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and definitely too early for yuppies--
That Steve guy who owned Studio 54 is a bad example, and Jon Peters of Hollywood is another--I guess he never got over it.
Yeah, there was a big split after Altamont among the hipsters over Which Drug Ruled. Heroin was still around, but "over," and in 1973 there were 2 movements. First there were the Stoneground Hippies, who were "Naturally" into marijuana, and were even into growing it. The Hippies were into Acid, too, but let's face it, nobody could do it every single day, though many tried. Pot was nicer, even healthy, and well, Stoneground.
Then there were the proto-Yuppies who looked exactly like Hippies in 1973, but weren't able to hack the dropout life, didn't much like to grow things, and preferred living in cities or at least in houses with plumbing. Those people didn't much like pot, and instead started trimming their hair and getting jobs to support their growing and expensive fashionable Coke habits. See, incredibly, in 1973-4 nobody quite realized that coke was a highly addictive substance. "Traffic" is a good movie on this era but better is "Blow," the one with Johnny Depp.
Coke was introduced to hippies by the Hells Angels, in approximately 1970 ( Hendrix was a cokester) and the hippies reciprocated by turning the Angels on to LSD. LSD had little effect on the Angels because they insisted on doing it at the same time as all other drugs including Camels and Jack Daniels. Yuppie Cokeheads are like that too, in my experience, and usually do all three, coke, drinking, and cigarettes)
So, you should probably be looking into late 70s or even later to find the first real Yuppie cokehead asshole.In my mind they are more closely associated with the Reagan era than the 70's. Although coke use was common by the mid 70s, there just weren't quite so many assholes. (the stinkiest year for cokehead assholes was probably 1982, the year Belushi died doing "speedballs" a mix of coke and heroin--he also smoked and drank)
The era begins with Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) But that was still proto-Yuppie. And very little coke if any as I recall. Tony had contempt for his friends' drunkenness, but I bet he did coke at every opportunity. (LOL) In those days people offered, and nobody really knew it was terrible for you yet, so few turned it down. But if you were Stoneground, the chemical thrills of coke just didn't "do it." If you weren't, then off to Yuppie Cokehead Assholedom you went, right along with Al Pacino's character in Scarface.(1983)
The ultimate yuppie cokehead asshole is probably Gordon Gecko, the main character in the movie "Wall Street" which was made in 1987. Watch Gordon: coke, fine liquor, and tobacco. Dead giveaway.
Hey, you know what? Shrub is a Yuppie Cokehead Asshole! A ROYAL Yuppie cokehead asshole! Same era molded him and everything! Typical Bio! Look no further!
Heh. Got on a little drug rant there! sorry...I'm a bit of an expert...(Not really, Agent Mike!)
So you can trust me kids!
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