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31/08/2011 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Drop City

The hippy commune in Colorado in the Summer of Love, 1967.

The Summer of Love and the  hippy commune in the US state of Colorado known as Drop City.

The Summer of Love, 1967, and the commune in Colorado known as Drop City, where rumours of free love, drugs and a lot of music attracted not only hippies from all over the United States, but plenty of tourist buses too.

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