The term “hippie” often brings to mind an image of flowing blonde locks adorned with flowers, VW buses adorned with flowers, and polyester bellbottoms adorned with, yes, more flowers. But for Alice Finer, who grew up in an urban hippie commune in the 1970s, the hippie generation is defined by an earnest desire to create […]
Hippie Issue
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Smells Like Hippie Spirit
The Source’s tie-dyed welcome mat to Phish Phans
There is a certain amount of debate about how the word “hippie” came about, and who coined the term. But hey, who owns a word anyway? While working as a journalist in San Francisco, I was consistently told that long-time San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen had first penned the title in the mid-60s for […]