 1957. We had relatives there. On the way, we saw Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Great Salt Lake, and the Tabernacle. I turned 5 on the trip and my younger brother turned 4. I think it was almost a month of travel. 1957 Chevy Nomad station wagon.

[Silver Gaia]

30. Seattle

I was 12. My family had just moved there from Arkansas and I was sooooo happy about it! I went to lots of concerts of my favorite teeny-bopper bands that summer, some that were opened by bands that would later eclipse them and become superstars, like The Who opening for Herman's Hermits. What an experience!

[malthaussen]

31. In Hell, aka Junior High.

Too young to have fun.

-- Mal

[Fla Dem]

33. Working full time at the Prudential Tower in Boston

[myccrider]

34. In Southern California

between junior and senior year of HS, going to the beach and parties, practicing with the cheer squad, going to cheerleading camp at Lake Tahoe.

I didn’t become a hippie until the summer of ‘68.

[brooklynite]

35. About a block away from where I am now

I’ve been everywhere else in the meantime…

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Gestating in a womb.

My birth was over a month late too, so I was in no hurry to join the love.

[AngryOldDem]

37. Sleeping on the couch, stoned.

I was in second grade and had an absolutely horrible teacher — she did not have the temperament for this grade level. She made me physically ill from the stress, so my doctor prescribed a sedative that got me through the day. I would come home and literally crash on the couch until dinner.

I can remember 1966, and definitely 1968, but 1967 is a complete blank.

[OriginalGeek]

38. I was 3, going on 4

we lived in Sarasota, FL near the beach in a little cinderblock house that had linoleum tile floors. Rode my tricycle all over that house. No AC but I don't remember that bothering me.

I still have a good sized burn scar on my upper thigh from riding my trike into the kitchen to get a carrot slice without knowing my mom had set up a TV tray with an electric skillet (it's all the counter space she had) full of frying chicken. It dumped right in my lap burning me from chest to knees. Had I not been wearing a diaper I most likely would be a eunuch. All but that thigh burn healed and disappeared and that one is a little faded but still obvious.

[rurallib]

39. Detention, room 13 pretty much every night.

[mnhtnbb]

40. Looking for an excuse to drive the car anywhere

since I had gotten my CA drivers license on my birthday that spring. I spent a lot of time that summer driving myself to volunteer at the community hospital in La Jolla, which was about a 20 minute drive from home. I would continue to volunteer at the hospital on Saturday mornings during the school year for the next two years. Then, after I graduated high school in June 1969, the hospital hired me for my first full time summer job as a replacement nursing unit clerk so the regular clerks could have summer vacations. I went back two more summers--between Freshman/Sophomore and Sophomore/Junior years--for the same job when I came back from UCLA to live at home those summers.

That whole area in north San Diego County has changed so much over the last 50 years.

[csziggy]

41. On horseback finding trails between old phosphate pits

From 1965 to 1970, that was pretty much my life. I spent every moment I could on my horse riding cross country in Central Florida.

[LeftInTX]

42. I spent part of it reading 16 Magazine and Tiger Beat

Was obsessed with the Monkees..
Then, my dad came back from Vietnam and we moved from Philly area to California. We had a trailer and that thing was the bane of my existence. My brother socked me in the stomach and I got sick. We stayed in Vegas on the way and my dad said, "This will teach you never to gamble", as he put coins in the slot machine, he got a small jackpot. We all started laughing. Then we got to California and had to stay at a decrepit trailer park for a few weeks. Then, we got our house and I started 6th grade, but I sat next to a bratty boy who wanted to know when I was gonna shave my armpits.....Hello, my mom was strict and she wouldn't let me....

So much for the Summer of Love....

[Raven]

43. Teaching tennis in Newport, R.I. Before my last year in college. n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. I was less than a year old

I was in southern New Jersey, with my parents.