Takilma Pictures
The Love House had a sign that said 'Love' in a psychedelic pattern. It was the local hangout. | |
The Mayor. Delbert , nicknamed 'The Mayor' because he lived in the first
hippie house encountered coming into town He had a house and a firewood business,
kept his house open and became the intermediary between the kids and the
real world. an aura of psychedelic stability. He is mentioned in a number
of stories including Gunsmoke and Speed Trap. |
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Mirage Garage. When I arrived it was the crash pad right beside the road, and being right next to the swimming hole so was the energy center of town. It was built by the Fanatics or some such. As the community became somewhat established it was considered a local eyesore and mysteriously was burned to the ground. No proof of arson was found. It was an icon of the early hippie days. | |
Funky Egg. This was the next energy center. Robert brought his chicken operation up from Marin county and established the 'Little Funky Egg Company", a sort of crash pad, with many permanent core of dwellers. Robert the Laird had his own house with the dual use as the kitchen, named the 'Nebulous of Andromeda'. The other house, where everyone else dwelt was named 'The Other'. | |
Donnie and Rebecca on the
porch of "The Other". Rebecca and I got together when I
arrived at TK. I was royalty with a VW van. When I left the winter
before she left with me. She got together Donnie who had a DD from the
navy. Something to do with smuggling drugs into the |
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Funky Egg Family.
This particular version of the Funky Egg family includes From Left back
row Steve, Robert Raina. The middle row Dianne, Sheila, my cousin
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Buckwheat Bob and Virgo Jack. I didn't realize until it was pointed out to me recently that we are both without clothes. What can I say? This was not unusual in those decadent times. Jack was one of the French canoeists in the chapter Gunsmoke. | |
Group W
bench. First person on left is
unknown. Next is Brow, |
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Robert.
Squire of the 'Little Funky Egg Company', Robert is mentioned in many of
the Takilma stories and featured in Ashland and The Tomasson
Creek Massacre. He was and continues to be one of the most committed
members of the Takilma community. He has ridden almost all of the
trains, passenger and freight, in |
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Takilma Store. Owned by Andy Anders, who detested hippies. Parked in front is the 'Blue Heron', the Funky Egg transportation system. The overhang in the picture was the one torn down by Black Michael's truck 'Godzilla'. Andy shot his .45 into the street rather than Michael. Sometime later Andy fired his pistol at Bryan Bones and Charlie Two-Shoes when they were naked and too close to his house. I arranged a boycott of the store until he agreed to change his behavior. The only objections to the boycott came from Charlie and Bryan because we closed down their liquor supply. | |
Nick. Talkilma Nick was prominent in several stories including and especially Takilma Rifles, and Speed Trap. We were off and on partners in various unsuccessful enterprises. Very charismatic, he seems to have envisioned himself as a cross between Che Guevara and Wild Bill Hickok. Like many of the wild members of the tribe there was obviously some reality to their public persona and no one was about to question them about their credibility. | |
Gunslingers. Pictured
are Hope Mountain Michael and his girlfriend Sandy, and Shotgun Paul and
his wife Carol. They appear prominently in Gunslingers, Battle
of Hogues Meadows, Duel at the Funky Egg and Speed Trap.
After they moved to the mining claim at |
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Robert as Gangster.
I had to include this picture. Kinda reminds me of a picture I have of
Jack Kerouac in William Burroughs dressed like gangsters in the early
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Rainbow Bob. So named because he had on blue eye and one brown eye. He grew up in the Bay Area on the wrong side of the tracks in a bi-racial family. He was street-wise and delightful. He wasn't wise enough not to have a drunken run-in with a bunch of psychotic bandits and along with an older comrade, Moses, was killed and beheaded. Both good brothers | |
Meadows. Location of many fine full-moon celebrations, first occupied by some very lovely peaceful people, later purchased by the family. Mentioned in several stories. | |
The local movie theatre. The
sign in the lower right corner says "We do not solicit hippie
patronage." Half a dozen or more businesses in Cave Junction
carried these signs. We decided to go see |
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Teepee. Mara acquired this Teepee and she and Bret and Maia, (and sometimes me) lived in several places in this device which was quite functional in cold snowy country but not in the rain belt. Mara was (and is) a trouper. | |
East Fork of the |
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Canaan. Mara,
Maia and I lived here for one winter, the winter of the freeze. It was
across the river and to the South or the meadows. It was beautiful
country, as pictured through the window, but very cold and drafty. |
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River Road. This road is featured prominently in The Freeze. Had many nice visits with Mar, Cilla and Walt, Jack and his family, and Montana Rick. Obviously it didn't look like this when we trudged back from the Carat claim during the freeze. | |
4 Corners. When we passed 4 corners
and entered Takilma we felt like we had entered the safety zone. It is
mentioned in Gunsmoke as a couple of us drunk hippies sat in the middle
of the corner to try to get a ride. I think in retrospect that wasn't
very smart. However, I did get home. |