Love Beads in Popular Culture
- According to the official history of the original 1962 Pier 1 Imports store in San Mateo, California, "Our first customers were post-World War II baby boomers looking for beanbag chairs, love beads and incense."
- The Lemon Pipers released a song called "Love Beads and Meditation" in 1968.
- Chet Atkins released a single titled "Love Beads" in 1970.
- In a 1983 episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show titled "Beads", Lucy makes love beads for Schroeder.
- In episode "Bendin' in the Wind" of the animated series Futurama, Fry, Leela, Amy and Dr. Zoidberg follow Beck's musical tour in a Volkswagen microbus and soon run out of money during their cross country road trip. After inadvertently discovering Dr. Zoidberg naturally produces multicolored pearls as a byproduct of being ill and coughing, the crew fund the rest of their travels by stringing the pearls together and selling them as love beads to highly demanding music festival goers.
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