Little Hippie Life
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Posters of Haight Ashbury are ‘Leaves in a Disbound Book’
“Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley always claimed that they photocopied that book, they didn’t, they cut it out with a pen knife. So this is not that copy,” Grateful Dead Archivist...
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The First Time The Mainstream Media Wrote About Hippies
We got curious about Dennis McNally’s reference in A Long Strange Trip, to a 1965 series of San Francisco Examiner articles by Michael Fallon. The articles are referenced in almost every major book about...
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Where the Hippies of Haight Drank Coffee – is it Art or Business?
Our series of public library microfiche discoveries continues with Michael Fallon’s San Francisco Examiner series on the hippies of Haight Ashbury. The Blue Unicorn is the central caffeinated meeting space...
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The Hippies vs The Artists in San Francisco’s New Bohemia
It wasn’t until day the third day of Michael Fallon’s 1965 article series for the San Francisco Examiner that hippies made front page news. The story was printed below the fold, but was...
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The Hippie History of Greenwich Village
For the last 42 years, thousands of costumed weirdos have paraded through the bohemian capital of Greenwich Village, New York City – and that’s just what happens on Halloween. We...
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Proto-Hippies and the Introduction of the American Hippie
Here at Little Hippie we’ve been on a mission to dive into the origin story and evolution of the hippie – where did this culture come from, what does it...
