Taylor Camp photographer John Wehrheim

blansky · Jul 29, 2015

An interesting look at a hippie commune in Hawaii in the 70s...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taylor-camp-hippies-kauai_55b090b5e4b08f57d5d3b0d5?

Trail Images · Jul 29, 2015

The Frank Zappa poster fits the scene perfectly. Gosh, hard to believe how much time has flown by from those days to now......:confused:

pentaxuser · Jul 29, 2015

Interesting, thanks

pentaxuser

DREW WILEY · Jul 30, 2015

No thanks. I've seen (and smelled) more than my fair share of hippie communes. Of course it was his nite shots of Telegraph Ave in the early
70's where Misrach got his start as an edgy photographer, though that particular project was largely a bellyflop. Around here we have pictures of various business suit types back in them days (good for blackmail). Before moving to Berkeley, I lived in Santa Cruz briefly, which had the highest per capita murder rate in the nation at the time. Lots of Love, Peace, and Heroin smuggling. Bad mix. Now drug dealers look like drug dealers and wear baggy pants and sock caps, not flowers in their hair. The kingpins wear suits and live in the nice part of town. No more
fur hats and purple Cadillac convertibles.

cliveh · Jul 30, 2015

A bit sad in a way. Disillusioned lost souls spring to mind.

DREW WILEY · Jul 30, 2015

I always felt sad for the kids who grew up in them, who weren't really sure who their parents were. And I personally know quite well certain
of the relatively few survivors of both Jonestown and the Mason Family, who had very near misses with either death or inflicting death. Not
much was the cute game runaway kids thought it would be. Gosh knows how many younger kids I grew up with died or turned senile before their 30's due to drugs. A plague let loose and never really controlled to this day. And if people really knew some of the secrets of certain
Rock music heroes back then.... A couple big names are still stumbling around town here, not quite sure who they are or were.

pbromaghin · Jul 30, 2015

Queue Colonel Kilgore, "I love the smell of Patchouli in the morning!"

DREW WILEY · Jul 30, 2015

It was a bizarre mixture of incense, pot fumes, and sheer BO. Unforgettable. Then there were the skin diseases, blotches and sores, from those vitamin-deficient guru diets. Crank was out there, and not just psychedelics, and turning ordinary people into outright psychos. It's quite
a problem still. The local free clinic is nicknamed the "Jennie Crank Weight Reduction Clinic" because of those who arrive nearly starving themselves to death, burning internal organs for fuel once everything else is gone, 80 lb adults.

nbagno · Jul 30, 2015

DREW WILEY said:
It was a bizarre mixture of incense, pot fumes, and sheer BO. Unforgettable. Then there were the skin diseases, blotches and sores, from those vitamin-deficient guru diets. Crank was out there, and not just psychedelics, and turning ordinary people into outright psychos. It's quite
a problem still. The local free clinic is nicknamed the "Jennie Crank Weight Reduction Clinic" because of those who arrive nearly starving themselves to death, burning internal organs for fuel once everything else is gone, 80 lb adults.

I know a girl who grew up on one in Hawaii in the 70's. Both parents were drug addicts, injected her with heroin and other abuses. They both committed suicide.

Taylor Camp photographer John Wehrheim

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