How Corporate America killed the Hippie era

[LiberalEsto]

This:

4. Hippie Protest Doll


and this:

5. Li’l Winking Herby Hippy


Weird dolls of the 60s and 70s:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/11-unintentionally-scary-vintage-dolls-that-will-make-your-s

[LiberalElite]

1. Little Miss No Name reminds me of

Poor Pitiful Pearl from the '50s. My mother told me I couldn't have that doll because it was "too morbid".

http://www.dollinfo.com/pitifulpearl.htm

[LiberalEsto]

2. I just had a Betsy Wetsy

No wonder I'm where I am today!

[LiberalElite]

3. I had a Betsy Wetsy

and a Barbie and a Raggedy Ann. No Patty Play Pal though - cost too much.

[LiberalEsto]

4. Ditto on Patty

My mom said Barbie was too overdeveloped or something. I got boring Tammy instead.

Didn't have a Barbie until I was almost 12 and past playing with dolls.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. Looks like Li’l Winking Herby Hippy is rocking a pretty good buzz.

Baby Laugh'a'Lot is positively creepy.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Suzy Smart looked demonic

with an unsmiling, fixed evil stare.

[Scuba]

6. I'm pretty sure they didn't understand what "fully jointed hippie" meant.

[orleans]

7. i used to have one of mattel's beatnik "scooba doo" dolls with the dark hair

she had a pull string and could talk.
said stuff like "i dig that crazy beat...yeah!"

she would scat which was pretty cool. they show her in this video but the voice box is playing a little too fast.

[TuxedoKat]

10. I like this doll

and her outfit too. Very pretty! I'd like to recreate her from a similar-looking doll. I don't ever remember seeing her before. I wonder what they go for on Ebay.

[Boomerproud]

8. Never heard of those 2 dolls in the OP

I always thought the Stones concert at Altamont pretty much killed off the movement. Just my opinion. The National Guard beating protesters heads in didn't help either.

[kwassa]

11. You mean Kent State. The National Guard shot protestors. That changed everything.

Four dead in Ohio.

I lived about 60 miles away at the time. I was in high school in a college town. The entire country shut down after that, and the hippie era was officially over. May 4. 1970.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. The National Guard had beat up protestors at Berkeley the year before

[LiberalEsto]

13. It didn't stop us from protesting, though

I remember going to a number of large protests in DC and NYC after Kent State. May Day, 1971 was one of them.

The term hippie did not mean anti-war protester, or vice versa. Many of the people protesting the Vietnam War were clean-cut, straight college students who thought the war was dead wrong. Quite a few protesters were older people.

Hippie generally meant someone who was into a more liberated, counterculture lifestyle, often had long hair and/or facial hair, and wore scruffy clothes, not bothering about cosmetics or the latest fashions. At one time it also meant people willing to share what they had with other hippies, such as a ride somewhere, a place to sleep, a meal. Often, it meant trying to care about other people. Unfortunately there were too many who took advantage of this generosity and ripped people off, making people less willing to share.

Not every hippie was anti-war; some only cared about being stoned or listening to certain music. Others affected hippie clothes and hair but were busy making money and not caring about other people at all except as customers or suckers.

[kwassa]

17. I think there was a big overlap, because the number of actual hippies was quite small.

and the hippie lifestyle was lived mostly by people in communes or the rock 'n roll business. Everyone else had to get jobs.
My point is that Kent State was the turning point between the sensibilities of the 60s, and the turn toward one's self in the Me Decade of the '70s. Kent State killed optimism about the future. Resistance to Vietnam was true across a majority of the 60s generation, and was unifying to a large degree, and it continued after Kent State, but the ideals of the 60s took a serious blow.

[TuxedoKat]

9. I remember the Brat Dolls

which stuck out their tongues when you squeezed them! I remember the Little Miss No Name too. Was she styled after the Gig big-eyed portraits of that era?

http://thingummery.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-big-eyes-you-have.html

Sorry I don't know how to post photo.

[HappyMe]

15. Creepy, Pennywise looking things.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

16. I thought it was the 1970's heroin epidemic that killed the hippie era

But I guess it could be the troll doll.