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