A local Boomer meetup group hosted a movie night last night. (One gal has a home theater..with theater seating and a large screen. Very nice.) The the first move we watched was 'Hair'.
I had never seen it before, some others in the group had.
As I was watching, I was having flashbacks to that era.
It was funny to hear the comments from this group of Boomers, as we were enjoying pizza, wine, and beer during the "intermission," talking about our own "hippie" generation, through the eyes of adults 50 years senior.
Mind you...many in this group had traveled to D.C. as war protestors back in the day, claimed to have been hippies back then, still are quite liberal in their viewpoints, etc.
I was hearing comments like.."I used to think hippies were just cool peace-loving folk...now I see that they were panhandlers wearing dirty clothes rather than working to earn their keep"..."they were party crashers" (in the movie they attended a ritzy party uninvited and wouldn't leave until the cops came and arrested them)...."free love was them sleeping around, getting pregnant not knowing who the father was"..."heck, many going to the peace rallies were just looking to meet someone of the opposite sex", etc.
Were you a hippie? peacenik?
And, what are your thoughts, looking back through mature eyes?
Me? I was working (20 hrs/wk during school, 40 hrs/wk over holidays/vacations) while putting myself through engineering school while living at home with very domineering parents. So, no, I wasn't a hippie. Heck, I couldn't even dress like a hippie or college student, since my office job required wearing office attire (which was skirts/dresses). I did have waist-length hair...which as it's naturally straight did not need to be ironed, like some others had to do to get the desired straight hair of the era.
omni
I had never seen it before, some others in the group had.
As I was watching, I was having flashbacks to that era.
It was funny to hear the comments from this group of Boomers, as we were enjoying pizza, wine, and beer during the "intermission," talking about our own "hippie" generation, through the eyes of adults 50 years senior.
Mind you...many in this group had traveled to D.C. as war protestors back in the day, claimed to have been hippies back then, still are quite liberal in their viewpoints, etc.
I was hearing comments like.."I used to think hippies were just cool peace-loving folk...now I see that they were panhandlers wearing dirty clothes rather than working to earn their keep"..."they were party crashers" (in the movie they attended a ritzy party uninvited and wouldn't leave until the cops came and arrested them)...."free love was them sleeping around, getting pregnant not knowing who the father was"..."heck, many going to the peace rallies were just looking to meet someone of the opposite sex", etc.
Were you a hippie? peacenik?
And, what are your thoughts, looking back through mature eyes?
Me? I was working (20 hrs/wk during school, 40 hrs/wk over holidays/vacations) while putting myself through engineering school while living at home with very domineering parents. So, no, I wasn't a hippie. Heck, I couldn't even dress like a hippie or college student, since my office job required wearing office attire (which was skirts/dresses). I did have waist-length hair...which as it's naturally straight did not need to be ironed, like some others had to do to get the desired straight hair of the era.
omni
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