Another piece of Austin history here. I took this shot at a "Love-In" in Wooldridge Park (our central downtown park) back in 1968. When Linda and I were cleaning out our big house to move downtown, I found the rolled-up old negative strip with this shot and many others on it. This is the best composed of the photos. I think that this event happened in March of 1968. The band playing here is Shiva's Headband. Funny, but I was in the Longhorn Band from 1964-67 with the drummer you see here. He was a brilliant player. The electric fiddle player you see here is Spencer Perskin, an iconic Austin musician who is still around town. They hit the road to San Francisco for a while, but returned to Austin. What a great time that was to be alive. I could go on, but it would be boring.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Peace and Love, Y'all
Another piece of Austin history here. I took this shot at a "Love-In" in Wooldridge Park (our central downtown park) back in 1968. When Linda and I were cleaning out our big house to move downtown, I found the rolled-up old negative strip with this shot and many others on it. This is the best composed of the photos. I think that this event happened in March of 1968. The band playing here is Shiva's Headband. Funny, but I was in the Longhorn Band from 1964-67 with the drummer you see here. He was a brilliant player. The electric fiddle player you see here is Spencer Perskin, an iconic Austin musician who is still around town. They hit the road to San Francisco for a while, but returned to Austin. What a great time that was to be alive. I could go on, but it would be boring.
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Note the building in the background, west of the park, looks very cool with those porches. It's no longer there, of course.
ReplyDeleteNot boring, never boring listening to your both your stories of living and playing in Austin.
ReplyDeleteI note the date on the image -- 1968 -- which at that time, I was supervising the photography at Texas Student Publications (Daily Texan, etc) at UT. I was wondering if we know each other....I'm Frank Armstrong, and currently live in Central MA where I teach photo at Clark University.
ReplyDeleteThat house Linda refers to is now the jail annex. Prisoners get to play basketball on top of the roof in a huge cage.
ReplyDeleteThe 60s in Austin? Couldn't possibly be boring! I might have been there in the park that day - there weren't many "happenings" I missed in those days. Thanks for the great memories!
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