Join us at the Museum of Vancouver or online at 7 o'clock on Thursday, September 22nd for Michael Kluckner's illustrated talk on Vancouver a half-century ago, that attempts to explain that there was more to the “hippie” era of the 1960s and ‘70s than the famous trio of “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.”That period remains in the memory for the Fourth Avenue scene of natural food stores and psychedelic shops, as well as events like the Gastown Riot, the anti-nuclear protest voyage of the “Greenpeace,”and the 1971 occupation of “All Seasons Park” (now Devonian Harbour Park) to stop the development of luxury highrises on the edge of Stanley Park. It was a period of restless travel and experimentation, of high unemployment and cheap rooming houses, set against the backdrop of America’s Vietnam War, Canada’s Pierre Trudeau, the dying years of W.A.C. Bennett’s Socred government, and the confrontational style of Vancouver’s Mayor Tom Campbell.
This richly illustrated presentation follows the publication of Michael’s book The Rooming House, which explores the Vancouver of that period through the eyes of a group of young people sharing an old house in Kitsilano.
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Event Venue
Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, Canada