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Originally Posted by shel  It ain't nuthin' like it was ...I lived there summer of '66 through early '68. The place turned to sh!t sometime in 67. Oh well, I guess if you want to have your picture taken underneath the street sign, y' gotta go there.
Shel (sometimes missing the old days) |
Interesting. I had a freind from Dubuque that lived there on Haight-Asbury area in '67- ?
SO maybe you can clear something up for me. '67 was the "Summer of Love" right?
So when did "Death of Hippie" take place? Was it the end of the summer of '67 or sometime during the summer of '68?
Are you familiar with the documentary "It was 20 years ago today"?
In that documentary there is a scene of a somewhat hefty hippie walking down the street looking into the documentary cameraman's camera, with a young girl, with kind of a scared look on her face, and he was gesticulating and shouting out (no sound on that shot) that my friend pointed out to me was a well known "Norbert the Nark".
Yeah, Shel, I miss those days too. Yet, like Grace Slick said in retrospect, "it was just that there were SO MANY of us baby boomers with nothing else to do, it really didn't mean much at all". Like the guy in that documentary that lived on a boat in Amsterdam, he said "Everyone's always asking, "What's happening? Is there anything happening?" (paraphrased as best I can remember). All over the world, the hippie culture (or at best the imitation of what appeared to be the hippie culture and flower children frame of mind) was spreading.
So, the spirit and spirituality and the "feeling" of maybe being part of something big that might be or even was changing the world through love was in the air. But I wonder, was it just the same then as it is now, with kids wearing their jeans down below their underwear? Just people following what was "popular" and "trying to fit in" or was there really something different about the late '60's that will probably never occur again in anybody's lifetime forever?
Looking very forward to pursueing this off-shoot of the original thread. Mezz doesn't mind, do you?
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