Voices from the Haight #2 The original Linda Lovely has given me permission to post portions from her letters and journals of the Haight-Ashbury period. The photo above was taken about a week befor… more →
the pondering pigponderpig wrote 1 week ago: Voices from the Haight #2 The original Linda Lovely has given me permission to post portions from … more →
ponderpig wrote 2 weeks ago: Continuing on my theme of recreating the sixties-era Haight-Ashbury as I actually knew it, as oppose … more →
ponderpig wrote 3 weeks ago: Sometime in the spring or summer of 1964, Rodney Albin’s uncle acquired a twenty-two room Vic … more →
ponderpig wrote 1 month ago: Photos of the 1966 era Linda Lovely are few and hard to come by. But, I found this rare snapshot … more →
ponderpig wrote 2 months ago: This is a rock star? You’ve got to be kidding! She looks like a normal person. Shouldn … more →
ponderpig wrote 2 months ago: The Great Lemming Migration to San Francisco was still a few years away in 1965, the year this phot … more →
ponderpig wrote 2 months ago: Ah, Lori Hayman Helms. So beautiful she was. And probably still is. Lori was Chet Helm’s … more →
ponderpig wrote 2 months ago: We’re starting a new series on The Pig today, but I’m not sure what to call it yet. W … more →
ponderpig wrote 2 months ago: Continued from last time… Back in ‘66 me and a couple of pals got this idea for a pow … more →
ponderpig wrote 3 months ago: Did you ever look at an old rock poster and wonder who the acts advertised actually were? Like thi … more →
ponderpig wrote 4 months ago: By 1967, the original hippies were already raising their kids in the Haight. Here’s document … more →
ponderpig wrote 7 months ago: I dreamed I saw Lucy Lewis last night, alive as you and me. “Lucy, I hardly knew yuh”, I … more →
ponderpig wrote 9 months ago: Yesterday I learned Beth died. The beautiful girl whose strings are tied into my heart as fast toda … more →
ponderpig wrote 9 months ago: Yesterday I learned Beth died. The beautiful girl whose strings are tied into my heart as fast toda … more →
ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Writer and itinerant hipster Greg Hoffman just sent up a few photos he snapped at the Summer Of Love … more →
ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: “The roses they won’t hurt you…the roses they won’t hurt you.” What w … more →
ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Note: This is Part 3 of the Playland Story. It’s full of occult hippies and glamorous pop s … more →
ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Note: This is Part 3 of the Playland Story. It’s full of occult hippies and glamorous pop sta … more →
ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: Back in February I posted a little story about my life in the Haight-Ashbury in 1966 and how I did … more →