sabbatchhead
12-05-2004, 12:13 AM
Just found this site ...
Did anybody here attend any of the late 70s Marijuana Day marches in NYC? Usually started in Washington Square Park, proceeded up 5th Avenue (with occasional detours per police), ending at Central Park. I think they were held the first Saturday of May each year.
I have many intense memories of those days. I think the first one I attended was in 76, maybe 77. I made a huge marijuana leaf flag out of one of my parents bedsheets - the old green leaf on red star insignia, and had this long aluminum pole to hoist it on. Well, it was bigger than anything the parade organizers had (Aaron Kay - the "Pie Man" - was always there, and David Peel played at at least one of them from a flatbed truck), so they just put me up front, and there me and my friends are, stoned off our gourds, leading the parade (me with a bong hanging on a string around my neck, which strangers kept asking to use).
The following year was even better. My friends and I were tripping our asses off, still carrying the flag. The parade was under the watchful eye of many police, who were especially watching us since the crowd seemed to be following us, or the flag we were carrying. We were completely oblivious to this fact though, and somewhere along the way up 5th Avenue we decided some beer would be good, so we went into a deli (taking down the flag momentarily, as it wouldn't fit through the door) for some quart bottles of budweiser. Well, about a hundred people, at least, followed suit. I know my friends and I paid for our beer, but I have my doubts about the horde that followed us in (there was only one cash register). I can only imagine what what was going through the minds of the police as these teenage kids that the crowd was following made a pitstop for beer.
I still have that flag, btw, and some pics of us carying it in Washington Square Park.
Did anybody here attend any of the late 70s Marijuana Day marches in NYC? Usually started in Washington Square Park, proceeded up 5th Avenue (with occasional detours per police), ending at Central Park. I think they were held the first Saturday of May each year.
I have many intense memories of those days. I think the first one I attended was in 76, maybe 77. I made a huge marijuana leaf flag out of one of my parents bedsheets - the old green leaf on red star insignia, and had this long aluminum pole to hoist it on. Well, it was bigger than anything the parade organizers had (Aaron Kay - the "Pie Man" - was always there, and David Peel played at at least one of them from a flatbed truck), so they just put me up front, and there me and my friends are, stoned off our gourds, leading the parade (me with a bong hanging on a string around my neck, which strangers kept asking to use).
The following year was even better. My friends and I were tripping our asses off, still carrying the flag. The parade was under the watchful eye of many police, who were especially watching us since the crowd seemed to be following us, or the flag we were carrying. We were completely oblivious to this fact though, and somewhere along the way up 5th Avenue we decided some beer would be good, so we went into a deli (taking down the flag momentarily, as it wouldn't fit through the door) for some quart bottles of budweiser. Well, about a hundred people, at least, followed suit. I know my friends and I paid for our beer, but I have my doubts about the horde that followed us in (there was only one cash register). I can only imagine what what was going through the minds of the police as these teenage kids that the crowd was following made a pitstop for beer.
I still have that flag, btw, and some pics of us carying it in Washington Square Park.