hippies in the 60s
Hippies and the 60’s By Morgan D. Many people have different ideas of what hippies are and what they did in their life. ... Most people think of hippies as longhaired, psychedelic people. ... Usually hippies had long hair. ... Even though they were like other groups in the 60’s, some other groups wore black, and the hippies wore all different colors, feathers, flowers, and beads. ... Some hippies wore huge, floppy sunhats, pointed, wizard- style hats, artsy berets, decadent top hats, and peaked caps; anything went. ... Most hippies smoked marijuana, pot, and acid. ... Some hippies could also play the guitar. Hippies were totally against war, especially the Vietnam War. ... Many hippies went to The Haight-Ashbury district located where most hippies lived. ... The hippies celebrated a few things such as the three-day 1966 Trips Festival, which had LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethyl amide), the Grateful Dead, strobe lights, and an Olympic trampolinist jumping from a balcony. ... Many people have different ideas of how hippies came to be. ... " People think of hippies as just regular humans, but really they are a culture. ... The First Hippies The trouble in trying to define what hippies ARE is that the hippies were really a historical phenomenon which began in the mid-1960s and ended perhaps ten years later. In that sense, then, the hippies no more exist today than do the beatniks of the 1940s and 1950s, the Harlem hipsters of the 1920s, or the bohemians of the late 19th century. You have to define what hippies WERE, not what they are. And to understand what the hippies were, you need to understand where they came from. ... The hippies were an outgrowth of what is now called the Beat Generation, or to use the more popular term, the beatniks. ... Soon some of the older and less perceptive Beats, who were themselves often hangers on of the original New York group, began derisively labeling these kids - who so obviously wanted to be "hip" - as "hippies. ... Many hippies moved to Haight Ashbury or New York City lived in communes. ... The musical phenomena of the decade was Woodstock, a three day music festival that drew 400,000 hippies and featured peace, love, and happiness. ... TThe hippies were usually judged by people as trouble makers because of their looks. ... Some kids that wanted to stay in school, but still be hippies became part time or weekend hippies. Lots of hippies lived near the West Coast. Hippies listened to rock bands such as The Greatful Dead. The hippies mainly protested the Vietnam War. The hippies style of clothing consisted of bellbottoms, platform shoes, tie-dyed shirts, beads, headbands, funky glasses and other lose fitting clothes. ... Elvis Presley, and Sonny and Cher made bellbottoms popular for hippies. ... Beads were worn on hippies neck and wrists. ... Overall the hippies style was very distinct and original. ... WHO ARE THESE hippies and what the hell do they want? ... Shown are a number of books that purport to explain to a bewildered society just what was going on with this new phenomenon called the hippies.