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| This picture was taken when the caught Squeaky after she escaped from prison that time to go visit Charlie because she heard he was dying. No it wasn't. But the look on her face made me think that. The five feet of snow here in CT is melted. It is 70 degrees out which made me extra wacky feeling today. That is my excuse for the silly caption. |
Squeaky the wood nymph...
ReplyDelete1900 Yesterday said...
ReplyDeleteSqueaky the wood nymph...
you are a better captioner than me.
I like to 'caption' the audience attention...residue my DJ days.
ReplyDeleteI liked your caption too, Liz..was actually the first thought came to my mind. The second was nymph, the third be 'tree hugger' - precursor ATWA.
ReplyDeleteHey Liz you could start a weekly caption contest like my man Michael K on Dlisted.com. The stuff his readers come up with his hilarious.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad thigh. A little bit lean, but not bad. You can see how she got banged, now and again.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Squeaky looks like she caught Sandy eating a cheeseburger or something.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Red...what is the latest news ...one blog said she may have married her new guy...and does Red and Blue communicate with STAR-who some call the NEW WOMAN of ATWA ( I think RED and BLue would take offense to that title considering they sat in prison for years and on street corners to become Nuns in ATWA)...
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ReplyDeleteThey all had good legs! Mostly very slender, small breasts, slim legs. You can see Charlie has a type.
Just like me when I was a young lass. I would've been perfect for the line-up. I'd have liked to live at Spahn, a lot. Not to go on murder sprees, mind you. But garbage runs: that's just being a freegan, I'm up for that.
Hmm, screwing anyone I'm told to...hmmm...not so fun...
fiona1933 said...
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They all had good legs! Mostly very slender, small breasts, slim legs. You can see Charlie has a type.
Just like me when I was a young lass. I would've been perfect for the line-up. I'd have liked to live at Spahn, a lot. Not to go on murder sprees, mind you. But garbage runs: that's just being a freegan, I'm up for that.
Hmm, screwing anyone I'm told to...hmmm...not so fun...
i agree Fiona i would have loved to live with the Family. the only thing i would not do was murder and be bi sexual. no offense to those who are. and be a little more choosy on the men i slept with.
i am strictly dickly.
I've read in more than one book that Sadie was hospitalized 3 months for one of her bouts with syphillus. I think Juan Flynn also spent a lengthy stint in hospital for the same thing. There were syphillus outbreaks at Wilson's house while the Family sponged off him and outbreaks while the Family stayed at Spahn Ranch. Most of the 60s hippie communes dealt with syphillus. That's probably what ended most of them.
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ReplyDeleteI've read in more than one book that Sadie was hospitalized 3 months for one of her bouts with syphillus.
Which book was that? In the late 60s & early 70s, some serious cases of the clap were brought home by soldiers returning from vietnam. These were often resistant to antibiotics but I think penicillin eventually did the trick. If memory serves, Sanders in "The Family" was the first to say that Sadie picked up a dose of it. I thought it was a virulent case of gonorrea though and I don't recall anything about 3 months hospitalisation. I'd be interested to know otherwise.
Mr Poirot also said:
Most of the 60s hippie communes dealt with syphillus. That's probably what ended most of them.
I don't think so. I've lived on communes and in remnant communal hippy scenes all of my adult life (quite a few decades now I'm afraid) and I've only ever known of one dose of syphilis... it's actually pretty rare. Gonorrea's much more common but even that is relatively unusual. "Dirty hippy's riddled with clap" is a bit of an urban myth I suspect. Now, "head lice"... that's a whole other ball of wax :-)
Boy, this picture answers a big question I've had for a long time. I always wondered what the hell Charlie was looking at in that picture of him on the cover of Life.
ReplyDeleteThat was the exact moment he first zeroed in on Squeaky's ass and this was her first response.
Brownie there is a Dr who studied communes in California in the 1960s in California who met Manson. He published a medical study on hippie communes at that time. He said on the last MSNBC Manson documentary that sexual diseases were the reason he studied communes. His name is Dr David Smith. He diagnosed Manson as Ambulatory schizophrenic. Dr Smith worked in Haight Ashbury Free Clinic that delt with many cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the hippie era in California. He said he studied 150 communes. He says the exact opposite of what you are claiming.
ReplyDeleteCheers for the citation Mr P.
ReplyDeleteDavid Smith eh? Coincidentally, I've just ordered his "Love Needs Care" book on Amazon... should be here in a week or so. I look forward to reading it.
Smith had quite an interesting history with the Manson family... initially at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic but later also when one of the people working for him lived with the family for a while.
I suspect you're right in terms of what Dr Smith said... and that he was right in terms of what he studied- the Haight-Ashbury at the peak of the Summer of Love and into its decline. I'm not sure how many of the rural communes that developed from '67 onwards into the '70s this would apply to though... or how many Dr Smith would've studied.
Truth to tell, my comments regarding communes & clap-ridden hippies was based more on my experience in the 70s, 80s, 90s etc by which times most hippy communes were rural rather than urban. The Haight-Ashbury was a much more naive scene particularly in the "teenage runaway" period when Smith was studying it. You're probably quite right about the prevalence of STDs there... though I'm still dubious about syphilis.
Juan Flynn said it was "Vietnamese dog clap" that took alomst a year to get rid of.
ReplyDeleteSusan Atkins said she went barefoot to Cielo Drive because the sores on her feet caused by gonnorea were so bad she could not wear shoes. Didn't they all have some gross skin disease when they were arrested in Death Valley as well?
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ReplyDeleteDidn't they all have some gross skin disease when they were arrested in Death Valley as well?
Tex's mother said that when Tex came home he had terrible sores all over him and an awful itch too.
i also remember when a few of the babies were taken away after a raid they said the babies were sunburned and full of sores too. i recall seeing a pic somewhere of one of the girls holding a baby and it clearly has some kind of sore thing going on under its nose.
Nice legs. Must have been the dancing as a child.
ReplyDelete"Sandy, I just pissed myself"
ReplyDeleteThey had sores from bug bites, not bathing, never wearing shoes, going dumpster-diving barefoot, etc. These people were filthy. The clap was on top of all the other stuff they had going. I always wondered if there was a shower in Mr. Spahn's house, or for that matter, anywhere at Spahns.
ReplyDeleteThey had skin disorders from never bathing, bug bites, dumpster-diving barefoot, stepping on horse shit daily, and being pigs themselves. I always have wondered if there was a shower anywhere at Spahns. Was there a bathtub/shower in Mr. Spahn's house? Did the ranch hands bathe ever? Leslie Van Houten said that she used to read the bible to CM when he was in the tub. Where was the tub? Did it have hot water? Anyone on this blog know?
ReplyDeleteHi Ann, Patty is not sure why the software keeps spamming you, but she's sorry for the delay in posting your comments this evening.
ReplyDeleteBath at spahn's ranch ? They seemed to have the creek. Not to mention a inhouse toilette and shower. Watch Hendrickson footage.
ReplyDeleteHi Matt! I was curious what part of Connecticut you are from? I’m in New Haven.
ReplyDeleteHi Carissa, I'm not from CT.
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