Check in if you were a Filthy Hippie

[jpak]

That played yur bongos in the dirt

[rampartc]

1. the dirty hippies were right

[samnsara]

6. my friend had a beetle just like this..

...my 1969 lotus white auto stick shift karman ghia is still in my garage under a tarp...

[jpak]

8. Ha

Learned to drive in a KG

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. My 68 year old cousin still has his Karma Ghia

He proposed to help a wife in it, over 40 years ago. He still has her too!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Was born in a hippie household

My sisters were hippies my family strongly progressive.

Grew up reading Abby Hoffman books and Fat Freddy's Cat.

Dress like a punk,goth,hippy hybrid.

Think multi colors mowhawk and black and rainbow clothes,tye dyed trips,and black leather punk jacket with a glittery peace necklace..

[jpak]

3. I saw NIN in 1989

Trent Reznor had a multi colored mohawk

Yup

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. I remember seeing his hawk.

Here's my hawk.

[jpak]

12. Solid

Not a Hippie term

[samnsara]

4. yeppers!!!

.. I didnt wear shoes for a year..now i wear my Ugg boots even in the summer.

[jpak]

7. Ha!

As soon as skool was out we shed our shoes and ran barefoot and shirtless all summer.

My twin brother and I had massive Affros

But we were in the lake every day with the floating Irish Soap

Yup

[Ohiya]

5. Not filthy, but could have been cleaner I suppose.

[lillypaddle]

9. I don't know

I was married, had a baby and a husband, and a full time job. I smoked pot, though, dropped some LSD and ate my share of mushrooms; listened and went to Doors concert, Janis Joplin, Jethro Tull, The Who, and all of that sort. Said "far out" and "outta sight" a lot. Well, and of course I said "fuck" at least once in every sentence. Watched students being killed at Kent State by fascist pigs, and cried a lot, especially when listening to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. I showered regularly, btw.

So, dude, I don't know. Was I?

[jpak]

11. You pass

No bongos?

Sheesh

[lillypaddle]

15. groovy

I had a friend who was always saying, "outta state" instead of outta sight. I still do that sometimes.

[hwmnbn]

37. Yes...

you are.

[RainCaster]

13. No bongos, I played guitar

Hitchhiked around the US one year, no VW, I had an MG Midget.

[jpak]

14. Hitch hiking is a lost thing

We were better then

[Binkie The Clown]

16. I had a VW bus that went 65 downhill, but only 25 uphill. nt

[jpak]

17. My last GF had a 1969 VW bus

Sketchy brakes

No fun until we camped out

[In_The_Wind]

18. I was a cleanish hippy.

[MuseRider]

19. Played my recorder but not in the dirt.

Went to High School where we had a campus of buildings. We used to meet between classes and smoke a "J" as we called it. When they got wise to that they started doing random locker checks by having us give them our lock numbers (fascist pigs!) so we figured out their system and met behind the buildings for a J. Then they took away our padlocks, then we could not use our coats between buildings (girls already could not wear pants and that made 15 degrees with sleet really fun for us but we were Marijuana free Praise the Lord!). Then the random purse/pocket checks. We still managed to smoke a J between classes but not as easily. We protested, they sent us home and gave us an F in our classes for the day. We protested the war AND our war and they gave us an F for the day. It went on and on. They never figured out how to deal with High School kids, I found that odd (fascist pigs).

My mother had already stopped me from listening to Dylan in Jr. High so.....fascist pigs!

Other than that, things were groovy.

[jpak]

26. U rule

I am not worthy

[MuseRider]

38. Nah,

just woke up and felt like running my mouth off.

I never rule anything and that is for the best.

[CanonRay]

20. I miss my purple leather headband

[LakeArenal]

21. Never dirty.

Lived on Jennifer street in Madison WI.

Knocked hash oil on the carpet and spent a year rubbing rolling papers on it before rolling a joint.

We dealt pot. Pot only. Until two bikers from Milwaukee stole 100 lbs of pot in our Marantz speaker boxes from our storage locker in the basement.

Lived next door to an Ashram and ate vegetarian dinners with them.

Took acid, MDA, smoked a joint laced with opium and it was amazing.
Smoked a joint laced (unknowingly) with PCP and had an awful experience.

Made “Free Love” with more men than my mother ever did.

Moved to a place where it’s legal to smoke. Have been a wake and Baker my whole adult life. Held very responsible jobs.

Don’t know if qualify. But hey man, Pass the Dutchie to the left.

[jpak]

28. !

I had an opiated hash oil experience

OMG

[rickyhall]

22. I bathed nearly every day. Longhair, pocket tee-shirt, navy bellbottoms, beads, dingo boots;

hung out at The Cellar when I was 13, went to Dallas International Pop Festival in Lewisville (thru back fence), got high from 14 on, went to Concert for Bangla Desh in Ft. Worth and sat in circle in Trinity Park passing around the peace pipe. Oh, read On the Road and Howl. I was into it. I was even in San Francisco in 1968 and my dad drove us thru the intersection of Haight and Ashbury on vacation in the Ford Country Squire station wagon. Those were days.

[jpak]

45. Wow

Never been to the Haight

Wicked cool



Edit we had that station wagon tho.

[cilla4progress]

23. Dirty hippie with long straight greasy hair.

parted down the middle.

Wore ripped bell bottoms to school.

Still smoking weed - legal, now. That's a trip!

Bought myself my first bongos for my 66th birthday in March!

[Wicked Blue]

24. No bongos. not much dirt

I briefly worked in a head shop until it got raided (because the owner was cheating the IRS}.

Hitchhiked. Protested the war. Was a member of Yippie.

Too broke to buy bell-bottoms or go to concerts much.

Met and hung out with the Grateful Dead backstage for a couple of concerts before they became big. Someone had given me free tickets.

Did the occasional poetry reading at coffeehouses.

Helped peddle the local underground newspaper and did a little writing for it.

Gave up the hippie stuff many years ago, but still say "far f**king out on occasion.

[jpak]

39. Poetry readings!

That is so pre-hippy

Yay 4U

[Wicked Blue]

46. thx I was an English major nt

[NBachers]

25. People's Park- shot at, tear gassed, chased by pigs. Hitchhiked all around USA. Back in San Fran now

Didn't cut my hair 'till I was in my 30's. Paid some hard dues.

[TheBlackAdder]

27. While I missed that by a few years, here's part of 'The Young Ones' doing a 'The Good Life' parody.

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[Raven]

29. Yes, and at Woodstock.

[jpak]

40. My SIL was at Woodstock

Has a ticket

Yup

[Raven]

43. Mud, all I remember is mud. :-)

[Ocelot II]

30. I was clean and didn't have bongos, but

I had long hair, bell-bottoms and beads, smoked a fair amount of weed, attended anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, and pissed off my parents. Does that count?

[jpak]

32. Maybe

[lark]

31. Clean hippy in the day.

I couchsurfed for a bit but always stayed at friends who had showers or tubs so was never filthy except after a long stint of putting in a garden and then I promptly washed off.

[happybird]

33. 90's hippie checking in

I even did the Rainbow Gathering thing for a few years after high school. Many bongos were played, much dirt was wallowed in.

[jpak]

42. Yay 4U

Am I hash tagging?

[Brother Buzz]

34. I thought bongos was more a beatnik thing

Factoid: a Beat Generation friend of mine invented the hot tub, and hippies had no problem jumping in.

[hwmnbn]

36. I definitely was a hippie...

albeit with a pretty consistent personal hygiene protocol. (except for that patchouli thing)

I am proud of being a hippie to this day. Expanded consciousness, self-awareness, social responsibility, intellectual curiosity were all busted wide open for me back then. My "evolution" continues and I've learned to be grateful for this lovely trip.



Oh yeah, the music kicked ass too!

[Midnight Writer]

41. Still am. Except since I went bald, I now keep my hair buzzed very short.

It seems to me the hippies were right about just about everything. Plus we had a lot of fun. Why should I change?

[Wicked Blue]

47. ...except for bell-bottoms and those ghastly tie-dyed t-shirts

But I did love the acid.

[jpak]

44. OK

So I'm smoking weed and drinking a White Russian.

Fucking nihilists pissed on my rug

Does that count?

[Wicked Blue]

48. Only if they eat your bongos nt

[OriginalGeek]

49. I still have long hair

only not as many of them. Seem to have misplaced the ones from the top.

I remember being 4 or 5 in the late 60s and my Uncle came home from college for christmas and had super long hair and a beard and I just thought he was the coolest guy on the planet. I still do think that but alas, he's left this planet. I miss him dearly. Not long after he passed away his wife took me aside and and said he was proud of me and I'm crying right now just remembering that. She also said he had planned to retire in the next couple months and start growing his hair long again because he knew he was the reason I still let my hair grow. He was looking forward to us hanging out with long hair and stuff. #hippiegoals

[jpak]

50. Awe

Hears to all the way cooled uncles on the planet

[OriginalGeek]

51. A toast indeed!

[bluedigger]

52. 2nd generation.

My dad had an afro and lived in the Haight in the 60's. I'd share some stories if I could remember them.

[jcgoldie]

53. were?

Weir everywhere...