Why San Francisco?

The last time I counted, I had 9 cats. I shot a pregnant cat tonight, then ran out of 12 gauge shells. I'll buy another box and by this time tomorrow, I'll thin these pricks out proper.


I'm damn tired of feeding these fuckers-- this all began by people dropping them off along the road.

By tomorrow, if anything but the 4 or 5 kittens exist, I'll be surprised.

I'm tired of cats.

Let them return to their group souls.

 

maybe SF picked the movement

 

I was drunk last night-- I haven't killed any since.


But........ I should.

 

Send them to Big Sur

 

Give me the address-- it isn't where Kerouac flipped out and lated wrote the eponymous novel, is it?

 

Kerouac lived with his mother in New Jersey most of his life
i think he died in ahome in FL...

 

Because there is no other city in the World like it. You would have to see it to understand!! At that place in time it was bound to follow it's natural course. And did.

 

Monsuier-- I know where Kerouac died, and when. He lived briefly alone in Big Sur where he wrote his breakdown novel "Big Sur". (That is what eponymus means, BTW.)


What is a 17 year-old child doing on this forum?

Get thee to Young Hippies, whatever the twisted fuck that means.

 

I've been hearing that alot. I hope to go there someday and see it for myself. It has probably changed quite a bit since the flower power days though.

 

I think there is a magic spot on the earth, where there is some kind of etherial convergence of cosmic energy. I think it was over San Francisco then. It moves around. Then it was in Sedona. Then Seattle, and Atlanta. I don't know where it is now. You have to follow the music and art, to find it!

 

I dont Know where it is either, but I'd like to find it. The world definitely needs more of that kind of energy.

 

I grew up there and it used to be affordable but mainly it has always thrown out the welcome mat to any and all people of all nationalaties and color-It has always been open to new ideas and a haven for artists-Then there is the beauty of the place-Bagdad by the Bay is the most beautiful city in America-thats why-

 

Yeah, I heard it's really expensive to live there now.

 

That was good-That was a good true look at the way it went down-Everyone having fun one day then crashing down the next-The city could just not handle the multitudes of people comin in-It was overwhelmed with humanity-It had to break down under the weight-no food-no place to sleep- no money-etc.-but it was sure fun for awhile there!

 

mt shasta is an energy vortex and san francisco is able to tap into the energy there via the fault line

 

why SF? The Grateful Dead!

 

I'm probably wrong, since I wasn't alive yet, But I think it's because that's where Ken Kesey, and his pranksters were at the time. along with Owlsey, and the Dead. I believe Owlsey was supplying alot of the acid in the area at the time, and the Pranksters got people turned on, and the Dead don't need an explanation.

ok, you can ignore the ignorant 20-year-old brat now. that's just what I read.

 

A great deal of opinion on past events come from what we read. I find it interesting from the standpoint of someone who was part of it, to see what kinds of opinions are formed from what has become a historical written perspective. So if your opinion is ignorant, don't blame yourself, blame the historians. So whether you're a 20 year old brat, or a 50 year old brat, it's all good! Don't be shy about speaking your mind. Speaking their minds and voicing opinions by words or deeds, is really what drove the whole 60's movement. We need less sheeple and more people.

 

i have to agree with statement completely. i grew up in the village in new york city and what was happening in san francisco at the time had been happening in new york for a long time too.

i think what happened is a combination of a few things. nyc had been famous for the "beats"/jazz in the 50's and people were used to everything coming out of nyc as the sort of epicenter of culture in the u.s. i'm not saying that other cities didn't have this same talent. but up until this point and the arrival of the beatles, the rest of the country looked to the east coast as the place to be for music,art, and culture. the early 60's folk music center was there (when dylan left home he didn't go west..he went east), the brill building that supplied most of the pop music was there, and the coffee houses/bars that supplied the 50's/early 60's intelligencia like ted johns, ginsburg, and kerouac were there. the art world of the u.s. definitely centered in nyc. when the beatles hit, and rock and roll became THE music the focus shifted to england. this threw new york for a loop..it was used to being the place culture started and it finalized the death knell for the beats most of whom left or had already left new york at this point. lots of them migrated to san francisco. new york was still associated with the acoustic dylan and folk music when all of a sudden new music was coming out of san francisco..SAN FRANSICO... a city that for all anyone knew before this time had not produced music groups. music came out of and wasproduced in either nyc or los angeles in the 50's and early 60's. people had looked to the east coast colleges as the breeding ground for new thought. now those things were coming out of the s.f. and the berkely area. the kids who were leaving home to find their way in the world no longer automatically went to nyc and the east coast. instead the west coast became the "new" place to be. and once monterey held the first music festival of the rock era, the bay area's dominance was sealed in the minds of most americans and certainly in the media for this time in america's history. ironically if you talk to people who had been there before 1967, the ones i know, think that the haight area had started a downward slide before the notoriety hit.

 

i knew friends who were on the committee to decide where to have the summer of love... woodstock was rejected cuz the festival was going to be there in 69', l.a. was rejected cuz its being a tinsel town, and the only hippy into tinsel was david bowie, chicago was rejected cuz it was too far away from any mountains and the nyc hippies said they were focused on woodstock 69 and so the committee ultimately decided upon s.f.