July 2014

I just discovered the house my late sister was invited to at Rocky Point was designed by the famous architect, Brook-Kothlow, for Allan Fox, who sold this house in a hurry shortly after Christine Rosamond Benton was allegedly swept from the rocks below this house that plays a prominent role in the counterculture and the…

Katherine Wilson made a movie about Animal House that will be showing on May. Nancy Hamren Van Brasch Betty Williams Zorthian Posted on July 21, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press   When I met Betty, I got such a calm sence of well-being. I loved her daughters. I felt that I should have been with Barry…

Peter Shapiro played a short while with the Charlatans before he formed The Marbles. The Charlatans had a Cowboy look that folks in the Height adopted. They were not Country-Western, but more like a Jug Band. My kindred, Mel Lyman, played in Jim Kweskin’s Jug Band. Jim married Jessie Benton who father painted a mural…

My aunt Lillian wanted to start a boutique with Christine Rosamond. All the Rosamond Women made their own clothes. Lillian is the blonde, and her sister, Bonnie, had dark hair. Jon The Taylor, Getty, and Rosamond Children Talitha Getty (18 October 1940 – 14 July 1971) was an actress of Dutch extraction, born in the former…

Christine Von Wandel and I have one thing in common, the Papacy launched Holy Crusades against our people with the intent of wiping us out, if they failed to convert us. We are talking about Genocide, a term applied to the Jews and our military action in Vietnam. We Hippies opposed this war, and dropped…

I just discovered this film that may be the West Coast’s answer to Woodstock. Mimi farina got remarried for this event. It was filmed by Baird Bryant who filmed ‘Gimme Shelter’ a film about Altamont that was the Hippie Doomsday. I was Chris Wandel’s roommate when Peter Shapiro dropped in and asked me if I…

“Will Bohemia arise in Oakland,” was the question asked in an article in the Oakland Tribune on April 22, 1917. The reporter told of the formation of an artist’s club of the East Bay with a membership of more than 30 painters, sculptors and art students including Selden Gile, William H. Clapp and William A.…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: 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…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: In the spring of 1963 the world was a very precarious and jaded place to live. Down south hateful and murderous segregationist were doing much evil in the eyes of the Lord to make sure the black man is never completely set free. Jack Kennedy has asked his brother Bobby…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: When Rena came out of that darkened door, I gasped for air. Her beauty was beyond compare. The first thing I noticed was she looked like Jesus, or, Jesus’ daughter. Put a crown of thorns on her, and, you get the big picture. This was 1970, long before Dan Brown.…