Peace, Love, Surf: Growing up in the 60’S (California Style)
Peace, Love, Surf: Growing Up In The 60’s (California Style) Peace, Love, Surf: Growing Up In The Sixties (California Style) Last update: February 18, 2017 Prologue It is my totally unbiased opinion that I grew up in what must be considered one of the most controversial and exciting times in the twentieth century, especially that narrow band of time during the sixties to mid-seventies. There were a lot of things going on like the Watts riots, the Cold War, the so called lunar landings, The Assassinations JFK, RFK, Martin , the Viet Nam war, People’s Park in Berkeley, the Monterey Pop Festival, the Kent State killings, Chicago Democratic Convention, Woodstock, SLA, Watergate, The Beach Boys, the Beatles, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the best music ever to be recorded, and, subsequently, the loss of J cubed (Jimi, Jim and Janis), late night sitcoms with Johnny, SLN, high school, college, presidential resignations and pardons, and more. It was like a pre-cyberspace overload era. Hence, given all that I went through during this short time on planet Earth, I felt the title of these short stories covers the appropriate time spectrum. There was a saying for the Viet Nam war that went around in this era called, “Peace, Love, Dove”. I took it and made a Page 1 of 34 Peace, Love, Surf: Growing Up In The 60’s (California Style) slight modification to reflect what it was like to grow up when surfing was taking off as a California craze; pray for Peace, free Love, let’s Surf.
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