The 1960s

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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 them as aliens. The Haight Ashbury district lies in
the very center of San Francisco. ...

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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 years old to college seniors(This
Fabulous Century 84). To ...

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