How old were you in the 'Summer of Love', 1969 and what are your memories?

[slodgedad]

'It was the Summer of '69''

What a great year.

C'mon, spill the beans...:neener:

[lesbroz]

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'It was the Summer of '69''

What a great year.

C'mon, spill the beans...:neener:

13! Flower Power springs to mind.

[Bobby]

'It was the Summer of '69''

What a great year.

C'mon, spill the beans...:neener:

I was 35 years old, happily married with a young family so the Summer of Love really passed me by.

[karinagal]

I was seven - can't remember diddly squat.....

[slodgedad]

I can remember real live bands, no synths, effects (as such) and musicians playing dead instruments.

Saw Hendrix in Top Rank in Cardiff and still dream about it.

[lesbroz]

I was seven - can't remember diddly squat.....

Because you were seven or because of the weed!

[Vortex Wake]

I remember watching a bloke land on't moon and running across the meadows at the end of the garden to watch the trains go into Sleaford station at the age of 2.

[doreen]

All making me feel very old ... especially as the majority of people I work with weren't even born in the 60's nor the early 70's :cry:

.... but I do remember the excitement of Man on the Moon ... in glorious Black & White eek2:

[Sal]

I was 19 ......................... so really enjoying the "summer of love"! :spin:

[chifleta]

I was about 4 months old :-D

[ali marshall]

I was still a glint in my parents eyes lol

[slodgedad]

I was 19 ......................... so really enjoying the "summer of love"! :spin:

Same here. Papers said we were all 'free loving' so we did.

Papers always tell the truth....:devil2:..(Good job there was no 'Sun' then.)

[sunspot]

16 and so into the Mods and Lambretta Scooters cropped hair and freedom, what memories

[MrsTT]

It was my final year at college in London. I was the Union Social Rep and organised the fortnightly discos and the College Balls, (and managed to pass my exams!) :band: I can remember I booked bands for the big events like Cupid´s Inspiration and The Alan Bown Set. We would have a disco, a couple of groups and a Steel Band for the evening / night! :rave: I had to organise ( but not provide) all the food menus for the different areas of the College and the main dinner was quite a grand affair in the dining room. And the decorations were always fun! Not sure if it was 1969 but one year we made a complete replica of the Magic Roundabout with accompanying papier mache figures of the characters. For the Valentine´s Ball that year, some bright spark in the art team decided we would blow all the heart shapes onto the walls. It was a wonder we had any puff left to dance that evening.

[Andy0210]

I was -2 and have to say i can´t remember too much! ;)

[miguel]

Hi, I was 20 and working the season in Torquay, yes it really was the summer of love, Scandi girls arriving every week for the holidays, brill music at of all places Torquay Town Hall (nearly burnt down with Arthur Brown doing Fire) and the 400 Club. Went back to a normal job the next year and all downhill from there until i came to my senses and went to work in Majorca the next year. Oh happy days. Miguel.

[waveydavey]

I was 22 and I remeber it well,well most of it.

[karinagal]

Because you were seven or because of the weed!

Little from column A, little from column B perhaps! :D Nah, possibly the only thing I remember from those days was falling off my skates and teaching myself to ride a bicycle..! :p


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[anegib]

I was 21yrs old and in Australia on the 10GBP migrant scheme, a great year.

[Goforgold]

Teenage bride - awful year for me :( but it started rocking again in '71 :)

[marbro8]

i was 8 and can remember my space hopper, chopper bike and turning my wrists black and blue with those knocker things that you had to try and hit together consecutively without killing yourself:crylaughing:

[karinagal]

i was 8 and can remember my space hopper, chopper bike and turning my wrists black and blue with those knocker things that you had to try and hit together consecutively without killing yourself:crylaughing:

You had BOTH? Space hopper AND a chopper?!!! Lucky dog!

The knocker things were called Clackers and many a poor unfortunate ended up with a broken wrist or worse!


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[Pooh]

I was 6... only thing I remember that I know for certain was that particular year, was watching the moon landing.

[Hey Jude]

What a year! A 22 year old bride fighting a new language overseas but enjoying life to the full.

[scubydoo]

Year I got married !

[Santiago]

I'm so old I can't remember back that far!!

[Goforgold]

i was 8 and can remember my space hopper, chopper bike and turning my wrists black and blue with those knocker things that you had to try and hit together consecutively without killing yourself:crylaughing:

Not the best sort of knockers to be playing with Mabro!! :eyebrows: They were lethal!! :cheeky:

[TOTO 99]

I was 9 years old...not a lot of love going on for me..unless you count Bazooka Joe's..I really loved them..:laugh:

[marbro8]

Not the best sort of knockers to be playing with Mabro!! :eyebrows: They were lethal!! :cheeky:it was another few years before i found the others:eyebrows:

[Goforgold]

it was another few years before i found the others:eyebrows:

Those others can be even more lethal Marbro!! ;)

[VideoMem]

I was 26 in the Summer of 69, happily married (Still am) with 2 young children, Alison aged 4 and Duncan age 2:)

[Goforgold]

I was 26 in the Summer of 69, happily married (Still am) with 2 young children, Alison aged 4 and Duncan age 2:)

You had me going then!! I thought you meant you have 2 young children of 4 and 2. :)

[LeFrunk]

Yep , i was just 6yrs young , no summer of love in Belfast , thats when it all kicked off . My memorys of that summer where the gun battles and burning houses and still are to this day . But the last 20 odd summers have been fantastic in the Island of eternal spring .

[welsh wendy]

16 and so into the Mods and Lambretta Scooters cropped hair and freedom, what memories
Me too &OH with Scooter. This followed with a Ford Anglia Car. Then many Mini Coopers & me with mini skirts!

[Goforgold]

Me too &OH with Scooter. This followed with a Ford Anglia Car. Then many Mini Coopers & me with mini skirts!

I've still got a couple of my mini skirts - one in leather and one in suede :)

[lozzie1821]

I wasnt even around then lol My parents hadnt even met...

[Santiago]

Suddenly remembered, wasn't it in 1969 when Concorde first flew?
:airplane:

[Goforgold]

I was wondering why it was called the Summer of Love and then it dawned on me it could have been the "69" - am I right? :)

[Unicorn]

16 and so into the Mods and Lambretta Scooters cropped hair and freedom, what memories

I was 17 and a "Rocker" so we would have been rivals - lol

[sunseeker]

i was just born then. :)

[Goforgold]

I was wondering why it was called the Summer of Love and then it dawned on me it could have been the "69" - am I right? :)

No-one has told me why it was called the summer of love yet :(

Just Googled it and it says it was 1967!! Now that year was a different ball game!! Where do I start?!! ;)

The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, creating a cultural and political rebellion. While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution,[1] a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics. The Summer of Love became a defining moment of the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.[2] This unprecedented gathering of young people is often considered to have been a social experiment, because of alternative lifestyles that became common, both during the summer itself and during subsequent years. These lifestyles included communal living; the free and communal sharing of resources, often among total strangers; and free love.[3].

[TOTO 99]

No-one has told me why it was called the summer of love yet :(

It was the time of flower power and with that came Free Love..don't tell me you were charging for it?..:lol: Or paying!

[Goforgold]

It was the time of flower power and with that came Free Love..don't tell me you were charging for it?..:lol: Or paying!

It was 1967 not 69!!! :)

I didn't have to pay for anything in those days!! ;)

I think Slodge had something else on his mind when he put the date on!! ;)

[kingbaker]

I've still got a couple of my mini skirts - one in leather and one in suede :)


AH!!!!!!! But do they fit and are the pins nice????????????????

:eyebrows::wave::eyebrows::pray::pray::pray:

[slodgedad]

No-one has told me why it was called the summer of love yet :(

Just Googled it and it says it was 1967!! Now that year was a different ball game!! Where do I start?!! ;)

The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, creating a cultural and political rebellion. While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution,[1] a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics. The Summer of Love became a defining moment of the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.[2] This unprecedented gathering of young people is often considered to have been a social experiment, because of alternative lifestyles that became common, both during the summer itself and during subsequent years. These lifestyles included communal living; the free and communal sharing of resources, often among total strangers; and free love.[3].


It was 1967 not 69!!! :)

I didn't have to pay for anything in those days!! ;)

I think Slodge had something else on his mind when he put the date on!! ;)

We were always 2 years behind the Yanks in those days...:agree:

[kingbaker]

It was 1967 not 69!!! :)

I didn't have to pay for anything in those days!! ;)

I think Slodge had something else on his mind when he put the date on!! ;)

Absolutely nothing is free ----------if you're getting something for nothing, then someone else's payin'
You still haven't answered the orininal question
What do you think Slodge was talkin' about?????? :wave::wave::wave:

[slodgedad]

Absolutely nothing is free ----------if you're getting something for nothing, then someone else's payin'
You still haven't answered the orininal question
What do you think Slodge was talkin' about?????? :wave::wave::wave:

69, what else?..:tongue:

[Peterrayner]

17 and summer seemed to last forever

[Balcony]

That was a very good year! That much I remember.

[michele]

13 yrs old .....can rem carnaby street...then hot pants ...beatles the move...sonny and cher ...and hot summers ..
the jackie mag...and my dad saying turn that bloody rubbish off the radio ...lol