A Street Dealer There was a tremendous demand for drugs in the ‘60s, and the street dealers addressed that demand and filled a vacuum in the market. It was a high-risk business with small profit margins. Students at the University of Colorado and Boulder High School were some of their major customers. The person in […]
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Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s: Email from Andy McWilliams in regards to STP Family sent to me in 2016
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with Ken McKenna in 1985
Ken McKenna I’ve been told that you were on The Hill during the infamous riot. What do you remember about the riot? It was more of a drunken brawl than a political protest. It was more of a conflict between the cops and the street people. It was propagated because they closed the bars down […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s — Naropa Institute and the Early Buddhist Community recalled by anonymous LSD dealer from Bay Area in 1985 interview
Naropa Institute and the Early Buddhist Community This interview is with a person who inadvertantly came to Boulder from Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. A woman who belonged to the STP Family who was hitchhiking through Wyoming led him to Boulder. Then, almost by accident, he ended up in the Buddhist community. The evolution in this […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s: Interview with City Councilwoman Gwen Dooley in 1985
Interview with Gwen Dooley Gwen Dooley was on the Boulder City Council and was a people’s candidate in the finest sense. She represented the people in their fight to keep Boulder from being altered in a negative way by developers and a new transient, but well-to-do class of people who were buying up older homes […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with Steve Miles in 1985
Steve Miles I was born in Boulder on November 7, 1948. I went through Sacred Heart School in 1963 and graduated in 1966. In 1967 I sort of went to college and started in with the hip scene and then dropped out. I was busted in Boulder in 1967. It was one of the […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with Clancy Sheehy (owner of Clancy’s Bookstore on University Hill)
Brillig Bookworks Clancy Sheehy owned the Brillig Bookworks on the Hill. The Hill was the site of the infamous riot and open drug dealing. But being just across Broadway from the campus, it was also the center of a lot of student activity. Clancy’s bookstore was focal point for a lot of the intellectual discussion […]
Oral History of Boulder in the 1960’s – interview with J. B. Schooland in 1985
J. B. Schooland J.B. Schooland was an emeritus professor at CU, Boulder, as well as the author of several books on the history of Boulder. Among his civic accomplishments, he was instrumental in getting the train put in Central Park on Broadway and Canyon Blvd in Boulder. In 1986 he sold his home and […]
Oral History of Boulder in the Sixties interview with Karen in 1985
Two Classes of Hippies Emerge Social change of the kind that occurred in the ‘60s, in particular the hippie phenomena, began in the middle and upper-middle classes. The working class, at least in the mid-sixties, still dressed and acted the way adolescents did in the ‘50s. For the working class, greased-back hair on boys and […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s inteview with Mayor Ruth Correl in 1986
Mayor Ruth Correll Ruth Correl was mayor of Boulder in the first half o the decade of the ‘80s and had been outspoken on behalf of peace and anti-nuclear issues. After I interviewed Ms. Correl she flew to the Soviet Union as a delegate to the World Congress of Women, which was held in Moscow. […]
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