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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: Duncan, BC/ Port Townsend WA nsc
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Time: 2:51:50 AM
Remote Address: 162.255.158.94
Message ID: 304065
Parent ID: 304062
Thread ID: 303980
Yes, I guess the weather there is a lot like the weather in the UK with that maritime air and all.
Guess you never been to Port Townsend then, you should check it out when you get a chance, it at least used to be a cool place. I don't know how much it has changed in the 40 years since I'd been there, but I'm sure a lot. But back in 1977, the old town was filled with old time hippies, and by the late '70s in the U.S., there weren't too many hippies left in this country at all (there are a lot more today, at least here in the west, than there were in the late '70s). But a close friend I had in NY, his older brother, who I didn't even know till I got there, lived in Port Townsend and owned the old Town Tavern, one of the oldest buildings in town, built in the 1880s and located on Water St, next to where the ferry docks (or at least did in '77). He had the bar downstairs, along with a health food restaurant in the back that he also owned and operated (some good food there), and in the 2 floors upstairs (it used to be a hotel in the old days), was a hippie commune that he also ran. But it was a very organized commune, half the people living there worked downstairs at the bar and restaurant, and there was no open relationships among the commune members, you had to have your own mate and a job (or money to share) to live there. It was nothing like the hippie commune I had lived on in New Mexico before I came there, where nobody had a job and everybody shared their mates with each other. But everything else at this Port Townsend commune was like a true commune, everybody shared in what they had, including their money and food, and everybody helped in raising their children all together as one big family. Plus they took me right in even though they didn't really know me... Shit, I was the youngest one there at the time, not counting the little kids, I was in my early 20s, while they were mainly about 7 to 12 years older than me.
But yes, the Town Tavern was an very interesting place, they had a open mike in the bar every nite and some great music was always happening. A part of the movie An Officer and a Gentleman, was filmed there in the bar in the early '80s, although I've never seen it (guess I should). I guess the building is empty today (not sure, but it looks that way from looking at the Google street view), but at least it's not called The Town Tavern anymore, that was sold in the early '90s, and I'm sure the old commune upstairs is long gone. Too bad that I lost touch with all of those cool people, and my old friend from NY too, along with his brother who owned the place.
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