21 Photos of the Dirtiest Hippies We Could Find

Peace. Love. A Healthy dose of dirt.

Published 2 months ago in Wow

With a love of nature, flowers, and a few certain plants, hippies may have been the coolest folks throughout the 1960s, but they weren't always the cleanest.

From pot smokers to farm workers, here are 22 of the dirtiest hippies we could find.

1
Dancing King
A hippie sports a tie-dye t-shirt.

2
All Together Now
“Hippies on a commune. West Virginia 1974.”

3
Folk Singers
“Circa 1970-My boyfriend and I were dirty hippie folksingers in a band.”
4
Out East
“Hippies in West Virginia. 1974.”

5
Dog Dad
“Hippie me and my wonderful dog, Butterpup about 1971.”
6
Picking Up
“Kathmandu, Nepal during the hippie era.
7
Cool Rider
“My hippie mother sometime in the 1970’s winning a horsemanship competition against a bunch of cowboy good ol’ boys in Cody, WY. Happy birthday, Mom! “

8
Seven of Pentacles
“My Great-grandfather told me he was ‘stoned out of his mind’ when he took this pic sometime in the mid-60s while working in a hippy community.”
9
Farm Life
“My mom's back-to-the-land family on their farm in Maine, 1970.”
10
Pretty Plants
“Hippie culture 1968.”

11
Ride On
“My brother hippie biker 1973.”
12
Free As My Hair
A hippie girl lets her long hair flow in the breeze.
13
Van Life
Hippies relax in the back of what appears to be a modified van.

14
Rocking Out
“My hippy dad playing acoustic guitar in 1970.”
15
Hitchhiker’s Guide
“Hitch-Hiking Hippies, c. 1970. Looking for adventure!”
16
Hitting the Road
“Oregon 1969: My mother embraced the "drop out" kind of hippie culture, she and her college friend set out hitchhiking from Chicago to San Francisco in 1968 but ended up on a commune in Oregon instead. She's in the front with the purple tights, the others are fellow commune residents.”

17
Farm Work
“Dad 1969 - Left his home in ND at 17 to join the Army during Vietnam. Came home and moved to San Francisco. Got an apartment on Height-Ashbury where I was born, and grew his hair down to his a—! The man is still a hippie mind, body and soul to this day and I’m d— proud of him.”
18
Dirt Roads
“Just a Bunch of Hippies and Burnouts: Michigan, 1972.”
19
They Do
“A happy hippie wedding in 1968.”