I don’t know what you mean by “many”, but long hair isn’t “in” right now. Here in Texas, I hardly see any men with long hair. The occasional old-school biker and a few left-over mullets, but it’s not that common a sight, especially among rednecks. ZZ Top look-a-likes are not in abundance anywhere I’ve lived for the past few years. Where are you seeing all these long-haired good-ol-boys?
Cocaine is Schedule II if memory serves, along with pharmaceutical amphetamine-type stimulants, and most if not all of the stronger single-ingredient opioid preparations.
I worked at Lorimar Telepictures for about a year, back around 1989, and I remember the subject came up when one or two office neighbors left to work for Disney. I could never comprehend how the goatee worn by “The Dizz” was practically a personal trademark, yet the same choice wasn’t allowed for his workers. Highly hypocritical!
Mostly very conservative?
While it’s probably true outside the city of L.A. and a few of the important suburbs, the city is such a major population center that I don’t think you can say the whole region is particularly conservative.
As for the region’s second city, San Diego has always leaned notably more to the right politically, but living there in the late 1970s I saw little if any evidence that it was any more conservative than L.A. on a cultural or lifestyle level.
Southern California is conservative only in much the same way that the entire country votes overwhelmingly Republican, which is basically true in strictly geographic terms, square mile by square mile.
Well I moved to SoCal as a kid and lived there for half my life, it’s a very conservative area. When you speak about hassling Hippies, take Black folks out of the equation. Not because they aren’t conservative in a traditional way, but because they aren’t particularly inclined to persecute counterculture types (in my experience). Also take Mexican-Americans and Mexican Immigrants out of the picture. Again, for the same reason as Blacks. That’s a big chunk of SoCal population.
What’s left over? Well, mixed in with the hipsters and college students, you have a ton of blue collar workers, retired and active military, the working wealthy and small business owners. Voting patterns or your impressions from election night exit polls may not draw a clear picture of the actual social demographics of most of SoCal, including L.A. and San Diego. I stand behind my assessment of substantial numbers of Conservative residents inhabiting SoCal, in the 60s and presently. I wish it were otherwise.
I’m guessing no one here as read “First Blood,” the basis for the first Rambo movie. The book was based on two actual incidents reported in newspapers during the 70s; one was a “hippie” who was bathed with a firehose and forcibly shaved and had his hair cut off after being picked up hitchhiking thru town and dumped at the city limits.
(Yep, the other was an unstable Green Beret/Viet Nam vet charged with vagrancy who assaulted local police, escaped into the woods and evaded police and FBI for a year.)
We were calling ourselves Freaks in the late '60s. “Hippie” is what other people called us. We smoked dope or grass; poseurs called it pot. Things weren’t groovy but they could be “heavy” as in really important. We were clean. We were politically active, tripped, and talked about Spaceship Earth. We had circle dances at rallies. My husband’s hair was half-way down his back and I had a bowl cut that never laid right because my hair’s naturally curly. He got the wolf whistles from passing cars. In '69 a bunch of us stopped at Denney’s before leaving D.C. Even though we were sitting in booths we were completely ignored. Finally it dawned on us we were “being discriminated against.” Since our eyes were still burning from getting pepper sprayed at the March on Washington, and feelings were running high in the city at the time, we decided it was not a battle we needed to pick and so just left.
Everybody wore bellbottoms and nobody wore go-go boots. But the guy who’d brought along a gas mask had the right idea.
Not sure what your point is … that was a quote from** tomndebb** … you should direct your comments to tomndebb.
Disney did not wear a goatee. He had a (carefully groomed) mustache, and that’s it. No beard in any form. The stache thinned and thickened over the course of his career, but was never accompanied by any sort of chin hair, any more than it was removed.
Where is it that you think all the votes for all the Democrats that California returns to Congress and the State Assembly come from then? Maybe the little bit of So. Cal. where you lived happened to be conservative, some bits are, but much of it isn’t (not by American standards of “conservative” anyway). Populationwize, most of it isn’t. (I lived in So. Cal. for 20 years myself.)
The last time I worked at Disneyland (1978 maybe?) the bit that cracked me up was that if you worked in the Wild West show where they had gunfights in the street, you had to be clean shaven and get your moustache applied by the makeup department. You could NOT have an actual moustache.
Yeah, I was wondering who the heck Dizz was with that reply. I even googled Disney relatives.
Well you’d walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road.
And you’d feel the eyes upon you, as you’re shaking off the cold.
Sometimes you can hear them talk. Other times you can’t.
With that same old cliché: is that a woman or a man?