bijouxbroussard · F
I was born in 1960, and grew up in San Francisco, so I got to see some of those original flower children. I remember running errands with my mother in the Haight as a child and while I was looking in the window of a shop a young woman came up and kissed me on the forehead. Mom whisked me away and when we got home she scrubbed my face ! 🤭
I also remember a comment about the "Free Love" of the 60s:
"In the 80s, the bill came due."
I also remember a comment about the "Free Love" of the 60s:
"In the 80s, the bill came due."
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@bijouxbroussard I also remember the "topless clubs," and how Avant guard they were for then!
bijouxbroussard · F
@samueltyler2 Yeah, that wasn’t something I saw back then—although I was a teenager when "Oh Calcutta !" came to town.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@bijouxbroussard Yes, you are much younger. It is amazing how many people who became famous after the participated in the nude scene in the show Hair.
techkb52 · 70-79, M
Born in the 50's, was raised in a strict house and had no idea what the "Free Love" movement was about. College in the early 70's and it hadn't quite hit there yet.
katydidnt · 61-69, F
@techkb52 Hippies and flower children--that was the 60s to the under-10 me, though much of the impression comes from watching news clips and documentaries. You say the Free Love era hadn't swept into your 70s territory yet. It sets me wondering how stretched-out that post-beatnik era was, as it melted across the country past its Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock beginnings (if those were indeed the "beginnings.") Myself, I came of age in the 70s and felt the newness of it long after its Use-By date, yet I staked a timid claim on being a charter member. Bell-bottoms and tie-dyes still brought "look-me-over-twice" occurrences, but by then for only unflattering reasons.
SW-User
1970 was the effective last year of the sixties. It kicks off in England about sixty eight.
kutee · T
surely if you were born then, you were too young
katydidnt · 61-69, F
@samueltyler2 Too much of a nerd. I ran with the shy crowd. Test tubes and geometry proofs.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@katydidnt Did you end up in a scientific career?