February 06, 2006
Yippie Museum slated for Bleecker Street
1960s and '70s counterculture icons the Yippies, or the Youth International Party, are in the process of opening a museum on Bleecker Street, according to The Villager, which alternately compares the museum to a Yippie version of a Hard Rock Cafe, "Cheers," or Smithsonian.
From The Villager: Among items slated for the permanent collection are part of (Jerry) Rubin’s remains scraped off a California road, a portion of LSD guru Tim Leary’s ashes supplied by Art Kunkin of the Los Angeles Free Press, a sampling of (Abbie) Hoffman’s garbage and F.B.I., C.I.A. and N.S.A. files back from the days when people could obtain such classified information. The former factory at 9 Bleecker St. near Bowery, map, would also house a coffee shop, gift shop, hookah lounge, a comedy club and space for the Institute for Advanced Political Protest.
February 6, 2006 02:53 PM in Downtown, Museums
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