Hippies

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away, and others simply were
outcasts, who could only fit in with the Hippie population. "Under 25
became a magical age, and young people all over the world were united by
this bond" (Harris 15). This bond was of Non-conformity and it was the
"Creed of the Young" (Harris 15). Most Hippies came from wealthy middle
class families. Some people said that they were spoiled and wasting their
lives away. But to Hippies themselves this was a way of life and no one
was going to get in the way of their dreams and ambitions.

Hippies flocked to a certain area of San Francisco on the corner of Haight
Street and Ashbury Street, where the world got their first view of this
unique group. This place came to be known as the Haight Ashbury District.
There were tours of the district and it was said that the tour "was the
only foreign tour within the continental limits of the United States"
(Stern 147). The Hippies were so different that the conservative middle
class could not relate to them and saw ...

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together" (This Fabulous
Century 64). This festival was held in a small town in up-state New York
and came to be called Woodstock, after the town it was held in. Also in
Greenwich Village, New York Hippies had a place. The Village on every
Sunday was known to have hordes of singers with banjos and drums
celebrating their youth together(Stern 103). One of the basic foundations
of the Hippie movement was the flagrant use of illegal drugs. There were
many drugs that the Hippies used but none was more used then marijuana.
From 1960 to 1970 the number of Americans who had tried marijuana had
increased from a few hundred thousand to 8,000,000. The majority of these
new users were from 12 ...

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