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SMiamiPimp:
RicciC,
I have pretty much the same view of the Seed as yourself, at least as I interpret your posts.
There are peaple who I recall.
There was one black dude, Leonard Pope. He was a tough, smart street hustler on the outside. I wonder what ever happened to him.
Or this red haired hard core biker, Randy.
Or this, tall what appreared to be fairly respected dealer on the outside, Marco.
I wonder what happened to those guys.
I met a guy from the Seed in Texas in the early 80's. I was at state road 84, he was at the Miami race track. I met him in the University of Texas MBA program. He got the highest starting salary with what was then the Big 8 pulic accounting firms. He was telling the partners in the firms he was interviewing about his misspent youth and being in the Seed. I think he used it as a differentiator.
A male friend who got put in the Seed after me, and would talk to me after I got kicked out, I just saw how he is working as a Librarian at a Junior college.
Interesting memories.
RicciC:
I worked with him and Hank and Art's house alot.
landyh:
--- Quote ---On 2005-09-16 20:08:00, tom s. wrote:
"Anyone here remember the seed 1970?Innocently posing as a hippie house on S.E.3'rd st.Ft.Laud. I think with a big metal peacesign sculpture on the lawn about 41/2- 5 feet in diameter-yellow and also green.I thought it was a used jean store.I went running in there february '70 and found myself in a very Billy Jack community school-like group of people around my age-15 and younger and some older,and Art in a room w/a desk,Pam,a really sweet girl about 20 who cooked for the group,and a sort of innocent seeming ambling about of all,eventually evolving into a session.Anyone remember back that far? "
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I was there and I was nine years old and I remember Pam. I had forgot about the sign. Thank you.
landyh:
--- Quote ---On 2005-09-17 00:48:00, rjfro22 wrote:
"Tom S.
I remember the house on 3rd ave. in 1970
Did Pam have long blond hair ? , she was very beautiful from what I remember. I was about 16 at that time as well time and they served free meals, which attracted a lot of the young street hippies at that time
Do you rmember Maureen, she was like a staff member, and Hap and Mavis, I remember a wedding there as well, it was very Billy Jack like, that was a great discription. People came and went as they pleased. No one tried to make me cut my hair , lots of hugging and genuine caring, it was a very special time. There was a record player up front with several of rock albums . I remember Maureen getiing down to "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain. I remember telling my friends about this cool place called the seed. Every time some one knew came in we really wanted to help them, I remember really caring about everybody back then. My friend Tom W. turned me on to the seed back then and he was only 14 at the time, we both Just walked in, and we were greeted with open arms, and of course a free meal , we used t hitch hike to the meetings from hollywood and some of the time someone would ride us home. [ This Message was edited by: rjfro22 on 2005-09-17 00:54 ]"
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I was there then and it was a great place at that time I was only nine which made me somewhat conspicuous for that time. It was a place of love then what happened for God's sake.
landyh:
--- Quote ---On 2005-09-17 17:50:00, tom s. wrote:
"I was somehow absorbed into being a participant.I remember being with them 6 months and then some more in '71.A bunch of us kids carried really heavy flagstones from down the street behind the seed at s. Andrews.These we placed down outside the house.As the rustic style floor became larger in area as we accumulated more of these flat stones,someone also built an overhead and presto-we had a meeting area much larger than the little cozy house we sadly left behind.At that point it appeared that the friendliness was washed away,but it existed more as an underground movement.I had appeared at the seed because I was running from my brother in law.I had to live w/my sister and him off and on because homelife was not possible peacefully.Well neither was the solution.Eventually I was placed into several other members' homes mostly to keep me apart from the flash point that would ensue from home life.Really,all I had to do was stand at the front door and an arguement would greet me-so-that was actually the basis for my mistaken entry into the orginization.The sessions at S.Andrews became heated.More staff members appeared.Charley Oats,Darlene,Rick and Linda-there's more but their names and faces don't always surface in clarity.Memory is sometimes like those magic eight-balls.You get what appears on the little window with a good shake!I remember when they got a pink toilet seat for what they would refer to as the hot seat.I think it was on a toilet.People got come down on hard.A lot of it was unnecessary.Many of us were accused of having attitudes of heavy druggies and we were entirely too young or inexperienced to know what in the world they were talking about.(Check my other post about the seed song)I was put on the hot seat because I liked someone.The girl was put on the seat because she was accused of playing games.Relationships were not allowed.But as youth flowers,so does the heart.I expect that's why so many cars that went by were accompanied by screams of "the seed sucks!!!"and so on.Those were humerous interludes spaced entirely too far apart. "
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Charlie still had long hair and was cool in my memory, Darlene even at nine I found that red head to be a little antagonistant shall we say as opposed to the word that comes to mind. Funny I remembered Mavis as being a New Yorker until I read your post and it clicked. And they were hugely helpful both her and Hap and loving and tough as nails all at the same time. I was so sad when Hap and Mavis disapeared and Charlie especially I looked up to him so much that it made me really sad when he was gone.
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