Fact #62887
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Short story:
San Francisco Examiner writer Michael Fallon applies the term 'hippie' to the city's counterculture in an article about The Blue Unicorn coffeehouse where LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) and the Sexual Freedom League meet.
Full article:
Ben Sidran (Steve Miller Band) : There was a little of the old Beatnik scene left at a coffee house called the Blue Unicorn, and Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore was a place where people would congregate.
(Source : Mick Houghton interview in Zigzag)
Gilda (Blue Unicorn regular) : The Blue Unicorn was a place where you could get a cup of coffee and brown bread and butter for free if you were hungry and in need. The conversation was always flowing and something was always going on. Folk Music, open mikes, poetry, politics. Everyone was welcome, there was an unspoken code of consideration to others that was understood and created a rich atmosphere.
Alton Kelley (psychedelic artist) : Those first years - '65, '66, '67 - it was really a great neighborhood, the Haight-Ashbury. Everybody knew everybody. It was really fun. Everybody was really enjoying themselves. It was sort of the opposite of the beatnik era. They all dressed in black and were on kind of a downer. We all came out of the rock 'n' roll world and not World War II. We all had this background behind us of Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
(Source : San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2007)
Sam Andrews (guitarist, Big Brother And The Holding Company) : There was an intense focus in the 1960s that we have not experienced since then. That's why the music from that time, technically nowhere near as advanced as today, is interesting and still alive. There were a lot of trashy, messy aspects to the counterculture then, but real important strides forward were made in such areas as civil rights, the women's movement and in something as basic and hard to quantify as the colorfulness of life.
Our goals at that time were peace forever, self-realization, creativity in everyday life, love among all different peoples and real change in society. Let's face it; these goals will never be met, but they are worth pursuing in spite of that.
(Source : www.kisstorysource.com/samandrew.html)
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(Source : Mick Houghton interview in Zigzag)
Gilda (Blue Unicorn regular) : The Blue Unicorn was a place where you could get a cup of coffee and brown bread and butter for free if you were hungry and in need. The conversation was always flowing and something was always going on. Folk Music, open mikes, poetry, politics. Everyone was welcome, there was an unspoken code of consideration to others that was understood and created a rich atmosphere.
Alton Kelley (psychedelic artist) : Those first years - '65, '66, '67 - it was really a great neighborhood, the Haight-Ashbury. Everybody knew everybody. It was really fun. Everybody was really enjoying themselves. It was sort of the opposite of the beatnik era. They all dressed in black and were on kind of a downer. We all came out of the rock 'n' roll world and not World War II. We all had this background behind us of Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
(Source : San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2007)
Sam Andrews (guitarist, Big Brother And The Holding Company) : There was an intense focus in the 1960s that we have not experienced since then. That's why the music from that time, technically nowhere near as advanced as today, is interesting and still alive. There were a lot of trashy, messy aspects to the counterculture then, but real important strides forward were made in such areas as civil rights, the women's movement and in something as basic and hard to quantify as the colorfulness of life.
Our goals at that time were peace forever, self-realization, creativity in everyday life, love among all different peoples and real change in society. Let's face it; these goals will never be met, but they are worth pursuing in spite of that.
(Source : www.kisstorysource.com/samandrew.html)