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i, '■! >■ I "If You’re Going to San Francisco Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair" . — . rn Miciiino-nrnihaWv every- 3cid. Once I was aware of what thej by Elizabeth Sheehy The father was pushing probably every- Over Jan Term I had the pleasure of my journal in my hand taking notes thing they owned in the world m a shop thinking if only I had the courage to go pj^g cart and the mother was pulling the up to them and ask them what it was two kids in a little red wagon. That was like living here in the 60's and 70's (but one thing I found surprising, the number of course I didn't. of flower children with the new genera- We drive by what I now know is the tion of flower children. Another interst- Panhandle of the Golden Gate Park jng person we saw was two guys sitting and you know you are coming^ipjo it r'oit-the^idewalk with a variety of knick going to San Francisco and doing re search on a topic of particular interest to me: the Haight Ashbury during the 1960's. Another point of interest about my research was my uncle's insistance that 1 visit the Haight one day by myself. Well 1 don't feel like a country bumpkin but I have lived in the huge metropolis of Winston Salem for the last eight years. So this becomes a major bone of conten tion. I've promised my mother I won't go into the dty by myself no matter how much they pressure me to. Sol recruit this friend's son to meet me at the train station and take me down to the Haight for the day. Here begins my first real independ ent experience into the Haight, which at this point was only a image in my mind from the druggie books I've been read ing. I'm a nervous wreck because I've never been on a train before let alone by myself. As I'm sitting out in the cold- yes- it is cold in Northern California in January, anyway I'm sitting there study ing the schedule and I'm listening to these people behind me talking. 1 had noticed them earlier because they looked like homeless people. They are talking about the Zepelin concert in 1974 and Altamont and a variety of other events that 1 had only read about. I'm holding because Psychadelic paiiUgd^rs and vans are lined up again^tme road. The park is filled with zfrople that look homeless to the ^ymen. However most of them are relics of the 60's. I said to Blake "» 1 had any courage I would jump out of the car and go and talk to them."/He said "don't!" AjV parently there is a real diverse grojj^p of people still living in the Haight you shouldn't ralk to any of the j The people tha\ looked like, pies were of parnpilar int^st to me, can't imagine why'v^ny^y there was one guy walking aroitn^withan imagi nary guitar stopping and singing a few songs then continuing^rH.-Eyem tually a cop stopped him and told him to stop panhandling. Actually that seemed to be the most common type of job for the people we saw. Nearly everyone that looked like a hippie was sitting on the sidewalk begging for money, or playing a guitar, harmon ica... for money. There was one group that was interesting because it was a mother and father and two children. mi knacks'lbn^le on a piece of felt cloth. I noticed wbrnWe walked by him the first time he was scMMredibly stoned out of his mind he was ^ring at his hand as if he'd never seen it before. As we were walking back down the street we passed him as two undercover cops were bust- g him and doing a| body search for other important mention aboijt the people there many of them live street. /As we were leaving it was abdut 6:30 it was getting dark and many ^h^ were pulling out their ! sleeping bag?md pillows out of their j cars and^tting up camp for the night. jJrebabTy the most interesting thing that happened while I was visiting the Haight was the drug dealers walking along the street. These men walk up and down mumbling nothing imparticular, or so I thought. As we walked by these men Blake would say "did you hear that?" Well as far as my virgin ears were con cerned all I had heard was some mum bling. Blake explained they were saying "buds,doses" which is pot and were saying I started noticing a bund of people saying it. I probably luj drugs offered to me fifteen times ova thecourseofmyaftemoonattheHaiglit Another interesting aspect of tht Haight were the head shops, at leasi that's what I called them. Blake hadna idea what I was talking about becauss they are now called pipe shops, Wei how was I supposed to know that Everything I had been reading called them head shops, of course up to this point everything I had read was written in 1970. So needless to say the tern "head shop" was a bit dated. Anyway these pipe shops were beautiful. They were full of Grateful Dead memorabi and the mostincrediblepipes and bongs There are also signs all over the estab lishment that say " our pipes are foi tobacco use only, if we hear you men tion them in association with any illegal substance you will be asked to leave immediately and permanently." 01 course, I was oblivious to the huge sign and said "wow if only I smoked pot" and yes we were asked to leave thal particular pipe shop. I thought aboul getting a pipe just for souvenir pur poses but being the paranoid person that I am I was scared that I would get busted flying over the Bible Belt and be arrested for drug paraphanalia. So 1 didn't buy one but I wish I had. t i Brc wil the aui nof fro Nc mg Sal Ac W( frc be In "Mom's" House There Are Mani/ Mansions by Dawn M. Darby There has been, in the past couple of months, a questioning of the concepts apparently forgot that a seemingly nnales or females and fight for behind many national feminist basic struggle, like equal treatment, on y^'^^^ghts, by any means appropriate to movement(s). 1 use the plural form as- the work force for them meant that the particular struggle. Let us realize that suming that there is a basic understand- middle and lower class factory women struggles however, can no lor^r be ing among our readers that the feminist workers were overworked, underpaid ^^beled as women's movements'^inamust and unappreciated. Therefore a divi- carefully be labeled feminist movements Sion ultimately came as a direct result because in actuality it is very ylifficult to of these actions that were makingThrx ^‘8^^ womenJstjquaHtyv^hqi there is lower-class women feel that tlyfS’con- \ ®bll uncertainty as to whetherS\not all ^ms were being overlooked. Natu- ) are bejfig considered equal. A per- ^"y, sub-movements began to form./ example is the breakdown ofVace movement has evolved into various sub movements ranging across regional, class, and religious interests (to name but a few). It also should be^iy apparent,in many lights, JhaT^withi: these interests groups, ^ruggles have taken on very strong/personal mean- Th^ divisions were necessary, aj/ i^equaliti^. White males and inp. They have henc^ strayed from the though the effectiveness of them o^ly females respectively earn higher sail classjvorkers, male and female, j(|ined ®rid male cbunterpart's salaries i4spec- togejher in unions to make condWons ^ ^ of initial, underlying, ^ommon meaning cameaboutwhenthelowerandmuidle ^ dating back to the early 1800's which was the struggle foi\ the inclusion of white women of all closes, as citizens, in direct response to tne granting of suffrage to black males as inteqjret the 15th Amendment. What ultimately has happened are struggles ,particularly among classes ,for "equal treatment". These "rallies"of sorts, are having an adverse influence of also categorizing housework ines try than their black f^ale -Soh^isitpossibl^fof^abfack o work force better. ^ female to fightlor>Wg1^ alone side Now of course I'm mixing labor white women who are making more historv with wompn'c Kiicf/-.,.,." l—W. than thorn 0,^.4 1.1 .-_ui , , ° wuh women's history" bmdt ^^an them and their black male counter- is imp/^t to understand that hW- parts who may be therefore considered a days^th^ajonty of women w^in bttle lower on the hierarchical scale ? Of som^sp^t to which can be classified ‘^o^^se it is not necessarily a barrier how- as labor and there is a wide acceptance ®ver it has the potential to pose threats sorts, are naving an aaverse imiuence of also categorizing housework as a resentment, and/or hindr^re« tn ' among women in the work force, for highly respectable job. (after all, who "’ovement.Nowofcourseeventlli example. So adverse that the demands wants to explain to a mother that her ^ay find yourself on the from say, the upper-class working workisn'fafull-timejob?)ThepoinfIt '^hifeHouseequiDoed withS ^ woman appears at the opposite end of is no longer in the best interest of Peace song but doi^^ thespectrumfromthemiddleandlower- women to join together and fight na- ‘‘Surely topics like aborftonK‘”u^'^‘* class working woman. And because the tional causes because their local level which draw aas&wuriuiigwuuuiii./Miuuw.cius^uie '-‘•uses oecause their local level ^any men as wompn struggle leaders and chief participants concerns most likely will be sacrificed ‘s something that vn„ ™^®'^'birelly „„nK„ datmg be- The key: Find oul your own stnieglei own p^naU„S.Sr ■s to the 1%0-s, they ond those with like straggles whSter "“"‘‘GodtotbothaShU^ro'JiS! were upper-class tween the 1916' struggles because they could veiy wel end up causing you slight embarrass ment especially if people begin to asso ciate you with persons who seemingly have contradicted themselves in front of God and wo(m)an. Or maybe they just have "forgotten to include vital information about their lifestyles which may suggest that they have, heaven forbid, conformed to the natural or unnatural ways of life, (i.e., the presi dent of NOW 'coming out of the closef so to speak or Mrs. Jane Fonda Turner leaving a long successful career to take care of 'Teddy'! Or what about the "mydhs" that in order to be a feminist* you are either homosexual men or les bian women?) A more appropriate struggle might be for fair treatment for all. Another alternative may be to work with move ments that simultaneously work to wards equal rights for all like civil rights movements.(hint hint) But please re search organizations as well as their affiliates carefully before you send m that membership check.You could even set up your own personal movements with supporters and go for what ys know! These are not "new" they are worthreconsideimg and thi matelyredefining. women. But be weary of equal treatment
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