Church of the Good Earth 1963 and Beyond

Here's another collage from the GE days. It's signed "Gilbert" on the bottom left. Who was Gilbert? View attachment 39927

 

heyyyyyyy GE!!!!!!!!..i made a collage when i was living there ,it was on the wall..in jerry the jewelry makers basement room in oak st....kittens daughter.. ronnie age 5 and mariannes daughter age 8 helped me..it was still on the wall when i left...when i came bac a year later.. someone totally destroyed it.. sheesh..i had my fav acid trip staring at it..lol

 

i had a black cat named blythe,,i had to leave her there when i went bac east.. i wonder if she was taken care of,,anyone remember her?.anyone remmber marianne age 35 at that time?woow id love to see her again..even tho i was only at GE for 2 months,,i cherish those days forever.. so glad we found each other..

 

HELLOOOO All I have not been able to log in for a while and I also had some battles to deal with health. Doing O.K. now

SPUD GREAT to see you here.

I tried to answer your message I hope it worked.

Some sad news and it is sorta old about 10 months old. Mary ( I think her original man was Pisces Bob?). Can't remember for sure if she had lived in Whitehouse or Lower Cole. Mary ended up marring Happy who came out around 72 or maybe 73ish. Happy and were old friends from the D.C. area. Mary and Hap were Married at Skyline up in Tiller. She was with Happy in Wisconsin. This hit me hard as I had been so so close to Happy and Mary even tho we had not seen each other in years. She has two childrens, Kiva and Jason and Happy is in Wisconsin.

So so sorry that my first post back in such a long time brings such saddness.

Not to sure if all remember Happy and Mary. Truly Mary was such a sweetheart and always a BEAUTIFUL PERSON!

Hopefully I will be able to continue to log on and off as it is great that folks have indeed found the site, SH you built it and they are comming!!!

 

Hey Spud very cool Pic from AV! It is small but I think I could see Bruce, Amos, Could that Possiably be Greg in the middle with the Shirt off??Looked like the Crummy must have onloaded up at AV and Homegrown Crew was ready to swing the Hoe Dads!

GREAT PIC!

Peace/love all

 

Alice was the first female model and hers was a carberator. She told Eden at the time that she wanted to do it as a fertility ritual and not too mach later got pregnant. Later New York Sunshine modeled for a pipe.

 

hey everyone..

 

hi all! i'm looking for some information on my mother who lived on cole st 67-70, bonnie solomon. this is a picture of her dated 1971 with her friend berda schepps. my mom's the brunette. i can't find any pictures of her in 67, when she was 19 and pregnant, but i can't imagine she looked much different, except for the baby bump! she lived in the house with a man named Don, that's all the information i have on him, except that he later went way north to humboldt county (wonder what he did there...). In the early 70s my mom was in a musical group called the Nicklettes and later the Pointless Sisters which was a parody group (of course).



if anyone knows anything or can think of anyone i should contact, PLEASE HELP!

 

Does anyone remember sitting around the Main House in Ash Valley.. we were all stoned out and suddenly we heard what we thought was gunshots going off in back.. we all hit the floor like we were being shot at and then someone said it was the Beer expolding bc it had too much yeast in it or something.. it was too funny..

 

I spent years urging someone there to collect up a few dollars from the crew there and pay the back taxes. There seemed to be a lack of agreement as to whom to trust with the $$$s.

 

"Birds" Place? Shameless I wonder what house your talking about? The one way in the Back? Louie was the old Farmer I remember who had a big spread in AV. I also think Louies brother maybe had something to do with the tack/feed place in Cayonville. He was a very cool man I think he had been there for a long time. I think Spuds place was on the left (west side of the Valley about 2/3 way up Valley up against the Mountain slope. I was never there when Beer was a brewing ! I bet that was a GAS!!

Nice to be able to communicate again Cakes hope all is well!!
I would think Spud would know But as I recall the way back house was where "BIRD" Was when up in AV and Louie was the old Farm House with the barn.

BUT my memory may be bad!!! Probally best motto is the SGT SHULTZ saying from Hogans Heros.....I KNOW NOTHING!! lol

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Your so cute Wah.. glad yOU ARE OK.. I know you have a super support system.. Not really sure about where Birds house was.. 30 yrs n a lotta partying make memories fade in n out.. But the main house I was refering to was where we would all gather and have meals/gatherings/discissions ect.. We cooked on woodburning stoves..I believe there were two in the kitchen, with one connecting to a hot water heater and ran into the bathtub in the "bathroom" no toilet just bath tub.. we used outhouses..I remember blowing the chonch.. that was the signal that it was meal time or emergency.. of course meal time was always an emergency. I was fascinated with how the stove was hookedup to the waterheater...funny how that impressed me, but it may just come in handy when babylon falls..the knowledge we aquired living off the grid will help us survive whatever circumstance decides to throw at us... It's good too see all of us together, well not all is here yet, but, it's so good to see all of you......

 

Yeah.. Louie was a cool old dude.. but sold us out in the end.. well I heard he did anyway..

 

Nailcakes,

You're right about the 2nd House. It was where we all gathered in the morning (someone always had "House," e.g, make breakfast and dinner). I made the homemade beer in antique quart bottles I found in the loft of my little cabin across from Cancer Nancy's house (that was the main house of the ranch (where Louie and his family lived before the hippies took over). I think Schills may have helped me with the beer. I believe the beer exploded because I did not clean the bottles good enough (yeast gets in there and messes with the process). What a waste and a mess! Risa and I ended up buying the 2nd House + 5 acres when everyone moved on to other adventures. I remember we had to drink all of the beer that was still left before it exploded.

And Bird's place was at the end of the valley. It was originally the "Round House." Bird built a huge home and raised Arabian's.

 

ahhh.. yes.. the memories become more vivid.. I had 'House' myself there a time or two.. yes I remember the round house... I did not live at AV but visited often, lived in Days Creek down the way from the store in the school marms house by the old school.. I left 'round 73/4 and went back to the 'city', where all hell had broken loose in the GE commune.

 

Cakes while you were in the Days Creek had Daryl and Nancy got the spread down that road that cut in from the River road on left side as you went up river, JUST before the Days Creek Store? I thought that they had been up at AV for a while before moving down river?

Were you in the place just after the Store. I THINK that was the old School House.?? I am trying to get my memories back straight (may be an impossiable thing to do lol). After Darly left Nana(Nancy) Mike, from the Bay area also, came into Nancys life as I recall. By then Karl was also up in Orygun.

I think that Roger and Janice ended up in the place where you lived?


Was Amos there when you were in D.C. When I first brought Sheila up lookin for Greg who rumor had it had made it up river we rented a place WAY UP Cow Creek (the Azelia exit before Cayonville) where you could take the logging road over the Mountain into Drew on the River Road past Tiller. Farmer, J.M. and that flow had the Dome and the two houses there off the river road in Drew. We ALMOST bought the Dome a couple of years later but.....to long a story.

Skyline was near there where Jimmy Tar and Betsy Built the A frame(Happy and Mary moved into that A frame later on) and Brads family were up there by 73 74 as I recall. Man reading this site makes me really miss Orygun I wish we had never sold the place we had up there!!

You were up there before JT and Betsy bought the Bar in Tiller. Later on about the mid/later seventies the Tiller Tavern/ a Bar and Grill became a HOPPING PLACE! By then a lot of things were different than just a couple of years eairler!

I did earn the distinction of being the Mountain Tavern Burger eating Champ! But that was around 78 maybe 77. 9 1/2 Burgers got a free tee shirt for being a glutton! WE won a lot of side money in bets that day as no one had me as a favorite to win that one! I think Spud was around for that mighty event! Good thing I won too cause only the winner did not have to pay Jimmy for the Burgers! We were a tad light in cash at that time!

By the eairler eightys the Tavern had closed again it was a sad day in T-town as the social club was gone!

peace/love
ww

 

Here's a picture of the Under House on Cole Street, SF. View attachment 39984

 

You can stay up to 3 nights (right?) and then we will have to have a Family meeting to decide if you can become part of the family. View attachment 39985

 

Here it is! It later became the White Pather's main crib. View attachment 39986

 

((Underhouse)).. my my where has the time gone.. it seems like it was just the other day I was walking up them stairs to Underhouse, with Jomie. I learned a lot there, about human nature and myself.... We were all so young and beautiful.. we were just a bunch of kids trying to change the world and look what we did...oopss .... I was 20 when I moved into Underhouse, Jomie was 1 yr old.. he's 38 now .. that makes me...nevermind .... Spud, the pictures are great.. thanks for posting them... they really stir the emotion and bring back so many memories.. Hey.. Who was it that filled the watermeter up with concret, so they couldn't turn the water off..was that Aries Larry.. It was a mexican stand off.. between the Hippies, the Water Co. and SF finest .. As the story goes.. The house turned on the water on the street at the meter.. as we did all the utilities.. The Water Co came and turned it off.. it somehow got turned back on again and back came the water co, with a lock.. the lock got mysteriously broken and the water was on again. .. After a few locks were broken, Larry fixed the problem with a sack of quick creat and cemented that whole thing shut.. The water Co came with jackhammers and started to bust out the concret.. but Larry and some other family backed the off .. so the water co brought the law dawgs and the confontaion was on... Larry was toe to toe with the Man.. He told them there were walfare mothers in the house with babies and they could not and would not turn the water off...there we ppl all up in the street and ppl hanging out windows jeering at the WC and Pigs.. As the number of hippies grew, and Larry got.."Political" the laws backed off and the water co was left with their thumbs up their ass.. we won that one.. The Water Flowed..:cheers2: