Do you remember what a BeatNick was, if what, what participated and about what year(s) did this occur?

Question

I left some of its description vague to see if anyone knows if it was vegetable, rocks, humans or aleins, hehe.

Answer 1

50's before hippies, TV beatnick was Maynard G. Krebbs on Dobie Gillis show.(He then became Giligan on Gilligans Island)

Answer 2

Beatnik is a media stereotype that borrowed the most superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s to present a distorted (and sometimes violent), cartoon-like misrepresentation of the real-life people and the spirituality found in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.

“Beat Generation” sold books, sold black turtleneck sweaters and bongos, berets and dark glasses, sold a way of life that seemed like dangerous fun – thus to be either condemned or imitated. Suburban couples could have beatnik parties on Saturday nights and drink too much and fondle each other’s wives.

Answer 3

BeatNicks were the original hippies.
They were around from the mid fifties to early sixties.
They were mainly anti-establishment with some pot smoking and heroin but not necessarily. Some liked motorcycles.

Answer 4

A long, long time ago, when I was a tiny little tot, my cousin who was a teenager then, had a boyfriend who was a "beatnick" He always said "cool man" and he wore unconventional clothing like a beret, a small scarf around his neck, his shirts were unbuttoned and he wore sandals and he was always tapping out a beat on something or another.`smile~

ps, he always wore "shades" and he had a goatee.
I hope that's what you're looking for. ~smile~

Answer 5

I have never known what a BeatNick was. I am guessing it is a rock concert, or something like that.

Answer 6

I don't know what a BeatNick is, but I do remember beatniks, who were most definitely human (even if my father often wondered). :) Cool, man.

Answer 7

Beatniks were around in the late 1950's....before the Hippies came along...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1960/fashion2.shtml

Answer 8

They the prototype of the counterculture that developed in the sixties. They where hipster poets. Their time was the fifties.

Answer 9

early form of hippie