THAT's the Joan I remember! Met her, and her lovely sisters, in '65 in Carmel (Reply #146)

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Response to struggle4progress (Reply #77)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 03:18 PM

146. THAT's the Joan I remember! Met her, and her lovely sisters, in '65 in Carmel

after a Big Sur Folk festival. She is still going, still singing, and still a lovely soul...

Music was everywhere then! (and I don't mean in ipod earphones)

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The Pretty Little Hippie Chicks Are Grandmas Now. [View all]	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	OP
You are a treasure, my dear DonRedwood!	CaliforniaPeggy	Feb 2013	#1
Very kind Miss Peggy!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#13
Forever Young	Xipe Totec	Feb 2013	#181
...	CaliforniaPeggy	Feb 2013	#183
It's HIPPIE, by the way	Warpy	Feb 2013	#2
thank you for keeping me from humiliating myself	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#5
they share some of those stories too	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#6
I certainly did do the go-go boots thing! But they were not allowed in cotillion!	calimary	Feb 2013	#52
My mother had refused her coming out party	Warpy	Feb 2013	#84
I'm remembering tear gas in Harvard square.	RILib	Feb 2013	#153
I was there	Warpy	Feb 2013	#162
Welcome to DU, RILib!	calimary	Feb 2013	#167
We certainly flocked to the web starting in the 90s	Warpy	Feb 2013	#187
We'd love to hear your account!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#199
some morons set a car on fire, smashed store windows of small shopkeepers	RILib	Feb 2013	#212
Awe yes those were the good old days. I don't know how old you are but stop	southernyankeebelle	Feb 2013	#3
We seldom appreciate what we are right now.	Granny M	Feb 2013	#87
My father-in-law use to say "Every day you wake up in the morning and put your feet on	southernyankeebelle	Feb 2013	#118
Welcome to DU Granny M!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#123
Thank you, DonRedwood	Granny M	Feb 2013	#182
Life is like a roll of toilet paper - the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.	CrispyQ	Feb 2013	#201
Hahahaha now that is funny. Love your humor.	southernyankeebelle	Feb 2013	#203
that toilet paper saying is awesome	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#205
That's so sweet	TuxedoKat	Feb 2013	#4
I'm married to a most wonderful woman	madokie	Feb 2013	#7
My husband is similarly married. :-)	WinkyDink	Feb 2013	#24
lol!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#29
You have "cute ways"!	TexasProgresive	Feb 2013	#89
I was 16 in 1966 and my wife was 13 in 1966, talk about wild times!	xtraxritical	Feb 2013	#142
No offense here...	Contrary1	Feb 2013	#8
Hey! I want to know if you did it!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#31
Nah...My poor dad couldn't have taken that.	Contrary1	Feb 2013	#64
Hey, sequins take care of all kinds of things!!!!	calimary	Feb 2013	#166
No, they are hippie chicks	Gman	Feb 2013	#9
Gman, you are someone who understands that it's a state of mind as well as a time or place. Yes.	The Wielding Truth	Feb 2013	#81
Absolutely!	Gman	Feb 2013	#100
GOOD one, TWT! It IS a state of mind. That really nails it.	calimary	Feb 2013	#168
And it's a truly sweet state of mind. Don't you think? It would be great if everyone knew the	The Wielding Truth	Feb 2013	#196
k/r	limpyhobbler	Feb 2013	#10
Aww, that's so sweet.	Blue_In_AK	Feb 2013	#11
My wife was a hippie chick...	derby378	Feb 2013	#12
You did it for her.	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#42
Thank you. I hope some people can still see the hippie chick in me at times.	gateley	Feb 2013	#14
After today, I have no doubt they can!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#49
I danced on the side of the stage	OKNancy	Feb 2013	#15
remember the pencil test?	dhol82	Feb 2013	#16
OMG! I'd forgotten about the pencil test!	Divernan	Feb 2013	#27
yeah, pencil test?	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#43
uh	RILib	Feb 2013	#155
Love the Mamas and the Papas, but gotta credit Scott McKenzie for that song.	Scuba	Feb 2013	#82
Loved this song, and Scott McKenzie just passed away on August 18, 2012	a kennedy	Feb 2013	#107
A sad loss	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#145
The video of him singing the song	alfredo	Feb 2013	#140
Awesome. Thanks for that. Two comments...	nilram	Feb 2013	#170
I saw the Merry Prankster's bus. Some of them pass through town to see Ed McClannahan and	alfredo	Feb 2013	#192
Pencil test?...	awoke_in_2003	Feb 2013	#37
The pencil test was how you could tell	Demobrat	Feb 2013	#55
Nifty info. Thanks. n/t	Laelth	Feb 2013	#111
Ok- thanks. nt	awoke_in_2003	Feb 2013	#125
the pencil test was to remind us that gravity is no longer our friend.	dixiegrrrrl	Feb 2013	#172
Welcome to DU, dhol82!	calimary	Feb 2013	#54
We had to pass a nun-review before going to formal dances.	Divernan	Feb 2013	#114
borderline hippie!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#124
Thanks calimary	dhol82	Feb 2013	#216
LOL - yep, I remember that.	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#66
I flunked it from about 14 on....	Granny M	Feb 2013	#86
ROFL!!!!!!!!!	calimary	Feb 2013	#169
Wild Child!!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#32
Remember Mothers? And how Paseo used to be? n/t	jtuck004	Feb 2013	#95
Paseo	OKNancy	Feb 2013	#98
From an old white man,,,,	Oldfolkie	Feb 2013	#17
Me, too!	ChazInAz	Feb 2013	#21
Hey Chaz, welcome to DU!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#33
+1000	regnaD kciN	Feb 2013	#38
Good on you and thank you for help leading the way. n/t	countmyvote4real	Feb 2013	#83
...	SammyWinstonJack	Feb 2013	#121
yes, some young people	RILib	Feb 2013	#157
I'm gonna be 60 this year and the same is true - I'm more progressive now than ever before.	calimary	Feb 2013	#171
To me and their other contemporaries they still are pretty little hippy chicks	Dragonfli	Feb 2013	#18
Aw, thanks!	Lifelong Protester	Feb 2013	#19
God Bless us all...	lib2DaBone	Feb 2013	#20
I sure hope i'm fighting right up to the end :0)	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#36
I may have been there with you...	namaste2	Feb 2013	#44
Welcome to the DU!	happynewyear	Feb 2013	#79
Thanks for the welcome happynewyear~	namaste2	Feb 2013	#110
Namaste, namaste2	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#126
Thanks for the welcome~	namaste2	Feb 2013	#177
"Remember when Joints were something you enjoyed"?!!! Spewing coffee!	TexasProgresive	Feb 2013	#90
This made me weep a little.....	a kennedy	Feb 2013	#108
I'll admit I wept a little when I wrote it	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#127
Ah, yes! The Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland. A Must See, not only for Old	maddiemom	Feb 2013	#112
"Remember when Joints were something you enjoyed" ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!	calimary	Feb 2013	#164
I was a hippie chick in the '70s,	RebelOne	Feb 2013	#22
And we STILL aren't the "Lawrence Welk" generation! (Did you hear that Led Zeppelin will tour?)	WinkyDink	Feb 2013	#23
watching lawrence welk on pbs is like taking a hit of acid	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#50
Then you will love this !	Morning Dew	Feb 2013	#73
That is....surreal.	truebluegreen	Feb 2013	#93
Welk got surreal for real!	stlsaxman	Feb 2013	#102
Holy shit! Holy shit! They had no idea what it meant? OMG, that's just...beyond comprehension! I	Nay	Feb 2013	#136
Kinda like when the teabaggers came out calling themselves teabaggers.	valerief	Feb 2013	#99
HOLY COW	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#129
ROFLMAO! They clearly had no clue WTF they were singing about! Tracked this down....	tpsbmam	Feb 2013	#174
I admit to enjoying it tremendously! Like time traveling!	Divernan	Feb 2013	#116
i watch it once or twice a month...	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#130
I assume most of his musicians were baked	DBoon	Feb 2013	#190
My best laugh was when my nine yr. old grandson	tavernier	Feb 2013	#25
"Wiglet" is a term I haven't heard in many years...	CBHagman	Feb 2013	#26
I am being 100% truthful when I say it is one of the funniest words I know of	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#39
Yeah, and some of the hippie guys are feelin' a little older now too, Baby Blue	NBachers	Feb 2013	#28
That song of Cash with Dylan has always given me	truedelphi	Feb 2013	#149
My dad, born in 1913, was one of the original '50's jazz freak sound system mainacs	NBachers	Feb 2013	#188
What a great thing to have going on in one's childhood home.	truedelphi	Feb 2013	#200
I had a great encounter with one of my "hippie chik" contemporaries.....	socialist_n_TN	Feb 2013	#30
Checking in.	femmocrat	Feb 2013	#34
This hippie chick is fine	Le Taz Hot	Feb 2013	#35
+ 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!! - K & R !!!	WillyT	Feb 2013	#40
Too young to be a hippie...	Rozlee	Feb 2013	#41
My sr picture has parted in the middle feathered hair and photogray glasses	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#53
Ditto.	TDale313	Feb 2013	#68
I'm too young too.	DevonRex	Feb 2013	#180
Thanks for looking beyond our old bodies	Curmudgeoness	Feb 2013	#45
they are so hard working i forget their age	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#209
Yes we are	libodem	Feb 2013	#46
You mean like Grace Slick? Jefferson Airplane? Ask Alice? That Hippie Chick?	Leslie Valley	Feb 2013	#47
Ahh, the Voice that Launched a Thousand Trips!	calimary	Feb 2013	#60
Remember Melanie: Lay Down-Candles In The Rain, from Woodstock?	DevonRex	Feb 2013	#179
That was an excellent rendition of her song...	MrMickeysMom	Feb 2013	#193
It was	DevonRex	Feb 2013	#194
I liked that story, too. I was a guitar player....	MrMickeysMom	Feb 2013	#198
Oh, yeah.	SheilaT	Feb 2013	#48
20 years ago, the last of the hippie chicks taught me the most valuable lessons of my life	Nevernose	Feb 2013	#51
Yes...and I'm a grandpa.	Liberal In Texas	Feb 2013	#56
Hippie chick	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#57
I LOVED bell bottoms because they counter-balanced a big butt.	calimary	Feb 2013	#62
I just liked them	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#65
Well, you could certainly have some of mine! I still have more than enough down below.	calimary	Feb 2013	#159
Thanks!	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#160
I was the first guy to wear a pink izod to my high school...	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#70
LOL - it could be worse.	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#131
My girlfriend and I were the first to wear backless long dresses (that we sewed ourselves)	Nay	Feb 2013	#137
I know what you mean.	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#144
I was never a traffic stopper except	RILib	Feb 2013	#158
Nuff said	OldHippieChick	Feb 2013	#58
Ahhh, memories	Hekate	Feb 2013	#59
Thank you from this grandma.	840high	Feb 2013	#61
Little Hippie Chicks generally don't have Tramp Stamps	slackmaster	Feb 2013	#63
I was a hippie chick, too.	murielm99	Feb 2013	#67
No offense, but it sounds like your friends were wannabe hippies.	Zorra	Feb 2013	#69
Amen sister!	dooner	Feb 2013	#72
I didn't wear any of those things either	Le Taz Hot	Feb 2013	#88
What you said.	tilsammans	Feb 2013	#120
Embroidered, mirrored Indian cotton tunic over torn bellbottoms	frazzled	Feb 2013	#138
I am very grateful to all the "hippie chicks".	Beacool	Feb 2013	#71
Yep, I'm now with my second hippie chick	GliderGuider	Feb 2013	#74
Thank you for sharing your beautiful story	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#132
Y'all are breaking my heart, in a good way.	cliffordu	Feb 2013	#75
DAMN, I missed that!	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#78
Also, a current friend was a member of Danny & the Juniors ("At the Hop")	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#80
Blimey	dipsydoodle	Feb 2013	#97
After serving in Vietnam, Bill later married a Vietnamese woman whom he met on a visit there	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#122
Hippie Chicks forever!	Are_grits_groceries	Feb 2013	#76
.	struggle4progress	Feb 2013	#77
THAT's the Joan I remember! Met her, and her lovely sisters, in '65 in Carmel	FailureToCommunicate	Feb 2013	#146
Knr from a Granny Hippie Chick.	pecwae	Feb 2013	#85
A close mental association I have with hippie girls is the girl from The Party	anAustralianobserver	Feb 2013	#91
One of my all-time favorite movies.	Le Taz Hot	Feb 2013	#109
NUM-NUM	anAustralianobserver	Feb 2013	#173
I know one that's a great grandma now. And she's still pretty.	hobbit709	Feb 2013	#92
K&R	TexasProgresive	Feb 2013	#94
You should check out Yellow Springs OH sometime.	dipsydoodle	Feb 2013	#96
What a place!	pecwae	Feb 2013	#119
Beautiful!!! I loved the 60's (and the 70's). n/t	RKP5637	Feb 2013	#101
My mom had a wiglet!	we can do it	Feb 2013	#103
Nice piece of writing,	MadHound	Feb 2013	#104
H.S. Class of '66 here!	Greybnk48	Feb 2013	#105
Good ol days	marlakay	Feb 2013	#106
Before my time, but an interesting read.	smirkymonkey	Feb 2013	#113
I haven't changed much	LWolf	Feb 2013	#115
I think I'm one, too.	H2O Man	Feb 2013	#117
GASP!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#134
I was also a pretty little hippie chick.	tblue37	Feb 2013	#128
I didn't know that Hippies had baby birds! n/t	RoccoR5955	Feb 2013	#133
I loved those years	Blue4Texas	Feb 2013	#135
And yes, they did change the world.	alfredo	Feb 2013	#139
Here's a Pretty Little Hippie Chick Who's Now a Grandmother	On the Road	Feb 2013	#141
I loved my mini-skirts	rhiannon55	Feb 2013	#143
Not all the hippie chicks made it as far as San Francisco.	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#150
Hey, I never made it to San Francisco either, and I live in L.A.!	calimary	Feb 2013	#161
Love your post.	llmart	Feb 2013	#214
I think the first time I heard the term "hippie chicks"	MineralMan	Feb 2013	#147
Mod Years (1964/67) versus Hippie Years (1968+)	HockeyMom	Feb 2013	#148
Did both.	calimary	Feb 2013	#163
Very good summary	HockeyMom	Feb 2013	#175
Graduated in 1967.. We made the newspaper..	SoCalDem	Feb 2013	#195
I was more of a hippie chick wannabe....	llmart	Feb 2013	#208
Your singing my song Don. Those were the days and they go by way to quickly. sigh......	Little Star	Feb 2013	#151
This hippie chick thinks you're far out!	nolabear	Feb 2013	#152
Well, you already know I think you're far out too!	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#154
Another old hippie chick, checking in.	love_katz	Feb 2013	#156
This post and thread have been the	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#165
Thoroughly agree, ohheckyeah!	calimary	Feb 2013	#176
Wish I could recommend it twice.	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#184
It has been a most enjoyable conversation. I'm gald so many people joined in.	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#189
My bellbottoms & fav peasant blouses came from Different Drummer in NYC....	tpsbmam	Feb 2013	#178
These days the "Hippie Chick" is a costume to be slutty in....	Spitfire of ATJ	Feb 2013	#185
This message was self-deleted by its author	Warren DeMontague	Feb 2013	#206
Actually, there was another group back then that were the anti-hippie chicks...	Spitfire of ATJ	Feb 2013	#207
what were the Hippie GUys like ?	JI7	Feb 2013	#186
Very long hair,	HockeyMom	Feb 2013	#197
I'm sharing this thread with my mom.	Lone_Star_Dem	Feb 2013	#191
What a delightful post & thread! And it brings back memories!	CrispyQ	Feb 2013	#202
K & R a great thread.	pengillian101	Feb 2013	#204
Here's something interesting I found today:	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#210
Makes perfect sense.	calimary	Feb 2013	#211
I was amazed that 70%	ohheckyeah	Feb 2013	#213
I look at pictures of my grandmother when she was 40 and she looks older than my mom	DonRedwood	Feb 2013	#215

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