Savor the days where almost nothing happens, consider them gifts. June 1st was one of those days in 1968. Calm, slow, reasonably peaceful except maybe Vietnam and Paris – but if you were a certain age, the day went by practically unnoticed and it moved at a snails pace.
Especially if you lived in Santa Rosa California. Where’s that? It’s just north of San Francisco, smack in the middle of wine country.
On this particular June 1st in Santa Rosa it was heading in the direction of 90 degrees – heat wave. Air conditioner weather, even on the first day of June. The California primaries were a few days off – your radio is full of them. Presidents and State Senators and ballot initiatives; goes in one ear and out the other.
It’s staring off into space weather – it’s driving with the hood down weather. It’s watching a cluster of pigeons occupy power lines. It’s imagining yourself perched fifty feet off the ground, checking out the neighborhood and miles and miles of hills and you have not one single thing to do.
It’s one of those kinds of days – little do you know what’s just around the corner, but today life is taking a breather.
And the radio’s on – and it’s KSRO and it’s blending into the scenery – and you don’t mind.
So while you’re sleeping off the Turkey or wandering the kitchen with a turkey baster in your hand – here’s a 90 minute slice from KSRO in Santa Rosa – part of six hours from that day you’ll hear during the coming weeks. The day where almost nothing happened.
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