What Was 1967 Like in the US?

If you were born in 1967, you arrived in what people would later call the Summer of Love—one hundred thousand young people converging on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, flowers in their hair, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane providing the soundtrack.

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Life in the US in 1967

President

Lyndon B. Johnson

Gas (per gallon)

$0.33

Loaf of Bread

$0.22

Average House

$15,900

Weekly Wage

$115

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