hippies

[Wilson Gray]

You sayin' a taste.

-Wilson

On 2/21/07, Paul Johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:
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> Jazz slang would have been hipsters, not hippies, as I remember the '50s.
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> Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > I don't believe it. I was living in L.A., at the time, and such people
> > hanging out on Sunset Boulevard were called "hippies" in the local
> > Southland media without reference to Frisco and prior to the
> > development of The Haight into a Mecca for the faithful.
> >
> > Besides, the story has no explanatory power. Why did the author and
> > her friends apply a soubriquet that was originally jazz slang [at
> > least, this correspondnt and his ace boon coons believed this to be
> > the case at the time and wondered how and why this bit of BE slang
> > came to be applied to white people; it took a while to become
> > accustomed to the hearing the word in its new meaning] to the wannabes
> > in the first place?
> >
> > -Wilson
> >
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