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Hippie A hippie is a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally
a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-
1960s and spread to other countries around the world.
The Original Product Catalog
If you say this, you’re out of it.
Many of today’s slang expressions
had their origins in the 60s. I’m sit-
ting here trying to figure out how
people spoke to each other before
these words and phrases existed.
Can you see that the
company’s address Anyway, besides the obvious ones The first $100.00 that P&H earned from
was in Chino, California! like “Groovy” there is a long list of sales of its products.
60’s expressions that have be-
come such a part of our language
that even Merriam Website now We used to get paid in cash!
recognizes them.
See if you can guess what these In 1969, the United States was
mean: :-) Turns out, there are other pretty much a cash based society
words in the language that aren’t still. Even when you went to like
“awesome”. Groovy. the doctor, for instance. Health
insurance was virtually unknown
Badass among ordinary people, so when
I mean, what if you didn’t have the Blitzed you went to the doc, you just paid
ability to “email” your customer a Bummed out out of pocket. It was dirt cheap,
product image? Hmmmm...???? Bummer even by today’s standards. Credit
Burn rubber cards existed, but were not some-
vcxz Catch some rays thing that ordinary middle class
012. Decked out people carried and the value sys-
Dibs tem that underpins the buy now,
What if even mailing them one Downer pay later society hadn’t developed
meant having to photograph the Drag yet. Ordinary folks tended to be
product each time and get the Drop out far more conservative with their
photos processed, and then mail it Far out money at that time in history.
to them, which took several days Flake
or weeks? Flip flops Progress isn’t always an improve-
Freak out ment.
Industrial products were much Have a blast
more challenging for small com- Hip We also took cash at P&H in those
panies back in the day. The sales days, and while I don’t know if we
process required a lot more effort Make out (what did they call it still have the ACTUAL first $100.00
to sell far fewer products per sale. before????) we ever made, we certainly have
It makes me tired just thinking No sweat a photo of that first payment for
about it! Peel out that first order!
Pig out
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