Hippies- when and where did it begin?

Question

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Answer 1

the 60s?

Answer 2

The "Beatniks" were around from after WWII to the late fifties. After that the "hippies" came about. Now, the exact meaning of these terms is disputed, with some saying that "hippie" was used not as a term of self-identification, but as a derogatory term by the middle and upper classes. The definition matter is another question though.

Answer 3

January 25th, 1962.

I'm just kidding. The hippie movement - like any other social trend - didn't just begin. People slowly began to recognize the "hippies". They were "hip" and rebelled against their parents, but rebelling against your parents was not new to the "hippies" (See Marlon Brando's early films).

Answer 4

the 60s

Answer 5

Like all frauds who pretend to be anti-Establishment, the first hippies were spoiled, selfish, rich snobs. At that time, you couldn't get a job if you had long hair or a beard, which proves that they were living off fat allowances from fatcats.

Answer 6

San Francisco in Haight-Ashbury...1965....the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests" that were sponsored by Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and his gang of Merry Pranksters....complete with the Grateful Dead as the "house band".

Answer 7

Spawn Ranch in 1969.

Answer 8

Most claim the Haight Ashbury disctrict of San Francisco and possibly the campus of UC Berkeley, near San Francisco, as a part of the anti-Vietnam war movement and drug sub-culture that was evolving in the 1960's from the beatnick movement of the 1950's.

I mean, you can go back as say that Aldux Huxley or Lewis Carroll were among the original hippies.

It probably evolved out of the beatnik generation of the 1950's with their beards, scruffy hair, modern dress, love of coffee houses, world beat music, avant garde jazz (experimental stuff). Rap, believe it or not, came out of this. Hard to say if it was black jazz artists or the white patrons of the beatnick undeground who started it, but they began chanting rhyme to the songs.

There was also a lot of marijuana usage.

Today, in the college scene, it is practically manditory for girls to experiment with bi-sexual and lesbian relationships.

Back in the late 1950's and into the 1960's it was practically manditory for kids in college to experiment with marijuana.

I think the turning point of the movement came with a small minority of college students looking into peyote and magic mushrooms, both a part of Indian religious ceremonies.

Then came along Owsley Stanley and Ken Keasey and the "electric koolaide acid test" era which began around 1963 or 1964 in San Francisco with the home manufacture of LSD, a drug invented in Sweden in the 1920s that was supposed to be a new amphetimine, but turned out to be a massive hallusanagenic like Mushrooms and Peyote.

Kids (late teeners or young adults) have always been a bit into the wild side.

In the 1920's they were called Flappers. In the 1940s they were the Jive Kids or the Swing Kids.

They'd go to clubs, get drunk on beer or vodka and dance all night and try and get into a girl's underwear.

Well the underground Electric Koolaide Acid Test was the next evolutionary step.

You went to a big warehouse were a band called the Warlocks who changed their name to the Grateful Dead were playing very loud heavy metal music and people were dancing and someone was passing around a bottle of kool aide spiked with home brewed LSD and people were tripping out.

With the Vietnam war, came a total rebellion against the short haired, religious right, Republican motif of the Army General PResident Eisenhower and his croney Richard Nixon.

To rebel kids grew their hair long so they wouldn't look like them. Dressed in clothes they doctored up to look "neat" that didn't look like a suit and tie and they started doing marijuana and LSD on a regular basis.

They embraced "free love" for the pill had just been perfected and girls could get this for free at the clinic. There was no Herpes or HIV scare, Penicillin cured any venerial infection there was.

So in Asbury Park or on the Green in Berekley people would gathers by the thousands to hear the Dead play live, 19 year old girls would come buy with lemonade or ornage juice laced with LSD and if liked you she'd wishper into your ear and ask if you like to have sex with her and then she'd climb on top, lift her long dress and you'd see she had no underwear and she'd just sit on top of you on the grass in front of everyone and take care of you, then move on to the next guy and do the same for him.

This moved to Los Angeles and eventually as these people graduated or dropped out of college they moved to all parts of the US and even the world.

This era was long, because the Anti-Vietnam movement dated from 1964 with songs like "For What IT's Worth" (Buffalo Sprinfeld) and "Eve of Destruction" until 1973 when Nixon brought the boys home.

That's 9 years of active, agressive "counter culture."

It's became to wane right after the War ended and folded, along with the heavy metal music era, in the 1980s with the advent of Disco and happy times.

Then everyone dressed to impress and the drugs and free sex continued, except now everyone looks like PAris Hilton

Then came AIDS and PENICILLIANESE and gonoreah that was resistant to pennicilin in the mid to late 1980s and that brought an end to the one night stands and free sex era when people started dropping like flies from drug needle usage and casual sex.

To this day there are still hard core hippies reliving Wood STock on a daily basis.

Answer 9

In ones self

Answer 10

can't remember :|