Paradise Lost: The Hippie Refugee Camp-- Taylor Camp, Kauai in Hawaii (warning:some nudity at link)

[MerryBlooms]

Taylor Camp began in the Spring of 1969, with thirteen hippies seeking refuge from the ongoing campus riots in America and police brutality. Having fled their homes, they headed for Kauai in Hawaii, then a very remote and unspoilt land with just a single traffic light on the island.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/29/paradise-lost-the-hippie-refugee-camp/

[Lochloosa]

1. Ahh. The 60's.

[madokie]

16. Hell the nineties

We used to get together at a friends creek and play volleyball, some in the nude some clothed from top to bottom but no one gave two shits whether someone had clothes on or not. Something to be said for a big old tit hitting a big breasted girl up side the head or on the chin when she'd hit the ball LOL. Yes we had some good old fashioned fun, no weirdo's allowed, they'd be led off the property as soon as they showed their true selves. LOL

I remember buying a truck load of 2 and 7/8ths inch pipe for 50 bucks and took my engine powered welder and built us a bridge about 30 ft long so we'd not have to climb up and down the bank to get to the creek. Everyone brought whatever paint they had and we all painted it and called it the rainbow bridge.
Rainbow bridge is laying fallow in a field by the creek now as we're all too old to carry on the tradition anymore.

I hope I didn't hurt anyone sensibilities with this post and if I did, mybad. I'm sorry

[leveymg]

2. Last year, I went back to Santa Cruz after 30 years.

You can't go back and recreate it, but the good stuff and the sunsets stay within you.

[Wilms]

4. I was amazed at what 20 years did. n/t

[leveymg]

10. The Plough and the Stars is still there as I remember it so well.

Rest of Downtown totally changed after the earthquake. Now it's like an upscale theme park. But, they can't gentrify those glorious cliffs, the swells off Lighthouse Point, and the sunsets.

[MerryBlooms]

6. Beautiful!

[panader0]

3. I had a friend who lived there in a tree house.

One day, diving into the ocean, he hit his head and broke his neck. At first he was semi-quadriplegic, later he was able to use his arms somewhat. His mom, who lived on the mainland, offered to buy me land in Kauai if I would be his caretaker. I couldn't
do it, for various reasons. I didn't see him in the photos.
Lahaina was very cool back then too. I went to high school on Oahu and myself and fellow surfers would fly (very cheaply)
to Maui, live on the beach, surf all day, and party in Lahaina in the evening. Man, those were the days.

[MerryBlooms]

7. What a lovely piece of history you possess. I'm truly envious.

[hunter]

5. I've been naked.

In Hawaii too.

Have family there.

Category: People who love the ocean and big waves.

[Contrary1]

8. My Dad would worry out loud that I was going to run off

and join a commune, head to Woodstock, "be a hippie".

I could never understand at the time why he fretted so. It took me a while to figure it out.

He saw himself in me. Trying to help people in need. Understanding and befriending those who seemed different for one reason or another. Ranting against war and injustice every chance I got. Restless, and not willing to ever settle down all the way (even if that was only internally).

I was then, and am still to this day, his only child who grew up to be a Liberal.

[AngryAmish]

9. Geez, why wouk5d a middle aged guy let a bunch of naked women live for free?

Altruism at it's finest.

Ever see the movie Breezy? In essence, this Clint Eastwood movie had a fifty year old guy (William Holden) have some hippy girl (Kay Lenz, who was gorgeous and about 18 or 19) fall for him after he picked her up hitchhiking. Complete fantasy.

I am almost the age of Bill Holden now. I see gorgeous 18 and 19 year olds on the street all the time. How may of them are interested in me? 0. Because I am old.

[struggle4progress]

11. In the late 1960s, a gorgeous stretch of beach in Ha’ena State Park was the site of a hippy haven

By Susan Spano
smithsonian.com
July 9, 2012

... They drifted in from all over the mainland, looking to turn down the volume at the end of the blaring 1960s and pitched tents in a North Shore park, playing beach volleyball in the buff and smoking marijuana, activities that ultimately got them evicted.

Enter Howard Taylor, brother of movie star Elizabeth, who bailed them out of jail and invited them to settle on a beachfront property he owned that had just been condemned by the state. His kindness was also an act of revenge because the state would have to deal with the squatters before they could turn the place into a public park. “It’s your land and they’re now your hippies,” he told officials. After joining the campers for Christmas dinner in 1972 with his celebrated sister, Taylor left them to their own devices ...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/flower-children-on-the-north-shore-of-kauai-1065646/?no-ist

[struggle4progress]

12. Taylor Camp, Hawai’i: The life and death of a hippie community

by Thomas J. Riley and Karma Ibsen-Riley
Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 50(6), 1979

... Howard Taylor went to acquire building permits to construct a home on the property. However, the State would not grant him such a permit, since they were planning to condemn the land. At the same time, however, they insisted that he still pay full taxes on the land. In disgust, Taylor turned the land over to the “flower power people.” Drifting young drop-outs from the outside world came to this piece of land and gradually came to form a makeshift community that took the name “Taylor Camp” ... The large amounts of metal and glass trash, and the fact that the garden area of the camp, even during its most intense planting, couldn’t have supported even one-fourth of the residents of Taylor Camp, both suggested to us that the camp, despite its isolation, had to be dependent on a traditional American cash economy ...

http://damontucker.com/2009/03/06/taylor-camp-anyone-want-to-expand/

[struggle4progress]

13. taylor camp, kauai (claudia's surf city)

When I lived in Kauai in 1973, there were a lot of other hippies there "living off the land" —i .e. on food stamps, other people's papayas, stolen pineapples from the Dole fields, coconuts from the palms in the graveyard, panhandling. I lived on the beach way at the end of the road on Waimea side. But when the park ranger would run us out of there, our little group (blonde Krishna, ex-prostitute John-John, queen Marty and the two Vassar girls) headed for Taylor Camp, way at the end of the road on Hanalei Side. There a bunch of hippies had fabricated fantasy treehouses of tie-dye and wood and found objects, and we could set up our little tent in peace.

However, I am the person who, famously, hated the Woodstock festival, and I was not all that fond of the camp reputedly owned by Elizabeth Taylor's nephew either. For one thing the other folks were not all that welcoming. Then there was the camp facility. I don't recollect the privacy wall presided over by Frank Zappa on the krappa above. All I remember is a toilet mounted on a platform in the middle of an open field. And the hepatitis shots we all had to get at the clinic after drinking from the stream nearby.

But the worst part was the weather: Hanalei is the rainy side of Kauai, and we were living under an Indian print bedspread. Damp. And chilly since we didn't wear any clothing except maybe a shell lei or, for formal occasions, a loincloth. Bummer! So after a couple days we would pour water into the radiator of the Midnight Rambler (bought for $25), light some incense in the ashtray and head back to Waimea Side, home and dry, where the rangers were waiting ...

http://claudiassurfcity.blogspot.com/2014/12/taylor-camp-kauai.html

[struggle4progress]

14. Taylor Camp Memories

... Bobo Bollin was the last resident to live at Taylor Camp. Her treehouse was mysteriously burned while she spent a night in jail for drunk and disorderly conduct. She was left with a rug, a blanket, a fishing pole and a pair of swim fins. Today, she lives eight miles down the road from Taylor Camp in Hanalei in a home she rents from another ex-Taylor Camp resident. She still surfs, and her hair is still long — gray now and braided in two plaits ... Diane Daniells presently lives four doors down from Bollin behind her husband Mark’s art gallery. She still operates a Montessori preschool that she started when she lived at Taylor Camp ... Rosey Rosenthal lived at Taylor Camp from 1971 until 76. Today, he lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and is executive assistant to the mayor, Harry Kim. He’s involved in sports and the community with sports talk radio and public-access television shows ... Daniells stills “dreams about living at Taylor Camp,” while Bollin seems to keep the memories alive. “I still go naked bakin’ all the time at Taylor Camp,” she says. “No one’s ever down there!”

https://kimsrogers.wordpress.com/articles/taylor-camp-memories/

[MerryBlooms]

15. struggle4progress, thanks so much for taking the time and posting additional links!