At what time were the hippies created and when did they died out?

Question

I realy want to know when the hippies were created because we were talking about the hippies in class and people kept telling me that they were alive in the 60's or 70's.

Answer 1

Okay, if you talking about the hippies of the 60's, then they have not died out and they were around since sometime in the late 60's. Now if you want to talk about the lifestyle of the hippies, then it has been around a long time and will not die out. The Bohemian lifestyle has been around since almost the dawn of civilization. There will always be people who do not want to conform to any particular lifestyle. One very good example was Adolf Hitler. He lead that kind of life in Vienna for several years just before WW I. He never wanted to hold down a boring job and that is what "helped" him have the ideas he had. If he had lead a normal life, the world would never known one the most evil tyrants of the 20th century.

Answer 2

Here's a very interesting (and, I think. very accurate) "Hippie History."
Here's the beginning:
"To do justice to the movement you first have to go back to the 1940's after World War Two. There had been two world wars and a depression in just thirty years. There began an anti-establishment movement. People wanting to break away from societies values placed on them. The poet Allen Ginsberg could possibly be considered the father of this movement. Using the written word they began to express their frustration , protesting what they saw wrong with the world. The poetry was not always just read but often performed to music. This is probably the source of the name given them, "The Beats". They were also referred to as "The Beat Generation". By the fifties the movement had spread and grown. Coffee houses began to open. Places where they could meet and share thoughts. Even today there are many coffee houses that host poetry readings. Jazz clubs were also a gathering place. From these places emerged the "Beatniks", Typically dressed in shabby clothes, sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses at all hours. The beatniks refused to conform. I can remember visiting some of my mother's family, in New Jersey, in 1961. We went on a ride in the subways and there they were. My first exposure to beatniks. Sitting in corners with their bongos. I was fascinated. I wanted to be a beatnik. One of my favorite shows "Dobbie Gillis" had a major character named Maynard G. Krebs , played by Bob Denver. You know, Gilligan! Sadly I was only thirteen and the beatniks were already fading. The phrase "I'm Hip" was used quite often by beatniks. Their talk was said to be hip. Some even called them "Hipsters". Thus the beginning of the Hippies."


By the way, "hippies" haven't died out. We still have a good number of them here in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Of course, most of them are in their 50s and 60s, but they still "wear the gear" and "talk the talk."

The second link is also quite informative. Hippieness is really a frame of mind. I'm 63 and I suppose I'm still one myself.

Answer 3

we were born in the late 40's and early50's we were turning 18 during the Vietnam war and all of our male friends were being sent off to war. there is more to being a hippie than drugs, sex and war but effected us and we were labeled if we did not conform. We did not die most of us are alive today, had family's and wanted the best for them. some lived different than you and some joined the main stream of life and many died from drugs and substance abuse. To me Hippie was a time I cherished and miss the simple way of life.

Answer 4

OMG there are still rare hippies lurking in the open in our society.. They hide in canyons and coastal beach communities. They rarely venture out into the broad daylight and into normal society.
The species began evolution in the 1950's with the beatnik, noted by the goatee and beret with longish hair for the male and light Capri pant and black turtleneck for the female. Both sexes of the species favorites all black for their attire.
The hippie evolved quite rapidly after the invention of the birth control pill. Free love was the natural occurrence of copulation without risk of procreation.
The hippie was a THC inducing socialist who was as artistic as the pre hippie, the beatnik. The beatnik created poetry, painted and sculpted. The hippie created sand candles, crochet vests and painted in bright "psychedelic colors. The hippie co-habituated in multifamily dwelling called communes where serial polygamy was prevalent.

Answer 5

The movemente Name Created in the late 50s and died in early 70s But style persist

Answer 6

Hippies came around in the 60's mostly to protest the war in Vietnam and they are still around, although now they protest a host of other things

Answer 7

Hippies were created in 1965 & they started dieing out in the 1970's. Although they are still around today just not dressed the way they use to. My sister is one!!

Answer 8

Hippies were in the 60's, they haven't all died out yet but it won't be too long.

Answer 9

Hippies will always have that way of thinking---Time just changes their looks and music, & they have other responsiblities--Family's
Etc--I was a hippie but now I'm 48 YRS old and just waiting or hoping to retire...... But i still like the old MUSIC & classic rock without the drugs-----------HAHAHA

Answer 10

Hippies have always been and will always be. They change their "look" and society changes the label it puts on them, but the mindset is always around.