In 1967, "To Sir with Love" topped the charts, The Graduate packed theaters, a stamp cost 5¢, the average home went for about $22,700.
🎵 Top songs of 1967
"To Sir with Love" — Lulu
"The Letter" — The Box Tops
"Ode to Billie Joe" — Bobbie Gentry
🎬 In theaters
The Graduate
The Jungle Book
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
What things cost in 1967
$0.33
Gallon of gas
5¢
Postage stamp
$1.20
Movie ticket
$1.15
Gallon of milk
$22,700
Average home
$3,100
New car
$7,933
Household income
A $0.33 gallon of gas in 1967 has the buying power of roughly $3.10 in 2024 dollars. A 5¢ stamp is around 47¢ today, and a $1.20 movie ticket is about $11.25.
The biggest moments of 1967
The Green Bay Packers won the very first Super Bowl on January 15, 1967.
San Francisco's Summer of Love drew thousands of young people to Haight-Ashbury.
The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an instant landmark album.
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice in October 1967.
The Packers beat the Cowboys in the legendary "Ice Bowl" on December 31, 1967, played at 13 below zero in Green Bay.
A new music magazine called Rolling Stone published its first issue in San Francisco in November 1967.
Toys, TV & trends of 1967
Lite-Brite arrived in 1967, letting kids make glowing pictures with colored pegs.
The Carol Burnett Show premiered in September 1967 and kept families laughing for 11 seasons.
Sally Field soared over Puerto Rico as TV's The Flying Nun.
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiered in February 1967, mixing folk songs with sly satire.
Ker-Plunk had families nervously pulling straws to keep the marbles from tumbling.
The Pirates of the Caribbean ride opened at Disneyland in March 1967 — one of the last attractions Walt Disney himself helped design.
The music scene
The Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 introduced mainstream America to Jimi Hendrix — who set his guitar aflame — and to a Texas belter named Janis Joplin. Aretha Franklin took Otis Redding's "Respect," rearranged it, spelled it out, and was crowned the Queen of Soul. The Doors' "Light My Fire" ruled the summer airwaves, edited down from seven minutes for radio.
At the movies
Bonnie and Clyde divided older critics and thrilled younger audiences, joining The Graduate as the opening shots of the New Hollywood era. It was also Sidney Poitier's year: he starred in three major hits in 1967 — including Best Picture winner In the Heat of the Night — and finished as the nation's top box-office star.
Cartoons kids loved
Spider-Man
George of the Jungle
Speed Racer
The superhero cartoon wave crested in 1967. Spider-Man's low-budget series gave the world a theme song ("Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can...") that outlived the show by decades. Speed Racer arrived dubbed from Japan's Mach GoGoGo, and George of the Jungle came from Jay Ward, the wit behind Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The world in 1967
World population: about 3.5 billion
U.S. President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first human heart transplant in South Africa in December 1967.
Expo 67 in Montreal drew more than 50 million visitors during Canada's centennial year.
The world's first ATM was installed at a Barclays bank branch in London in June 1967.
The supersonic Concorde was unveiled to the public for the first time in Toulouse, France, in December.
1967 birthday questions
How old is someone born in 1967?
Someone born in 1967 turns 59 in 2026 (58 if their birthday has not come round yet).
What was the number one song in 1967?
"To Sir with Love" by Lulu was among the biggest hits of 1967.
What movie came out in 1967?
The Graduate was one of the films packing theaters in 1967.
How much did gas cost in 1967?
A gallon of gas ran about $0.33 in 1967, and a postage stamp cost 5¢.
How much did a house cost in 1967?
The average home went for roughly $22,700 in 1967, against a typical household income of about $7,933.