In the streets of 1967 San Francisco (warning: a lot of large photos)

[shawmut]

Photos by Charles W Cushman. http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp

[brainshrub]

1. Looks like downtown Asheville, NC.

[JanMichael]

2. Exactly like Asheville!

God, I love that town

[brainshrub]

14. I do to.

That's why I live here. :D

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. whoa man, like, I,m having flashbacks man

ever been to the Blue Unicorn?

[JanMichael]

4. Oh my God!

That is so weird that you posted that...just yesterday I was explaining that coffee shop to my husband (whose name I am posting under right now)

I wanted to open a Blue Unicorn used book and coffee shop with free wi-fi in the town where we live; the people in this town are totally not open to the idea at all.

Sad-

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. Was that place too cool or what?

come to my town and open it. I'll hang there!

[JanMichael]

10. Don't laugh...I was never there

I just know about it from photos and accounts of people who WERE there.

I am 40, and remember the real hippies fondly from my youth---somehow as a child, I knew that they were "right" in their thinking-

If you have stories of the Blue Unicorn, I do wish you would post them--I personally find that whole scene fascinating!

Stephanie

[Deja Q]

5. Awesome fashions. I think I was born 25 years too early...

:cry:

Photos are beautifully restored too. :thumbsup:

The guy on the first one is really cute, too. Of course, that was 1967. :-)

I wonder what they're all doing today...?

[NJCher]

6. oh man, those were the days

I loved that time.

I can remember wearing clothes like that.

I wonder if people that age today will have similar memories of protest and rebellion?

Cher

[SoCalDem]

7. Check out George's hippie duds.. Chilean hippie, that is

[Deja Q]

8. Outfit is cool. Grotesque face isn't. It's like he ate something gross!

:puke:

[SmokingJacket]

11. Great pics, thanks!

Everyone looks great -- healthy, and with awesome shoes! Makes me hate the ubiquitous sneaker.

My uncle could have been in these pictures. He had great stories about being an anarchist/printmaker/coffeeshop owner, rioting, tear gas, the Blue Meanies...

[SoCalDem]

12. Ahhh.. Mini-dresses, Capezios, mocassins..hip-huggers

a trip down memory lane :)

[farmbo]

13. Hey man, Iron Butterfly's playin' at the Filmore tonight...

Great pictures! Thanks for the Sunday Morning Buzz!

Note the guy in picture #6 is birding the photographer...LOL!

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I saw Iron Butterfly in 1970

One of the worst concerts I have ever been to.

Don't mean to sound bad, just didn't want you to waste your money.