1960s
Woodstock: What people said the famous music festival was REALLY like (1969)
Woodstock was supposed to be ‘3 days of peace and music’ – but as these stories from right after the concert describe, it didn’t exactly end up that way.
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1970s
Like Hippie Barbie got married: The Sunshine Family wholesome dolls from the ’70s
The Sunshine Family: A wholesome family of back-to-nature dolls. Mommy and daddy and their little baby. Neighborly folks. From the seventies, of course.
1960s
Vintage lava lamps: They’re like wild – way out! (1960s & 1970s)
The ‘in’ gift of the year! Lava lamps are so unusual they defy description! You’ll want several! Beautiful! New! Exotic! Fascinating! Intriguing!
1970s
America gets in the mood: Mood rings seen everywhere as colorful new-age trend of the ’70s captures the minds of millions
Mood rings were incredibly popular pieces of jewelry in the mid-1970s. – call it a colorful fad. So do the rings actually work? What do the mood ring colors mean? Find out here!
1970s
‘I’d like to buy the world a Coke’ TV commercial (1971)
The monumentally-successful ‘I’d like to buy the world a Coke’ ad campaign was heard all over the world back in 1971. See the commercial here!
1960s
Allen Ginsberg and the San Francisco Human Be-In (1967)
The “be-in” was the grandest of all happenings, attracting at least 13,000 of the hip set and perhaps 2,000 spectators. It happened Saturday at the polo field in Golden Gate Park.
1960s
See styles from the soaring ’60s fashion scene
Whether a current fashion is a calico look or a velvet look, a hemline, a shape or a topless swimsuit, it is always a reflection of the tempo of the era which gave it birth.
1970s
The vanning craze and custom paint jobs for vans (1977)
Vanning has become an American craze. Today it means to personalize a common van and build a lifestyle around it. Throngs of Americans are doing it. A key feature of the outing is the mutual admiration of vans and the adorning artwork.
1960s
How Charles Manson rose to be a cult leader (1969)
Slayings suspect, born a social outcast, ‘rose’ to be cult leader By Jerry Cohen, Los Angeles Times Service Trouble came looking for Charles Miller Manson the
1960s
Before the Summer of Love: Hippies invade Haight-Ashbury (1967)
San Francisco braces itself for influx of hippies Editor’s Note — San Francisco has survived the gold rush and the earthquake, now it’s in for
1960s
Janis Joplin changes the blues (1968)
Nothing stays the same for very long — not the world, not the blues, not love, not a petite young Texas girl who had “such a pretty voice,” according to her mother.
1960s
What is a hippie? (1967)
One question is asked more than any other by the people who have “dropped out” on the Haight-Ashbury. It is “What is ‘a hippie?’” And the answer could also be the answer to why they have dropped out.
1960s
Life magazine’s take on UC Berkeley’s Bloody Thursday (1969)
May 15, 1969: “Bloody Thursday” Homecoming Day for the National Guard at Berkeley The nation’s original student battleground, the University of California at Berkeley, once
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