Tag: Timothy Leary

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 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 […]