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Baby Boomers Rise Baby Boomes first became noticed as people and not just a statistic in 1966. The cover story in Newsweek Magazine that year had a lot to do with cauasing this to happen. We were around before then, of course, but no one seemed to notice. When the Beatles arrived at the New York airport to begin their first tour in 1964, it was announced that crowds packed the stadiums to hear them perform. We were just young faces in the crowd.
All of that began to change in 1966. The attention we got then was raised a step higher in 1967 by the legendary Summer of Love in San Francisco. And as fortune would have it, that "happening" was attended by Boomerguy, your humble reporter. The Haight-Ashbury district was awash in smiling faces that summer. There were impromptu music concerts by bands in Golden Gate Park. And smoky parties filled small apratments at night. An unfogettable time. The nearby Monterrey Pop Festival was forever enshrined in memory by Scott McKenzie's classic song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)." Boomers began to emerge all over the world after that, but by 1969 much of the attention was captured by a place called Woodstock. The seminal Woodstock Festival at Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York was billed as three days of peace and music, but it was anything but quiet. At that muddy and musical location Boomers were recorded in pictures, videos and movies amid a spectacular collection of bands and music. After that it was impossible to ignore where we went and what we did. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Baby Boomers Anthem "San Francisco" (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) As sung by Scott McKenzie If you're going
to San Francisco For those who come
to San Francisco All across the
nation such a strange vibration For those who come
to San Francisco
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