tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post1315661007548214912..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: My celebrated "hippie" periodBy Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-13959852364857417182013-04-15T13:52:43.825-07:002013-04-15T13:52:43.825-07:00Today The Haight attracts young adults in their ea...Today The Haight attracts young adults in their early '20s with head to toe tatoos. It's still a great destination 'hood in the City and young people still flock to it these days. Kinda a trendy place with the piercing subculture. Lots of kids still wear black and are pierced head to toe.Jeffrey Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-61866817750233773282013-04-15T09:57:23.497-07:002013-04-15T09:57:23.497-07:00Aw, and here I was hoping you'd ran off, dropp...Aw, and here I was hoping you'd ran off, dropped acid, bought a sitar and chanted in a circle of naked chicks in the park. tbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-61135513189713705932013-04-14T18:46:21.961-07:002013-04-14T18:46:21.961-07:00Haight-Ashbury: quite likely the syphilis capital...Haight-Ashbury: quite likely the syphilis capital of the US; I think that's what it said on the CA license plate.Mr. Cleannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-85021768515677323972013-04-14T17:13:24.866-07:002013-04-14T17:13:24.866-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.外國人https://www.blogger.com/profile/02283303820702952636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-34051366303772241652013-04-14T17:12:56.591-07:002013-04-14T17:12:56.591-07:00This post brings to mind comments from Paul McCart...This post brings to mind comments from Paul McCartney and George Harrison about their respective visits to San Francisco and the Haight Ashbury district.<br /><br />McCartney as one would expect was more sanguine, saying that while it was a 'very nice scene' he could already see the signs of it turning into 'rip-off street' and was disturbed by the number of teenagers simply running the streets.<br /><br />Harrison was thoroughly disgusted by the filthyness and overall tawdryness of the whole scene and felt there was WAY too much exploitation going on and thought it unconscionable for Tim Leary to go running all over the goddamn world telling teenagers to drop out and run away from home to Haight Ashbury. One of the San Francisco Diggers Brooks Butcher said that while it was fine for someone his age in their early 20's to drop everything and come to San Francisco and survive, to tell a teenager to do the same was borderline sociopathic.<br /><br />Harrison came away disgusted with the whole hippie mindset.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-47591486267801736702013-04-14T17:11:58.372-07:002013-04-14T17:11:58.372-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.外國人https://www.blogger.com/profile/02283303820702952636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-54091171321380020862013-04-14T13:01:05.681-07:002013-04-14T13:01:05.681-07:00I was living in LA summer of '67, never got to...I was living in LA summer of '67, never got to The Haight. If I had I would never have left...Classof65https://www.blogger.com/profile/15620524862669295761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-89802595678285573302013-04-14T12:25:05.558-07:002013-04-14T12:25:05.558-07:00Deep down, you were--and are--a nice Jewish boy fr...Deep down, you were--and are--a nice Jewish boy from the Valley...not that there's anything wrong with that.Paul Ducanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-40386465171370154542013-04-14T11:14:12.790-07:002013-04-14T11:14:12.790-07:00Like many good things, the Summer of Love became a...Like many good things, the Summer of Love became a nightmare within a year. Thugs, drugs addicts, poverty, and despair took over the Haight. But it had its moment.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-44631994496067651342013-04-14T10:18:17.584-07:002013-04-14T10:18:17.584-07:00On a recent episode of a TV show, a man and a very...On a recent episode of a TV show, a man and a very attractive woman spent the night having what was probably very hot sex, then in the morning rushed to throw on their clothes and get to work. And my first thought was how gross that guy would actually feel if he went the whole day without taking a shower. <br /><br />Wild pleasure is fine, but those creature comforts are important too!BigTednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-5345918637699073972013-04-14T09:25:02.271-07:002013-04-14T09:25:02.271-07:00My son lived in the Haight a couple of years ago. ...My son lived in the Haight a couple of years ago. The weekend streets had many upper middle class kids from east bay panhandling the tourists!Mary Kaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12641111957125977292013-04-14T08:56:55.984-07:002013-04-14T08:56:55.984-07:00Our family did the exact same thing that summer, i...Our family did the exact same thing that summer, in our 1962 Impala. We three brothers in the back seat gawked at the hippies as parents mumbled dire warnings about that lifestyle. Kevin Bendernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-77663054618279055702013-04-14T08:17:52.844-07:002013-04-14T08:17:52.844-07:00I hear you, Ken. Free love was massively appealing...I hear you, Ken. Free love was massively appealing but you'd have had to sit through a tremendous amount of quasi-religious Eastern bullshit just to get laid. There's also an "intimate personal grooming" issue there but I won't lower the tone of the blog by getting into that. Macnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-65494067420000933032013-04-14T07:34:35.989-07:002013-04-14T07:34:35.989-07:00My reaction would have been the same as yours. I ...My reaction would have been the same as yours. I missed the hippie era by about 10 years, but any time I see a documentary that includes footage of Haight-Ashbury and all the hippies in burlap ponchos and head mounted gardenias, the foremost thought in my mind is "Good God, that place must reek like fried liver and fishheads".Jerry Baylornoreply@blogger.com