MORE ON THE HALLOWEEN PICTURE

I remembered some more about that picture after visiting with J.  The Hippy movement was very new in 1965 and even more mysterious to us sheltered BYU students.  The closest thing we could come to dressing like hippies was the Beatnik style that we knew about from the 50's and early 60's.  The Hippy style evolved into tie dyed shirts and flowery dresses for the girls.  No makeup, etc.  The guys had long hair and really grungy clothes.  

Anyway, we thought we were cool and on the edge.  Especially on a campus that did not allow blue jeans, hair over the ears, T Shirts, beards or mustaches.  And girls had to wear dresses, even on the coldest of mornings.  Of course the dresses had to touch the floor if someone in authority had you kneel on the floor.  No pants except at the bowling alley in the new Wilkinson Center.  And it goes without saying that the Center had no pool tables.  An instrument of the Devil for corrupting the youth.  

The University had no rules against playing cards, but Joseph Fielding Smith had written that spotted playing cards were of the Devil.  So my room mates and I would sit out on the front porch of the Boyack House where we lived (near the site of the present Marriott Center) and play Hearts.  Our poor Dorm Resident would come by regularly  and ask us fervently to play the cards indoors as it upset the faculty that drove by. We continued to play on the porch.  When it got too cold to play outdoors we played in front of the picture window with the curtain open.  We were rowdy boys.