Remember what the dormouse said,

This meant with all kinds of ideas and thoughts and experiences. Yes, that included smoking marijuana and tripping, using mind altering drugs. But it also included reading and learning from people all over the planet. And being generally open to new experiences in music, art and living.

Drug use and misuse booklet given out to hippies at the  Community Center .

conscientious guide to drug abuse

The Strip Project can’t ignore the 300 Lb. Dancing Shiva of drug use, so we wish to collect hippie tales of drug culture as popular culture documents. Drug use is a personal decision and is not advocated, but such tales are a vital part of the history of hippies.

OPEN THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION, ALTER YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS

DO YOU HAVE PRINCE ALBERT IN A CAN? THEN YOU’D BETTER LET HIM OUT.

THE PRINCE ALBERT CAN GAVE ONE AN EXCUSE TO HAVE CIGARETTE PAPERS. THE CAN FULL OF MARIJUANA WAS CALLED A LID, STILL THE NAME OF THE BASIC UNIT FOR SELLING GANJA till the 21st century.

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Books of the Hippies

Most hippies read a lot! Science fiction, religion, how to, comics, etc.  Here are books found in many crashpads and homes.

Beat readings

“Americans love non-conformity and often reward it with the metal of honor.”

Grok this in fullness! Share water!

Stranger in a Strange Land.

Robert Heinlein’s religious metaphor.

 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Zap Comix (Number 0) 

  The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between) by The Dalai Lama

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

The Bhagavad Gita

I-Ching

I seem To Be a Verb by Buckminster Fuller

 Howl by Alan Ginsberg

Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World , The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Man and His Symbols, Synchronicity by Carl Jung

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus by Henry Miller

1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell

For myself and many other of counter culture, This book was the only reason I could afford to keep transportation running. I am forever in debt. Zen Dharma meditation beneath. I learned so much beneath the Celestial Omnibus staring up and reading this book.

• Hip Job Co-Op

  My partner & I had a head shop on 10th Ave. around the corner from the Merry Go Round. We called it Hip Job Co-Op. We noticed many folks who hitched to Atlanta & had nowhere to go & were being busted on the strip for loitering. So we offered a hot meal ...

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• Ursula Alexander

  

  Mike Holbrook: I’m just gonna give you some thoughts on Ursula.  We met in 1969. At the time she was ...

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• David Caprita’s Tale leading to Byron

  My name is David Caprita.  I grew up a Navy brat in the Florida panhandle from the early sixties until the late seventies, where I began my radio and music career.  So, for a kid with dreams of being a big city dj and musician growing up on the Redneck Riviera, Atlanta was ...

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• Underground Comics

  Atlanta Hippies loved Underground Comics! Mr. Natural was Keepin’ on Truckin’ everywhere. The Celestial Omnibus sported Mr. Natural. Atlanta also had its own underground comics. Here are the few I have. Anyone have more to share?

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• Chattahoochee River Raft Race

  woodstock-on-the-water-an-oral-history-of-the-ramblin-raft-race

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• Dave Hoffman

  Dave Hoffman writes-

  The photo in Piedmont Park is me, Curtis Winfrey, Stoney Mae (Priscilla Star Hunnicutt) and I think thats Abe aka (Roger Wilson & Edward Brown), behind Curtis.Read more >>

• “…he not busy being born is busy dying…”

  The Great Speckled Bird 5/12/69 vol 2 #9 p11

   “I will secretly accept you,

  And together we’ll fly South.”

   “Leave your stepping stones behind

  There’s something that calls for you.

  Forget the dead you left, they will ...

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• Diamond Lil

  RIP Diamond Lil 8/10/2016 @ 80 ( a secret no longer kept)

   

  

  Coming into Atlanta from small town South Georgia in 1968 I had never met an openly gay person before and was a bit shocked ...

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• Jimi Hendrix Blows Atlanta’s mind

  

  Soft Machine, Amboy Dukes, Vanilla Fudge and Jimi Hendrix Experience’s two shows at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium blew away Atlanta’s collective mind on Saturday August 17, 1968. Have you ever been Experienced? Now we could answer in the ...

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• Harry Demille

  Harry Demille bridges from The Strip community where he worked at the 12th Gate  to the Little Five Points community where he co-founded Wax and  Facts.Read more >>