BS: Memories Of Expo 67

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: open mike
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 12:51 AM

i went the EXPO--we drove from Nebraska pulling a tent trailer.
we went to Niagara falls on the way there and Boston on the way home.

My parents invited a cousin along and we went to Pennsylvania, too.
after seeing the Bucky Fuller Dome, i built one of my own a few
years later.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Cluin
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 12:24 AM

I've wore a tux twice in my life. Both times when I was a best man at a friend's wedding.

The last time I had one on, I told a friend that I thought I looked like a dressed-up strategically-shaved ape. She said she thought I looked more like gypsy hobnobbing with the rich.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 10:39 PM

I would've worn the tux. What the hell. I would have just looked at the funny side of it... ;-) I have worn a tux once in my life, at a friend's wedding, where I was one of the ushers.

But I'm sorry to say I missed Expo 67. We were still living down in New York State, and I wasn't really traveling much at that time.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: bobad
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 11:33 AM

And don't forget "Hey friend, say friend, come on over. Looking for happiness? This is the place!"

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 11:30 AM

Almost as bad was:

... a place to stand, a place to grow
Ontari-ari-ari-oh!

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 11:28 AM

`67 was also the year of Canada's Centennial celebrations so Expo was a big deal, I remember. I didn't go. I was only 6 and my Dad was on strike from the local steel mill that summer.

I do remember (though I've tried not to) that pukey Centennial theme song:

Ca - na- da (one, little two, little three Canadians)
We love thee (now we are twenty million)
Ca - na - da (four, little five, little six, little provinces)
Proud and free (now we are ten and the territories, sea to sea)

North! South! East! West! There'll be happy times
Church Bells will ring! ring! RING!
It's the hundredth ann-i-ver-sar-y of
CON-fed-er-a-tion (everybody sing together...)

Ca - na - da...


It's the song that never ends. They must play it in the inner rings of Hell.

We had a 45 record of it. I think they gave them away free somewhere.

Under gunpoint.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 03:58 PM

Good for you, lad. A tux? Not likely.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 02:23 PM

I was supposed to play at it. Main stage. They flew me up from NYC and gave me a hotel room, etc. Day of the performance came andd I arrived two hours early. Then they dropped the bomb. "You will of course be wearing a tuxedo." I thought it was a joke. It wasn't. So, I countered with, "I'll do that, but I insist I wear a bunch of green grapes instead of a tie." They balked. I asked if purple grapes would resolve the situation. They said no. So, I told them I'd not be going on stage and what the hell kind of arsehole would ask a jeans and t-shirt guy to wear a TUX? I went to the hotle room to pack but noticed a fridge. It was full as was a cabinet beside it. I called about ten musicians I knew in town and invited them to the room for free refreshments and some music. The police arrived to quiet us all down at about 3:00 AM. (It was the damned drummer. Drummers get outta hand real easy. Half a bottle of rye and he was loud and noisy. Drummers.)

I returned to NYC that afternoon. The broadcasting company that had hired me was pissed at ne for over five years. I did write to them and say that a $658 bar bill was nothing to be ticked about. Hell, that was mostly the drummer and the blues singers. Anyway, It was a great Exposition.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 02:09 PM

I was 5 years from being born in '67 but I spent a lot of time in Montreal while living in northern Vermont a few short years ago...from the descriptions above I wish I'd been there. Man, I miss that city! I lived so close to the border that it took about 40 minutes from my front door to St. Catherine St. We used to go up for dinner all the time. And in the summer we made a point to go to the International Fireworks Competition. We'd park across from La Ronde and watch from there. Awesome stuff!

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 01:39 PM

I was ten years old and I remember my visit as HOT! Baking in the sun. And, as there were few water fountains. And, a small coke was a buck (a buck!!! it's on sale at $0.88 for two litres today at the grocer!!!). My old man was not a happy camper. But that big glass geodetic dome was neat, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: GUEST,Brian Maged
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 01:27 PM

Expo shut down in 1982. Mr. Robert Lapalme had asked me to design a humour museum. Andy Nulman of the Just for Laughs Festival opened his first. I am still developing the Montreal cartoon Club for the Quartier des Spectacles. I was working on a pavilion called Symphony in Stone to be placed in the Man and Life section of the Man the explorer complex in 1982. I have now finished the exhibits for a museum for the Main based on certain architectural symbols.
I have too many stories to list here having grown up in the pre and post Expo design world. This is hard on me because there are a lifetimes incites and I want to communicate everything. Not enough has been said about the post expo man and his World. There were hundreds of pavilions many of them much better than at the original Expo. Without going into details:
there was the Sports Pavilion (formerly Canada),
Old Sleighs (Ontario)
Belles of Yesteryear and Science fiction (formerly great Britain).
Ferrovia (formerly Maine).
Drug Pavilion (formerly NY State)
Hunting and cryogenetics (Man and Life)
Strange Strange World (formerly Man and the Oceans)
Humour Pavilion (former Israel)
Interpol (pulp and paper)
Illusions (formerly Pulp and Paper)
Pirates of the Carribean (Cuba)
Ireland, Spain, Pakistan, Bulgaria, and relocated Czeckoslovakia.
Geology Pavilion (European community)
Space (Man the producer Pavilion)
Fire department (Man the Provider)
Biosphere Aviary (American Pavilion)
Poland (formerly Vermont)
SPECTROPHONIA (one of my favourites with a musical theatre presenting Peter and the Wolf)
Liason (with giant chess set)
360 degree cinema (featuring a new film from Osaka.)
Holography ((old Alcan auditorium)
Air canada (with this wonderful flying saucer-pre ET like at Universal Studios!)
Iran with this amazing Persian artist who made these beautiful stage props including a great cardboard horse).
Bulgarian Puppet Theatre in the beer hall.
United States made it back to the Biosphere one year. Walt Disney company put in a giant redwood tree.
Opera (in the old Italian pavilion - another favourite - I believe Mayor Drapeau organized this one personally).
Austria with an exhibit on music and musicians (in same old Austrian Pavilion)
The bandshell on Ille St. Helen beside the kiosks was one of my favourite sites as well. The kids from Westmount High School put on a wonderful review that I remember as being one of the incredible performances, I don't know if that was at expo or man and his World).
I also saw Jerry Lewis perform at Place des Nations. For years it also served as an outdoor theatre. This was in the days before street festivals.
A robotic ball that rolled around the site on its own outside of the Biosphere. I would like to know who was the sculptor who created that wonderful fountain at the entrance to la Ronde often bathed in Ultraviolet light.
MIRAGE THE GREAT SHOW ON DOLPHIN LAKE AND VOLCANOZER - WOW - FIRST IN 2D THAN 3D. Never saw the first production thou - something about an underwater voyage. For those who loved Expo these were really incredible post-Expo amusements. If you haven't been to a really good theme park - make sure its next on your agenda. Its been 40 year since Expo. We have some small new attractions planned for North of Montreal and Downtown. I also have a major theme park on the drawing boards. Marvel's Jack Kirby had me do some mock ups years ago but the money never came through - same story again - I was promised a model by Heavy Metal and their budget wasn't big enough. So I struggled along on my own. Now I've become one of the greatest designers on the planet.
Jack Dunham was a friend I met. He was a cartoonist. Said he worked on 25 Disney films including the 3 caballeros (he was director of mexican production). Checks out -there is a picture of him on diving board at Walts Party with Disney writer, and other friend.
He was also the lighting engineer, one of the 4 original bosses at La Ronde. He worked at Astral and did animated commercials for Molsons. Also created St. Hubert BBQ CHICKEN.
My fathers uncles grand-daughter married a Mr. Deitsch. His step mother and the family always talked about him either selling a house to or the house of Jack Benny. When I went to visit Disneyland I never got to see this person because they lived somewhere exclusive in Beverly Hills. However I stayed at Sheila Tinkoffs, the sister in West Covina. I was given my first puppet - a poodle by this woman as a child. I then started to paint cartoons on the inside of record jackets, touche turtle, bugs bunny. yogi bear, huckleberry hound, donald duck and of course mickey mouse. My parents had a collection that included Mickey Katz pajamas, Louis Armstrong and cha cha cha music.
I loved mighty mouse, and my record of the speeches of John F. Kennedy. I saw the Beatles when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan television show. It was a trajedy when the American president died. We were all so sad. My school bus driver came into class and told us everything. We were all dismissed early and that was all that was on television for a week.
LETS SEE - other pavilions. Civilizations museum and Cite Cine in the French pavilion. Mayor Drapeau saw me touting my architectural notes after the Man and his World closed and decided to bring in the real thing. He was a friend of the egyptian historian Lapalme. His humour museum used the symbol of the Egyptian god of humour Bet. When I met Mr. Lapalme he showed me a picture of an Egyptian papyrus that had been painted humerously with a lion playing a game with an antelope.
In 1969 on Valentines day Mr. Drapeau sent me a letter saying he was encouraged by my support and deeply touched from the bottom of his heart. Years later he brought in real Egyptian sculptures to the palace of Civilization and than brought this collection to Expo 86 and built a special pavilion for it there. I had been present with my history displays at the opening of the du College metro station.
That's the one with the amazing stained glass by Lyse Charland Favretti. Mr. Lapalme had been a legends person and gotten into fights with Madame Ferron about the Champs de Mars metro design. Well everything there turned out well. Mrs. Ferrons designs and glass are pleasing. Mr. Lapoalme was sort of the local Irving Berlin. He liked history and stories. Irving was a coon or conte man and didn't like Jazz and Swing and wrote wonderful pieces like 'I'm dreaming of a White Christmas'. Everyone has there piece of history I guess - its one big dysfunctional family.
Theres this write up thou that Mr. Lapalme's son disliked him and used a pseudonom when creating the stained glass for Berri metro. If you look at the Lapalme ancestry you will find his son was simply using the name that an ancestor had chosen when he came to America.
Enough about the lapalmes.
Mr. Charles Bertrand I met at the Agrignon Park Zoo. He was the chief designer for Man and his World and he made the children's story book creations in LaFontaine parks 'Jardin des Merveilles.'
I know alot about him but I'll let him tell the story or recount it some other time.
I also met Mr. Lamb of the National Film Board. He later created Karate kid.
HAZARATH is a friend who came over in 1970 after Expo 67 from Trinidad. He is a great artist and an expert drummer.
DEBORAH MACKENZIE founded a school. Her father had brought her here in 67 to see the Expo from Vancouver. I worked with her Innovative Dance Theatre to create the Halloween Adventure under CJAD radio in 1991.
In 1973 I invited Ray Affleck, Joe Baker, Harry Parnass, Bruce walker, Gerald Isles, Henry Rothschild, to a conference on the environment at Vanier CEGEP.
I had the privalege to know Norman Slater, the man who detailed the windows for the Chateau Champlain hotel. I remember my father stopping the car there while it was under construction. The steel frame was an incredible site, He had bought me a girder and panel building set from the Farmers Market in Laval. I would always want to be an architect - once I found out what the word meant.
This building was just up the street from the post office where my father had worked some times for 22 hours a day. He brought me a stamp book fom my Uncle Hillel Diamond's Science Shop in Toronto and I collected stamps from countries around the world. I ponned my collection once for 400 dollars to take a trip to New York thinking I might find a job there in cartooning, penciling or inking or something. I had been the best in class at Macdonald college and had been chosen to draw and ink renderings for the 1976 Olympic games. No way hose. The people at DC on the 78th floor of Rockefeller Centre wanted already completed works. Never got my stamp bookback either. The man who took it divorced his wife and disappeared back to Italy.
As I said too many incites into people and life. I have several volumes of stories waiting for some publisher to get interested.
There was a wild animal act in a cage outside the man and life exhibit. Reminds me of the images of the lions at Universal studios I see in old photos of Los Angeles.
Mr. Bertrand had a love for old Quebec and turned the scouting pavilion into the Village d'autrefois. He printed out a newsbulletin that included a picture of a sketch for a fair on St. Helenes island first proposed in 1896!
The kodak pavilion was turned into a giant camera so children could understand how photograhs are made. One year this was also the postage stamp pavilion. I remember also some kind of new movie in the former CN pavilion. I used to love the gothic base of the man the Producer complex where gondollas occasionally passed through.
One year the Gernan pavilion by Frei Otto became the site for a childrens pavilion. This was the perfect kind of space. I would like to see more of his buildings.
The Mormon church took over the Western provinces pavilion, and I can't remember what they ever did with the Belgium pavilion. There was a beautiful Yamaha organ on the ground floor of the Australian pavilion with a master organist.
I remenber that there wass a beautiful lake near the Soviet pavilion with a nice looking beer garden at the edge.
At Expo there were continuous ethnic shows in the Soviet theatre. Many pamphlets on Soviet republiks were given out. The cosmos theatre was a special moving platform and showed their space heroes.
However it was one of the first buildings to be taken away from Expo. In fact all the soviet block countries had been sold, still exist and have been relocated elsewhere. The Yugoslavian pavilion repainted with a ship mural as a museum in Newfoundland looks better today than it did at Expo. Expo didn't have enough murals or graphiti. The Hannover Expo could have profited culturally from this cheap mistake but there were no young Otto wagners there to turn the situation around for the 21st century. Meet Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.
The labyrinth was pleasantly turned into the useful headquaters for Katimavik youth program. I believe there was even a swimming pool in there. Polymer never regained its forme self. Korea had some good days at the post office pavilion. There was a wonderful horse jumping arena on Ille St. Helene where I sketched some of the young riders. Japan, I had wanted that for my cartoon club but a Mr. Tringle said it was impossible.
There was a beautiful dolls pavilion that I believe was originally
on Cite du Havre and which I saw again in the Scandinavian pavilion - wow. This was the real thing, not that aweful pepsi installation by Walt Disney called Its a Small World. Real dolls are the real thing. Mr. Bertrand was a toy collector and got me interested in their history.
Before Expo opened I had a chance to tour the site while it was being constructed. That was one of the first magical experiences I had of architecture.
I would love to have met Antonio gaudi and I have read of the work of Nikki St. Phall. This Expo anniversary has brought to me know much about Expo 67 that I hadn't known, and I thought I had seen everything.
My father had been invited to the opening of the metro in 1966. He was the accountant for Gerry Sneider, a council member. I cycled my bike out to the station that October than had it taken way for a week. My father had seen me riding there. Three years later I proposed building cycling paths to a council of mayors.
I ued to love the En ville magazine which had stories about Expo, and Fortune magazine which sometimes had advertisements with a futuristic bent. These were the days of here come the 70s and the Canada design centre in Place Bonaventure.
Than came Expo 70. I never went there but one of my mothers friends visited there and sent me back a set of the most beautiful postcards!
They knew my love of Expo - everyone knew I was not an Expo fan - I was THE EXPO.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: beardedbruce
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 10:47 AM

Anyone remember the flying saucer in the Russian ( well, USSR) space exhibit?


That was a very good Fair for space hardware.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: GUEST,Brian Maged
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 10:39 AM

Thanks. I saw New York Worlds fair and Expo as a child. Became a designer. Your comment about how great it was to see the lights at the Chicago fair makes me wonder. Awesome - I grew up in St. Laurent near the Decarie circle. This place should have been another Times square. Yet will be, Did you see the Flash Gordon science fiction movie that was a part of that fair?

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: GUEST,Fair goer
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 02:44 PM

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillcotter

Looks like this man has several discs of JPGs from Expo. I bought a disc of pictures from him, from another fair, and am happy with them.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: C. Ham
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:19 PM

Oh, and isn't the "Man and His World" exhibit still up and running?

Man & His World shut down some time in the 1970s. The only thing that's still happening is the La Ronde amusement park. But it's now owned by the Six Flags corporation.

The former French Pavillion is now the Montreal Casino. The old Expo grounds are now a park.

I was 13 and 14 during Expo and every visit was fabulous. It really opened my eyes on to the world beyond my own life. I also got to hear some great music.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:12 PM

I remember eating the worst piece of pizza I've ever had in my life.

Other than that, it was, as the kids say, awesome.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Susan A-R
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:09 PM

We camped up at Rouse's Point on the Vermont side of the border and went up daily. I don't even remember how often, but I remember the Bell Telephone building (wasn't that the theater in the round?) the Czeck building with beautiful carvings, the dome, some ride where we went down the gullet of a monster (I think) I was 9, and it was pretty memorable. The size of things was quite overwhelming to a little visually impaired kid, but what fun!

Oh, and isn't the "Man and His World" exhibit still up and running?

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 11:29 AM

They had the 360 degree cinema in New York as well. And a telephone with a key pad instead of a dial! You could try it out yourself and see whether it was quicker!

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Bee
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 10:01 AM

I was at Expo 67 for a week, with 66 other Cape Breton teenagers. Our trip, by train, was made possible by fundraising by three different churches and ourselves. We slept on a church basement floor, were given a bologna sandwich every morning, dropped off at the gounds in the morning and retrieved at 8:00 pm every day. We had a phenomenal good time, although most of us nearly starved because we only had a little money and wanted souvenirs and rides and other fun stuff. On the train back, my uncle, one of the two adults along, made himself forever memorable with gratitude: he bought a barbecued whole chicken for each of us.

I particularly remember the Australian pavilion, practically lined with sheepskin, had these wonderful spacey 'egg' chairs, which told you about Australia when you sat in them. I remember the 360 degree movie, too, and the weird smelling (why, I don't know - undercured fibreglass?) biology exhibit where you walked through representations of blood and nerves.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 08:44 AM

Hey remember taking the monorail into the globe at expo 64 ?
Of course nnone of these fairs compares with the Chicago worlds fair.
Seeing those electric lights for the first time really gave a glimpse what cities would look like in the futire.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 03:31 AM

I was in Montreal in 1964 and went to the New York Worlds Fair, but my life took a very different turn and I didn't manage to go back to Montreal in 1967.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Beer
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 10:29 PM

You may need them with all the coasters I have.
See you soon. Festival in 61 /62 days.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: bobad
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 10:20 PM

I'd be glad to let you have some glasses, we have plenty.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Beer
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 10:18 PM

Just kiddin. I'll save the package for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Beer
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 10:09 PM

Great. I'll wait for the glasses.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: bobad
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 09:48 PM

Hey Beer, we have a box full of Expo souvenir drinking glasses which we inherited from my mother-in-law, they would go mighty fine with those coasters.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Beer
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 09:46 PM

What the hell happened?? I wrote another paragraph with correction to match and boom!!gone, oh well, Thanks for the thread Bobad.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Beer
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 09:33 PM

Wow!! Bobad, in a way your bringing tears of joy to my eyes. You've awaken so many memories.
I had just arrived to take a nursing course (A little rare at the time for the male species.)from a little village. My brother and I would pay our 35 cent fair and take a bus to St. Catherine Street to watch the girls walk by. The fashon was something we were awa struck with. Then we would go in a local strip joint and watch the girls in cages dance. Times have changed. Someone gave me about a month ago a package of beer coasters of all the pavilions of 1967. I was looking at them tonight because a friend (recently met on the internet) was telling me of a story of himself and a young love he had met were caught streaking running out of the American Pavillion. It made front page in the Montreal Star. Wish I could find the picture for him.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: MMario
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 06:59 PM

yup - I remember expo 67 - we had gone to the worlds fair in NYC in 64 and 65 - and then expo 67.   Three glorious summers.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 06:22 PM

I don't think they have World Fairs in Wyoming. Or Kansas either for that matter. I do remember the hit that the geodesic dome made tho. And I think I remember 1967.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 05:49 PM

I don't think it's possible for anyone who wasn't a Canadian kid at the time to grasp the effect that fair had on a generation of Canadians ...

Although, now that I think about all the talk about the New York World's Fair at the time and over the next few years, maybe that was something the same for American kids, as Ron implies ...

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 05:23 PM

I remember trying to get my parents to take me there, but they said it was too far. We had such great times at the 1964-65 NY Worlds Fair that I wanted to experience it again.   My memories of the NY Fair are very rich - it made a HUGE impression on me.

There is something about events like World's Fairs that stay with people.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 05:01 PM

Ya know a year ago after I got hit by lightning I would not have remembered that. It has taken about a year just to see what difference it made.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 04:58 PM

I was there with grandma and parents. I heard my dad speak his rusty French that he acquired in WWII. Ordered grape pie and got raison pie. The Cuban exhibit building wasn't big enough to swing a cat.
Then I went with our student orchestra. We played outside with virtually no audience. A fly landed on our music in such a way as to make the notes ambiguous so I deftly took my bow and thwacked that fly with the tip of my bow sending its red goo from its head splattering on the page which caused my stand partner to shriek in horror and bring the whole orchestra to a grand pause.

Subject: BS: Memories Of Expo 67
From: bobad
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 04:50 PM

Expo 67 opened in Montreal 40 years ago today. It attracted 50 million visitors at a time when Canada's population was 20 million and had the third highest attendance of any fair in history.

I was 17 years old that summer and working at a summer job to finance my second year at university. Nearly every day after work my girlfriend and I would head out to the exposition by bus and subway, a trip of about one hour, and stay 'till closing which was midnight if my memory serves me well, then head home to catch a few hours sleep before doing the same again the next day. Ah! the resilience of youth.

My memories are of a magical time and place; the wondrous geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, one marvel among a myriad of architectural gems all designed to reflect their national origins and the modernism that was a reflection of the 60's. The first 360 degree movie where the audience, which was standing, would all lean in unison when a speeding ambulance made a sudden sharp turn. Discovering new international foods served up at various country's kiosks and being served beer for the first time in my life. Riding on a futuristic elevated monorail that pased right through the US pavilion where you saw a space capsule still covered with the soot from reentry. People watching and meeting people from all over the world was an inexpensive pastime, the fashions of the day making it easy on the eyes.

I got to see the world premiere of "Don't Look Back" the documentary of Bob Dylan's tour of England, the broadway play "Hellzapoppin'" with Soupy Sales who shook my hand, and loads of music and dance from all over the world, it seemed that there was music and dance around every corner.

That summer of 1967, the summer of love, was full of joyful exuberace and innocence, a time when the future seemed unbounded and we felt like we were riding a wave to a new society. It was one of the most memorable summers of my life.

Does anyone else have memories to share?