Hippie Photos 39 Images From The Height Of The 1960S

From San Francisco to Woodstock, these vintage hippie pictures take you inside the revolution that defined a generation.

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1 of 40The Merry Pranksters — author Ken Kesey’s collective of LSD disciples — atop their bus, Further, getting ready to take LSD across America. Date and location unspecified.Ian Burt/Flickr 2 of 40Hippies dance during a “love-in” in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 1968.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images 3 of 40At Woodstock, a man eats lunch on the hood of the school bus. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images 4 of 40The Merry Pranksters arrive at Woodstock with a school bus full of LSD. 1969.John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 5 of 40Ken Kesey poses for a photo with a young flower child. La Honda, California. 1971.Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 6 of 40A Merry Prankster called “The Hermit” touches up the paint on the magic bus, Further. San Francisco, California. 1966.Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images 7 of 40Merry Prankster and author Stewart Brand sets up instruments on top of the group’s magic bus. San Francisco, California. 1966.Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images 8 of 40A couple waits for the start of the Monterey Pop Festival in California. 1967.Getty Images 9 of 40Altamont Free Concert. 1969.Robert Altman/Getty Images 10 of 40Hippie family living in a painted bus. Date unspecified.Wikimedia Commons 11 of 40A young hippie sits cross-legged in a New York City park. 1969.Lambert/Getty Images 12 of 40Hippies passing a joint at a commune. Date unspecified.Wikimedia Commons 13 of 40Music fans gather in Hyde Park to see the Rolling Stones in concert. 1969.J. Marmaras/Keystone/Getty Images 14 of 40A Hells Angel relaxes on the scaffolding during the Isle of Wight music festival. 1970. Keystone/Getty Images 15 of 40Hippies relaxing on the beach. Date unspecified.David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library 16 of 40A female dancer, decorated in fluorescent body paint and with feathers in her hair, attends an event at San Francisco’s Avalon Ballroom. 1967.Ted Streshinsky/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images 17 of 40Hippies gathered around a large tree at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Date unspecified.Hulton Archive/Getty Images 18 of 40Ron “Pigpen” McKernan of The Grateful Dead. Date unspecified.David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library 19 of 40Concert-goers lend a helping hand to push a stalled VW microbus at the Ozark Music Festival in Sedalia, Missouri. 1974. Nowheat/Wikimedia Commons 20 of 40Woodstock. 1969.Wikimedia Commons 21 of 40An anti-war demonstrator at the University of California, Berkeley throws a tear gas canister at police. 1970.Bettmann/Getty Images 22 of 40A hippie couple looks out to sea along the beachfront. California. 1967. Lynn Pelham/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images 23 of 40Young people on their way to Woodstock. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images 24 of 40Woodstock attendees hug each other. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images 25 of 40Woodstock attendees sit at their camp site on the festival grounds. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images 26 of 40Hippie couple stands together at Woodstock. 1969.John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 27 of 40Two hippies attending Woodstock talk to each other. 1969.Wikimedia Commons 28 of 40View of life inside “Drop City,” an experimental, countercultural community based around cheaply constructed geodesic dome structures. Trinidad, Colorado. 1967. Carl Iwasaki/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images 29 of 40A gathering of hippies at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice. Date unspecified.In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images 30 of 40American political and social activists Abbie Hoffman and Anita Kushner sit cross-legged on either side of Linn House (center), a “Boo-Hoo” leader of the Neo-American Church, devoted to the use of psychedelic drugs. He performed their wedding ceremony in Central Park, New York. 1967. Burton Berinsky/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images 31 of 40A nude woman stands before a crowd at a concert in London’s Hyde Park. 1970.Getty Images 32 of 40A female demonstrator offers a flower to a military policeman during an anti-war protest at the Pentagon. 1967.Wikimedia Commons 33 of 40A Washington, D.C. policeman arrests a demonstrator during a protest against the Vietnam War. 1971.AFP/Getty Images 34 of 40James Edward Baker, known as Father Yod, was the leader of Los Angeles’ Source Family commune. Date unspecified.Isis Aquarian Archives 35 of 40Members of the Source Family form a human chain. Date unspecified.Isis Aquarian Archives 36 of 40Ecstatic fans give in to the music at the Isle of Wight festival. 1969. Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 37 of 40Hippies dancing at East Afton Farm, near Freshwater, during the Isle of Wight festival. 1970.Keystone/Getty Images 38 of 40Attendees of the Isle of Wight festival. 1970.Wikimedia Commons 39 of 40A group of dancing hippies. Location unspecified. Circa 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 40 of 40Like this gallery?Share it:

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At the beginning of the 1960s, few predicted that a massive youth culture revolution was about to occur.

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1 of 40The Merry Pranksters — author Ken Kesey’s collective of LSD disciples — atop their bus, Further, getting ready to take LSD across America. Date and location unspecified.Ian Burt/Flickr

2 of 40Hippies dance during a “love-in” in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 1968.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images

3 of 40At Woodstock, a man eats lunch on the hood of the school bus. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images

4 of 40The Merry Pranksters arrive at Woodstock with a school bus full of LSD. 1969.John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

5 of 40Ken Kesey poses for a photo with a young flower child. La Honda, California. 1971.Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

6 of 40A Merry Prankster called “The Hermit” touches up the paint on the magic bus, Further. San Francisco, California. 1966.Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

7 of 40Merry Prankster and author Stewart Brand sets up instruments on top of the group’s magic bus. San Francisco, California. 1966.Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

8 of 40A couple waits for the start of the Monterey Pop Festival in California. 1967.Getty Images

9 of 40Altamont Free Concert. 1969.Robert Altman/Getty Images

10 of 40Hippie family living in a painted bus. Date unspecified.Wikimedia Commons

11 of 40A young hippie sits cross-legged in a New York City park. 1969.Lambert/Getty Images

12 of 40Hippies passing a joint at a commune. Date unspecified.Wikimedia Commons

13 of 40Music fans gather in Hyde Park to see the Rolling Stones in concert. 1969.J. Marmaras/Keystone/Getty Images

14 of 40A Hells Angel relaxes on the scaffolding during the Isle of Wight music festival. 1970. Keystone/Getty Images

15 of 40Hippies relaxing on the beach. Date unspecified.David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

16 of 40A female dancer, decorated in fluorescent body paint and with feathers in her hair, attends an event at San Francisco’s Avalon Ballroom. 1967.Ted Streshinsky/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

17 of 40Hippies gathered around a large tree at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Date unspecified.Hulton Archive/Getty Images

18 of 40Ron “Pigpen” McKernan of The Grateful Dead. Date unspecified.David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

19 of 40Concert-goers lend a helping hand to push a stalled VW microbus at the Ozark Music Festival in Sedalia, Missouri. 1974. Nowheat/Wikimedia Commons

20 of 40Woodstock. 1969.Wikimedia Commons

21 of 40An anti-war demonstrator at the University of California, Berkeley throws a tear gas canister at police. 1970.Bettmann/Getty Images

22 of 40A hippie couple looks out to sea along the beachfront. California. 1967. Lynn Pelham/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

23 of 40Young people on their way to Woodstock. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images

24 of 40Woodstock attendees hug each other. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images

25 of 40Woodstock attendees sit at their camp site on the festival grounds. 1969.Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images

26 of 40Hippie couple stands together at Woodstock. 1969.John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

27 of 40Two hippies attending Woodstock talk to each other. 1969.Wikimedia Commons

28 of 40View of life inside “Drop City,” an experimental, countercultural community based around cheaply constructed geodesic dome structures. Trinidad, Colorado. 1967. Carl Iwasaki/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

29 of 40A gathering of hippies at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice. Date unspecified.In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

30 of 40American political and social activists Abbie Hoffman and Anita Kushner sit cross-legged on either side of Linn House (center), a “Boo-Hoo” leader of the Neo-American Church, devoted to the use of psychedelic drugs. He performed their wedding ceremony in Central Park, New York. 1967. Burton Berinsky/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

31 of 40A nude woman stands before a crowd at a concert in London’s Hyde Park. 1970.Getty Images

32 of 40A female demonstrator offers a flower to a military policeman during an anti-war protest at the Pentagon. 1967.Wikimedia Commons

33 of 40A Washington, D.C. policeman arrests a demonstrator during a protest against the Vietnam War. 1971.AFP/Getty Images

34 of 40James Edward Baker, known as Father Yod, was the leader of Los Angeles’ Source Family commune. Date unspecified.Isis Aquarian Archives

35 of 40Members of the Source Family form a human chain. Date unspecified.Isis Aquarian Archives

36 of 40Ecstatic fans give in to the music at the Isle of Wight festival. 1969. Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

37 of 40Hippies dancing at East Afton Farm, near Freshwater, during the Isle of Wight festival. 1970.Keystone/Getty Images

38 of 40Attendees of the Isle of Wight festival. 1970.Wikimedia Commons

39 of 40A group of dancing hippies. Location unspecified. Circa 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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In the 1950s, one of the very few major countercultural forces in America was the beatniks, a group of jazz and poetry-loving anti-establishment outcasts. They were marginalized to the corners of society, and largely ignored by mainstream culture, except when they were being blamed for bringing drugs into whatever community they touched.

However, the relatively small beatnik movement soon spawned the cultural tidal wave that was the hippies. A loose confederation of young people who loved folk and rock music, experimented with mind-altering drugs, opposed the war in Vietnam, and shunned mainstream capitalism, the hippies advocated for big concepts like “peace” and “love” — and defined 1960s culture in the process.

Many of these hippies left their suburban communities to conglomerate with like-minded people in hotbeds of bohemian culture like New York’s West Village and San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods. They then joined together to build communities built upon free artistic expression, myriad spiritual traditions from around the world, and many other modes of living not in line with mainstream American values.

Communities like these sometimes came together in even larger gatherings, events that helped define a generation, including landmark music festivals like Monterey Pop, Altamont, and Woodstock.

At festivals like these, iconic artists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and The Grateful Dead made history and left their mark on pop culture in ways that are still relevant today.

Meanwhile, older authors like Ken Kesey and Aldous Huxley, who experimented with psychedelic drugs and wrote radically anti-authoritarian works, gained a wider audience through their adoption by the hippie community, and now have their novels taught regularly in high schools across the country.

Beyond the arts, hippies informed and fueled some of the most influential political movements of their era, including the anti-Vietnam War movement, the anti-nuclear proliferation movement, and the feminist movement. Hippies’ largely progressive attitudes on race, gender, the environment, sexuality, and war still reverberate in American political discourse.

Thus the hippie generation not only defined an era but also carved out a space for counterculture in the American landscape that remains in place to this day.

See some of the most fascinating hippie photos in the gallery above.

After viewing these hippie pictures, check out some of the most fascinating images captured inside the hippie communes of the 1960s and ’70s. Then, read up on hippie history and culture, and see 55 1960s San Francisco hippie photos that capture the movement in full swing.

From San Francisco to Woodstock, these vintage hippie pictures take you inside the revolution that defined a generation.#

From San Francisco to Woodstock, these vintage hippie pictures take you inside the revolution that defined a generation.