1967

 

 

IBM Joins the Air Force

For fifty years the US Air Force Strategic Air Command Digital Network (SACDIN), relied on the IBM 8-inch floppy drive to enter data in their computers installed at Minuteman II missile sites in the 1960s and 1970s. According to the Air Force, they continued to use the system because A) It worked well; B) The archaic hardware offered a cybersecurity advantage. They didn’t retire the drive until 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

Cambrian Bowl

Since 1961, Cambrian Bowl was a popular neighborhood hangout. Me and my friend John Ranallo did some bowling there, and some pool a couple of times. As a bowler for my team in the Ida Price Bowling League, I wasn’t very good. But I got better.

 

 

 

 

 

The Charlatans

Unsung contributors to the San Francisco movement were the Charlatans. They were a folk rock and psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury music scene during the 1960s.They’re often cited by critics as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound. The band was part of a movement that embraced a romanticism around the Barbary Coast district of San Francisco of the late 19th century. They dressed in old, stiff-collared shirts with pins, and riding coats and long jackets. The guys wore their hair long under Western-style hats while the girls would wear long velvet gowns and lace-up boots.

 

 

 

 

Pentagon Demonstration

On 21 October 1967 the march on Washington D.C. and the Pentagon was the largest to date demonstration and first national protest against the Vietnam war. As 30,000 demonstrators stormed the Pentagon, more than 600 people were arrested.