Posted on 01/07/2017 6:37:40 PM PST by heterosupremacist
Manson and his band of murderers operated in lawful times when culture was much more intact than the shit we’ve inherited since
Within 30-40 days that summer of 1969 ...
Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones drowns or is murdered by his handyman roughy
First Vietnam US troop withdrawals
Chappaquidik
First moon landing....the biggie
Woodstock
Tate and LaBianca atrocity ...Manson as yet virtually unknown ensconced at the Barker Ranch in Death Valley
Hurricane Camille gives new meaning to “Hurricane parties” wth 250 miles per hour winds measured at offshore drill rigs before the anemometer blew away.
Uncle Ho dies...well bye Ho
Lt Calley formally charged...rightfully so
That is one heady six weeks to envision no?
What struck me about Manson was how so many teenaged and early 20s girls some from upper middle class were willing to be gangbanged and passed around like low rank court trollops and just sexually wrought out by Manson and his ringmaster indulgences of his girls to the men he chose so he could watch or needed favors from
All that in squalid conditions under the thumb of that elfin deranged troubadour who’d watched his mom screw for cash right next to him in the bed...and allowed him to be molested
All that depravity and when sold on this freak Beatles soundtrack race war fantasy of his which was bullshit really made up to justify trying to kill for being spurned Terry Melcher and Candace Bergen he got these same chicks led by their psycho efff buddies to instead hand butcher innocent folks including poor Sharon and her baby
It was Satans hand...regardless...I knew it the second it hit the news and I was only 12
Screw that crap
He deserves hell and I pray God gives him just that
Screw that crap
He deserves hell and I pray God gives him just that
Me too
I followed it as it unfolded....early teens for me
And read Helter Skelter in 74 I think
Manson and maybe even the guys to a degree
But the delight in evil beyond comprehension the women undertook ....girls really
It shook folks to the core
Put a fork in him...
Glad your Dad has it so you can read the entire book! It’s spellbinding! I can see it from where I’m sitting right now! I’ve read my copy several times.
OH YIKES! As it were, I was at UCLA at that time, although school had not yet started, but we were milling around, deciding where to live, so we were “looking at real estate in that very area!” given that several of us girls always rented a house with pool and then we would all pack-in like 3 to one bedroom, so a 4 bedroom house would be home to at 12 of us! LOL. I REMEMBER the exact bar in Hollywood where we sitting that morning when the LATimes was delivered with that horrid headline and the bartender, “Eddie” turned on the radio to let all of us hear the gory details. OMG. We had just scoped out a house on Bella Drive which was VERY NEAR BY to Cielo! Haunting memories. Sharon was so beautiful and very sweet.
The Manson family was going on just up the road from me when I was in high school. I knew a couple of kids who were part of it. Not the murders, just the general craziness up in Hollywood. Lost kids from bad homes looking for something to belong to was my impression.
Wow, Onyx, I’m a Bruin too! Didn’t realize that about you. My grandfather was in one of the first graduating classes, both my parents did their undergrad studies there, and now my son has applied and has his interview later this month (transferring junior).
One thing that freaked my little teen self out when I read that book was how the Manson family would go into San Fernando valley homes when all were asleep and do those “creepy crawlies” where they would just rearrange the furniture and leave. My parents used to leave the doors open, screens only, all the time. I started locking up the doors even though the Mansons were all in jail by then.
12 college girls in a Hollywood hills house, sounds like a lot of fun!!
Oh yes, I agree. Sharon Tate’s murder haunts me, also. She and her guests, along with the young Steven Parent who lived on the property, were senselessly murdered and Sharon was savagely and brutally murdered, as was Abagail Folger. Truly a tragic shame that Manson didn’t stay in San Franciso, but oh no, he just had to bring his filthy self to Hollyweird and the Sunset Strip.
There’s no explaining his demented followers, save for all those psychedelic drugs, (I guess). They all received the Death Penalty, which should have been carried out!
Stick a fork in him...he’s done.
Oh dear Lord! YES, those creepy crawls by “the Family.” And their “garbage runs!” One day, during their trial, several friends and I drove down to the Courthouse to get a look of those “family members” who stood (sat) on the sidewalk daily keeping “vigil.” They had also shaved their heads, so they were easy to spot. Filthy creatures, dressed in what resembled shapeless, old lady smocks and well-worn sandals of some sort. U.G.L.Y. Of course, they were begging (demanding) donations and holding court ... answering questions posed by tourists.
Yes, 12 to a house made it cheap to live and we were clean. Different schedules and pursuits also made living very convenient and simple.
We only lived 3 girls to an apt in Brentwood, but it was always hoppin. Good times. Don’t think students could afford that hood now though!
I bet he’s on a lot of dead pool lists this year.
hey Chuck,
I think I hear Lucifer calling you home pal.
I forgot about him.
Like Castro, he altered the course of many people’s lives.
I recall reading that Manson had previously refused surgery, then subsequently changed his mind. Perhaps he was informed that the surgery will not cure a terminal condition.
Simply a guess, his situation could be advanced colon cancer with the prison equivalent of Hospice services now.
May he rot in hell...
Give him more aspirin or OA drugs to hurry the process up. Tired of paying his bills.
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