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Love blooms anew for 1967 - Boomers mark the 40th anniversary of a celebrated summer (BARRRFFF!!!)
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 28, 2007 | Stevenson Swanson

Posted on 05/28/2007 3:25:01 PM PDT by Chi-townChief

The flowers that they wore in their hair have long since wilted, but the generation that came of age in the 1960s will spend the coming months recalling a summer four decades ago, when rock music, drugs and sexual liberation fused to create the Summer of Love.

From New York, where Janis Joplin's psychedelic Porsche is on display at the Whitney Museum of Art, to the Bay area, where Joplin's band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, will play at an anniversary tribute to the Monterey Pop music festival, the calendar will be flipped back to an earlier time that, in some ways, foreshadows the present:

*A Texan -- Lyndon Johnson -- was president.

*American troops were fighting an increasingly unpopular war.

*In California, the epicenter of the Summer of Love, an actor -- Ronald Reagan -- had recently been elected governor.

The events for the 40th anniversary -- a mark not usually celebrated as noisily as a 25th or 50th anniversary -- might reflect the fact that the Baby Boomers who were teenagers or young adults in the summer of 1967 are now well into their 50s or 60s, and they don't want to wait another 10 years to bask in the memories of their youth.

"It was a very special moment of optimism and idealism," said Amalie R. Rothschild, a photographer who amassed an archive of 20,000 photos of the era's rock musicians, mainly from their performances at the legendary Fillmore East concert hall in New York's East Village.

But the similarities between 1967 and 2007 could be an equally important factor, said Jason Fine, deputy managing editor of Rolling Stone, which published its first issue in November 1967 and is celebrating its anniversary with three issues, including one devoted to the Summer of Love ...

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aginghippies; commiedupes; freelove; genx; lefties; liberals; moonbats
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All of these 50-65 year-old hippies running around is probably a sight you don't wanna see.
1 posted on 05/28/2007 3:25:02 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief; qam1

Smelly hippie alert!


2 posted on 05/28/2007 3:26:03 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Chi-townChief

I thought they were nuts then and my opinion has not changed.


3 posted on 05/28/2007 3:26:37 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: Chi-townChief

My parents got married that summer. They are still together.


4 posted on 05/28/2007 3:31:14 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Chi-townChief

Don’t much care about the goings on of the summer of love, but 1967 produced some of the best music of all time! 1966-1967, the best years in rock history, IMO!


5 posted on 05/28/2007 3:31:32 PM PDT by upsdriver (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!)
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To: Incorrigible

That was my first thought. No mention of the smell.


6 posted on 05/28/2007 3:35:57 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: MamaB
You are far too kind, I believe, for referring to them only as "nuts."

My boys had grown very tired over the years hearing their dad express his "less than flattering" opinions about hippies.

Wish we could have dropped 'em on Hanoi instead of bombs...

7 posted on 05/28/2007 3:36:27 PM PDT by MarineDad (Whenever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits.)
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To: Chi-townChief
1967...the year of the Yaz!!
8 posted on 05/28/2007 3:38:50 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (It looks like one of those days when one nuke is just not enough-- Lt. Col. Mitchell, SG-1)
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To: Chi-townChief
Time it was,
And what a time it was,
It was...
A time of innocence,
A time of confidences.
Long ago...it must be...
I have a photograph.
Preserve your memories;
They're all that's left you.

All that sex and all those drugs. (huge sigh of nostalgia)

Unfortunately, I was in college at a socially backward engineering school in Philadelphia and was in ROTC. The best slogan I could muster was, "Make love and war."

I envied the hippies for their clothes, long hair, free sex, drugs and attitude. But they were getting far more sex than I was -- and I've never forgiven them for that.

9 posted on 05/28/2007 3:39:46 PM PDT by Publius (A = A)
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To: Chi-townChief
Hey man, listen to the flower people.
10 posted on 05/28/2007 3:41:51 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: upsdriver

I think ‘54 to ‘63 were.


11 posted on 05/28/2007 3:43:11 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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"It was a very special moment of optimism and idealism," said Amalie R. Rothschild

It was also the time where society took a huge leap off the cliff into a sea of immorality and degradation.
12 posted on 05/28/2007 3:45:24 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Put illegal immigrants on ICE)
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To: Chi-townChief
I dunno. I was 14 when that stuff was going on - too busy in school to care. As soon as I was old enough to care I was in boot camp at Ft Ord - my DI certainly didn't care. Now I have time to think about it and wise enough not to.

I see the people that era produced and I just shake my head.

Oh, my Dad didn't care about them either.

13 posted on 05/28/2007 3:47:31 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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To: Chi-townChief
Didn’t the White Rabbit song come out in 67?
14 posted on 05/28/2007 3:50:24 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (For True Conservative Leadership Vote For Duncan Hunter/Newt Gingrich 08!!!!!)
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To: Chi-townChief

"The colors, man! The Colors!!"

15 posted on 05/28/2007 3:54:09 PM PDT by pabianice
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I was born in 1967.....

I wonder if that is why I hate hippies so much?

16 posted on 05/28/2007 3:54:25 PM PDT by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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To: Chi-townChief
I was part of that crowd. Pot, LSD, you name it....It was fun while it lasted. Then I had to work so I could eat. Changed everything. I'm doing well now, and wouldn't give up my memories of those days for anything.

I don't know how old you are. I'm 56. Everybody goes through their own "Age of Aquarius" at some point.

The important thing about all this is at what point do you decide to give up the narcissitic beliefs of youth and begin the true journey of life through all its stages?

Some people never "grow up"

FMCDH(BITS)

17 posted on 05/28/2007 4:01:54 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: nothingnew

+1

Well said.

Some of the best times of my life.


18 posted on 05/28/2007 4:04:19 PM PDT by mountaineer1997
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To: Publius
MAKE WAR

THEN LOVE

19 posted on 05/28/2007 4:05:56 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Yes it did! Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow LP is one of my all time favorite albums. Great stuff!


20 posted on 05/28/2007 4:10:05 PM PDT by upsdriver (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!)
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