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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Baby Boomers: People born between 1946 and 1964
The Hippie Generation: teenagers during the period between 1962 and the mid-1970's.
Most Hippies were Baby Boomers.
Many Baby Boomers were Hippies.
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Thanks OBB, you took the words right out of my mouth. Small tweak. I would say the hippie era was 1967 (1966 at the earliest) to the mid-1970s.
As for birth year for most hippies, I'm going to posit 1940, perhaps a bit earlier for when the leading edge of hippies were born. John Lennon and Ringo Starr were both born in 1940 and they were undoubtedly hippies.
Other stand outs representing hippiedom and their birth year include Jimi Hendrix (1942), Janis Joplin (1943) and Neil Young (1945). That places all of the above squarely outside the birth years of the baby boomer era. And it means that many hippies were older than boomers, not the other way around as one poster said.
That said, we agree that the vast majority of hippies doing their thing from 1967 to the mid-1970s were in their late teens and 20s, putting them comfortably in the baby boomer range.
So yes, most hippies are/were baby boomers.
Empirically, I see it all the time in the Villages and elsewhere. Many boomers still seem to be carrying hippie ideals, in their appearance and their values. And I thank God for that.
It's encouraging to see a new generation of hippies, and you'll see tons of them at jam band and Dead offshoot concerts. They're typically in their 20s and 30s. And I tip my hat to them for keeping the flame alive.