How many relics from the sixties can you spot in this photo? VW bus? Check. Love beads? Check. Tons of tie dyed fabrics? Check. Guy that looks like a cross between Jim Henson and Chewbacca? Checkaroo.
A couple of weeks before my daughter's wedding, mom, dad and daughter spent a Sunday afternoon at a flea market in St. Charles, Illinois. Mom and daughter went to search out antique curios, knickknacks and assorted junk for items to possibly adorn the future wedded couple's apartment. Dad went to look for interesting stuff to photograph.
Right out of the gate (or rather, right inside the gate) was Tie Dye Guy selling stuff that I never really cared for the first time around. My mom and dad must have done a masterful job of instilling middle American values in this baby boomer because I found nothing much of interest in the countercultural lifestyle of the sixties.
OK, I did wear cutoff jean shorts back then and I did disavow materialism until the 1980s. Does that count?
More flea markety goodness to come.
Photograph © 2009 James Jordan.
2 comments:
Doesn't count.
:D
LOL
I think I've always been a flower child at heart. I love tie-dye stuff and beads.....oh, and I had a VW Kombi van though that wasn't until around 1988 ~ :)
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