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Grateful Dead even came to town. At the Field House, The
Dead drew a crowd of 7,000. When the band left the stage after
the second set, the crowd went nuts with applause. As they re-
turned, someone hurled an Aber Day Kegger pitcher (ask your
parents) that hit band member Bob Weir in the head. "Thanks a
lot," he said, and the band cut the third set short, never return-
ing to Montana again.
Hippiedom became common enough in Missoula that de-
tractors had to accept it as a mere fact of life. Hippies eventu-
ally won acceptance in Missoula because they won acceptance
nationally. The movement successfully upended American
culture, which was rebuilt after the '60s—in accord with many
hippie ideas. Legal marijuana, yoga studios, vegetarianism, lib-
erated sexuality—they would not be as mainstream as they are
today were this untrue. You can hear Jimi Hendrix at the gro-
cery store.
Today, Missoula is friendly to the counterculture, which is a
big part of the city's identity. This would not be the case had
Missoula's first hippies not weathered the storm in the 1960s.
The hippie population persisted and multiplied. Missoulians
still live the 1960s' consequences day by day.
