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Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line
Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line

Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line

Date8/24/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0008366F
      Uncanny balance was demonstrated again by Neil Young last night when he took an audience at the CNE Grandstand that ranged from hippies to yuppies and gave them all something to cheer about,
      Uncanny balance was demonstrated again by Neil Young last night when he took an audience at the CNE Grandstand that ranged from hippies to yuppies and gave them all something to cheer about,
      Cooper, David
      9/1/1984
      Cool Hippies huddle under blanket, with only their toes protruding, beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting
      Cool Hippies huddle under blanket, with only their toes protruding, beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting
      Darrell, Dick
      8/30/1967
      It was as mid-victorian as a park band concert at yesterday's musical love-in at Queen's Park, some hippies complained
      It was as mid-victorian as a park band concert at yesterday's musical love-in at Queen's Park, some hippies complained
      Darrell, Dick
      7/21/1968
      Pastor to hippies, Rev. George Leroy serves coffee to Lance Edwards, Dave Colby and Norm Dickson at Leroy's coffee house, The Stepping Stone, in Toronto's Yorkville area. The coffee is free
      Pastor to hippies, Rev. George Leroy serves coffee to Lance Edwards, Dave Colby and Norm Dickson at Leroy's coffee house, The Stepping Stone, in Toronto's Yorkville area. The coffee is free
      Barkley, Harold
      9/2/1969
      The world of the hippies
      The world of the hippies
      Lennon, Frank
      8/9/1967
      By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville
      By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville
      Darrell, Dick
      8/22/1967
      Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall, where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets(...)
      Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall, where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets(...)
      Griffin, Doug
      8/24/1967
      By Bike, by Broom -- Hippies Fight the cars in Yorkvill
      By Bike, by Broom -- Hippies Fight the cars in Yorkvill
      Darrell, Dick
      8/21/1967
      On a corpuscle kick, dozens of barefoot, long-haired Yorkville hippies troop into Moss Park Armoury after Barbara Kelly, Miss Canada 1967, invited the(...)
      On a corpuscle kick, dozens of barefoot, long-haired Yorkville hippies troop into Moss Park Armoury after Barbara Kelly, Miss Canada 1967, invited the(...)
      Dutton, Don
      7/26/1967
      Hippies started their combined sleep-in and starve-in by settling down with blankets, sleeping-bags and placards in circle in front of City Hall late (...)
      Hippies started their combined sleep-in and starve-in by settling down with blankets, sleeping-bags and placards in circle in front of City Hall late (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      8/29/1967
      Johnny Mathis is no longer the kid who got young hippies going
      Johnny Mathis is no longer the kid who got young hippies going
      Lennon, Frank
      6/18/1967
      Yorkville Hippies' spokesman David Depoe
      Yorkville Hippies' spokesman David Depoe
      DePoe, David
      9/26/1967