Trip into the Sixties
I finally finished this thing recently, still part of my Read Your Own Books project, and right after I did, I wondered why I didn’t just finish it all the way through right away. It was a regular Wednesday morning. I was sitting on a sidewalk ledge before a yellow wall painted with red flowers, occasionally taking a sip of my favorite hot Kopi which I grabbed to go, and I was grazing through the last parts: the hippies are trapped in a deadly Alaskan winter while the sun glowed higher over the fence behind me. T. C. Boyle himself is a description master, but I found this series of photographs by Don Snyder, the guy who took the novel’s cover shot, equally enchanting. These are from his book called Aquarian Odyssey: A Photographic Trip into the Sixties.
[Except the first one and Janis Joplin, photos courtesy of Dylan Reece's Journal de l'Internet. Aquarian Odyssey Part 1 and Part 2.]
Oooh! I have this book!!! Will read it next!
Really? Go read it. Fits your “Flower Child” post.
I always felt that I was supposed to be born during that period or the 70s (but I guess I was born too late). Anyway.
In a way, they’re lucky to easily recognise what to struggle against.
This is like a huge inspiration wall post! I love it! How I wish I lived in the 70’s.
Isn’t Don Snyder great? It’s difficult too, you know, to actually be there. This is 60’s by the way, but I bet the 70’s would’ve been a great time too.
[...] and Hotdog-flavoured Water, but I was interested in the album jacket. When you’re that age, topless and bearded hippies are interesting. It’s only later that I would understand better what they’re about–peace, free [...]
Whatever happened to Don Snyder. I used to see him around 23rd street. but he vanished??