I WAS a barefoot, flower-in-my-long-hair, psychedelic-wearing, motown-listening-type hippie.

Are we clear? 🙂

The last couple of years we lived in the mountains. We had a few chickens, hunted and fished a lot, but while working for the government.

Yeah . . . me too.

68-70 high school hippie

71-75 USN recruit - Corpsman - Lab Tech

But I love some Jim Croce. Isn't that his era?

I myself lived the 70-74 era in high school.....!974 was the unofficial end of the sixties era......no more Vietnam, etc. and by 75 disco was in. I had friends with older brothers and sisters and I had adopted the music and anti-establishment fervor of sixties but I was pretty harmless until I started driving in 72. By today's standard, we were not too crazy. We thought the Brady Bunch was a government plot for mind control and we formed a fictional organization known as the Anti-McDonalds League and B.U.R.P. (Beer Drinkers United in the Rejection of Plastic (Beer Mugs/Pitchers)).

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In 77, Punk rock and New Wave eventually saved me from the mind numbing disco era of 75-79. Ever try to walk a cop's straight line with platform shoes? Only once.

I was a goof off voted most likely to go nowhere the rest of my life. Who would have figured that I would go to college, become a responsible adult and work my butt off everyday?

We failed to turn back the tide though.....We appealed to the local pubs not to go over to the dark side.......We tried to create an illusion of a popular backlash against plastic......but as it turns out most people didn't care.

None of the available choices apply to me, though...I was hangin' with the not-yet-born/infant/preschool set during that particular span of years.

I can see you were a true hero of the people, Tom......

I once spent an entire weekend not eating grapes. I still can't remember why.

Cesar Chavez?