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In reply to the discussion: The Pretty Little Hippie Chicks Are Grandmas Now. [View all]pengillian101
(2,351 posts)204. K & R a great thread.
Thanks all for the memories and a delightful read. Made my day.
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I certainly did do the go-go boots thing! But they were not allowed in cotillion!
calimary
Feb 2013
#52
Awe yes those were the good old days. I don't know how old you are but stop
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#3
My father-in-law use to say "Every day you wake up in the morning and put your feet on
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#118
Life is like a roll of toilet paper - the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
CrispyQ
Feb 2013
#201
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
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
I saw the Merry Prankster's bus. Some of them pass through town to see Ed McClannahan and
alfredo
Feb 2013
#192
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
And we STILL aren't the "Lawrence Welk" generation! (Did you hear that Led Zeppelin will tour?)
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#23
Holy shit! Holy shit! They had no idea what it meant? OMG, that's just...beyond comprehension! I
Nay
Feb 2013
#136
ROFLMAO! They clearly had no clue WTF they were singing about! Tracked this down....
tpsbmam
Feb 2013
#174
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
My dad, born in 1913, was one of the original '50's jazz freak sound system mainacs
NBachers
Feb 2013
#188
I had a great encounter with one of my "hippie chik" contemporaries.....
socialist_n_TN
Feb 2013
#30
You mean like Grace Slick? Jefferson Airplane? Ask Alice? That Hippie Chick?
Leslie Valley
Feb 2013
#47
20 years ago, the last of the hippie chicks taught me the most valuable lessons of my life
Nevernose
Feb 2013
#51
Well, you could certainly have some of mine! I still have more than enough down below.
calimary
Feb 2013
#159
My girlfriend and I were the first to wear backless long dresses (that we sewed ourselves)
Nay
Feb 2013
#137
After serving in Vietnam, Bill later married a Vietnamese woman whom he met on a visit there
pinboy3niner
Feb 2013
#122
THAT's the Joan I remember! Met her, and her lovely sisters, in '65 in Carmel
FailureToCommunicate
Feb 2013
#146
A close mental association I have with hippie girls is the girl from The Party
anAustralianobserver
Feb 2013
#91
Your singing my song Don. Those were the days and they go by way to quickly. sigh......
Little Star
Feb 2013
#151
It has been a most enjoyable conversation. I'm gald so many people joined in.
DonRedwood
Feb 2013
#189
Actually, there was another group back then that were the anti-hippie chicks...
Spitfire of ATJ
Feb 2013
#207
I look at pictures of my grandmother when she was 40 and she looks older than my mom
DonRedwood
Feb 2013
#215