There's a Hippie museum!

[Joanne98]

http://www.hippiemuseum.org/timeline.htm

Are Hippies coming back in style?

[hobbit709]

1. OMG Who woulda thunk it?

[hwmnbn]

2. Far out!!...

And for your information, we never went out of style! :hippie:

[BlackVelvet04]

8. indeed.....

[NNN0LHI]

3. I never got tired of seeing Deep Purple perform Smoke On The Water

Not sure how many times but it was numerous.

Don

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Never went out of style in my neck of the woods

Even had the last Rainbow Gathering in Newton County.

[Warpy]

5. Ever been to Madrid, New Mexico?

The land that time forgot...

Funny, it turns out we were right about nearly everything, especially the GOP and the need for sustainability in all things. We're all still out here, although most of us are plainclothes hippies these days.

We might have gone out of style as the yuppie generation came in and settled for money that most of them have now lost, but we're still ready to teach what we've learned on our own journey.

We're just waiting until people are ready to learn.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. No,

but I'm glad Madrid is out there. Like you, the folks around here are into cooperation and sustainability.


Only been to Lama NM to the Lama Foundation for spiritual retreats.

[Bandit]

24. How about "never trust anyone over thirty"

Do you still believe that basic tenet of hippydom?

[conscious evolution]

12. Almost went to one this weekend.

Peace and love never go out of style.

[B Calm]

6. Wow man, that's real groovy..

[peacetalksforall]

9. I just hope that no men have shaved their head voluntarily. I hope a

significant number still have a mustache.

There was beautiful hair everywhere.

No surprise that a perfoming arts stageplay was named h a i r!

I hope there is a lot of hair in the photos in the museum.

[troubleinwinter]

10. CORE: Congress of Racial Equality.

(link 1961)

I recall being 11 years old in Berkeley in 1962. Many/most stores and shops had CORE signs in their windows. The republicans boycotted those stores as being "commie". Imagine that. Racial equality = "commie". Why don't stores have CORE signs in their windows today?

[scarletwoman]

11. Thanks for the interesting link. Alot of that history is stuff I personally lived through.

It's actually quite fun being old. I always loved history when I was a kid, and now I get to have the experience of being a keeper of history.

There are things I would have included in the author's timeline -- and he included things I would have probably neglected. Those of us alive through those times were perceiving them from many different angles.

What I found most valuable on that site, in fact, was this:

...the American Revolution was not a social one.

It's so obvious, yet I have never seen it put so succinctly. For this one small phrase alone I am profoundly grateful.

Thank you,
sw

[NOLALady]

13. Were any of you at Woodstock?

[KharmaTrain]

14. Almost....

I was in New York City that weekend...and I tried talking my cousins into possibly taking a ride to see what was going on. Besides the fact it was over 150 miles away, we looked into it until we turned on the 11pm news and saw the traffic was backed up for miles around Bethel (the REAL Woodstock). But, of course, I tell all my friends I was there. :rofl:

[Forrest Greene]

15. I Almost Attended, Also

I was a teenager living in CT at the time , had a ride all set & everything.

Know why I decided not to go?

Because I thought the tickets -- the ones no one ended up needing -- were too expensive.

Sheesh.

[KharmaTrain]

16. Expensive in 1969 = $10

By the time we were thinking of going, the promoters had announced everything was free...but for good reason. I did have several acquaintances who were there and most complained they never really heard any of the music and ended up caked in mud. But, of course, almost 40 years later, the story changes a bit.

Cheers...

[Forrest Greene]

23. And As A Suburban Teenager

...that ten bucks meant something to me.

F'r'instance, I'm told the commodity I'd probably have purchased with the money instead—before going home & listening to "Electric Ladyland" on the headphones—goes for something like twenty times that, today.

[NOLALady]

19. I had a Canadian roommate who was there.

It was too far for me to even consider. I didn't have transportation nor did I know anyone who was remotely interested in going there.

I did manage to go the concert in GA. for the July 4th weekend. It was a year or two after Woodstock.
I fell asleep and dreamt about the Star Spangled Banner. Realized I wasn't dreaming and awakened to Jimi Hendrix doing it like nobody else could. My friends swore that I woke from a deep sleep and jumped about 10 feet into the air. He died a few months later.

[ConsAreLiars]

17. It's great that the site puts that expression of the fight for human rights into a long historical

context.

One thing that is missing is a link to archives of the underground newspapers of the time. I searched, but as best I can tell that record is still in paper form in a few library basements and not on the web. Too bad. A lot of what really happened was recorded on those pages. I worked on one for a while. Mike Malloy worked with The Great Speckled Bird. Werbe was with SDS and probably with some paper in Detroit. That history needs to be made a part of the record.

[Quantess]

18. I hope not.

:hide:
I'm a complete liberal who lived in San Francisco for several years, but I'm not a hippy. I shave my body hair, I like bras, I like to look streamlined and would rather wear black (but I don't wear makeup). I do not like marijuana. I have several great tattoos. I'm 37 and a first generation American, if it makes a difference.

An ignorant person once called me a hippy, because he had heard rumors about drugs I had done in the past.

Anyway, I'm not going to imitate an antiquated style. Sorry if that offends anyone. I think a "hippy" is outdated, and a relic of the past.

[NOLALady]

21. I didn't know that hippys were about body hair, bras or drugs.

A different view...

"Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life."
Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstasy) 1967

[Quantess]

22. That's cool! I enjoy Timothy Leary.

However, "Hippy" is so passe', nobody wants to hear the word being applied to them, these days.

I've been called a "tree hugger" a few times. That name relates more to me, even though I don't actually embrace trees, I just grow them and plant them.

Personally I think the image of a hippy is even lower than the image of a liberal. Call me superficial, but I will always opt to stick to the more flattering image.

Edit: yeah, and to me, I'm sorry but in my mind hippy = marijuana smoker. Marijuana doesn't agree with me. I get a combination of mental anxiety plus depression and nervousness whenever I have smoked weed. My conceptual image of a true hippy is a stoner.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

20. That was trippy, man!

:hippie: http://www.hippiemuseum.org/index.html