I had a loft at 6 Bleecker St, right across the street from The Palace Hotel, a wino bar that later became CBGB's. I used to drink Ballantine Ale...
Voided 37: Be an editor! I've been battling those ignorant ego-maniacs for 20 years. I once worked for an editor who proudly told me he had never...
I know this isn't considered rock, but Willie Nelson in 1985 or 6 at The Spectrum in Philly. I had won free tickets and I took my wife. He played...
Hey! Could I ask you a question? My buddy just came back from a bear hunt or something (maybe it was carriboos or moose, I don't know), but he...
TerrapinStation, Sundew was right, except (and I just re-read it a month ago), Neal Cassady , Dean Moriaty in ON THE ROAD, was the driver ALL THE...
Voidede37: One never ends a sentence in a proposition, unless, of course, one is quoting another. I'm currently reading: 1. GROWTH OF THE SOIL...
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Well, Wide-eyed, at least in SUTREE, THE ORCHARD KEEPER, OUTER DARKNESS and CHILD OF GOD, he's writing in English. Wait to you get to BLOOD...
Lucysky-- I'm an original hippie-- but never made Woodstock-- just Haight-Ashbury and Greenwich Village in 1967.
The original question was " Have any of you met any real hipsters?" The answers, by and large, have been in this vein: "I've met______ (fill in...
I find this thread hard to believe! I was a member of Hip Forums over three years ago, and the first thing I did was post a thread on OLD HIPPIES...
I ran away to Greenwich Village in 1966 at the age of 18, not to change the world, but to become a writer. I had read a lot of Henry Miller, Jack...
Are you sure you don't mean 1090 Haight Street? After I lost my apartment at 63 Octavia St., I briefly moved there in August of 1967 until I...
I have a question for either Shameless Heifer or Ranger: I lived in Haight-Ashbury during The Summer of Love-- I left S.F. right after The Death...
The greatest American writer now writing is Cormac McCarthy, however his books might be tough going for a 16 year old. Read Ernest Hemingway's The...
I met Manson in 1967 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. He had just gotten out of prison and didn't have his legions of followers yet. I was...
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