Dedicated to Teresa and all the othjer Ex-Hippies.

[dnalexander]

To all the gun hating hippies...you are welcome. police

I actually shoot on a regular basis with real hippies left over from the 60's. Not many true hippies left.  Most of them defected to the dot com boom and entrepreneurial endeavors. But I know what you mean.

David

I just used that term ..because..I did.. 
.( well actually I used to be one of those long hair barefooted "Kansas Hippies"..)

A LONG LONG LOOOOONG time ago...
*And you hear about 'soft porn?"  well... I was I guess a "soft Hippie"..  Not into the drugs...but I sure looked "cool" and listened to the right music and joined in a few of the set ins.. ...

Funny........

Dedicated to all the old hippies that grew up cut their hair and joined the mainstream culture. It sure was a long time ago. I bet the hippies never thought they would become a mostly forgotten, encyclopedic reference.  Those were good days and sometimes very bad days. Thanks for the memories Teresa.

Hippies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe people who created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.

On January 1967, the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. In Mexico, the jipitecas formed La Onda Chicana and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom, mobile "peace convoys" of New age travellers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge. In Australia hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. In Chile, "Festival Piedra Roja" was held in 1970 (following Woodstock's success), and was the major hippie event in that country.

Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a wide audience. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms — from health food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores, and even to the cyberspace revolution. (more info if you follow the above link)

David

[Diane Amberg]

I graduated from UD in 1966. Does that tell ya somethin' ?  I was a moderate then too. I'm one of the few people on the east coast who did NOT go to Woodstock in 1969.    Sure could have and had friends who did. I wanted nothing to do with that mess. Good music though.

[dnalexander]

Diane during the Summer of Love 1969, the peak of the hippie movement, I spent several weeks in Howard and a couple weeks in Wichita visiting my Aunts. ( I was 8 1/2 at the time).  The rest of the summer my brothers and I were running a fast growing tie-dyed t-shirt and rubber band gun business out of Prairie Village, KS.  As I have said on here before the music of the 60's is my favorite. The Doors, Moody Blues, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Dusty Springfield,  andThe Ronettes. That was when rock was rock , country was country, Soul was Motown, and Phil Spector created the "Wall of Sound"

David

p.s. I also think that is when my Uncle Frank and my cousin Carl Ray, whose father I am named after, were graduating from Emporia State though I may be a year or two off on that.

David

[Diane Amberg]

I probably have a tie dyed tee around somewhere, not that it would still fit me. Ahem...

[Teresa]

Wow........ oh yeah..  I wore the peasant type blouses.. and of course the tye dye ( which are huge in style once again)  along with the long bellbottoms and of course ..beads.. lots of beads.. My hair was straight and almost to my waist and I sported beaded headbands too.. LOL 
in college.......
Psychedelic posters on the walls.. beads instead of doors...  oversize pillows on the floors...
great memories

[Varmit]

Beads, headbands, psychedelic posters...you are worrying me, man.

[larryJ]

Ah Billy-----------this is one of those "you had to be there" moments.  Waterbeds were just coming in as cool.  The news reports in the evening would show American soldiers in action in Viet Nam.  And, the news media would show caskets being carried off planes.  And, Teresa, did you mention the incense?  Sometimes I would go to a party and couldn't breathe because of the incense.  Incense was neat because it covered up the smell of the "mary jane" be smoked.  Girls with halter tops and everybody wore sandals or bergenstocks.  Sit ins, Love ins, You had to be there!  Good music as mentioned even the hard rock or pyschodelic music---------inagadavida!! You just had to be there.   

Larryj

[kshillbillys]

I wasn't even around then, not thought of for several years but that was the era of the great music: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Stones, The Grateful Dead, CCR, Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. And yes Larry...Iron Butterfly and their great 17 minute "InaGadaDaVida"....To me Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are still number one for vocals and guitar...But then along came the 80s and all the great feel good songs that everyone still remembers and sings along to on the radio and can now be heard on the oldies station...sighhhh i'm gettin' old...

[larryJ]

Ah yes, the music.  I mentioned somewhere maybe here or another thread that I when I came home from the army, I went to work in a music store in Hollywood.  At the time, this company was the largest music store in the country.  The owner and his brother were instrumental in starting up Capital Records, a block up the street.  Capital produced the Beach Boys, for a while the Beatles until they started their own label, and many many others.  The hippies would hang around the doors of the store until they were blocking the customers from getting in, then I would go chase them away. 

The stars?  Yeah, they were all over the place.  When Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was really into the drug scene, he would come n the store and just stand there looking at the record albums in the bins, not touching just looking.  The store sold instruments as well as sheet music and televisions/stereos besides records.  8 track tapes were just getting started then.  One time George Harrison came in the store to buy a guitar.  Usually, when someone of his magnitude is going to come in, the store manager (me) is notified so arrangements can be made to keep everything calm.  Nobody called, he showed and all heck broke loose.  He left the store and all the customers and half the employees went with him.  I remember looking out the window one time and a pink cadillac convertable pulled up and Aretha Frankilin came in to buy a record.  Our store had bins with demonstration records so that you could take an album to a listening booth before you decided to buy it.  At the time when Linda Rondstadt was transitioning from the Stone Ponys to a solo career. she would come in and the check the leader cards under S and R.  The leader cards behind each album in the bins was stamped with the reorder date and amount of order.  People like Linda came in to look at the leaders cards to see how well their album was doing.  One more and I will shut up.  The company had six stores in the L.A. area and on Sunday afternoons there would be some recording artist in the store to autograph album covers much like authors do in bookstores around here now.  One Sunday I was working in the Lakewood store and we were scheduled to have two acts---The Bobby Fuller Four (I fought the Law and the Law won) and after them a guy I can't remember the name of now, but he was a crooner much like a black Bing Crosby.  When I got there that day to open the store, there was a line a mile long of kids waiting to see the Bobby Fuller Four.  While this group was cordoned off inside the ticket agents booth signing autographs some of them were terrorizing the place by throwing tickets around and ripping phone cords out of the wall.  I got the agent aside and told him to get them out------NOW!!!   When the other guy came (oh yeah it was Mel Carter) there was no one there who wanted his autograph.  I was really embarassed so he and his agent and I went across the street to a bar and had a drink or two. 

Enough already.   Good Night

Larryj

[Sarge]

 
The stars?  Yeah, they were all over the place.  . 
Larryj

You forgot to mention the DeadBeats!