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As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
Tie-dyed clothes, associated with hippie culture. The bohemian predecessor of the hippie culture in San Francisco was the "Beat Generation" style of coffee houses and bars, whose clientele appreciated literature, a game of chess, music (in the forms of jazz and folk style), modern dance, and traditional crafts and arts like pottery and painting."
Fallon reportedly came up with the name by condensing Norman Mailer's use of the word hipster into hippie. [24] Use of the term hippie did not become widespread in the mass media until early 1967, after San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen (the same columnist who had coined the term beatnik in 1958) began referring to hippies in his ...
[33] [34] According to authors Bronner and Dell Clark, the clothing styles worn by hippies in the 1960s and 1970s were copied from African-American culture. The word hippie comes from the African-American slang word hip. African-American dress and hairstyles such as braids (often decorated with beads), dreadlocks, and language were copied by ...
Flower child originated as a synonym for Hippie, especially among the idealistic young people who gathered in San Francisco and the surrounding area during the Summer of Love in 1967. It was the custom of "flower children" to wear and distribute flowers or floral-themed decorations to symbolize ideals of universal belonging, peace , and love .
In Hippies and American Values Timothy Miller described the hippie culture as essentially a "religious movement" whose goal was to transcend the limitations of mainstream religious institutions: Like many dissenting religions, the hippies were enormously hostile to the religious institutions of the dominant culture, and they tried to find new ...
In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson campaigned to become Sherriff of Aspen, Colorado as part of the "Freak Power" movement, and used this symbol to represent Freaks The freak scene was originally a component of the bohemian subculture which began in California in the mid-1960s, associated with (or part of) the hippie movement.
[18] [136] There was a culture clash when many of the hippie protesters strolled en masse into the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with Billy Graham and Bob Hope. [ 137 ] On August 7, 1971, a Yippie smoke-in in Vancouver was attacked by police, resulting in the Gastown Riot , one of the most famous protests in Canadian history.