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• 1 media/serape5.jpg media/EFFT-S-4087.jpg 2018-03-08T20:26:23-08:00 Life Before College 13 image_header 2018-04-30T17:14:23-07:00 Although Juan Trujillo was in a good position helping his family prosper during the 1950’s, as a young adult more serious problems began to occur. Freddie would start his family with a wife and three children but shortly after he developed a habit of abusing alcohol. Knowingly showing signs of mental fatigue and instability, Juan admitted himself into the Fort Logan Mental Health Center in 1965 in Colorado. After 18 weeks of intensive treatment Trujillo was released. With the help of the health center’s placement program, Juan was reintroduced to society with training. There he learned how to print and the various skills needed for it such as color separation. Pruitt Press & Publishing which was located in Boulder, Colorado offered him a job after his training, and the excitement of a growing melting pot in Boulder enticed him to go experience it. By association with the printer’s union, Juan Trujillo will begin to experience the racism towards the Latino population which encourages him to leave and pursue the Hippie scene in California. Juan Trujillo began adopting the hippie culture from areas he had visited such as his trip to California in 1969, this is where he changes his style of dress into the more well known jean overalls filled with buttons of various protests.