Does anyone remember the griffith park love-ins

No matter how hard I try......there are always weeds popping up in the garden.
Some are beautiful and I really don't mind them...loosestrife is a horrible problem in some parts of the country,but I think its beautiful.
Poison ivy however is a pain in the ass and I just don't know anyone who wants to be around it.

 

Welcome Maxs...
We are for the most part a rather peaceful bunch.
But just like the real world.....there are all kinds.

Please stick around and share what you can and join in.

teepi

 

hey that is the same white rabbitt who was hanging out in la and the haight..he is not pretending to be...i last saw him at the wyoming rainbow gathering in 1994

 

lets quell this feud....we have better things to deal with

 

Yeah, Pieman, like what's that dead animal around the woman's neck in Teepi's painting? It looks like a cross between a sturgeon and an ant-eater. Still, I like her art-- it's a cool painting.


BTW, Pieman, I'm back in touch with Tom Ward from 25 Bleecker-- I think you met him-- A.J Weberman and Dana Beal's buddy. If you want his address or phone#, go to his website, www.thomasgward.com.

 

Thanks Thud...
Actually he's a Copapheliac fish...thus the title 'A Last Caress'
She's kind of enjoying his attention and regrets a bit, that soon, he will be on the menu.

 

Great song! That was Mary Hopkin,a Welsh folk singer who Paul McCartney produced for Apple Records in 1968."Those Were The Days" was based on a Russian folk melody.The record went to #2 in the U.S.,but in the U.K. it knocked "Hey Jude" out of the #1 spot.
And now you know...the rest of the story.

 

HAAAHAAAHAA!!! too funny Dave, thanks for the giggle.
Brightest Blessings
sh

 

dave that was funny , janis was a loveing
soul
peace my friend on floor busting a gut lol lol
love ya heifer u are wonderful

 

Rabbit,
I'm glad the drugs kicked in.Happy Thanksgiving!
-Dave

 

Hey there pieman~
I thought that we were
supposed to meet up since
you live in Brighton Beach
and me in Canrsie?
Give me the word dude and I will be there~
Gabba Gabba Hey

 

contact me privately via pieman1024@aol.com
with "hippy.com" on the subject line

 

Sloth Outta Here...

 

Wow, Shameless, thanks for the story.

 

memories is knowledge well thats what i think any how ;-)

 

Yes, I was there. I was 16 in 1968 and we would drop, go to the park, then Sunset. These were great times. My brother and I had an apartment on the boardwalk in Venice in 1968 and 1969. I could never eat the food though bro...way too high.

Do you recall the police riot at the Blue Cheer concert/love in over at the Alysian Park side? I got all my front teeth knocked out that day! Yeah, I was there.

Thanks Pieman for starting this thread!

 

Griffith Park was too nuts. And too close to the LAPD Police Academy. They used the Love-Ins as a training lesson in crowd control it seemed like. Any of you ever meet Wolf Blitzer? He was a Germen conceptual/performing artist who started the Love-ins thing over in Germany. Very cool guy. Hey Pieman were you there when the Airplane and Moodys did a free concert at the park, that turned into just another police riot?

Hef I feel your pain. I got beat down by the LAPD too at Griffith Park. If anyone ever did the Sunset Strip scene, Nancy Dedrick has a sweet site called Hollywood Hangover. If you get a chance check it out. It almost overamped my head with memories and pictures. I never did the commune thing, and only went up to the Haight occasionally to pick up a gallon of Vitamin L from a chemist, whos name I can't remember. I do remember his pet rat, that lived in the wall but liked dosed sugar cubes. LOL I'm kind of a loner, and was content to be living in Hermosa Beach and dropping sillypsybin and surfing. I don't do crowded scenes to well. I don't have any names to drop. Sorry.

 

Hey.. I'm just remenissing when I am talking of the past, I'm not trying to "Drop Names' I'm just remembering places, people and things that I experienced back then.. I know not everyone lived life on the edge, but this is my life and I can't help what I have been through and saw and learned. That is what made me who and what I am today, whatever that may be. There are a lot of ones here in the forums that like to hear the stories from someone that WAS there and did do. Some one who did rub elbows with the ones that made it big, and the elbows of the ordenary folks from the neighborhood.. Good Grief, if ya'll was there back then you'd have great stories to tell also, these peeps were not in hidden caves but was on the street and in the parks, and shopping in the local stores, they were part of the neighborhood, one would have to be blind not to have seen them. There were concerts playing day and night back then in the Haight. There were bands everywhere. The Dead lived two blocks from me. The Airplane lived across the panhandle from my house at 406 Cole St. The Panhandle Park was where the Diggers would hand out food, and there were free concerts that I was involved in organizing. Janis was a Haight St. regular as were bb&thc and other now famus bands. Why wouldn't I want to talk about that. Where is the harm. I'm not ego tripping, I'm just trying to share my experiences with ones that are interested.
sh

 

hey i was at the elysian park gig in 1968 when the cops made their made just before blue cheer was getting ready to play!!! it started when the cops busted some people smoking pot on the hill and all hell broke loose!!! they pulled the same crap again at elysian park in september 1968, the easter love-in in 1969 (remember free acid?), the venice riot on 4/20/69 just before john mayall was fgetting ready to play and newport 69.....