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<p>have a nice flashback…</p>
<p>There wasn’t a lot of the star-maker machinery then like there is now so at the Seattle Pop Festival in July '69 we thought we were going to see Alice Cooper, folksinger…</p>
<p>Hey, that sure wasn’t my sixties. We never had a party line. A bit conservative no? And no Dylan.</p>
<p>Made me proud to be a hippie though. Besides the Beatles and the Animals, I sure perked up when 1967 and Steve Stills came on: "Stop children, what’s that sound…everybody look what’s going round.</p>
<p>I think phone party lines as late as the 60’s might have been in more rural areas vs the city. </p>
<p>In 30-40 years, I wonder what the retrospectives of the ‘late 20th and turn of the 21st century’ kids (like ours) will remember most about their coming of age decades.</p>
<p>We know they will all remember where they were on 9/11/01.</p>
<p>I guess they might also remember back when it seemed like a big deal that a woman or person of color became (hopefully) the leader of the nation</p>
<p>oh sue, either would be so historic and welcome.</p>
<p>I think they are as excited about every new advance in computer-age technology as we were about each new album release. My own kids are a bit upset that they don’t consider music of their generation as compelling as we did; they prefer our old albums to what comes out (although recently they’ve found their own way into their contemporary music). When I tell them there’s a comparable enthusiasm and pride over communications media, they seem to feel consoled and preen a bit, too.</p>
<p>But I don’t want to stop the nostalgia fest here. We simply suggesting a reply to
the posting above about what will they find for the millennials?</p>
<p>lovely thread! been smiling involuntarily all through… anyone remember the first printing of “Our Bodies Ourselves” from the Boston Women’s Health Collective? Done on recycled paper?</p>
<p>I don’t remember the first printing- oh maybe I do I have had several copies- I bought one for younger D, since if I even mention self-care she hides under the couch- but I hope at some point she will look at it ( I take everything out of the bathroom- except what I want her to look at ;)</p>
<p>We had a party line in suburbia- I don’t know how many other lines were on it- it was kind of a pain - must have been at least mid 60s, we moved to the suburbs in 1962 from Seattle.</p>
<p>My parents were definitely not hippies. They were strong Democrats- but they were too “dorky” to be hippies. My dads main expenditure was season tickets to the Seattle symphony & for camera supplies. His friends were high school teachers albeit “cool” ones & other photographers.
Even if my mother allowed my brother to grow pot , (when he was in high school)in the basement after my dad died.
( she though that if she exerted discipline he would become homosexual)
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<p>Hilarious…“Our Bodies Ourselves”, yes but my all time fave staying up late reading with friends was, “All those questions about Sex that you were afraid to AsK” or something to that effect. FRED BRAUN shoes!! That must be a NY thing because here in the Southeast I struck up a conversation with a woman my age from Woodmere LI who was laughing about Fred Brauns. Mom wouldn’t buy me a pair (“elitest, status concious”!) though she never left the house without her Ferragamos! And a party line…we had one out in Long Island summers…this is making me feel VERY old!</p>
<p>We had a party line at Cape Cod, I think they were fairly common for summer homes.</p>
<p>SDS, SSOC (anyone know what that was?) rock n roll, and sex. No drugs. They made for bad politics and put you at risk with the cops. I have an FBI file but I wasn’t the enemy of state that I had hoped to become. In fact I became the state with a 30 year career in the Feds including 15 years in the Justice Department. </p>
<p>Sure did like the hippie girls though.</p>
<p>One of my favorite old lines was ‘To screw the system you have to get in bed with it’ </p>
<p>Southern Student Organizing Committee. I was too young for much besides marching against the war way back when. But we did plan our own ‘moratorium’ in HS, Scottsdale, AZ, which with the conservative population was quite the project.</p>
<p>Sure did like the hippie girls though.</p>
<p>Oh I bet 
but some of us, couldn’t get away without wearing a bra.</p>
<p>I think it was “Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask”, as in Woody Allen movie. When my son was a baby, I worked with local moms on a brochure entitled, “Everything you always wanted to know about cloth diapers but were too pooped to ask”. </p>
<p>And the Whole Earth Catalog.</p>
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<p>Remember the anti-war poster “Girls say yes to boys who say no.” Female activism at a fundamental level. I laugh since this slogan indicated that the girls had a lot of guys pretty well figured out.</p>
<p>glm:</p>
<p>Write on with SSOC.</p>
<p>Right Arm!!! Man I never could figure out this hippo sh&t.</p>
<p>Reading Ramparts from a young age helps. My parents subscribed, I was 13, and on the cover was this guy they described as a ‘hippie’ Somehow that had great appeal.</p>
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<p>That reminds me that when I was at Carolina, SDS had a newsletter called the The Left Heel. Unfortunately we had no anatomy students among the membership and we actually drew a right foot on the cover. We did have some success with the “Make Love, Not War Jug Band.”</p>
<p>Another memory: The FIRST Earth Day? What was it recently, 30th? and after Kent State, I believe, our entire high school ( including teachers) walk out to join a march in memorium…except for a few kids who stood in the windows waving American flags…</p>