Any Yippies here?

[LynneSin]

Been reading Abbie Hoffman's autobiography (yes, my cat was named after him). And I was curious if there were any yippies here especially anyone who was at Columbia or the Chicago convention in 1968.

[SarahB]

1. I'm a Yippie spawn

Does that count? My dad was at the '68 convention (he was a delegate and interviewed Dan Rather). I wasn't even a twinkle yet.

[H2O Man]

2. A later YIPPIE!!!

I met Abbie a few times, and had contacts in the Barry Freed days. The Yipster Times/Overthrow was one of the great newspapers.

[treefrogjohn]

3. I was in several pre-Chicago meetings and at Grand Central Station

At that time I was a writer for an underground paper in Baltimore and travelled to NYC to do a story on the Yippies. I actually crashed at Abbie's and Jerry's apartments, along with other places, while I was there. My roommate and traveling companion at the time was grievously injured when the police threw him through a plate glass door while empyting the Yip-in celebrants from Grand Central Station. I went to meetings pre-Chicago where I recall Abbie and Anita, Jerry and Nancy, Paul Krassner, Bob Fass, Vaughn Meader, Tuli Kupferberg, and others who I can't recall specifically. A lot of strategy discussions, and more tactical ones including how the best way to create radicals was to create a situation where a policeman's club was used in an attack. I actually made a reel-to-reel recording of these meetings and of direct interviews. Unfortunately that piece of history disappeared from my house one day. I blamed the FBI at the time but I will probably never know.

Thanks for bringing up some old memories.

[LoZoccolo]

8. Hmmmm...

A lot of strategy discussions, and more tactical ones including how the best way to create radicals was to create a situation where a policeman's club was used in an attack.

Wow I'd hate to be the guy getting clubbed. Sounds like the Naderite strategy of getting Bush* re-elected so all this stuff turns to shit so people are dying (literally) to "get it right next time".

[Amerpie]

4. Weather Underground

I just met Brian Flanagan in NYC. I'll be seeing Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in Chicago next month.

[lucidmadman]

5. I remember that my mother had such a dim focus...

...on things and hated 'hippies' so much she wanted me to be a 'yippie' and go to Chicago. The woman's idiocy had no limits. Anyway, I didn't. I remember right around that time also seeing, with her, the 'Warhol superstars' on David Suskind. She thought some of those 'girls' had real good attitudes towards their mothers.
It all cracks me up now.
I'm in a 'rare' mood'. I'm remembering too much.
1968 was a weird time to be 16 and have 'nutty' parents.

[jimshoes]

6. I'm a FIPPY

Old fat hippie. But Im comfortable with that.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Met most of them during my Lower East Side sojurns....

so, I guess I am one. I did stay with them during the Kansas City GOP convention in 76... our motto that year was...

Don't stop our Presidential line of pricks
Vote Republican in 76


Great bunch of guys and gals, btw. Lots of fun times.