Hippy vs Protester

Let’s get something straight

By Ed Rogers

Reading Chuck Smythe’s story “A Creek Runs through It” the other day brought back to mind the misconception that we were all hippies back in the sixties. We had long hair and dressed the same as the hippies, and smoked the same weed and listened to the same music as the hippies. However, we were as different as night and day.

Boldt Words & Images:A bit of personal history

The trippy, inauguratory poster for the erstwhile
Electric Theater, Aaron Russo’s psychedelic club
on N. Clark St. (Chicago 1968). Artist unknown

Or how I got this way

By Bob Boldt

“The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.” –Robert Burns

Aaron Russo, the impresario of the Electric Theater, the 60’s psychedelic night club, bottomed out financially when the planned opening week in April 1968 was severely hampered by a curfew due to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that same week. The club limped on under its new name, Kinetic Playground, but finally closed in 1969 due to fire. The Playground had a six-month resurgence minus the famous light show until the sheet was finally pulled over its face in 1973.