1960’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday the 13th Fun: Halloween 1965

“J.C. Penney’s Front Window Halloween Art – 1965” copyright 1965 00individual  TLL

HALLOWEEN FUN – 1960’s

In 1965, at age fourteen, 00individual entered his hometown of Westchester’s Halloween contest and the winner got to paint their entry on the front windows of the JC Penney’s department store that was on Sepulveda Boulevard, the main drag that led into LAX (Los Angeles International Airport).  His entry won, so with a ladder and tempera paint he created the above image of a clown-costumed kid scared by a yellow monster while ghosts, a goblin, and an owl look to join in the scare.  There’s even a black spider coming down from the mailbox of Dr. D. Evil !

To the left of the yellow monster, just inside the store window is a cardboard advertisemnet for JC Penney Appliances, and just below that a TV set with a dial that had only thirteen channels; network stations KCBS 2, KNBC 4, and KABC 7,  and local L.A. stations, KTLA 5, KHJ 9, KTTV 11, and KCOP 13.  Up to the mid ’60s the TV world was in black and white, but once color was technically available it was aired, celebrated and advertised across the airwaves to the point that “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” included it in the program’s title.

However, growing up in a film noir world held a strange allure all of its own; for while the world around in real life was colorful for the most part, on TV and movies one’s mind seemed more focused, and involved in the story and action when seen in black and white.

The lack of color allows for the amazing effects that light, shadow, and gradation reveal. The absolute control that black and white has over mood, excitement, mystery, humor, pathos, thrills, and heart-rending story-telling when shot in color seems to drain those inherent qualities of black and white.

While color was and is an epic history-making introduction to film, black and white continues to have the same alluring, interesting, and strangely involving quality as it always has.

After finishing the colorful window painting 00individual’s ready for some spooky
night-time black-and-white film-noir knife-in-the-head Trick Or Treatin’ – 1965.

To celebrate Halloween in the’60s, here are nine excellent black and white horror classics that prove that black and white contribute greatly to the mood and presentation of horror movies.
Darkness immediately plays to one’s animal psyche – where color was not a concern,
but survival was.

Village Of The Damned (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Carnival Of Souls (1962)
The Haunting (1963)
The Twilight Zone – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)
Repulsion (1965)
The Alfred Hitchock Hour – An Unlocked Window (1965)
Spider Baby (1967)
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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1970’s Rock Concert and Culture Chronicles . . . . . . . ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Mystery of the Concert That Never Was! . . . . . . . 43 Year Old Rock Concert Conspiracy SOLVED!

EXPERIENCE A ROCK CONCERT CONSPIRACY
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
11-25-1974 – Loyola Marymount University, Westchester, L.A. (near LAX)
THE CONCERT THAT NEVER WAS!

This is an original post from 2012 of a Rock Concert Conspiracy Cold case that has a very interesting new updated twist:

Here is possibly the strangest concert that 00individual ever attended!

The venue on the Loyola Marymount University campus was a small auditorium or recreation hall, but about the size of an average gymnasium. 00individual couldn’t, and still can’t, locate any confirming date or set list info for this concert.  Then he remembered a very obscure detail; during the concert Jeff Lynne announced that it was drummer Bev Bevan’s birthday; it was actually on the 24^th, but they were still celebrating.  Everyone whooped and applauded.  Why is that a relative clue?  00individual went to this concert with his close friend TFS whose birthday was the same day (taking Lynne literally), and that was November 25th, the day of this concert.  So the concert had to be on that date.  And more corroborating facts are that ELO were in California in November of 1974.

Every bit of ELO gig research lists them at Selland Arena, Fresno, CA on the 21st, then at Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, AZ on the 23rd, then at the TCC Exhibit Hall, Tucson, AZ on the 24th, and then on the Mike Douglas TV show in L.A. on the 26th and then at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, on the 27th, then on to the Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI, on the 29th!

The day after this Loyola Marymount concert on Nov. 26th, the Mike Douglas Philadelphia, PA television talk show featured comedian Richard Pryor and actor George C. Scott, and ELO performed two hits from their new album, “Eldorado” – so they were in L.A. on the 26th and the 27th.  And through the power of Sherlock F. Holmes’ deductive reasoning that leaves 11-25-74 as the date that 00individual saw ELO perform at Loyola Marymount University just north of LAX.

So, why is there absolutely no record of this concert?

00individual’s conclusion is that it was a perfectly executed conspiracy cover-up by the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican to erase this concert from ever existing!  And here’s why: In a strange sequence of events, in April 2006, 00individual was informed by someone who also attended this concert back in ’74 that Loyola never booked any more rock concerts after this ELO concert. Supposedly some kid fell from a high window when he tried to sneak into the concert and died. 00individual was totally unaware of this.

Since Loyola Marymount University is a Roman Catholic institution steeped in Jesuit traditions it was obviously settled immediately, out of court, and out of the media and press – and covered-up to avoid any taint whatsoever on the University.  And that taint extended to the fact that it never happened! Right down to the ELO concert – didn’t happen.  No concert, no death.

IT WAS THE CONCERT THAT NEVER WAS!

But was it?

MYSTERY CONSPIRACY SOLVED!
Well, well, lookee here what 00individual just found in a tucked-away stash box in his garage; PROOF!

While there were only a couple thousand Rock fans present, the Powers That Be figured that they had buried this tragedy and made sure of it by scheduling no more rock concerts with bands of this notoriety – little did they know that 00individual was on the case.

So, all ELO concert-data fans can officially ink-in the deliberately-removed date of November 25, 1974 at Loyola Marymount University.  CASE SOLVED!

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Electric Light Orchestra evolved out of the band The Move and with ELO’s two excellent debut singles, Roll Over Beethoven and Showdown, they took their new “Eldorado” album to an even higher level of Prog Rock.  ELO were the Prog-Beatles; which says a lot!  Jeff Lynne has an uncanny way of emulating Beatles’ vocals within a Rock, not Pop, genre. Eldorado was their springboard to Superstardom.

ELO: Jeff Lynne – lead vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, cello, producer, songwriter, composer, arranger. Bev Bevan – Drums, percussion, vocals. Richard Tandy – Keyboards, synthesizers, bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals, arranger. Mike Edwards – Cello. Hugh McDowell – cello. Mike de Albuquerque – Bass guitar, backing vocals. Mik Kaminski – synthesizers, keyboards.  Louis Clark – Orchestra arranger, conductor.

Setlist: Tracks from “Eldorado” were featured at this concert and the album went Top 20 on U.S. charts, but more importantly 00individual got to experience a truly great band in their prime – this concert ROCKED and was great FUN!

And it really happened!

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Celebrate the Height of Psychedelic Culture with the 50th Anniversary of 1967 – featuring OCTOBER!

“00individual Celebrates 1967’s 50th Anniversary!” copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!

The Historic Pop Culture year of 1967 continues full steam ahead
to end the year with three of the most potent months of ’67!

Let’s Rock:
Oct 1 Pink Floyd arrive in New York for their first US tour.
Oct 2 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents.
Oct 2 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice.
Oct 3 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
Oct 6 LSD made illegal in the US.
Oct 6 First big free concert in Golden Gate Park Panhandle (several thousand people at “Love Pageant Rally”) & Diggers started free food in Panhandle.
Oct 6 Haight-Ashbury Hippies throw a funeral for “Hippie” to mark end of “the summer of love”.
Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear test.
Oct 7 The Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein.
Oct 8 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. Oct 10 Elvis Presley “Clambake” soundtrack is released.
Oct 10 Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton form Black Panthers of Oakland.
Oct 14-16 Fillmore: The Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, Big Mama Thornton.
Oct 17 MacDermot, Ragni & Rado’s musical “Hair” premieres off-Broadway.
Oct 17 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue.
Oct 17 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km.
Oct 18 Walt Disney’s “Jungle Book” film is released.
Oct 19 Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, and “Sometimes A Great Notion”, (the first program to be broadcast by HBO, airing less than two years after its initial 1970 theatrical release) back from Mexico, gets arrested and serves six months for smoking Marijuana.

Oct 20 A purported Bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek, Northern Califonia by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin. (stabilized video) Still the most controversial and discussed film of a Cryptid.
Oct 21 Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters attempt to levitate the Pentagon.

“Had the Hippies and Protestors Been Successful” copyright 2014 00individual  TLL

Oct 21-22 Fillmore: The Grateful Dead, Lightning Hopkins.
Oct 23 Fillmore: The Yardbirds, Country Joe & The Fish.
Oct 25 UCLA Teach-in on the war in Vietnam.
Oct 28-30 Fillmore: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
Oct 28-29 Avalon Ballroom (Family Dog): Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sons Of Champlin.
Oct 26 Sam & Dave release Soul Men.
Oct 27 Ten Years After releases Ten Years After
Oct 27 Dusty Springfield releases Where Am I Going?
Oct 30 Buffalo Springfield release Buffalo Springfield Again.
Oct 31 Phil Ochs releases Pleasures of the Harbor.
Oct 31 (Halloween) Ken Kesey’s Acid Test Graduation.Oct 31 Nico releases Chelsea Girl.
Roy Orbison releases Cry Softly Lonely One.
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band releases Gorilla.
Pearls Before Swine release One Nation Underground.
Sammy Davis, Jr. releases Sings the Complete ‘Dr. Dolittle’.
Nina Simone releases Silk & Soul.
Sly and the Family Stone release A Whole New Thing.
Judy Collins releases Wildflowers.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending October 14, 1967:
1  THE LETTER – The Box Tops (Mala)
2  NEVER MY LOVE – The Association (Warner Brothers)
3  TO SIR WITH LOVE – Lulu (Epic)
4  LITTLE OLE MAN (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) – Bill Cosby (Warner Brothers)
5  ODE TO BILLIE JOE – Bobbie Gentry (Capitol)
6  (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) HIGHER AND HIGHER – Jackie Wilson (Brunswick)
7  COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP – Bobby Vee and the Strangers (Liberty)
8  HOW CAN I BE SURE – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
9  GIMME LITTLE SIGN – Brenton Wood (Double Shot)
10  SOUL MAN – Sam and Dave (Stax)
11  APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE – Jay and the Techniques (Smash)
12  HEY BABY (They’re Playing Our Song) – The Buckinghams (Columbia)
13  YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (Tamla)
14  DANDELION – The Rolling Stones (London)
15  EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART – The Soul Survivors (Crimson)
16  GET ON UP – The Esquires (Bunky)
17  I DIG ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC – Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Brothers)
18  A NATURAL WOMAN (You Make Me Feel Like) – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
19  YOU KEEP RUNNING AWAY – The Four Tops (Motown)
20  BROWN EYED GIRL – Van Morrison (Bang)

OCTOBER MOVIES
October 13: Reflections In A Golden Eye
October 18: The Jungle Book

October 18: Clambake
October 25: Camelot

October 26: Wait Until Dark
October 31: The Comedians

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From sky-surfing, to off-rail mode Summer of Love beach parties, to time-travel psyide trips, the Psychedelic Train morphs into BatTrain mode and cruises Helloween Town Theme Park.  

TRICK OR TREAT!

“The Psychedelic Train Cruises Helloween Town in BatTrain mode”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train continues crossing over psychedelic sixties landscapes and is headed for two more monthly psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way through Historic Psychedelic 1967!

Next stop, November!

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1967 Archives

January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June . . . July
August . . . September

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . “In The Future The 1960s And The 1970s Will Be Seen As A Mythic Paradise.” – 00individual

“Sittin’ in underwater beach chairs gettin’ high in Paradise mid-70s” copyright 2017 00individual TLL

PARADISE

Paradise was everywhere in the ’60s and the ’70s – every level of society was evolving and no one had the upper hand on what was happening – everyone was on the learning curve, some were ahead, some behind, but there was always the feeling that one was experiencing something very special, undefinable; the Vibe.

On one of many trips with friends up the Pacific Coast during the ’70s to Big Sur, Carmel, and then into Carmel Valley Arroyo Seco – 00individual’s VW camper broke down.  Unbeknownst to them at the time, but after a couple of phone calls and through cosmic synchronicity they found out that a family friend of 00individual’s girlfriend just happened to be house-sitting for a Doctor who was vacationing overseas. Once connected, he welcomed them to stay until the camper was fixed.  The Carmel Valley mansion had panoramic valley view decks, stone fireplaces, horses – a real trippy place to hang out – and just when needed.

Paradise – where even unfortunate occurrences have fortunate outcomes.

This was a clear example of Karma in action, as a few months earlier 00individual and his girlfriend gave their tickets to a Carole “Tapestry” King concert to him and his wife as a way to maybe help soften their upcoming divorce.  This was the cosmic timing of Karma.

And this time it came with an added gift.

The friend told of a way to get back into the Gorge to several Paradise spots.  He said to bypass all of the campsites for the normals, go to the Ranger station, and give them the required licenseplate number, number of people camping, and for how many days, and then they were allowed to go past the “No Passing” sign and travel deep down into the Gorge’s floor where three campsites were.  The pool shown in the above header was at the beach to their surrounded-by-trees campsite and the water continued back through narrow high-walled canals that opened up into another Paradise with a beach, huge pool, waterfall, trees, canyons – it was idyllic. They stayed for a few days in Paradise and then had to head back to the everyday Paradise – a land that held thrills and fun everyday.

On a return trip, the header photo depicts Beau, 00individual’s family dog out of the water after a good swim, he loved the water.  00individual’s on the right with the stoney grin behind a cool drink as they all enjoy the afternoon ritual of floatin’, and sittin’ in underwater beach chairs, soakin’ in the sun, and gettin’ high smokin’ a joint or two while the girlfriends took photos and joined-in later. 00individual’s two other family dogs, Shyloe and Bosco were not “water dogs” and stayed on shore.

While these were exceptions to daily life, it was almost like icing on the cake, as once back to the “city life” it continued to be as magickal as the Gorge, only different.  It was like no matter what the highs or lows or locations were, the sense of magickal times followed one wherever they went.

00individual can testify that there were days, work days, weeks even, that were so filled with the Vibe that he seriously doesn’t remember working, just having fun – now that’s Paradise.

This was a time for living in the now, with the freedom to embrace and enjoy life fully with a focus on exploring one’s mind, body, and individuality.  These were very exciting times, truly historic times, and in some cases, unbelievable times, and are reasons why . . .

in the future the 1960s and the 1970s will be seen as a mythic Paradise.

After a snippet epiphany, 00individual wants to go on record with the following prediction: In the future the 1960s and the 1970s will be seen as a mythic Paradise.

As the entire planet’s civilzations become increasingly insane, the cultural climate of the 1960s and the 1970s become more like Paradise every day.

And that is how it will be seen in the future; those two decades will go down (already have) as ground zero for everything good or bad to date.  However it will also be seen as a time when individuals were able to freely express themselves fully before the insidious socio-political-ly correct clamp-down on free speech and thought that governs societies today.

Farther in the future, the ’60s and the ’70s will become increasingly mythic; reference to a magickal time that maybe never really existed, however, there will always be the mysterious allure of the mythology of Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll – when individuals lived free in Paradise.

So, unless the future goes the way of apocalyptic wastelands and books of historic fact are as Johnny Cash forsees as a possibilty;
“I’m a child of this age Locked into the pages of your book
And when I am but dust and clay And all the children stop to take a look
Will they marvel at the miracles I did perform And the heights I did aspire
Or will they tear out the pages of the book, To light a fire.”

00individual will continue to relate the ’60s and the ’70s Vibe in digital and analog volumes for posterity of a time when the world was magickal, and anything was possible, every minute of every day.

Or he will provide kindling for a future survivalist campfire.  And existentially, he’d be just as honored.

“And in the end”, to paraphrase the Chambers Brothers, not The Beatles:
“I’ve been loved and put aside, I’ve been crushed by the tumbling tide, And my soul has been psychedelicized – But I had my fun.”

It was Paradise; an exciting, thrilling time to be young and free within a still relatively-innocent world – never to be seen or experienced again.  Sadly, 00individual speaks Tribal Truth.

The Vietnam war, assasinations, injustice, and all their collateral damage are duly noted; but however strange it all was, those events took place within an increasingly otherworldly environment – one that allowed the fortunately aware to appreciate the moment in Paradise.

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1960s & 1970s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 1 – 1967, The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 2 – 1968, The Greatest Hits of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – 1970, and the LOSS of INNOCENT POP-ROCK

EXPERIENCE POP-ROCK HISTORY!

If there is one individual who embodies the Spirit and Vibe of the entire ’60’s and ’70’s, it is John Sebastian. His music was embraced by people of all walks of life and was perfect for the mid-’60’s to mid-’70’s Counter-Culture’s mindset and allowed for some of the most consistently sublime uplifting fun and memorable Pop Rock songs that register in the realm of The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

Every one of the songs in bold on these three albums are simply remarkable.  When a group can release two “Best of” albums filled with actual hits, and then release a worthy “Greatest Hits” album – there’s a reason beyond prolific talent – they had “magic” – they created songs that were/are consistently pleasingly infectious. 00individual speaks Tribal Truth, he had all three albums and was under the spell.

John Sebastian went on to historically perform at Woodstock in his signature tie-dyed attire. His songs fit perfectly with the peaceful Vibe.

He opened for the Who at the legendary Anaheim “Leeds/Tommy” concert and enraptured a very acid-soaked and appreciative baseball field full of Rockers.

And he composed and sang the theme song to the wildy popular ’70s John Travolta “Vinnie Barbarino” character-driven TV comedy “Welcome Back, Kotter”.
The series originally was named “Kotter”, but the producers liked Sebastian’s “welcome back to your hometown to do good” version so much that they changed the name of the series to Welcome Back, Kotter.
The song eventually sold over one million copies and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

JBS had the ability to imprint a song and lyrics after only one listening.  That is part of the magic of The Lovin’ Spoonful.

The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 1 – 1967
All songs by John Sebastian unless noted.
John Sebastian – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, autoharp, harmonica
Steve Boone – bass, vocals
Joe Butler – drums, percussion, vocals
Zal Yanovsky – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
1. Do You Believe In Magic? 2:04 2. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? 2:00 3. Butchie’s Tune(Steve Boone) 2:34 4. Jug Band Music 2:49 5. Night Owl Blues (John Sebastian/Zal Yanovsky/Steve Boone/Joe Butler) 3:00 6. You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice (John Sebastian/Steve Boone) 2:29 7. Daydream 2:18 8. Blues In The Bottle (Arranged and adapted by John Sebastian/Zal Yanovsky/Steve Boone/Joe Butler/Stephen Weber/Peter Stampfel) 2:10 9. Didn’t Want To Have To Do It 2:06 10. Wild About My Lovin’ (Arranged and adapted by John Sebastian)2:38 11. Younger Girl 2:23 12. Summer In The City (John Sebastian/Mark Sebastian/ Steve Boone) 2:39

The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 2 – 1968
All songs by John Sebastian unless noted.
John Sebastian – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, autoharp, harmonica
Steve Boone – bass, vocals
Joe Butler – drums, percussion, vocals
Jerry Yester – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
1. Six O’Clock 2:38 2. Darling Be Home Soon 3:32 3. Lovin’ You 2:25 4. Boredom 2:23 5. Full Measure (Sebastian*, S. Boone) 2:40 6. Nashville Cats 2:34 1. She Is Still A Mystery 3:00 2. Rain On The Roof 2:13 3. Old Folks (J. Butler*) 3:04 4. Darlin’ Companion 2:22 5. Money 2:01 6. Younger Generation 2:40

Joe Butler, a drummer with a frontman’s voice, never got his due, he got his chance once Sebastian left, but by then the tide had turned and The Lovin’ Spoonful that was intensely popular with hits to rival Beatle/Beach Boy territory diminished.  None the less, Butler’s voice rises to the top on
“Full Measure”, and with his own composition, the touching, melodic, uplifting, melancholy song,
“Old Folks”.  With soulful harmonica verse echoes, Butler delivers a strong, yet sensitive message that speaks to everyone, eventually.

By the ’60’s decade’s end their music had hit the peak of the feel-good Innocent Pop-Rock of the ’60s and faced the rising serious Singer/Songwriters, Glam, Punk, Disco, New Wave, and Hard Rock movements.  Classic Innocent Pop-Rock had seen its glory days.

The Greatest Hits of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – 1970
Younger Girl  – 2:23 Didn’t Want to Have to Do It  – 2:06 Daydream – 2:18 You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice (John Sebastian/Steve Boone) – 2:29 Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?  – 2:00 Do You Believe in Magic? – 2:04 Summer in the City (John Sebastian/Mark Sebastian/Steve Boone) – 2:39 Rain on the Roof  – 2:13 Six O’Clock  – 2:38 Darling Be Home Soon  – 3:34 “Till I Run with You” (Alan Gordon/Gary Bonner) – 1:52 Never Going Back (John Stewart) – 2:48

Butler again contributes an exquisite, touching, slice-of-life vocal on an exceptional John Stewart song, “Never Going Back”.

THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE
Like the loss of the Lovin’ Spoonful’s uplifting Innocent Pop-Rock, it is sad to see the loss of innocence and the natural growth process that is deprived of today’s youth.
Although the black, white and gray ’50s were slow movin’, and the colorful ’60s and ’70s picked up speed, those environments allowed for information to be acquired while gaining personal experience for the maturation process to allow for a fully-developed human individual.

That is all gone, it is straight to exposure of every facet of the world from the moment of recognition of self.  A social development that is apparently an evolutionary requirement for competition and survival in today’s world.

And while every child that grows up in this world will not know any different of what they will never experience, it will not be them that suffers the loss they never knew, but a horrific loss to those past and present generations who did, who remember when innocence had its place in one’s growth – before it was replaced with insanity unleashed at every level.

. . . if only they knew.

 

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00INDIVIDUAL’S 400TH POST! . . . . . . . . . . . . 1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . HIPPIE BEACH PAD

“Interior of a classic ’60s/’70s Hippie Beach Pad On A Marine-Layered Early Evening”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

1970’s HIPPIE BEACH PAD

A typical hippie pad was any place friends could hang, listen to music, have fun, and get high; this included back rooms or converted garages of understanding parents, dorm rooms, and rentals of apartments, duplexes, guest houses, and suburban houses.  Interior decorating ran from mattresses and big pillows on the floor, to virtual museums of interior design creativity.

00individual has created a nice cross-section of ‘70’s essentials and styles placed within the floorplan of his first rental in 1969-1970; a small beach pad above a garage with an ocean view in the L.A. beach town of Playa Del Rey for $150.00 a month, split three ways with his two friends.

Macramé hanging plants, Lava lamps, Rock posters, beanbag chair, candles, sound system, records, TV, billowed tapestries, black light and black light posters, and the aroma of incense and freshly exhaled weed mixed with the open window’s ocean breeze: the ‘70’s Vibe; have a nice day and night.

Unless the place came furnished most pad’s household items could be found at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales.  Sometimes fully-functional items like refrigerators would be left behind from the previous tenant.  Things seemed to fall into place easily back then.

A fun place to go for furnishings was Pier One Imports; it was not the mall store it is now, back then it was like a very cool super-headshop.  The one near LAX carried a ton of cool exotic items; a lot of Pacific Islander-themed pieces in wood from pipes, ashtrays, bowls, candle holders, and mugs to sculpted masks and figurine/Tiki Gods.  Rattan furniture was a semi-affordable favorite and the hanging concave rattan chair was cool.

The “ubiquitous paisley/Indian tapestries of many uses” were the most popular, as were the intricate-patterned Indian rugs, and if one got hungry while browsing, Pier One Imports had canned Octopus tentacles.  The place was hip and many items found their way into trippy pads across the land.

A much more dedicated effort for furniture acquisition was undertaken by 00individual when he decided to make a Hippie classic – an old ship hatch cover coffee table. He got one from a marine supply near Venice, lugged the beast back to his duplex and poly-urethane-resinated it in the garage.  It turned out very clear and nice and it served as a centerpiece to many a pad, and the header image.

The ‘70’s Hippie Pads of those who preferred cost-efficient furnishings acquired concrete cinder blocks and wood boards for sturdy and cheap shelving. Milk crates made for great stackable shelving that doubled as classic record containers and were very affordable using the five-finger discount.

The ‘70’s Hippie Pads of those who could afford it furnished their environment with futuristic bubble TVs and chairs, atomic lighting fixtures and lamps, wild colored shag rugs, Naugahyde upholstery, and textured wallpaper.  This was the height of the Pop and Mod Psychedelic designs and designers.

And finally there was the whole free unrestricted Bohemian life-style that encompassed ideology, clothing, interior design, and an independent way of life.  The Boho style never left and is one if the classic fashion and life-styles that remain strong.  Every town across the nation has a Bohemian enclave of artists and free spirits.

While some Hippie pads were decked-out with psychedelic flourishes and were overwhelming to the eye and senses, others were just as Spartan – but once settled-in and sharing a joint with your roomie, it didn’t matter, it was home, because Home is in one’s Head, like it always is.

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Celebrate the Height of Psychedelic Culture with the 50th Anniversary of 1967 – featuring SEPTEMBER!

“00individual Celebrates 1967’s 50th Anniversary!” copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!

00individual was among those blessed to be born into this existence during the most concentrated Cultural events of the late ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.  To have been able to experience the slow innocent build of the ’50s as a single-digit Rocker, and of the real-time experience in his teens in the ’60s, and twenties in the ’70s, is an exceptional gift, especially for those who appreciated it then, as now.

September was the end of the Summer Of Love, but for many the Vibe continued to varying degrees up into the early-to-mid ’70s.

Let’s Rock:
Sept. 1 – John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers release “Crusade”.
Sept. 8 – Surveyor 5 launched to land on the Moon.
Sept 10 -Surveyor 5 makes soft landing on Moon. 
Sept. 8 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
Sept. 11 – The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour Bus is driven around England.
Sept. 14 – Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx.
Sept. 15 – The Kinks release “Something Else”.
Sept. 17 – “Mission Impossible” premieres on CBS-TV.
Sept. 18 – The Beach Boys release “Smiley Smile”.
Sept. 25 – The Doors release “Strange Days “.
Sept. 29 – Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead.
Sept. 30 – BBC starts its own popular music radio station (Radio 1).
Sept. – Arlo Guthrie releases the Hippie epic “Alice’s Restaurant”.
Sept. – Van Morrison releases “Blowin’ Your Mind!” with the world-wide monster Brown Eyed Girl. Brown Eyed Girl has been estimated to have been played over 4 million times; one million performances is the equivalent of approximately 50,000 broadcast hours, or more than 5.7 years of continuous airplay!  So 20 to 28 years of continuous airplay, thus far.
Sept. – Chuck Berry releases “Live at Fillmore Auditorium”.
Sept. – Martha and the Vandellas release “M & the V Live!”.
Sept. – Procol Harum release “Procol Harum”.
Sept. – Captain Beefheart releases “Safe as Milk”.
Sept. – Eric Burdon/Animals release “Winds of Change “.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending August 26, 1967:
1  THE LETTER – The Box Tops (Mala)
2  ODE TO BILLIE JOE – Bobbie Gentry (Capitol)
3  COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP – Bobby Vee and the Strangers (Liberty)
4  REFLECTIONS – Diana Ross and the Supremes (Motown)
5  NEVER MY LOVE – The Association (Warner Brothers)
6  APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE – Jay and the Techniques (Smash)
7  (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) HIGHER AND HIGHER – Jackie Wilson (Brunswick)
8  YOU’RE MY EVERYTHING – The Temptations (Gordy)
9  I DIG ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC – Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Brothers)
10 FUNKY BROADWAY – Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)
11 THERE IS A MOUNTAIN – Donovan (Epic)
12 BABY I LOVE YOU – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
13 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN – The Turtles (White Whale)
14 BROWN EYED GIRL – Van Morrison (Bang) with the moster Brown Eyed Girl
15 SAN FRANCISCAN NIGHTS – Eric Burdon and the Animals (MGM)
16 GIMME LITTLE SIGN – Brenton Wood (Double Shot)
17 I HAD A DREAM – Paul Revere and the Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay (Columbia)
18 LITTLE OLE MAN (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) – Bill Cosby (Warner Brothers)
19 GETTIN’ TOGETHER – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
20 TWELVE THIRTY (Young Girls Are Coming To the Canyon) – The Mamas and the Papas (Dunhill)

Movies
This month is dedicated to Arthur Penn – an American director and producer of film, television and theater. Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as the drama The Chase (1966), the biographical crime film Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the comedy based on this month’s Arlo Guthrie album release, Alice’s Restaurant (1969). He also got attention for his revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970).  But it was Bonnie and Clyde that made cinematic history worldwide zeroing in on the reality just below the surface of the cultural zeitgeist. Things were not right, and in some cases the accused were innocents caught in the undertow of the moment during uncertain times.

Bonnie and Clyde went US #1 on August 13, 1967 then reclaimed #1 in its fourth weekend of release, and stayed #1 for the weeks September 3, September 10, September 17, and September 24, 1967 – Bonnie and Clyde owned the Movie Box Office for the full month of September 1967 – and ended the Summer Of Love with a BANG!

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 . . . and speaking of robberies . . .

Back on the rails at the end of the Summer of Love The Psychedelic Train takes a Time Travel Psyde-Trip to late 1800’s London Victorian Steampunk era and then teleports into the late 1800’s American Wild West era, and while still in Steampunk Locomotive mode, emerges right in the middle of a train robbery! 

“The Psychedelic Train Time Travels from London to the Wild West – late 1800s”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train continues crossing over psychedelic sixties landscapes and is headed for three more monthly psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way through Historic Psychedelic 1967!

Next stop, October!

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