I was sent to an independent women's college, replete with debutantes from private schools.

The photo in the OP displays the genre of friends I hung with.

Looks like 'em

drugs (in general, given even the strains of cannabis were far less potent, opioids were not yet an issue/heroin was not overwhelmingly prevalent-- yes, some psychoactives, like LSD were in use, but in general less deadly drugs than today).

Ah, I remember those days.

They are my people.

Hell, looking at the photo, I think I slept with a couple of the girls.

They're dressed correctly, but missing the 'enhancements'

Are these real people, or am I missing someone famous in there?

Cannot vouch for its authenticity. No one famous was highlighted.

If not that group of people, one pretty darn close!

lol

they all met up at the same music festival!

But I could be in that pic!

...in front, the guy with glasses and the woman touching him, look like people I used to know quite well, but my memory of them is almost half a century old.

In the back in the middle.

(wink)

dark brown hair down to my waist.

But I was also in college, studying biophysics. My mama always said I was a smart one!



Just looks like a friendly crowd, deb. I figured people in the Lounge would get a kick out of the picture. Turns out quite a few have.

Like I said, looks like a fun crowd.

The guy looks happy. Note: my hair was down past my shoulders and straight and had bangs, too. 😇

you always kept your hands to yourself, right?

Are we sure he isn't a ringer?

So probably not.

the people I hung around with back in the day.

people today have feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and fear. The world is a cruel place now and we were more open, accepting and loving back in the 70s.

So most likely, no.

was aware something was going on but no clue.

Had a ponytail in ‘76 and still have it albeit a bit thinner and gray.
Peace ☮️

We had one in our off-campus single wide.

So I hope not.



(In 1980, my guy friends looked just like that. The women looked a bit different, though.)

Okay, maybe not, I don't remember these folks, but i definitely hung out with groups like this. Usually smaller groups, but parties, yep.

That looks like every Saturday Night Live watch party at our brand new first home! How did you get the picture?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Peter Hinwood.

Even though I had long-ish hair and indulged recreational drugs, I wasn't confident hangin free & loose with a crowd like that. In high school I would have been categorized as a "head" but not a hippie. Academics and sports were much easier for me than social interactions outside my longstanding friends.

I was 13, a nerd, and had no friends.

I was a bit younger than that, but my memory of those times was that they felt happy, liberating, inspired.

Since then, a deliberate effort seems to have been made to disparage those times (which I believe were frightening––but only to authoritarian PTB).

Probably not. I was a glitter boy. I didn't mix with the post-hippie crowd.
We would have been oil & water.

Just kidding. Yeah, most of the people I knew looked pretty much like that.

-- Mal

But late 60's.

Except he just had the fu manchu, not the full beard.

Yea, that looks like my peeps, but where's all the reefer?

I was always hanging out with people older than I was... probably due to being bored with kids my own age.

(Yeah, I started partying kind of early. I quit bourbon when I was 16 because one afternoon I went to a Jr. class party and drank an entire bottle of Jack Black and then drove home and sat with my mother while she was getting ready to go to work at 11 pm. And, as I sat there, I realized something... I was stone sober. I had finished a bottle of bourbon like four-five hours before, and I was sitting there realizing that I felt nothing from it.

That was the day I stopped drinking bourbon.)

Booze and weed are missing however.

There was definitely drugs and alcohol involved, though these were not in evidence in our pix.

even though I was a teenager and enlisted