Once upon a time in Hollywood?

In 1969 I was 21 years old and still lived in both Glendale, the Hollywood Hills with my Aunt and then Venice California for 3 months from about August until November. Then I moved to San Diego because 1969 was the single Craziest Year of my life.

I think 1969 might have been the craziest year of a lot of people's lives who were my age too at that point. So, Once upon a time in Hollywood in a strange sort of way made a lot of sense to me regarding those times too, which were on August 8th and 9th 1969. Tarantino, of course turned it all into a Tarantino fantasy which made the whole thing much easier to deal with. But, I also remember how crazy some people my age were then, especially when I lived in Venice which at that time was in its own way similar to the Haight Ashbury Section of San Francisco at the time. I remember traveling to Hollywood with my 1968 Camaro full of young friends my age to watch Andy Warhol movies that would be like a fly walking up a beautiful girls body or something like that. Thinking this way now just makes me laugh at how silly all this was then. But then, I tried very hard to take this seriously. But, I wasn't successful then either really. The times were just nuts in ways I cannot even really describe to you properly now.

I went to a "Love-IN" with friends in Griffith Park from Venice on a weekend and we heard a free concert put on by Buffy St. Marie and the Youngbloods (When you come home to San Francisco) who at this point were called the "Flying Burrito Brothers" and when the concert ended everyone that was too high to run got beat up by police who were angry everyone was there. Luckily, I could still run so I didn't get knocked out by billy clubs. This was just part of the whole Viet nam war time with Soldiers at the concert often in wigs so they could fit in and look like hippies not soldiers. This was a part of the life then in Los Angeles or other western cities like San Francisco or San Diego or Portland or Seattle then. I suppose the police were beating up soldiers in wigs from the Viet nam War too then. Like I said, "Crazy, Crazy Times!"

Because 50,000 people mostly my age died in Viet Nam as American soldiers I have to say it was crazier then but because of global Warming and Trump and Greta Thune and all that it is going to get much much crazier as this century moves on than anything we ever thought of then.