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 […]
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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. […]
Oral History of Boulder interview with Dr. McFarland in 1986
Dr. McFarland People my age and older were raised to be economical because we were all affected by 1929 and ’39, and then there came along a group of people who believed there was going to be ever-expanding prosperity. They are roughly the age of what are called the Baby Boomers, born between 1940 and […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with Walter Orr Roberts in 1986
Walter Orr Roberts Mr. Roberts, what changes occurred in the ‘60s that brought about the funding and support for the creation of NCAR? And what was there about Boulder that led to NCAR choosing to locate here? The story of science here in Boulder, and in Colorado in general, goes back, way back, to when […]
Oral History of Boulder in the 1960s interview with Mark Weiss in 1985 (Carnival Cafe)
The Carnival Café I (S.Byron Gassaway) worked at the Carnival Café in the early ‘70s as a dish washer and food prep person. It was located at the former site of The Little Kitchen, a restaurant that had served sandwiches to businessmen from the banks and stores downtown. The Little Kitchen was from an era […]
Oral History of Boulder interview with Phil Dubitsky in 1985
Phil Dubitsky Boulder had a variety of reputations which attracted my friends and I in the summer of 1970. There was the allure of the Rocky Mountains, lenient street life and a secretive government-affiliated university and the radical student movement which flourished because of this affiliation. My college friend, Bob, and I hitchhiked here after […]
An Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with a drug dealer who preferred to remain anonymous
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Ken Kesey called LSD a “gift of the gods.” Psychedelics were as much a part of the Boulder scene in the ‘60s and ‘70s as head shops and eight track tape players. A Separate Reality written by Carlos Castenada was one of the most widely read books by students […]
An Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s and ’70s interview with Bob Miller
This interview is one of many that I recorded as part of my never published book which took place in 1985. I donated the cassette tapes of the interviews to the Boulder Carnegie Library in 1986. — S. Byron Gassaway Bob Miller A couple of things in the ‘60s were very stunning to me. The […]
An Oral History of Boulder interview with Kathy Snow in 1985
Kathy Snow I met Kathy Snow at New Horizons, a preschool that was started after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated and set up as a cooperative venture. The school was created to teach non-violence and non-racism. Three of my own children attended New Horizons, where many of the ideals of the ‘60s were being […]
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