Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
Old Hippes Never Die,
they just smell dead ! LOL
I am meeting some youngsters here at RIU, and a few older hippies all the way back from the 60's and 70's.
I'd enjoy hearing from some of the old timers, who were known BACK THEN as FLOWER CHILDREN, OR HEADS, FREAKS, OR HIPPIES. I'd like to share some old stories, first trip, first smoke, first Pop Festival.
Anyone here go to Woodstock? Atlanta Pop Festival?
I am 59 years old, and I went to the Atlanta Pop Festival at age 20 in July 1970. I was a 240 lb redneck football player who often went to the races at that race track looking for a fight. Thats jsut what redneckd did. But at the Festival, I was blown away by seeing all those hippies, laying around screwing, smoking, running around naked. LOVE was what it was all about. I took my first LSD there, Timothy Leary was giving it away free off the back of a pick up truck. It was in liquid in a small one inch tall cup, in about 1/2 tablespoon of orange juice. I 'd never heard of Led Zepplin who played there, they did not have a album out yet. I'd nver heard of Johnny Winter, or SPIRIT, or most of the bands there. Smoked my first joint and hash there too. 6 months later, I weighed 140 lbs. wore bell bottoms ONLY, went 13 years without a hair cut, was called a HEAD or FREAK and I dealt off Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, walking down the sidewalk chanting "grass, hash, LSD" to every one I met. I did Conscientious Objector Counseling and was paid by the Federal Government to do it.
in 1970 to about '73, you could stand on the corner of Peachtree Street and 14th Street to 10th St , the hippie district, and smoke a j in front of the pigs.
You could also openly deal, we were harmless and the cops thought "who cares what they do to each other". We were all freaks, we were all brothers and sisters, no matter if you was gay, black, Mexican, whatever. Everyone was accepted. ANGER and HATE and Prejudice was NOT COOL and you just didn't see it.
Around 73 or 74, the bikers came for the chicks and drugs and money, the militant black brothers came for the same plus to recruit and organize, and with them came coke and heroin , and the "good ole days" of dealing on the streets and smoking at free concerts in the park without hassle were over.
We bought Nichol bags for $5.00, about a matchbox full, and paid $12 to $15 for a lid, three fingers in a baggie, about 3/4 oz, the name LID came from the Prince Albert Tobacco Can size. Almost always what was called DIRT MEXICAN , full of seed, tasted like dirt, compacted, bricked, big stems, not manicured, half buds, half leaves, giant stlaks, males mixed in too. We seldom got quality GOLD BUD, RED BUD, or MICHMICAN OR jAMACIAN. Columbian did not come around until around 1976. You could not give HOME GROWN away for free then. No one wanted it.
ACID was $5, Peoyte $5, Psylisibyn, (pronounced SillySibun, I'm not sure how to spell it) was $5. Hash was $5 a gram. We did drugs but we did not do dope (Coke, Heroin, Meth-Speed, Pills) A lot of heads would not speak to you if you did dope, but we all did drugs. LOL Everything from food, beds, drugs to women were shared by all.
Those were the days!
Was anyone else here, back there then? Let's share some old days and talk.
they just smell dead ! LOL
I am meeting some youngsters here at RIU, and a few older hippies all the way back from the 60's and 70's.
I'd enjoy hearing from some of the old timers, who were known BACK THEN as FLOWER CHILDREN, OR HEADS, FREAKS, OR HIPPIES. I'd like to share some old stories, first trip, first smoke, first Pop Festival.
Anyone here go to Woodstock? Atlanta Pop Festival?
I am 59 years old, and I went to the Atlanta Pop Festival at age 20 in July 1970. I was a 240 lb redneck football player who often went to the races at that race track looking for a fight. Thats jsut what redneckd did. But at the Festival, I was blown away by seeing all those hippies, laying around screwing, smoking, running around naked. LOVE was what it was all about. I took my first LSD there, Timothy Leary was giving it away free off the back of a pick up truck. It was in liquid in a small one inch tall cup, in about 1/2 tablespoon of orange juice. I 'd never heard of Led Zepplin who played there, they did not have a album out yet. I'd nver heard of Johnny Winter, or SPIRIT, or most of the bands there. Smoked my first joint and hash there too. 6 months later, I weighed 140 lbs. wore bell bottoms ONLY, went 13 years without a hair cut, was called a HEAD or FREAK and I dealt off Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, walking down the sidewalk chanting "grass, hash, LSD" to every one I met. I did Conscientious Objector Counseling and was paid by the Federal Government to do it.
in 1970 to about '73, you could stand on the corner of Peachtree Street and 14th Street to 10th St , the hippie district, and smoke a j in front of the pigs.
You could also openly deal, we were harmless and the cops thought "who cares what they do to each other". We were all freaks, we were all brothers and sisters, no matter if you was gay, black, Mexican, whatever. Everyone was accepted. ANGER and HATE and Prejudice was NOT COOL and you just didn't see it.
Around 73 or 74, the bikers came for the chicks and drugs and money, the militant black brothers came for the same plus to recruit and organize, and with them came coke and heroin , and the "good ole days" of dealing on the streets and smoking at free concerts in the park without hassle were over.
We bought Nichol bags for $5.00, about a matchbox full, and paid $12 to $15 for a lid, three fingers in a baggie, about 3/4 oz, the name LID came from the Prince Albert Tobacco Can size. Almost always what was called DIRT MEXICAN , full of seed, tasted like dirt, compacted, bricked, big stems, not manicured, half buds, half leaves, giant stlaks, males mixed in too. We seldom got quality GOLD BUD, RED BUD, or MICHMICAN OR jAMACIAN. Columbian did not come around until around 1976. You could not give HOME GROWN away for free then. No one wanted it.
ACID was $5, Peoyte $5, Psylisibyn, (pronounced SillySibun, I'm not sure how to spell it) was $5. Hash was $5 a gram. We did drugs but we did not do dope (Coke, Heroin, Meth-Speed, Pills) A lot of heads would not speak to you if you did dope, but we all did drugs. LOL Everything from food, beds, drugs to women were shared by all.
Those were the days!
Was anyone else here, back there then? Let's share some old days and talk.
(Still bummed about Joby, always am.)
Aight 
I know that much ^^ 
