The revolution without pants: how the hippies of the 60s hung out

"The rabbit was mussing a cabbage leaf, in the 69th year there was the famous Woodstock Festival" - Yegor Letov composed on the record "Jump-Skip". It has been 50 years since that August in 1969, when half a million progressive young people came from all over America to a farmer's field near the town of Bethel in New York State. It was not easy for the organizers to find this place, they were refused: at that time hippies were considered sources of infection, vice and communism, shopkeepers and cafes hung signs Hippies use back door ("For hippies — through the back door"). There was a famous commune in Woodstock where Bob Dylan used to hang out at one time, and the festival kept the name, but moved.

No more than 50 thousand spectators were expected, but one hundred thousand tickets were sold before the start of the festival — the "passage" for all three days cost $ 18. Another 250 thousand people, according to police estimates, passed for free. For the first time in the history of rock and roll gathered such extras. It seemed that the muddy field of Woodstock became the embodiment of the "revolution of flowers". The famous anti-war activist Abby Hoffman announced the "birth of the nation of Woodstock." He was right only in the sense that the generation of left-wing youth of the 60s took leadership positions in the United States after a quarter of a century. The most famous example is Bill Clinton. The rights to the Woodstock name and all paraphernalia belong to Warner Brothers.

In 1969, Charles Manson put together his community of hippies, the Manson Family, in 1970 the Red Brigades were formed… Here is a selection of evidence of the romantic revolutionary trip of the late 60s, while the revolution of flowers has not yet flowed into a bloody frenzy.

Woodstock, 1969. A rock fan in a wheelbarrow painted with anti-war slogans.

Great Britain, August 1969. Hippies and rock fans on the beach during the White Pop Island Festival.

Woodstock, 1969. The wild skunk is keenly interested in what dreams the flower children, tired after the concert, see.

October 1, 1969. Hundreds of hippies from the USA flocked to Hawaii to finally relax in the sun. They complained that the locals disliked them.

A rock fan shares a puff with a friend during a concert in Hyde Park.

August 1, 1969, Woodstock. A dark-skinned guy relaxes in a relaxed pose while waiting for a concert.

1970: Dancing hippies and students during the White Pop Island Festival. Great Britain.

1969: Hippie youth escapes the heat in Central Park.

June 10, 1967. Abby Hoffman (left) and Anita Kushner (right) — American political and public figures sit on either side of Lynn House, a priest of the Neo-American church, during a wedding ceremony in New York's Central Park. The Neo-American church fought for the legalization of LSD.

Hipster of the late 60s. Hairstyle in the Negro style, hippy outfit.

The Hippie Mystic Arts family commune. Dad Ron (a former programmer) and mom Nancy (a Cambridge graduate) read their children a bedtime story.

Hippie on the festival field. Woodstock, August 1969.

Woodstock. The legendary hippie wagen in war paint.

Hygienic procedure in the hippie family commune Mystic Arts. August 31, 1969.

The crowd at the Bob Dylan concert during the White Pop Island Festival, Great Britain.

A dancing girl during the Magic Mountain Music Festival, which took place at the top of Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco, in early June 1967. It is usually thought that the first American rock festival was the Monterey Pop Festival, but in fact it took place two weeks later.

1970. Flower children paid special attention to the natural vegetation on the body.

June 1967, New York. Members of the commune Group Image. Dad plays with a three-year-old "Running Deer", his wife Karen used to have the title of "the most frigid housewife of the Midwest". Now Karen is an adept of the hippie religion.

San Francisco, California, October 6, 1967. More than 100 protesters are holding a "Hippie Death" ceremony in the center of the famous Haight-Ashbury district.

Hippies protesting against the ban on sleeping on the street.

Great Britain, August 1969. On the beach during the White Pop Island Festival.