Posted on 09/06/2009 2:16:09 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
NOVATO – The '60s aren't dead. They're in an archaeological site north of San Francisco.
An old commune where the Grateful Dead and other bands used to romp is being excavated and items catalogued by state park archaeologists at Olompali State Historic Park.
Among the artifacts: the classic hippie beads, a marijuana "roach clip," fragments of tie-dyed clothes, and a reel-to-reel tape a Marin County studio technician has promised to try to restore.
They are the stuff of memories for Noelle Olompali-Barton, who was 16 when she and her showbiz mom plunged into California's new counterculture, retreating to this once-private ranch north of San Francisco to establish one of the first hippie communes.
But never in her wildest hallucinations did the teen imagine that more than 40 years later, she would assist an archaeologist in identifying macrame headbands, old records and other commune artifacts retrieved from the abandoned ruins of her former home.
"You know you're old when you're pictured in Archaeology magazine," chuckled Olompali-Barton, now 58, who was profiled in that journal in July along with California state parks archaeologist E. Breck Parkman.
The state of California bought Olompali in 1977, and opened a park on its 700 acres of oak-studded rolling hills.
The years the commune existed, late 1967 to 1969, were some of the most tumultuous and divisive in modern American history, Parkman said.
Prominent figures of the '60s visited the site – the Grateful Dead rented the ranch the year before the commune moved in – and hippie culture went on to have an indelible impact, for better or worse, on global culture, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
I would have to take one look at Obama's handlers, and say...MUCH worse.
That’s quite a legacy.
That toothpaste and those tooth brushes had to have been there prior to the hippies moving in. Probably some old indian relics or something.
The state of California is handing out IOUs in lieu of valid checks, and these a-holes are spending money on THIS!?!
Get me the hell out of here!
They probably used them to clean the bong.
Dang! You’re right. I hadn’t though of that. LOL!
How is any of this story NOT satire?
0bama Administration officials carpool to the nation's capitol after celebrating the election victory.
Like archeology....man!
I remember once hunting up near our cabin I came across a dump pile way back in the woods. Old cigar boxes with papers, etc. Turns out some of it was garbage from an old store that had been there when I was a child (now just another cabin). I spent quite a bit of time going through the garbage and reminising on those days of penny candies while listening to the old drunks on the front porch sipping their beers.
Now, if I could just find it again and get some historical societ interested.....
This commune thing could be a good learning experience. Include it on a nation-wide tour of societies that perished. The Anastazi, etc.
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O come, all ye Grateful,
Deadheads to the concert.
O come, Grateful Deadheads,
And camp in the street.
Bring rolling papers,
Don't forget your sleeping bags.
O come get us some floor seats,
We've followed them for four weeks,
O come get us some floor seats,
To see the Lord.
O come, all ye hippies,
Throwbacks to the Sixties.
Paint flowers on your van,
And don't wash your feet.
Wear your bell-bottoms,
And your tie-dye t-shirts.
O come let us adore them,
We've quit our day jobs for them,
O come let us adore them,
Garcia's the Lord.
“The state of California is handing out IOUs in lieu of valid checks, and these a-holes are spending money on THIS!?!”
And don’t forget they are shutting down other state parks also.
Those toothbrushes must have dropped out of a hikers backback...
Keeper Of Odd Knowledge Curator Carl Crumby studies priceless artifacts found in a storage trunk on the porch of Funk and Wagnall Headquarters.
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