Were you a 'hippy' or a 'yippy' or a 'flower-child' during your misguided youth?

Question

I never did get completely into the groove during the 60s, but I believe that I did MORE than my share of beer drinking and partying. I was very 'misguided' (heh,heh,heh). I don't remember ever meeting a real 'hippy', and I'm not sure what a 'yippy' was.

I served in the military for 3 years, then went to a tech school, then had to work for a living - ya work, man, what a bummer. Took up biking a little later in life, and still enjoy my sportster.

REALLY SOME FAR-OUT ANSWERS, MAN.

Answer 1

Well I wasn't a out right hippy, no a yippy, so I guess it was a flower child, Into the music most of it anyway. Never did like the hard rock. Did a little MJ. no other stuff. and lived in SF. and used to visit Haight/Asbury occasionally. And hung out in Golden Gate park at the end of the street for the free concerts.

Answer 2

I was "the real McCoy" as they say. I actually had always considered myself a beatnik but when the 60's hit I had long hair already. I liked drugs, especially weed and LSD, I lived on the beach in California, so I was promptly designated as a "hippie." a flower child, whatever. I never did get behind the "yippie" thing. Too political for me.

Answer 3

I guess I was what you call a dud type kid. I worked for my Dad. I did a little going out. My sister was my best friend.
I knew of the hippy's and flower-child kids, don't know about the yippy. Can you believe...I was a senior in high school, in Health class before I found out that people actually took "medicine" without a prescription.....

Answer 4

I was very much a 'hippy at heart' I hardly ever wore shoes -still don't -had long hair with flowers in -only ate after dark -had cow-bells on the baby's pram -floor length skirts-then Mary Quant said you MUST wear a mini skirt and cut your hair and have white lipstick and that was the end of another era

Answer 5

I was all three in one, but not a youth. I was well into my teen years and thought hippies came from California. I tried to dress the part, though, with the suede hats and the fringed outfits. It was a fun time.

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

Answer 6

I suppose my Husband and myself could have been called Hippies. We were into the barefoot back to the land movement. We were on a small farm barefoot and in the usual hippie garb. Without the drugs and free love though. They were the best years of my life!

Answer 7

I was in the Navy during that entire period of time. But, I was also a folk singer who appeared in a lot of coffee houses in the midwest and the west coast, including a week at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. I may have been the really odd one: a Republican folk singer! Now, that's a walking oxymoron. LOL!

Answer 8

Now what ever makes you think my youth was misguided? lol. I was hippy dressed from head to foot, but never into free love or drugs. I don't think the Scottish hippys were as into it as much as the US ones, but I do have some great memories from those days.

Answer 9

My dad was the gestapo, so any thought of drugs or free love would have ended my life for sure. The only drinks i had were at wineries in Europe with my parents. I thought it was "undignified" to spit, anything, much less wine, Apparently you are supposed to smell, taste and roll the wine in your mouth then spit it out . I swallowed and drank so i got hammered with my parents.........man what a hangover, the whole bed was jumping, had to sleep with my foot on the floor to keep the bed still

Answer 10

That was my goal in life to be a flower child but by the time I got old enough, they were done. So I, just as you did, did a lot of misguided things.