On Leaving America - Part 15

Digging Up Bones – Part 3

Photos & Files From San Francisco Sixties

Was this Charles Manson in front of the straight theater?  Probably not. Lots of guys looked like this. 

Below is an apartment where Manson and his tribe lived for a while. I think it was on Clayton Street, a couple blocks from the Straight Theater.

The following is the first half of a memo from Time Magazine that was somehow intercepted and distributed on the street by a group who called themselves ‘The Communication Company.’

WULA\1/3RD RER

DIDNT R NYK 3 ON JUNE 3, 1967.

(# FROM TIME MAGAZINE HQ, NEW YORK .

HW BOOK 2 CYS BEVE SANF

NYK  JUN 3,67

NYK7/BEVE TO BEVEDIT.

NYK3/SANF  TO SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU

FM PARKER

NATION SCHEDULING COVER ON THE HIPPIES PRESSWARDNG JUNE 24. WITH SUMMER CUMEN IN FAST AND THE PREDICTED INVASION OF THE HIPPIES AND WOULD-B-HIPPIES ABOUT TO BEGIN, TIME IS RIPE FOR AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THIS CONTROVERSIAL, CLOUD-CUCKOOLAND MINICULTURE.SEEMS TO US THAT FOR ALL ITS FAULTS THE HIPPIE CULTURE AT ITS BEST PROVIDES A BENEFICIAL COUNTERBALANCE Of ALTRUISM, MYSTICISM, PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SKEPTICISM IN AN OTHERWISE HARD AND PRAGMATIC AMERICA. AT ITS WORST OF COURSE, IT IS A VAPID PURPOSELY INFANTILE,ANTI PRODUCTIVE,MIND-BLOWN, ESCAPIST, SILLY AND -- DARE WE SQUARELY SAY -DOWNRIGHT UNHEALTHY. WE WILL WANT TO DEFINE AND EXPLORE ALL THESE FACETS IN OUR FACELESS COVER MAPPING SUCH HIPPIE CAPITALS AS SAN FRANCISCO’S HAIGHT-ASHBURY, NEW  YORK'S EAST VILLAGE, WHATEVER,  TOOK THE PLACE OF THE STRIP IN. LOS ANGELES AND THE HIP SCENES OF MAJOR AMERICAN -- AND SOME FOREIGN -- CITIES. WE WILL WANT TO SEE THE HIPPIES AT PLAY AND (IF TRUE) AT WORK -- ON THE NUDE BEACHES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. GROWING POT IN MEXICO OR WHEREVER, IN THEIR JAMMED HASH-SMELLING COMMUNAL DWELLINGS,IN TANGIER AND INDIA AND NEPAL (IF THEY ARE STILL THERE), PARIS AND LONDON AND TOKYO. ANY LEFT IN ATHENS?

WILL NEED TO KNOW THE LATEST IN THEIR MUSICAL TASTES (COPIOUS QUOTES FROM LYRICS APPRECIATED WHERE' APPLICABLE), THEIR HEROES' AND VILLAINS,THEIR ARGOT (WHICH WE COULD POSSIBLY BREAK OUT AS A SEPARATE GLOSSARY BOX) . WHO ARE THEIR GURUS AND WHAT DO THEY READ? WILL NEED HARDEST CHECK ON THE DRUG SCENE -- HOW MUCH ACID DO THEY REALLY USE, HOW OFTEN, HOW DO THEY REACT TO IT, ANY DEATHS OR ACCIDENTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO IT HOW MUCH POT AND SPEED THEY CONSUME. WILL OF COURSE NEED A MAJOR CHUNK ON THE "LOVE CULT," ITS SYMBOLS AND SUBSTANCE. HOW BIG IS THE HIPPIE POPULATION IN EACH CITY? HOW MANY ARE ERSATZ OR PART-TIME, HIPPIES? PLEASE TALK TO PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIOLOGISTS COPS AND CLERGYMEN FOR THEIR INTERPRETATIONS OF THE REACTION TO THE HIPPIES. HOW MANY OF THE HIPPIES ARE NEGROES OR IS IT MOSTLY A WHITE PHENOMENON? HOW DO THEY SURVIVE? HOW DO THE GIRL HIPPIES AFFORD THE PILL OR DON'T THEY?

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