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We visited our daughter in San Francisco last weekend and took a trip thru Haight-Ashbury, the epicenter for the "Summer of Love" 40 years ago. It was almost surreal seeing young hippies mingling with geezers and beat poets dressed like a time warp had suspended clothing and hairstyles for 4 decades. Even the signs suggested that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
This is an old hippie and his extremely tolerant wife in front of the former "Dead" house.
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Brings back memories. I had thought about running away and going out there but couldn't find any girlfriends that would go with me. I guess its a good thing.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Hey Sonny, What memories of those times! I've never been to northern California, but still have a long paisley scarf from the 60's. I loved that era. Want some pics of the hippies, not just the leggies! I just read an interview, in "Interview" magazine with Grace Slick.
My cousins live out there, maybe I should take them up on their offer to visit! Did you get more pics???
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Our entire family experienced a day spent in Haight Ashbury district over a year ago. It was one of the highlights of the Lodi WallDog meet trip for us. I was technically too young to be a hippy...being that I was born in the Summer of Love (July 1967). But I embrace the culture in many ways, so I have been called a hippy a lot by my boyfriend's daughter. I'm cool with that. I hope you visited the Fisherman's Warf while you were in SanFran too... (another kool place).
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I was a bit too young to be a first generation Hippie, but lived in San Francisco for a month or two in the late 70's. This is one of my contributions to the culture.
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I'm glad to see this. The Arts had a renaissance from Haight-Ashbury in the mid-Sicksties. When that rubs off on the society-at-large, it can mean nicer jobs for graphic artists.
Deb mentioned an interview with Grace Slick. If you liked it, you might have the local library get you her autobiography. And a really good first-hand account of the H-A scene is _Famous People I Have Known_ by Ed McClanahan From right here in Lexington. He was a buddy of Kesey.
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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And we thought the world was changing to peace, for ever. And we knew there was a generious brotherhood within all mankind.
Thanks for your post Sonny
-------------------- Joe Crumley Norman Sign Company 2200 Research Park Blvd. Norman, OK 73069 Posts: 1428 | From: 2200 Research Park Blvd. | Registered: Sep 2001
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I was out there in the military from 1992-1993. It doesn't look like much has changed since then even. It was always entertaining to walk the streets on Saturdays around there and in Berkley. There are some unique people around in those two places.
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Some things look as though they're impersonating what was. The ideology and hopes that had us there in the 60's are long gone for most of us. The world then had an intensity worthy of putting everything on the line for what one believed in.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6712 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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quote:Originally posted by Rick Sacks: Some things look as though they're impersonating what was. The ideology and hopes that had us there in the 60's are long gone for most of us. The world then had an intensity worthy of putting everything on the line for what one believed in.
Far out man!
Peas and Love
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Rick, I agree it was an exciting time and somewhat of a political and emotional renaissance coming out of the Nixonian era of deceit and oppression, but I think the seeds of that generation have at least quietly worked themselves into the national psyche, with California again leading the way in organic farming and environmental concerns. Now, if we could just get the Republicans to the electric kool-aid acid test...... (let's don't get political, it was just a joke)
Speaking of acid tests, here's a great pic of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their magic bus, "Further". (maybe the inspiration for Frank's Love Bus?)
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Yeah San Francisco is a trippy city! I remember the first time I saw Haight-Ashbury was in 1966. I was about 15-16 at the time. I was in a bus tour with a bunch of other kids my age from a school project. It was full of hippies all over the place. A few years ago I remember seeing, by Fishermans wharft a crazy Big A$$ Yellow car all dressed up as wild as could be, later found out it belonged to a band dude from either the Grateful Dead or some other band. SF has so much to see and lots to do. Sonny looks like you had lot of fun while out there. Now that a crazy wild looking bus!
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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