The most interesting thing about the article was discovering that the guy who took all those photographs is Andy Samberg's father.
/Never been interested in drugs of any kind. As Mia Farrow quotes her brother as saying when they decided to leave the hippies on Goa in the 1960s, "I prefer my razor-sharp mind."
I remember it well, but from quite a distance, being in Tucson during some of it, and in southern Cal for some of it. Sure there were some people who smoked pot, but it wasn't "the hippie scene" this article covers. Most people I knew who did a joint just liked a buzz with their music, and that was it, not much different than having a couple of beers.
I was at UT Austin for much of that time, and it was not unusual at all to walk through the halls of the English building in the afternoon and get a contact high from the smoke drifting out of various offices.
Well, in Tucson it was very much an undercover thing to smoke a joint. Never in public, never where someone who might be a narc might get a glimpse. It was a pretty uptight very conservative town then, still is.
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One saying from Gilbert Shelton that I remember from those times is, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." I think I'll go chant Haré Krishna now. ;-)
Freewheelin' Frank from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers!
The most interesting thing about the article was discovering that the guy who took all those photographs is Andy Samberg's father.
/Never been interested in drugs of any kind. As Mia Farrow quotes her brother as saying when they decided to leave the hippies on Goa in the 1960s, "I prefer my razor-sharp mind."
Hey, they're still alive and well in Portland. Ask my brother.
Jeff
It was a glorious, if ultimately impossible-to-sustain, and sometimes depressing, time.
It was indeed glorious, depressing, strange, and a lot of things like that. It's hard to believe there ever was a time like that, in fact.
I remember it well, but from quite a distance, being in Tucson during some of it, and in southern Cal for some of it. Sure there were some people who smoked pot, but it wasn't "the hippie scene" this article covers. Most people I knew who did a joint just liked a buzz with their music, and that was it, not much different than having a couple of beers.
I was at UT Austin for much of that time, and it was not unusual at all to walk through the halls of the English building in the afternoon and get a contact high from the smoke drifting out of various offices.
NTTAWWT, eh Bill? I remember the shortness of the skirts with great fondness.
Jeff
Well, in Tucson it was very much an undercover thing to smoke a joint. Never in public, never where someone who might be a narc might get a glimpse. It was a pretty uptight very conservative town then, still is.
Of course, the skirts weren't all that hippie. My goodness, though, what giving up will do to one.
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