On the my last day in Vancouver I heard there is a plan to tear down the last freeway in that city. Here is a video of the Hippie Museum that shows some Hippie fashions:

http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=17961

Here is another blog of mine where I honor Boho fashion.

https://bohemianworlddesign.wordpress.com/

Here is the statue Pacifica being blown-up by the Navy:

Ina Coolbrith gave Joaquin Miller his look that he took to England where he read his poems to the Queen. The Pre-Raphaelite Artists took him in. Miller was a friend of my grandmother. The original hippies of the Bay Area were influence by Miller, Ina, London, and Sterling. Miller made a life-size statue of my kin, John Fremont, who looks west from the heights of Oakland. El Capitan looks like Gandalf.

The original hippies were about transforming the city of San Francisco where my ancestors lived, and where my father was born.

Above is a photo of the building on Beacon Hill I fought the Mafia for in court for six months. After I won my attorney introduced me to the Mayor White who shook my hand while saying;

“It took a lot of guts to stand up to those people!”

I survived an attempt on my life.

Jon

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/city.html

The 1890s and early years of the twentieth century were a turning point in American society. The economic system struggled to define itself and Americans through the language of consumption; social unrest and violence, results of economic depressions, disgust with corruption in government, and overcrowded urban centers erupted periodically throughout the era; and the agrarian way of life, so familiar and fundamental to American thought and self-image, was passing away into a nostalgic past. Historian Harold Faulkner observes that Americans witnessed the passing of the frontier and the rise of the United States to a position of world power and responsibility which was to make any return to her old isolation increasingly difficult, if not impossible. Old issues were dead or dying; sectional tension was no longer a force of much importance in politics, and efforts to revive it proved unavailing. Most important of all, the triumph of industry over agriculture was now assured. The Industrial Revolution, if not completed, had gone so far as to make turning back to the ways of a simpler agrarian society out of the question.

http://archive.org/stream/buildingofcitybe00mill/buildingofcitybe00mill_djvu.txt

WHEN the perfect woman comes — and
she will come — she will appeal to the soul
of man, not to his body ; and then the per-
fect man will not be far off.

Wherever this majestic and beautiful wo-
man was, — this piteously beautiful woman,
whatever she was yet to be or may have
been, — she seemed to be, from the first time
we encountered her at Jerusalem, entirely
unconscious of sex. She seemed not to be
a body, but a soul; and a soul, as said
before, that was growing daily, as a great
magnolia flower-tree grows, with its perfect
flowers and its soft, warm, sensuous perfume,
widening, warming day by day till it fills the
garden, turns all faces to this one flower-
tree, draws all things to itself, and drowns
all senses but this one sense of perfume and
the perfection of form and color.

http://www.cateweb.org/CA_Authors/miller.html

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/william-janke-on-haight-st/

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/jessie-benton-muse/

https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/joaquin-miller-as-gandalf-the-grey/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/life-and-death-of-california-the-movie/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/the-destruction-of-pacifica/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-changlings-of-moy-mell/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-birth-of-california-bohemianism/

Ina Coolbrith was the first poet laureate of California. She gave Joaquin Miller ‘The Poet of the Sierras’ his Bohemian look. She encouraged Miller to tour England where he fell in with the Pre-Raphaelites who are cited as the progenitors of Boho Fashion. But Ina is Queen Mother of the Oakland Bohemians who had a hand in the Founding of the Bohemian Club. Ina was good friends with Jack London and George Sterling, members of the Bohemian Club. She took the writer Bret Harte under he wing as did Jessie Benton who held a salon in San Francisco. Bret was the editor of the Overland that became ‘Out West’ magazine that my grandfather, Royal Rosamond, contributed to.

Royal was a poet, a writer, and a true Bohemian. His wife, Mary Magdalene Rosamond designed and made her own clothes. She sold her hats for a living, her creations help raising her four beautiful daughters.

Rosemary Rosamond gave birth to the world famous artist, Christine Rosamond Benton, who married the muralist, Garth Benton, a cousin of the famous artist, Thomas Hart Benton, who rendered what can be discribed as ‘Western Boho’.

Christine took up art in 1972 at the age of 25 after seeing my painting of my Muse, Rena Christiansen, a beautiful young woman from Nebraska whose three sisters were professional models.

In 1969 I discovered the Pre-Raphaelites at the Oakland Library the Coolbrith founded. I let my hair grow long because the Pre-Raphaelite were influenced by the Nazarene-Nazarite Artists of Germany. It was my dream to restart the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the city I was born because our famous artists had taken up the gauntlet. The work of Arthur Frank Matthews is found at the Oakland Museum. Matthews work premeditated the Hippie Movement, his women coming alive in the 60s. Arthur was one of my influences in the painting I did of Rena which I plan to redo.

My first girlfriend, Marilyn Godfrey Reed, made her own clothes and sewed with my famous sister and our mother who also made her own clothes. Marilyn emulated the Bohemian lifestyle, he older sister living in Paris. Marilyn dressed the part when I first met her at fifteen. We were Bohemian Lovers, we founding a Bohemian hot spot in West Los Angeles. Marilyn Reed is an excellent seamstrees and pattern maker, I have encouraged Marilyn to begin her Boho Chic line, or work for my line ‘Royal Rosamond Wear’ that I am founding.

Eugene Oregon is a fashion Mecca for Bohemian Chic. I will be posting photographs of women and men dressed in Bobo. Anyone who wants to contribute can post pics on my Facebook, that I will transfer to this blog.

You will find me on Facebook as Greg Presco.

Jon Presco

Copyright 2012

President: Royal Rosamond Wear