THE HIPPIE TEMPTATION 1967 .

[Douglas Carpenter]

[livetohike]

1. Bookmarked! Nice find

[NOLALady]

2. Far Out, Man!

[malthaussen]

3. Can't watch it.

That voice is enough to drive a deaf man dumb.

-- Mal

[Scuba]

4. I love nostalgia.

[Nika]

5. Groovy and where it's at.

[Bennyboy]

6. Hey, where are all the Flashbacks they promised me?

[sulphurdunn]

14. I had one

on the rifle qualification range in the Army, circa 1968. Suddenly, everything went two dimensional and vivid. All the human silhouette targets from 25 to 400 meters appeared to be the same distance away and crystal clear in my rifle sights. I shot expert. I've always thought it sadly ironic.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. Interesting video

I spent a few years living in the "Haight Ashburry" (Haight and Lyon street) and it was always a weird and exciting place. (Though my place always had cockroaches and mice like you wouldn't believe.) Its still a place that attracts youth, even though the Hippies are long gone. Its become far more commercial, with antique shops, drug paraphernalia (Pipes, Bongs, rolling papers, etc.) Restaurants with falafels in pita bread.. Organic Pizza's and Tye Dye tee shirt shops. Its a tourist trap basically. The Free clinic is still there..and operating. The Panhandle is still there, though it hosts mostly joggers and bicyclists.

It was a fun place to live for a while, but it starts to become annoying. Every five feet people are begging for spare change. At night one occasionally hears shouting, fights and even gun fire. I was very happy to move back to the Japan town area. Still, if you ever come to San Francisco and want a unique experience, its worth a visit.

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. I actually lived on Page & Cole in the mid 80's - but by that time most of the hippies

were shopping in fine boutiques, renting or buying restored victorians at $1200 per month or more and having cream cheese and bagels with cafe lattes for breakfast or chablis and smoked salmon on toast for brunch

[AsahinaKimi]

13. Someone told me..

Most of them moved to Marin county, and ran small businesses in Sausalito. One example was a place that featured six 2 person hot tubs and one four person hot tub. It was called Floating World. Doubt its there now..but it was an amazing place to relax.

[midnight]

8. OMG... This propaganda about hippies is too funny.

Sounds like our proud past of relying on the young is an inconvenience because hippies seek out inexpensive pastimes... The banksters must of been really put out...

[eggplant]

9. Very nice.

There's a nice bit at the end with the Grateful Dead playing Dancing in the Street. Considering the scare-mongering of the era, it is a remarkably fair piece.

Thanks!

[zeemike]

10. Nice find.

I remember the propaganda and the scare tactics they used but I never got to see this...but I was not so into TV at that time.

Myself I have been hoping for a flash back for decades now and I got shit to show for it.

[pam4water]

11. Hay man, the square is totally bring me down! ;) Sounds a lot like the stuff they say about Occupy

these days.

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Sign me up. eom

[drynberg]

16. Harry Reasoner, remember him?

He's the unprepared cat that actually asked Miles Davis about if being brought up poor was the root of his experience with heroin. Of course Mr. Miles spoke rather sharply that he was brought up by an upper class mother and father and that his upbringing had nothing to do with why he was a junkie for years (but had kicked cold turkey), yeah, it's the same "fine" reporter who also interviewed all these "Hippie Experts" who painted them with a very broad brush since they were all alike...wow, that's really poor journalism if that's what Harry was trying to portray. It would have been funny but probably most of the viewers of this propaganda piece were buying what Harry was selling, and it wasn't the truth. I'm just sayin'...

[xtraxritical]

17. I dropped plenty, no problems. Dig it?