http://www.hippiemuseum.org/

click on the red dots..
I don't know whether this link is somewhere on this forum..
Skip might know..he knows what hippies are about..
but so many others of us..know as well..:)
let's share..let's discuss..let's start this group..
I was ONLY a traveller..only a traveller...
on the earth..and in the mind...
Tiger:)

If I'm not mistaken that web site was put up from NY Rainbows

And is linked on Piemans web site as well long time ago
My puter is slow dial up an long web sites makes it hard on mine

They've been working on that for years if its the same one I use to have
on my puter

A few yrs ago some ppl were trying to pull together a Hippie Museum. Lisa Law was one of them..

I remember ppl taking pictures all the time back in The Daze.. not ppl from the neighborhood but ones that "Come to look at the Hippies".

They would travel up and down Haight Street in busses and by the carload.. snappin snappin snappin pitcures, faces pressed aginst the windows.. eyes filled with the excitment of danger and the unknown.. it was like we were aliens from another planet. A lot of the hippies didn't like their picture being taken as some of them were runaways or hiding from the law, or draft dodgers and didn't want to be seen..

Most of the hippies themselves didn't have cameras cuz you couldn't get film developed with food stamps.. altho, you could get most anything else with food stamps..the old chinaman's store on Haight you could get anything with them.. I wonder if the gov knew they were supplying us with beer and ciggs.. there were ppl getting hundreds of $$ in food stamps and living like kings.

After 67 when they criminalized LSD-25 usage The Death of The Hippie March took place to symbolize the turning point in the Hippie Movement.. Ppl started flooding The Haight.. young runaways, pimps and drugs dealers, along with the money grubbers out to capitalize on the hippies music.

Everyone had a game going, it became all about the dope.. and not about the love.. the Original Hippies started moveing to the country.. little by little most all of them left.. by the middle 70s the families had split to places near and far to create their own utopia. I stayed till 74, went to phoenix and then came back for a while.. by 77' I had enough and I came back to my birthplace and found my utopia, which I am living today..It's been a great adventure so far..

I think a hippie museum is fine, but the few things I have left from my hay day I would like to keep for a while longer and probably doesn't mean much to anyone except me.

Brightest Blessings
sh

Hippy.com acts as an archive for hippie related materials. We get sent things occasionally from those who have interesting materials, which eventually get scanned, OCR'd and posted on line.

I get TONS of requests for info and articles that appeared in old Independent rags like Ramparts. Wish I had more of those issues to post online!

If anyone has old materials from the 60s-70s, let me know and I'll tell ya how to get them to me. I can even return materials after I get them online if you want to collect them...

Otherwise the materials are kept safe in boxes in storage for future reference, and maybe a museum display someday! :)

we used to have a copy of the Life commune article(think it was Life anyway) but I'm not sure we still have it. I seem to remember Lisa Law mentioning the article in her book 'Flashing on the Sixties' (I had no idea how many of Lisa'a photos were used in movies until I read her book & started to recongize them in Flashback & Wildflowers & about ever other late-made hippie-related we've ever seen)

What kind of materials? Some copies of the Westport Trucker (the Kansas City rag)?

Anything from the Free Presses, alternative mags, antiwar items, etc. :)