"In 1967, she and her best friend were 15 years old, a little too young to appreciate everything, but we were inhaling it all. It was the absolute epicenter of coolness in the 60s, she recalls. We would walk up and down 8th Street, where all the head shops were it was just so cool, Bernstein says. We were young, unofficial hippies, and we felt like we were the coolest people in the universe it was a wonderful time, very magical."
"Washington Square Park was just as you imagine it, full of hippies and guitars. Bernstein remembers the long-gone women's prison on 6th Avenue (the Jefferson Market Garden is there now, next to the library), where relatives of the prisoners would be yelling up to their incarcerated relatives. It was a total scene on that corner! she says. As an adult, she made the Village home for a while, living on both Jones and Morton Streets."
Jamie Bernstein grew up in Manhattan above 14th Street and moved through residences from West 57th Street to Park Avenue, the Upper East Side and the Dakota. As a teenager in 1967 she immersed herself in Greenwich Village, walking 8th Street, visiting head shops and spending time in Washington Square Park amid hippies and guitars. She recalls the noisy scene outside the long-gone women's prison on 6th Avenue. As an adult she lived on Jones and Morton Streets in the Village and maintained friendships, including Janis Siegel, who connected her with the Village Trip festival.
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