Santa Cruz 60’s Hip History Project
Outline of group discussion at the Blue Sun Restaurant, Boulder Creek, Wed. 11/16/05
Present: Fredwood, Ralph, Leon, Peter & T. Mike
CountyTribes
Aptos: Trout Gulch Rd. T. Mike, Sally, Marcellus & Nancy & John & Brother Lou, home birth of Zumara,
Moon Festivals: A key to Community catharsis and identity imprinting
The moon as feminine, spontaneous, music & dance, the spiritual & psychedelic combined with organic foods and exotic substances, all of it wildly, gloriously, ever unpredictably transformational. Merged with Warmth & the 21st Century Ensemble, college dance classes, Native American drumming, a roaring fire and all night vigils; whole families participated, moms, dads, kids, the neighbors, dogs, and by dawn dozens of sleeping bags under the Apple Trees were dappled with dew as we drummed the moon back into the earth and greeted the sun with a prayer.
Bear Tribe: Sun Bear, sweats & native teachings: Bear Tribe
Ben Lomond:
BridgeMountain:
The Dome on Alba Road: BirthCenter: Raven, Karen Lang, etc.
Boulder Creek:
Max Hartstein’s 21st Century Ensemble in barn
CampJoy
Fred & Roberta McPherson, Lew & Estelle Fine, etc.
Still Point: Jai Fu Tai Chi
Bonny Doon
PacificHigh School on Skyline Blvd.
John “Curly” Lingerman’s Place w/Doon & Zoo who lived in caves
Felton:
Holiday Cabins/Commune—burned down & Bulldozed by locals
Pat Bisconte & Family in Zayante
Oganookie Music Commune
Davenport:
Last Chance Road:
La SelvaBeach:
The Flower Barn Commune: Leon & ? Tabory. Bob. Tofu. Emily. Babies being born; pot being processed & sold, peyote & acid distribution hub
Santa Cruz:
Ralph & Caroline Abraham’s notorious house of love & transformations, where Chaos theory was truly born!
Hip Pocket Book Store: Peter Demma, 3 ½ years.
Conflict over Ron Boise sculptures & Leon Tabory’s Free Speech Night (modeled after San Francisco happenings).
Ken Kesey, Neil Cassidy & The Merry Prankster’s footprints
Tom Scribner & The Redwood Rip-Saw (IWW) & Musical Saw
Bought by Ron Lau, sold to a co-op run by Patty & Al Deludavicho, sold to Neil Coonerty, Book Shop Santa Cruz.
Odyssey Record Store: Lew Fine’s Astrology & Metaphysical Books niche
Dr. Miller’s Building: Birth Center & Dr. Peter Nash
William James Foundation: PennyUniversity at
Café Pergalisi behind Book Shop Santa Cruz
Free Spaghetti Dinner and The Sun Newspaper:
Spinny Walker, Bruce Kleinstein, JayShore,
KUSP-FM—David Freedman, Engineer
Staff of Life Bakery
1st Organic Food Co-Op on Soquel Drive near 7th Ave.
The Crepe Place
KUUMBWAJazzCenter—Sheila Burns, Tim Jackson & Rich ?
Soquel:
Webb’s Organic Farm,
Greg Wells the Honey man,
Staircase Theatre
Watsonville:
Mount Madonna: Hari Das Baba
UFW Organizing with Cesar Chavez
Theatro Camposino with Corky Gonzales
The Barn in Scott’s Valley: Leo Tabory
Long Hairs attacked, beaten & shot at in SL Valley
The Cooper House Music Scene:
Warmth: Don McCaslin
UCSC:
Paul Lee, Fred McPherson & Ralph Abraham
John Grinder & Richard Bandler
Batish Senior (singer), Linda Burmen-Hall
Chadwick’s Garden.
Earth Day Disaster: the firing of scapegoats & trashing of the History of Consciousness Program. (Acid involved? Nudity? Fred & Paul Lee to narrate?)
Poet William Everson at Kresge’s Dome.
CabrilloCollege:
T. Mike Walker,
Poet Mort Marcus, Dancer Tandy Beal,
Jazz Musician Ray Brown—Aptos Jazz Band, Cabrillo Jazz Band
Defining Moment Story: De La Vega Park Free Concert, several bands, jugs of apple cider heavily dosed with LSD were passed through the crowd and 1,000 people were ripped at once—including a herd of wild bikers on Harley’s. Several people passed out from the acid and the heat. Ambulances had trouble getting in and called the cops, who came in force complete in riot gear. One of the bikers threw a bottle at them and the battle was on. Men, women and children, stoned out of their minds, ran for their lives. One member of our band had parked his van outside the park far away from the police line, and he ten or twelve of us to safety and drove us out the back way looping back into Soquel and then down to Aptos where we collapsed at Nirvana, my farm. Expand.
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