The summer of love, 1968. By 1969 and Woodstock being over, so was the hippie movement. It dragged on for a few more years but the momentum of the movement was gone. I would even go as far as to say without the music out of england, specifically the beatles, the stones, the yardbirds, for those who don't know, included eric clapton, jeff beck and jimmy page. Hippie to me is not so much an outward thing as it is a way of thinking and acting. We were dissatisfied with the war in vietnam and the establishment and the old way of doing 'business'. Hippies were more socially conscience after the killings of the kennedy boys and martin luther king. We wanted things changed. We can change the world, rearrange the world, all for the better but the powers that be wanted no part of any change and demonized hippies to the point when today you say hippie and people automatically say, dirty. Nixon blamed the 'longhairs' for the marches on washington and the protests about the war. He even had LSD outlawed by claiming the 'hippies' wouldn't be protesting if it weren't for LSD, it was making them crazy.
Hippies aren't dead, we just put away our old VW buses, tie-dyed t-shirts and bellbottoms and exchanged them for nice cars, nice clothes and quiet times at home getting stoned instead of at a three day festival somewhere. We also exchanged our long hair, shining, gleaming, streaming flaxen waxen...won't you give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer, hair, here baby, there momma, everywhere daddy daddy, hair. Now it's short and gray. Peace