# "Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 4th of July..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289 "2011-08-27T14:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/141 "2011-09-02T13:10:46Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > You guys make me crazy! My heart aches and I’m going to California. If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/142 "2011-09-02T13:21:23Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Going to SF? Could you do me a big favor and pick up one of my bodily organs? I left my heart in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/143 "2011-09-02T13:41:02Z")
San Francisco, here I come! ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/144 "2011-09-02T14:44:33Z")
I do believe it was midnight. Nothin’ like chillin’ at am/pm. ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/145 "2011-09-02T14:55:47Z")
It was breezy alright. A summer breeze, blowing through the jasmine in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/146 "2011-09-02T15:28:11Z")
Well, now that we’ve decided that it was late September, I really should be back at school. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/147 "2011-09-02T15:37:28Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Well, now that we’ve decided that it was late September, I really should be back at school. I hope that you try to remember the kind of september when life was slow and oh so mellow. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/148 "2011-09-03T07:13:33Z")
and now, it really is the 3rd of September, a day we’ll always remember. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/149 "2011-09-03T11:17:56Z")
They’re OK the last days of May. It’s said the West is nice this time of year. That’s what they say. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/150 "2011-09-03T13:04:15Z")
Will you come see me? Thursdays and Saturdays? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/151 "2011-09-03T13:57:16Z")
I told you way back in '52, that I would never go with you. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/152 "2011-09-03T14:11:30Z")
'52? I thought it was the Summer of '69 ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/153 "2011-09-03T16:45:11Z")
September, 1977: Weather is fine in Port Elizabeth. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/154 "2011-09-03T17:18:11Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Will you come see me? Thursdays and Saturdays? Maybe we could go to the park? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/155 "2011-09-03T17:47:16Z")
In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/156 "2011-09-03T19:42:52Z")
The volunteers came home that day ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/157 "2011-09-03T20:49:37Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > The volunteers came home that day Who? The Volunteers of America? (VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA!!) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/158 "2011-09-04T01:16:11Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue. They disembarked in '45, and no one spoke, and no one smiled. There were too many spaces in the line. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/159 "2011-09-04T02:02:54Z")
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/160 "2011-09-04T02:11:25Z")
It was on one Monday morning about one o’-clock, When that great Titanic began to reel and rock. People began to scream and cry Saying, oh! Lord, were bound to die! It was sad when that great ship went down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289.md?page=9)