Sixties Heads...and straight Boomers

[Dees]

Make love, not war! Campus Unrest, the Draft, Vietnam, Flower Children, Riots, Kent State, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Haight-Ashbury, Women's Lib, Free Love, Hippies, the Grateful Dead, Psychedelic, Civil Rights, Freedom Rides, Abbie Hoffman, Berkeley, Timothy Leary, Camelot, Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll, the Beatles, the Silent Majority, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Jack Ruby, Communes, Folk Music, Sit-Ins, J. Edgar Hoover, Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, Che Guevera, Jerry Rubin, SDS, SNCC, Black Panthers, LSD, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and the Doors

Feel free to add to.....

the Weathermen
Love beads
granola
Eldridge Cleaver
black lights
Charles Manson

[Submariner]

1. "Nuke a Gay Whale for Jesus"

Led Zeppelin and 'Iron Butterfly', White Rabbit. 'Beyond the Eve of Destruction.'

[Webster Green]

2. Allan Ginsburg, Richard Alpert , Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters...

The Human Be-in, The Diggers, The Acid Tests

Ah, those were the days!

[happynewyear]

4. great Kesey link here

I met Ken Kesey several years ago. Wow what a man!

Check out think link someone just sent me yesterday: :D

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2004/0530/cover.html

[TrogL]

3. why "straight" Boomers?

Stonewall
Act Out

[Gildor Inglorion]

5. hmmm....so us gays weren't there?

Thanks a lot! :(

[Dees]

6. Sorry...not a reference to being gay/straight. "Straight " as in

right up the middle class Boomers of that time. Right proper. For those not into freakdom.

[bearfan454]

7. Peace medallions

The ones with colored glass. The ecology flag too.

[peacefreak]

8. earth shoes

incense,granny dresses, granny glasses, Ripple, Boone's Farm, Yasgur's Farm, VW buses, Easy Rider, Zig Zags, brownies, Yellow Sunshine,


PEACE MAN! :hippie: :hi: :smoke:

[DancingBear]

17. colored granny glasses, of course

Or "McGuinn glasses", since McGuinn of The Byrds popularized them.

Used to be able to get them at Woolworths.

Woolworths? Damn, I AM old..... :)

[Jim__]

9. Chicago '68

Prague spring
communes
turn on, tune in, drop out.
Yippies.

I think the only thing we did wrong is we came back. There was much better than here.

[jukes]

10. SDS

& the Weathermen...

smoking kills!




:evilfrown:

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Nixon....

Pull out like your father should have.

[King_Crimson]

12. The Classics IV...

In the cool of the evenin', when everything is gettin' kinda groovy
I call you up and ask you if you'd like to go with me and see a movie
First ya say no, you got some plans for the night then you stop...and say...alright
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you...

The Association
The Music Explosion
Moby Grape
Electic Prunes
Rolling Stones
The Lemon Pipers
The Ohio Express
Jefferson Airplane
The Guess Who
The Left Banke
The Hollies
Bubble Puppy.....

Cousin Brucie
Murray the K
Larry Lujack
Muhammed Ali
Rod Serling
Alfred Hitchcock
Hayley Mills
Captain Kirk
Mr. Spock


Those were the days my friend...we thought they'd never end...:hippie:

[King_Crimson]

13. Kick...

:kick:

[Dees]

14. Some more..Bell bottoms, Pea coats, real Hip huggers..

Smothers Brothers, Secret plan to end the war, Gulf of Tonkin, Better red than dead and Lava lamps.

[Cheswick2.0]

15. buying clothes at the Army/Navy store

Army fatigues and blue work shirts which we embroidered on.
Navy button front bells and black turtle neck sweaters.

[DancingBear]

16. Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm

Steal This Book
Mr. Natural
'keep on truckin"
hookahs
eight-track
fringe jackets
madras pants
wide wail corduroys
chocolate mescaline
freaks
heads
quad
light shows
The Fillmore East
"go ride the music"

<sigh>

[Earth_First]

18. The Muir Beach Acid Tests

"Can You Pass The Acid Test?"

[Ksec]

19. Wow man,

I had forgotten alot of those things. Seems like a different life when I think back to those days.

[King_Crimson]

20. What.....

No post here from NightTrain? :wtf:

[DancingBear]

21. He's too young

:) :) :)