60's Hippie Pics - View & Add or Comment

It always feels weird to show up on a thread 12 years after it started.

 

Yes welcome back. So, got any hippie pics?

 

Oh man, if only I still had the pictures I took back in the 70's in Boulder's Pearl Street Mall. It was like a daily Be-In there. If I remember correctly, the Boulder City Hall and County Court House was right in the middle of the Pearl Street Mall (which is, and was, an outdoor mall that still runs multiple blocks---not the typical indoor shopping mall of the 70's). People would sit right outside the court house in the paved park area on the mall and smoke joints. I also had a few relevant pictures going back to the late 60's.

Unfortunately my first wife ransacked my Tokyo Condo and all my photos up to that time are gone.

You could buy all kinds of hippie things that had cultural value for us at that time in the Pearl Street Mall for a few dollars at most----art, imports from India, charms, clothes, etc. You can still buy a lot of that on the mall today----but the prices are ten times, even hundreds of times more.

But I recently discovered that the movie, HAIR, is streaming for free on TUBI! The story, filmed in about '76, is a little different from the original play in the 60's, because culture had changed, and people 10 years later probably would not have understood the play as it was. For example, Claude was a member of the Tribe with Berger, Wolf, Hud and Jeanie, but in the movie he was a country hick who had just arrived in New York to be inducted into the army, and Berger et al opened his eyes. Its a great movie and somehow seems oddly important again for the times we are in today.

 

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oh how I'd love to see those pics

 

This thread's been around for 17 years and many of the photos posted earlier are gone. When you just copy and paste the pictures they get lost if the website deletes them or if the site disappears. To ensure the photos stay it's best to download and save them, then upload them to the media section here.

 

Yes, I saw post 1!
Im so sorry so many pictures are lost to us but I managed to see some

 

Then there were people like me... I learned the location of Denver's Underground Bookstore (The RIP Bookstore, aka The Radical Information Project Bookstore Collective) because the FBI got caught bugging it and it was on the evening news. So I immediately headed downtown to The RIP. There was always a store front with boarded up windows across the street in what was a fairly busy commercial neighborhood. Every time I went, usually taking a friend there for his or her first time, I would always say, "Smile and wave at the FBI cameras across the street." And they'd always turn, smile, and wave with me.

The FBI, after the bugs were discovered, said, "We're sorry. We won't do that again." And then 6 months or a year later, The RIP was again in the news as they found new FBI bugs.

 

Dan Rowan and Dick Martin's Laugh-In was really a hippie show. Or at least, Hollywood's attempt to connect with the generation.

The first episode began with Dan talking about all the in's that are popular---Love-ins, etc. Dick says he knows all about that and talks Drive-ins, which Dan explains is different. Dan is holding a rose which he explains is a symbol of Flower Power and explains that Flower Power represents a movement for peace and love.

In a later episode, Dan shows up with an anti-war sign on his jacket.

I discovered this morning that it is streaming free on TUBI. This is where Goldie Hawn made her debut.




By the way, you may have noticed Beverly D'Angelo (or as my son-in-law says, Griswold's wife from the Vacation movies) in the clip of Hair I posted yesterday. That was her third movie. She gets naked twice in the movie.

 

Here is another piece from Hair the movie. Since this is YouTube, if the video disappears, this is LBJ took the IRT from Hair. The same song was called Initials in the original play, so you can find it as Initials - HAIR