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June 28, 2007
The "Summer of Love" 1967
Attention Baby Boomers and dare I say, Pre-Boomers: where you around for the Summer of Love? As a tribute to the 40th anniversary of that summer MSNBC offers a quiz to see how well you remember that year. Quizzes are always fun so I thought I'd add a link to it here so you could test your recall. We boomers are not getting any younger, you know and the memory may be the first thing to go so think young and take the quiz. Warning, I only got one wrong!
The Net Generation is welcome to take the quiz too. We'll see how well you were paying attention in your history classes!
Have fun and, oh yeah, peace and love.
Posted by swortman at June 28, 2007 08:21 AM
Comments
I thought if you could remember the 60s it proved you WEREN'T there?
Posted by: janeblum at June 28, 2007 03:41 PM
In the summer of 1967 I was living in Detroit, just north of Seven Mile near the John Lodge. I remember that otherwise quiet Sunday afternoon when the helicopters kept sweeping by overhead. We kind of wondered why they were there on a Sunday, when there are no traffic problems. Turned out there was a riot. Yup, there sure was a riot. And that rumbling we heard later was the National Guard moving in along the Lodge. I didn't go to my office job downtown on Monday, staying home as we'd been told to do. I sat in the backyard reading until the helicopters flying over me at treetop level with rifles pointed at me freaked me out too much. Later in the week I went back to work, and at lunchtime I wandered down to see the tank and the armed guards stationed outside Hudson's.
I can't say as I recall much of that Summer of Love in the quiz, but it was a long time before I could see a helicopter and not get nervous.
Posted by: javery at June 29, 2007 09:28 AM
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