2jakes
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I agree that there were very few real hippies and the ones that did exist, existed before the mid 1970s...or before the end of the war in Vietnam. After 1974 or 1975, the real "hippie movement" was over.
I think hippies had very little lasting effect on the culture of our nation because there were so few of them, they had so little economic power and because their duration (as hippies) was so short.
I think to have an adult recollection of real hippies...or to have a personal knowledge and understanding of the circumstances in our country that gave rise to the hippie movement, one must have been born on or before 1960. And to really understand the movement, one needs to have been issued a Vietnam-era draft card.
Finally, I think that many of the people here who post most disparagingly about hippies are too young to have ever actually met a real one...except possibly as a child.
AF
I remember the sidewalks of Haight-Ashbury being crowded with "hippies". With my military haircut...I was like Claude Rains
Or at least that's the feeling I felt, which was ok with me.
I remember the beatniks in the cafes during the '50s. And with my boy-scout haircut attitude...I was still invisible to them
& that was ok too....to each his own
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