Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers
How To Speak Hip
The whole playlist for all 13 cuts is here. Track 1 below.Wikipedia entry for the album here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 19, 2024 -
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Category: Languages, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, Parody
Touch, The Generation Gap Musical
This dated abomination seems to have all but vanished from the annals of stage history, so far as googling can determine.
Enjoy the whole performance, thanks to the capacious memory of the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 21, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Theater and Stage, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
Space is the Place
The definitive statement from a master weirdo, Sun Ra. A couple of clips below.The entire movie can be viewed on YouTube (but not embedded here).
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 08, 2023 -
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Category: Aliens, Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Music, Space Travel, 1970s
You Are What You Eat
This entire documentary about hippies, titled YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, is not embeddable, but is available on YouTube. After viewing these two clips, you'll know if you can take the entire 70-minute production.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 07, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Soda Pop & the One-Way Bottles
Man, I crashed at the Soda Pop's pad back in '67!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 20, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #564
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 15, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Advertising, Candy, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s, Attractiveness, Sexiness, Allure and Personal Magnetism
Unauthorized Dwellings 30
We surveyed this community earlier in this series, but I thought it deserved a followup chronicling its demise.The whole saga of Maplewood Mudflats is told in an article here.
Source: The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 05 Sep 1972, Tue Page 25
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 04, 2023 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Unauthorized Dwellings, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, 1970s, North America
Vintage Trophy Girl Photos
Hot rod/dragstrip racing has always featured beautiful women to hand out trophies or generally add allure to the scene. The folks at Jalopy Journal have assembled nearly 300 pages depicting same.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 16, 2023 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contest, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Women, Cars
Captain Entropy
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 24, 2022 -
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Category: Drugs, Education, Music, Science, Children, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
A Jazz Lexicon
Pepper your speech with all these forgotten slang terms, and you will acquire an air of coolness and mystery.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 21, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, Slang
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