[calex59]

First there were “Hippies” -

Actually the first ones on the scene were the Beatniks, they pre-dated the Hippies by about 10 years.

[Pelham]

“Actually the first ones on the scene were the Beatniks, “

Maynard G Krebs. “Work?!” Bongos. Goatees.

Or for the real thing, Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Wm S Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Bookstore. Some of these depraved characters linked the late 1940s to the hippie era, Cassady in particular.

[HerrBlucher]

Ah yes, the beatniks,