Category Archives: 60s

THE INHALE OF WEED by Peter Nolan Smith

February 10, 2018 – 9:43 am

Marijuana was demonized throughout my youth. The Boston police treated reefer smokers as harshly as junkies. John Sinclair, the MC5’s radical spokesperson, was sentenced to ten years of prison for the crime of ‘giving’ an undercover agent two joints. The severity of his punishment did not deter the millions of marijuana smokers of the 60s […]

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Now More Than Ever

January 15, 2018 – 1:02 pm
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WILD IN THE STREETS

August 2, 2017 – 2:41 am

1968 was a time of revolution in Paris, Mexico, Chicago, Saigon, Prague. Most were put down bloodily by the forces of repression. The young attacking the young at the behest of the over-30s. A young writer Robert Thom wrote a short story WILD IN THE STREETS and Hollywood capitalized on its call to trust no […]

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Faster Than Light Beauty

July 28, 2017 – 2:05 pm

I wish for a time machine to take me back to London. 1968. Francoise Hardy on a motorbike. I would have had a lot of competition and even though I would have only been sixteen, a good time would have been had by all who want to be friends. Je l’adore. In 1968 through eternity […]

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YOU BET I COULD Uschi Obermaier

July 28, 2017 – 9:00 am

Several years ago Duncan Hannah posted this black and white photo of Uschi Obermaier. I was struck by her free beauty and the fact that I had never heard of the 1960s icon. In an article from the Independent Uschi railed against working-class Munich and said, “I used to wish for a plane crash, just […]

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