So I am writing an essay on Hippies and need to interview someone for help. Any willing subjects? Lol.

Where do you live? Some percentage of the old guys in the park, the library, the senior center, the mall, or the supermarket are undoubtedly former hippies. Plenty of them around where I live.

Some of them are still wearing tie-dye and torn jeans. Some of them still have long, straight hair, and, amazingly, some of them are still blonde.

Can’t find them just by following a trail of pot smoke any more, though.

Dude my mom lives with is a Hippie that is around 65 years old. He is still a long hair weed smoking guy that used to own a recording studio for hippie bands.

If you could compile a list of questions for him I am sure he could respond. But I doubt he would do any sort of free-flowing phone interview. He is pretty weird about privacy.

I just asked Kurt and he said if you can provide some questions he would be more than happy to help. Shoot me a PM with a list and I can get this done for you in the next 24 hours.

Hippies are old. Go to retirement homes.

I suggest you study the history of the 60’s counter-culture to find information. Be reminded that the hippies evolved from the greasers, the boppers, the hipsters/gangsters of preceding times. And, as others have noted, post your questions because no one person can answer them all adequately. Ya dig?

@Dutchess_III, you must be kidding as an eighteen-year-old the sixties would be between 57 and 76 today. A bit young for retirement homes, don’t you think? ;-)

@Dutchess_III – that’s an exaggerated generalization if ever I heard one.

It was the kids from the 60s who were the real hippies. I’m a 70’s child, and we liked to call ourselves hippies, but we weren’t the real deal. So you’re looking at people. who are 70 to 80 years old.

Putting “Lol” right in the question doesn’t make it sound like you have a lot of respect for people who might be qualified to answer. Not unless it means (as it used to) “little old lady.”

My days as a hippie are a blur. I’d love to help you but I don’t remember a thing that I did!!! LoLfP (Little Old Lady from Passidina)

When did it ever mean “Little old lady”, @Jeruba?

A friend of mine thought it meant “lots of love.” How surprised he was to find out it meant “laugh out loud.” (Never heard it as “little old lady.” What an odd context it would have!)

I never heard of it until the advent of texting in the 90s.

It’s been 2 days now. Has any hippie been interviewed?

Yes. Lol thank you guys