White guys with afros about all I remember. Hippies could stink pretty bad.
“White guys with afros”
I remember those...
ref: alive before the 1960’s.
There were no hippies in the 50’s.
Beatniks and gypsies. The hippie
“thing” didn’t happen until the
Vietnam war.
The Beatnik culture was almost
exclusively confined to larger cities.
and they really weren’t protesters
against the status quo. They just
didn’t want to run with the “stuffed
shirt” crowd.
If you had an indoor job back then,
it was always with a white shirt and
tie. This even included pin setters
at a bowling alley.
‘greasers’ (white t-shirts and levis),
(think Fonzi), were the very first
entity that actually were in protest,
though mildly compared to todays’
standards, against what society deemed
acceptable. Of course, all of this
gleaned from my memory as a 6 year
old growing up in Indiana.
“Hippies could stink pretty bad.”
If you encountered a hippy chick, that smelled like patchouli it’s probably because she was using Patchouli to cover body odor, which is what bikers use it for and from what I’ve read the pirates used it as did cowpunchers.
BTW, we called the patchouli crowd “freaks” not hippies.
As a side note: 10 Years After: