Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 5

[DaveP]

It was said after it that if you remembered the SOL'67 then you didn't really experience it. That was the drug heads talking, I beg to differ. I remember it well, and three important music icons who were lost in '70 & '71 because of them (all at the ripe old age of 27)... Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.

I remember the Byron Pop Festival around 1970. It was a really big deal with something like 500,000 attending. I was there! Our band decided to go and see what famous bands sounded like. We were impressed. Of course, we decided that any decent band would sound good with the huge sound system on that stage!

 

[tj99959]

In 1967 I was married, had a kid & wife was pregnant. (again) Worked at a Porsche dealership, and life was good.
Paid $1,500 for a brand new 67 VW bug. (dlr cost) Loved that car.

 

[Spydro]

In 1967 I was married, had a kid & wife was pregnant. (again) Worked at a Porsche dealership, and life was good.
Paid $1,500 for a brand new 67 VW bug. (dlr cost) Loved that car.

My life changed on 5/5/68 when I met a San Francisco socialite on a beach... and we made it official on 1/25/69. We lived life to the fullest as a couple only until 1/22/78 when our son came along.



Life changed again when we went our separate ways in Aug 2002.

 

[Nermal]

Summer of '67 I was separated from the Army. Used GI Bill to attend Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa.

 

[Territoo]

Summer of 67 I was in Detroit and that is all I remember of it. I was 3.

Ducks and hides

I was 4 in the summer of '67 and getting ready to enter into preschool. I remember that school well. I got to ride with my father in the mornings when he left for work.

 

[Nermal]

I was 4 in the summer of '67 and getting ready to enter into preschool. I remember that school well. I got to ride with my father in the mornings when he left for work.

I see we got a bunch of youngin's here.

 

[Marper]

We all grow old

 

[Myrany]

I was 4 in the summer of '67 and getting ready to enter into preschool. I remember that school well. I got to ride with my father in the mornings when he left for work.

I remember kindergarden at 4. I remember almost nothing before that. Just odd moments here and there.

I do remember when I was 5 a group of young adults (I now know to be hippies) walking up to me and my mom when we were heading out to the car. One of the said "OOOO a little people. Have a flower Little person." And my mom nearly tossing me into the car to get me away from them. I thought they were nice. Go figure.

 

[DavidOck]

We all grow old

We hope

 

[Nermal]

^^ Some of us had a head start.

 

[MikeE3]

I was a college kid in '67. Carrying around my slide rule ...

and the Geek's Bible of the day ...

I had no idea what I was going to do with a degree in Mathematics. Then in my 4th year (It was a five yr co-op program) two things happened. School-wise someone said there a new young 'hot' female prof teaching a computer course. What's a computer I said to my friend ... he said who cares let's sign up. I did and it was the start of a 45 year career in the computer field.

The other event that shaped me was going to my first 'be-in' in Farimount Park, here in Philadelphia. My senses were introduced to a new strange smelling tobacco and the sight of young females dancing 1/2 naked in the park. I do believe my beatnik ways became influenced by 'flower power'.

Didn't make it to San Fran until '72 after crossing Canada in our VW Micro bus and driving down the west coast.. By then Haight-Asbury's 'peak' days were gone. But it was still on the bucket list before heading back East via the southern route. We weren't on the road as long a @pwmeek. I think our sojourn was about 6 month's.

 

[Iffy]

Latest CDC release re vaping. Changing their tune a lil' bit!

 

[Nermal]

Latest CDC release re vaping. Changing their tune a lil' bit!

Yeah. A little bit.

 

[Spydro]

Had I been a hippie way back then I might have been similar to this later. It's a forum avatar that I photo shopped together from some artists rendition of a hippie some years ago with him wearing my P&F medallion. I never had dredknots hair, but at times it was this long or longer (mainly after Vietnam in the early to late 70's when I again played in bands, and the past couple of years). When I made the avatar my beard was salt and pepper, but my hair was still far more pepper then salt. Now the beard is snow white and the hair is far more salt than pepper. And until recently it was longer than I normally keep it simply because I hadn't bothered with a real hair cut for a couple of years (which mattered not as I had chosen to live a solo life since).

 

[Pigs]

I see we got a bunch of youngin's here.

I was 2 in 1967 when my mum drove us on our annual 1000km trip from Sydney to my grandparents' home in the bush 100km NW of Brewarrina in outback NSW. Near the QLD border.
All 4 kids (oldest was a 5 yo in 1967) fit in the back of a blue VW bug. No seatbelts of course but the games of "I spy" and "Animal/Vegetable/Mineral" kept us going.
Mum used to do that drive in one long day even though the last 100km leg is a combination of red and black soil where you've gotta stay sharp or the gidgee trees will jump out and grab the car.

The sheep station is still in the family. I took my 29yo daughter and 13yo son on that same one day road trip just this April. Beautiful old old country. We may not be original inhabitants out there but 5 generations soak up the dirt and stamp the genes.

Times are tough in the Bush right now. Worst drought in living memory but somehow most of the families hang on. Don't know how long if the rain doesn't come soon.

 

[*RJ*]

Summer of 67 I was in Detroit and that is all I remember of it. I was 3.

Ducks and hides

I was 1.5 years old in summer of ‘67. Dad was in the Navy so we moved a lot. I think we lived in Spain then. I’ll have to ask Mom and Dad to be sure.

 

[United States]

In 67? In 67? Hmmm,
I was 3 and don't remember it at all.

My parents told me I saw about 15 states in the US that year and parts of Canada as we drove west for a while, then north, than east then south back home in a camper.

If there were any vaping deaths that year I suppose it was from breathing the vapor from agent orange.

Funny how prior to March this year there were 0 vape related injuries or deaths reported. Then by September vapers were falling like flies sprayed with RAID or something and the CDC says "we're collecting samples"……duh, there's an idea big brother.

I do like how they've added vape related products to the phrase instead of calling my coworkers double battery Zeus clad Legend an e-cigarette.

My wife was born in '67. That makes 1967 my favorite year.

 

[Kenna]

I am going to be honest I am photographically challenged.

My dad however was a photographer in the infantry during WWII. When He died Mom found a huge box of photos from the war. I convinced her not to throw them out. When she died I got them.

They were horrific. He was with an infantry group that liberated one of the concentration camps. I realized immediately that no matter how horrible they were to look at they were history and needed preserved. Being totally clueless what to do I took the only route I could think of and donated all of them to the National Holocaust Museum in Dad's name.

Good for you for preserving them, & good for your Dad for the documentation! Never forget. Not for a second! Do you know what camps?

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[Kenna]

I spent the 'summer of luv 67' at Da Nang AB, RVN. What an experience!

Thank you, Iffy! [emoji3531][emoji3531][emoji3531][emoji3531][emoji3531]

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[Kenna]

Latest CDC release re vaping. Changing their tune a lil' bit!

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