Hippies
Hippies noun - A youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music.
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Mods
Mods noun - A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters.
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- We don't have the generational identifiers previous decades had: we're not hippies, mods, punks or breakdancers like people were in the olden times.
Source: Fashions Never Change -
Every youth subculture gets its moment to be The New Rock & Roll — greasers, mods, hippies, thugs, goths; hell, Mystery Science Theater 3000 proves the beatniks got a good round of it.
Source: The Quincy Punk -
A 2007 Teen Titans comic book written by Silver Age author Bob Haney and deliberately emulating that era's wacky hijinks has the team rescuing JFK from alien mods who kidnapped him, replaced him with one of their own, and made them their ruler to fight a tribe of savage space hippies.
Source: Useful Notes / John F. Kennedy
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