24 - And the moral of the story is ....
The 1978 journey Boulder , Colorado is “exactly where the plains meet the Rocky Mountains .” Driving east from Nebraska or Kansas , eastern Colorado seems no different, until the Flatirons suddenly pop up just west of Boulder . In 1978, Boulder was teeming with vitality. The University of Colorado had more than thirty thousand students. The Pearl Street Mall was dedicated the year before as a pedestrian-only downtown, populated daily by musicians, street people, shoppers, tourists, and townies. The Rolling Stones played before 60,000 happy folks at Folsom Field. And best of all, Mork and Mindy debuted in Boulder , catapulting Robin Williams and Pam Dawber into stardom. [i] People came from all over to visit Boulder , such as the travelers at the Youth Hostel from Ireland and Australia . Boulder was also a mecca for the burgeoning counter-culture movement of the ‘70s. Here’s a poster I purloin