Old Hippies Do Too Fade Away

Authentic 60s-Era
HIPPIE JACKET & Literature
Auction by Chance or Appointment
Bidding to start at 9.99 + 16.75 postage

Here's Johnny's authentic 60s-era hippie jacket. It's a small, the zipper's broken, it's WAY broken-in. It's been patched and patched and patched some more with a variety of materials and big clunky stitching by Kooker herself. It's festooned with pins and buttons and sports an original ACID LOVE patch on the shoulder:




It was worn and decorated well into the 80s, when the rampant consumption of BEER
rendered the jacket too small



Here's a depiction of the Kookers, added in the mid-80s:



We're offering this item due to the interest of a gentleman from Switzerland, who sent us the following:

Can I exceptionally put a bid from Switzerland? I would pay

fast with Paypal and check my feedbacks too, Because this would be the ultimate item for

Europes largest and 100 percent non commercial collection of rough vintage or vintage styled

denim rag items.
Thanks for any answer and have a nice day.

Ruedi Karrer:

I explained that we only ship to the United States but I thought to include a shout-out to his company:

Rodolfos Jeans Extreme Collection, Europes craziest collection (since 1973).
Ruedi Karrer, Wibichstr. 90, 8037 Zuerich, Switzerland, rkarrer@access.ch,
Over 8000 items from Rockers, punks, cowboys and adds, books, and so on
Real worst condition vintage denim rag items wanted, no matter how rusty, stained, with holes,...(no children sizes).
Museum planned.
Homepage:
jeansmuseum.org
(german version only, english version follows later)
Ph. 0041-43/259 31 41

Anyone from Switzerland or anywhere else is welcome to bid on this item, but you'll need to provide a valid United States shipping address and you'll need to pay by PayPal.

Here's a book from the pocket, you can have it too:







"From the pagan depths of Frisco's Bohmenian bars to the dizzying heights of the sno-capped

Seirras . . .

THE DHARMA BUMS
This is the story of two sensation-seeking hipsters and their jet-probelled search for

Experience.
Here are their 'yabyum" sexual orgies . . . their marathin wine-drinking

binges . . . their wild skyrocketing poetry-jazz bouts -- as only Jack Kerouac, the author

of ON THE ROAD, can reveal them."
It's in sad but beautiful shape, just like the jacket.
Take these three books too, for education/orientation:


THE MAKING OF A COUNTERCULTURE by Theodore Roszac
This book is by far the most seminal book one can read in attempting to get an accurate and unvarnished understanding of the sixties counterculture; the social and historical reasons for its rise, its intellectual underpinnings, and the way in which its actions were informed and indeed propelled by its unique constellation of integrating values
into a cultural

ethos.

Recently the counterculture has been viciously attacked, intellectually trashed and

intentionally trivialized by a series of books and articles by mainstream neoconservatives

who wish to discredit the counterculture once and for all by blaming it and the

"permissiveness" it spawned for the manifest ills the mainstream society has actually

engendered through the evolution of its own corrupted, nonrepresentative, and nondemocratic

political process. Many ignorant youthful authors have succumbed to attributing fallacious

ideas and notions of this ethos in a way that is not only inaccurate and disingenuous, but

which serves to trivialize the quite serious cultural critique it comprised.



All that is set aside here. Remember, this book was written more than 30 years ago, even as

the counterculture was rising, so it is very much a observational history, one done at

ground zero of the demonstrations, sit-ins, when the tumult and strident calls for radical

new solutions rang clear, and the heady air of nascent social and intellectual revolution

was in the air.



Here one finds the counterculture placed in its proper context, and not just discussed 'en

passant' as the demonized triage of sex, drugs, and rock and roll'. One can hardly

understand the sixties in such simplistic terms, and Roszak helps one to understand the

complex welter of social, economic, and political factors that led to its emergence. In its

essence the counterculture was a social and political reaction to the hypocrisy of the

mainstream materialistic culture from which it sprang, and as sociologist Philp Slater has

commented elsewhere, most of the individual elements of the value system of the

counterculture stem from values the mainstream culture in fact claims to hold but actually

does not practice and employ.



This, then, is book with remarkable insight, perspective, and historical verve. Rosazak

nails quite accurately the tensions, problems and contradictions associated with the rise of

the counterculture and the innate problems its continued existence eventually portended for

the materialistic mainstream culture. Of course, as history shows us, the sixties ethos was

flattened by the overwhelming onslaught of the establishment and the Ohio National Guard,

and the political and social ethos of the counterculture melded into the domain of

increasingly isolated private and personal philosphies of hippies being assimilated into the

mainstream.



The fact that its ethos is now blamed for much of the discontent and confusion of

contemporary America is a likely result of what happens when one tries to merge antagonistic

ideas and notions into a
cultural system that is inconsistent with its own.
This is

a wonderful book, and one needs to read before the victors of those fractious times so

revise the official version of the history of the 1960s that those of us who were there will

no longer recognize it. -- Review Courtesy "Labradorman"


THE SENSE OF THE SIXTIES edited by Howard Quinn & Paul Dolan

"Tightly focused political analysis composed of dense yet lucid sentences next to the

hectic,
novelistic writing of New Journalists." -- Chris Warnick


TARANTULA by Bob Dylan

"Possibly the worst book ever written. Self indulgent free associative codswallop from the

days when you could get away with it because your readers were stoned." -- Amazon.com review



Take 'em all by chance or appointment! Interested buyers should leave a comment and we'll

then run an eBay auction. Bidding to start




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