Born in the 50s. Grew up in the 60s.
Love, Peace and Music still works for me.
Fulfilling your groovy needs since '98, Hippies is where Love, Peace and Music still rule. Hippies is a store for dreamers and their dreams. A store for life and all the joys it brings. A store for laughs. A store with memories you've memorized to keep your winters warm are. A store where all that's good gets better. A store for life. A store for love. A store for you. I've been shopping at Hippies for decades. I recently was there for Christmas present shopping because they have groovy stuff, patriotic merchandise and a Veterans and Military Discount. Merchandise selection, customer service and cleanliness was adequate.
Hippies' owners like their Freedom so they have a daily Military and Veterans Discount as a token thank you to Veterans and GIs which provides resource to ensure Veterans (rare 7% of the population) and GIs (rare one-half of one-percent of the population) opportunity to participate in American Dream Veterans' and GIs' sacrifices have made possible for 100% of the population.
The Hippie Movement peaked with the 1967 Summer of Love. As a Hippie myself, my Hippie friends and I read a lot, spent a lot of time learning and sharing our learning. We had container gardens over-flowing with vegetables and flowers and weed, and we brewed our own beers. Some had chickens. We became experts at salvaging and re-purposing. We traded and bartered as we had little cash. We loved classical and jazz music then invented our own blues, folk and rock music. We got around by walking, mountain bikes, our beloved VW "People's Car" buses or little put-put boats we'd salvaged. We were pro-Peace. We put on the holiday parades. We kept our word, oaths and promises. We helped out each other. We Honorably Served in America's Armed Forces where we started the Sir! No Sir! Movement, the GI movement to end the Viet Nam war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64VULejzNhc. We then served on the Boards of Directors of various non-profits we either started or volunteered for. We were Conservationists. We were jacks-of-all-trades and masters of several. We taught at colleges and universities. How the Hippies Saved Physics https://www.hippiessavedphysics.com/. We were whimsical. We had very little debt. We gave ourselves and each other roots to grow and wings to fly. A good legacy for a bunch of bright, fun-loving and underemployed young Hippies.
In the early 1980s, yuppies and their high-end Mercedes and Range Rovers and mountain of debt began to replace the Hippies. By the late 1990's there were only remnants remaining of the Hippie Culture. This Hippies store is a remnant. Another remnant is The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, which I have an original copy of the book, a satirical novel by Cyra McFadden. In 1976, the book's chapters had been serialized in the Marin County alternative weekly newspaper Pacific Sun, as well as the San Francisco Chronicle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th...
The Giger Chronicles, by a different author, picks up where The Serial left off, and satirizes the rise of the yuppies in Marin County, California. scribd.com/document/5710...
No complaints and no regrets
I still believe in chasing dreams and placing bets
But I had learn that all you give is all you get
So give it all you got
I had my share
I drank my fill
And even though I'm satisfied
I'm hungry still
To see what's down another road beyond the hill
And do it all again
So here's to life
And every joy it brings
So here's to life
To dreamers and their dreams
Funny how the time just flies
How love can go from warm hellos
To sad goodbyes
And leave you with the memories you've memorized
To keep your winters warm
For there's no yes in yesterday
And who knows what tomorrow brings or takes away
As long as I'm still in the game
I want to play
For laughs for life for love
So here's to life
And every joy it brings
Here's to life
For dreamers and their dreams
May all your storms be weathered
And all that's good get better
Here's to life
Here's to love
Here's to you
May all your storms be weathered
And all that's good get better
Here's to life
Here's to love
Here's to you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTv3TONfTTQ . . .
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On this day in US history, 5 December 2006, 13 GIs were killed fighting in Iraq during the previous week. read more