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To: modican
I like the way you write. You must be a "higher knowledge ex-hippy". I live in San Francisco, I will look up this cemetery.

Thanks, nothing special about me, don't have the Ann Coulter touch :-). She has a better vocab.

ex-hippy, funny you should bring that up, missed it by a decade. My daughter's been asking me a lot of questions about growing up in my time, born just before Pearl Harbor. Last night she asked what I thought about the hippies. Now I may be opening myself up to some flak, and we had covered a lot of ground, but here are my exact words on that, bear in mind I was tired:

"...what did you think of hippies?

"Not much. I was a new mom by that time, couldn't relate to that scene at all. Didn't hate them though, they were a bunch of spoiled, privileged kids like I was for the most part. They dragged the teen culture down, and it has never recovered. I told you we weren't angels, but most kids rich or poor had nicer manners then."

About the cemetery, think it was more than one, please let me know what you find out, best to not throw something out there without sourcing it. I think I read it on a gold rush group mailing list for rootsweb (genealogy); now I can't find that. I had a gr gr uncle who died in the gold rush and haven't been able to find the exact date or his final resting place, the only one I can't account for in that respect for many generations.

This isn't where I read it, but here is a good starting point, doesn't say anything specifically relating tombstones to any fill for the Golden Gate Bridge:

moving the dead

There is a lot of interest at the link, may go back to it when I have more time. My two daughters were born in northern CA while their father was in the military, and I've been to San Francisco several times, not in later years, enjoyed Lombard Street and Fisherman's Wharf to mention a couple of special places.

111 posted on 12/22/2007 12:56:04 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska
The Hippie Legacy: A ghost we chase, people coming here from all over the world, 40 years later, but nothing is to see. pufff.
112 posted on 12/23/2007 7:52:51 PM PST by modican
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