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Growing Up Hippie In The South Part II  I posted about being a hippie in the South in the last post. got such a response that I thought I would expound a . Shrude M.F. & Holding Co.in Charlotte NC was the first place you could bell bottom jeans. My , designed those jeans with a seamstress after seeing them at a fashion show in NYC, also was ahead of her time. My parents owned the store which was the first hippie clothing and head shop in the city. If you don't know what a head shop is, it is where hippies bought clothes black light posters incense, and smoking gear for weed.. Artists from a nearby college did the artwork on the building, as you can see on the right of the photo. They were lined up to the new rage in fashion and hear the band became Marshall Tucker. My first years were spent being held by local hippie and listening all the music they played in Shrude. So I may not be an Old hippie yet, but I was an original flower born in the Summer of Love 🙂 My parents had a commune by 1971, with people living that were dealing with changes in their lives. A drug addict kicking heroine, an unwed , and a cool guy was an artist were our roomates. I marched with my ma while she marched for civil rights, and against the vietnam war. I corrected my Dixiecrat grandparents when they used the N word and believed in all of it with a pure heart. In her words, "Too bad we did not phone cameras in those days and as I stood between the cops and the attending I had no idea if they were going to book me - but that became a regular part of a business day and I was never arrested, just threatened. Of course, Nikki was in a scarf hanging on my tummy through all until she learned walk. She marched for civil rights, banning war against Vietnam and the draft along with their Mama. Her picture were published in the Observer and was picked up by the APR and went all over the country when this military draft sergeant accused us of defacing the huge flag we painted on the entire wall . I became quite well known with that one - coined as the "flag lady" with the youngest hippies in Charlotte. It was an incredible experience for all of us." Not on.ly did everyone shop , but we met people like Muddy Waters, the Moody Blues, and Marshall Tucker, because they all shopped at my parent's store when in town. We drove a hearse for a company vehicle with a peace sign on the doors. To say we were unconventional for North Carolina, was an understatement. Of course, I spent a good portion of growing up wishing they were more "normal", until I learned that normal was overrated, and what was exactly normal anyway? These days I wouldn't change any of it. I realize how lucky I was to parents I could talk with . More Growing Up Hippie Playlist Wooden Ships - Crosby Nash & Fixin Die Rag - Country Joe Fish Come Together - The Beatles Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Gladrags and Handbags - Rod Stewart I wish I wish - Cat Stevens Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Knights In White Satin - The Moody Blues - Pink Floyd Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top And last but not least, if you do not listen to anything else on my playlist, listen to John Denver reading The Box Enjoy... |
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12/6/2021 12:58 pm |
Wow!
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Wow, what an era! it was!  i was a bit too late, and lived in a small town... never seen anything hippy like, My sisters did catch some of it.... It must have been a great time, meeting all those artists, all those demonstrations, all the positive fibes....
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Groovy and Far Out ! "One Big Sky Covers Us All Equally"
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Such a great time with great music and I love Marshall Tucker!
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Sure is hard to explain to the kids today what growing up in the 60's was like! Of course I grew up a nerd in Boulder but the "free" sex was a lot of fun, used to grade papers for the gym teacher who's office overlooked the girls locker room and showers.
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Thank you. I lived in New England. I went to Woodstock and so many, many concerts (it 's a long story how I got to go to so many) I loved every second and consider myself the same and don't regret one second of anything I have done. I have to say having visted all 50 states that I swore I would never live in the South. I live in Wa. now near Seattle. Liberal as hell and still believe in every thing I did then only more fervently. Seatrain "I'm willin" Dylan "Its alright ma" Hendrix " Rainy Day........dream away" (if you live in Wa. you can totally appreciate he was from here..........listen and see) Elton "Come down in time" Beatles "I gotta feeling" Stones "Can't you hear me knocking" Stills "Black queen" Sting "I burn for you" (great song for this site) U2 "With or without you"
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12/6/2021 4:12 pm |
I feel ya!
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Thanks for the memories... Yours, and the one you pulled out of me... My parents were in the Marines, but I went hippie way early and while my mother never forgave me, my father supported my right to be myself.... But being on a navy base (mostly) was a weird place for a teenage boy with a ponytail... Lucky, my dad was senior enough that nobody even remotely hassled me.... The non coms and officers didn't like me, but the troops were always doing sports things and invited me to play all the time.... Also got high with the ones who did... but talk about being discrete.... Good to be different....
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I can see it all in my mind's eye. In 1969 I was 19. Young, dumb, and full of cum.
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Your parents sound pretty cool to me. They have passion. What is normal anyways? Nice playlist. Howling at the moon and mal ad osteo.
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