Did any of you hang in Hollywood during the 60's? If you did, here is a totally groovy site I ran across today. Check it out. It's called "The Great Hollywood Hangover"
I was there. It was a total scene. Thousands of Hippies out on the streets of Hollywood. Hippies selling the Free Press to cars stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Going in and out of head shops on Hollywood Blvd. and hanging out at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go. Whiskey’s was a surprisingly small club for such a famous place. I saw John Mayhall there when Eric Clapton was playing in his band. The place was packed so I climbed on stage and sat along side while they played. No one hassled me. A great light show was being projected on all of the walls and the joints were being passed all around. It was beautiful!
Yep and cruising down to Canters afterwards for some food and to see who was hanging out, and buy some buttons, incense, or black light posters across the street at The Free Press Bookstore. I was going to Washington High school in Watts for awhile, but I got kicked out in '67 and sent on a "social adjustment" permit to Fairfax High. LOL Their mistake. I got socially adjusted all right. Just not the kind of adjustment they had planned.
I was there a tiny bit past the 60's...feb-may of 71. I sold the free press on a couple corners in Hollywood. I remember one time I was standing in front of a gas station holding up a paper and a guy pulled in and beeped, I went over to his car and he had his wee winky out to show me how proud he was of it...I was unimpressed...I yelled "you gonna buy a paper or not Shithead??"......he sped off.
hey i went to fairfax high school in 1967, i also sold the free press and i hung out at canter's, the free press bookstore, and the infinite mind which was at beverly and fairfax...hey those were the days......i also worked with green power giving out free food at the griffith park love-ins
Pieman. Fairfax High in '67? Then we might have crossed paths. You were probably a class ahead of me though. I got kicked out of so many schools that I ended up graduating in '69 instead of '67. I wasn't even there a whole semester, before I got the boot out of there too. I remember they were just starting tearing the school down to rebuild it, and they built a guard tower and used one of the partially destroyed buildings as an East German prison, to shoot an episode of Mission Impossible. Do you remember that?. Now that I'm thinking about it I'm not sure if that was '67 or '66. I'm getting oldtimers disease and can't remember shit. Do you remember The Teenage Fair in Hollywood? We dropped blue barrels every night for a week and went to that thing trolling for babes. I think by the last day I was having to do like 6 or 7 hits to get off! LOL Edit: I remember one of the record/media companies was having auditions for musicians to be in a TV show. A couple people in my classes were going. They eventually hired the peple and started the TV Show. 'Hey Hey we're the Monkees" AH HA HA HA HA. And everyone was pissed that they went through all that audition shit and out of all the people, they only picked one guy who was actually a musician. Michael Nesmith. Ya those were some fun times.
