Was there a hippie movement where YOU lived, fellow FReeper?

foreverfree | 3/26/02 | foreverfree

[foreverfree]

The only 1960s flower children I ever read about are the Haight-Ashbury, East Village and Woodstock varieties? I'm 40 and barely remember that era, thank goodness.

Do any FReepers remember that era and do you remember if, say Chicago, Philly, Baltimore, Atlanta, even Dallas, say, had a hippie ghetto? Being a map(Quest) guy, do you remember what part of town it was?

foreverfree

[comitatus]

In Atlanta, it was centered in Midtown on 14th street, lots of "head shops" and drug dealing, a real street scene nearly every night

[Chi-townChief]

We had a couple here in Chicago - Old Town on the Near North side and Hyde Park on the South Side near the U of C.

[Mike Fieschko]

In Madison, Wisconsin, it was on Mifflin Street, so the neighborhood was called 'Miffland.' I was at UW 1968 - 1972.

[foreverfree]

In Atlanta, it was centered in Midtown on 14th street, lots of "head shops" and drug dealing, a real street scene nearly every night

Dixie hippies? Oh, right, Atlanta isn't "Southern".

foreverfree

[stanz]

Greenwich Village...it was "beat" in the fifties, "hippie" in the sixties, "punk" in the eighties and now...it's discovered again by yuppies.

[JoeGar]

In Atlanta, it was centered in Midtown on 14th street, lots of "head shops" and drug dealing, a real street scene nearly every night

Yeah, it brings back memories. I can remember seeing Atlanta hippies sitting in a street gutter bathing in rain water as it poured downhill off the road.

[Clemenza]

Being as I am 1. from the NY area and 2. born in 1976, I may have to disqualify myself (but I won't). My father told me the hippies were EVERYWHERE when he returned from Ft. Knox the NY/NJ in 1969.

Florida wasn't much of a countercultural zone, although old timers tell me that there was a pocket of hippies in the Coconut Grove area of Miami.

[AppyPappy]

Tate Street in Greensboro, NC. They still have some Clingons.

[caddie]

The 60s didn't get to Indiana until the mid 70s.

[End Times Sentinel]

In Philadelphia, it was South Street, East of Broad. Interestingly, there’s a Fresh Fields at 10th and South today where my daughter and I enjoy playing “Count the Hippies” when we grocery shop each week. We’re never disappointed by a poor showing from the “differently era’ed”

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Hugin]

Basially it was in the neighborhood surrounding the local University, in any town, anywhere.

[Stand Watch Listen]

From what I'm told, I believe there's one at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. From what people relate... the area's in a 1968-1971 time wrap.

This is the college that had Mumia Abu-Jamal (the convicted Philadelphia cop killer) speak (via videotape) at a graduation commencement June 2000.

[windcliff]

Hollywood Blvd. and the Sunset Strip were full of hippies. I remember it well. Incense and The Los Angeles Free Press (before it became a porn tabloid).

[DallasMike]

Lee Park in Dallas, near the intersection of Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Oh, Lord, yes! I grew up near Summertown, Tennessee, the hippie Mecca, home of "The Farm" where at one time several hundred hippies (estimates range from 500 to 1500) from all over the U.S. congregated for communal living.

At one time they had their own clinic, doctors, and schools. By the mid to late 70's most had had enough communism and became disillusioned as those who preferred to stay stoned all day received the same food/money/living arrangements as the hardest working idealist there.

Today, maybe 30 people are left. A bunch of old hippies from a bygone era.

[Clemenza]

Greenwich Village...it was "beat" in the fifties, "hippie" in the sixties, "punk" in the eighties and now...it's discovered again by yuppies.

Make that the "East Village," as my father told me that much of the traditional Village had already been gentrified by the mid-60s. As a matter of fact, Allen Ginsburg coined the phrase "East Village" to refer to the portion of the Lower East Side centered around Saint Marks Place that at the time was "where its at" for the beats, hippies, punks, etc.

These days, the East Village (including much of Alphabet City) has been taken over by Yuppies, weekending suburban youths and Spoiled Children from Japan (the latter of which is heavily represented on 7th Street).

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I have several pictures of me with long hair wearing tiedie shirts and faded blue genes from the 60's and 70's but have no specific recollection of either decade....

[js1138]

I lived in Chicago's Hyde Park area in 1971. The local grocery was called the Co-Op, but it was a pretty typical grocery. If it was Hippie it was pretty tame.

Old Town had all the head shops.

[Tickle Me Pank]

Houston had the Montrose area, bounded by Taft / Gillette on the east, Westheimer on the south, Shepherd on the west, and West Gray on the north. Montrose Avenue is a main N-S thoroughfare through the area.