General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

The Hippy movement, which started in America in the 1960s, and spread to Britain, and it was looked on with disgust by the American and British 'establishment' the Hippies were considered as JR says, as lazy, drug addicted, work shy, nit ridden, dirty scruffy sods, and part of the 1960s counter culture movement, of the time, who were sick of wars LINK

I remember as a child in the 1960s and when I was a little older in the early 1970s, observing Hippy communities whilst on holidays in those times, one was in Cornwall in 1967, they were dancing around a campfire on the beach, and then bonking in the sand dunes

There loads of them in North Wales too, but as the 1970s wore on, the Hippies seemed to disappear, because they decided to stop taking drugs, smarten themselves up and get a job, but there were die hard's like JR who clung on to the Hippy culture, and I mean OK folk would take the pee out of them, but on the whole I think they were a well liked bunch, a Hippy would not doo yoo any harm, because he or she would be too stoned

As to their appearance, they wore jeans and trainers


In the 1970s wearing jeans and trainers would stop you getting into most nightclubs, but I knew of men in Wigan who had long hair, but I never knew of that stopping them getting into nightclubs in Wigan if they were dressed smart, and I myself had long hair in the 1970s and 80s and I wore jeans and trainers, and that was not because I was a Hippy, it was because I was a scruffy get, and JR is right, because when I was dressed like that, I could only get into the Kiing of Clubs, and that was in the early 1980s