[Chi-townChief]

All of these 50-65 year-old hippies running around is probably a sight you don't wanna see.

[Incorrigible]

Smelly hippie alert!

[MamaB]

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

[mysterio]

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

[upsdriver]

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!

[big'ol_freeper]

1967...the year of the Yaz!!

[Publius]

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.

[Disambiguator]

Hey man, listen to the flower people.

[reagan_fanatic]

"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.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

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.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Didn’t the White Rabbit song come out in 67?

[pabianice]

"The colors, man! The Colors!!"

[Volunteer]

I was born in 1967.....

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

[nothingnew]

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)

[Clemenza]

In the Summer of Love, my father was in Basic at Fort Dix.

Ironically, when he was discharged two years later, he was at the Presidio. He got to see Hippie culture in San Fran first hand. What he remembers most were all the teenage "bubblegum" hippies who had gotten into the hardstuff, and the underage prostitutes, the latter of which he up to then couldn't imagine in a first world country.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Cartman on hippies:

Hippies. They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.

Naw dude, independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.

M'am, I'm here to check your house for parasites ... apparently, you have hippies.

Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.

I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!

[goldstategop]

Is free love back? What a long, warped trip its been. Now minus the psychedelic drugs.

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[ALOHA RONNIE]

.

Real CLARITY in 1965-66 =

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm

http://www.RickRescorla.com

http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361

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[tet68]

“I know”, she said.
“I know”, he said.
Together they said, “We know”.
And I said, “ Don’t tell me, I’m not here,
I’m in Viet Nam BABY!”

Missed the summer of love, I was otherwise occupied.

[OldEagle]

And I spent the Summer of Love in RVN with the ROK.

[AnnaZ]

I love 1967... mostly 'cause that was the year I was born. However, I promise I didn't do anything that summer to inspire such a huge barf alert. Well, nothing within my control, at any rate.

= )