PHOTOGRAPHING HUSTLERS, HIPPIES, AND DRIFTERS IN 1960S CALIFORNIA
Doug Biggert shot the hitchhikers he encountered driving his green 1966 VW Bug across the state.
By Miss Rosen
By 1968, the Socrates Sandals shop in Newport Harbor, California, had become a favourite destination for Orange County's bubbling counterculture. Here, hippies, surfers, students, blue-collar workers, and radicals of all stripes found kinship in the otherwise conservative SoCal town. Driven to document the random encounters he had throughout the day, store clerk Doug Biggert began photographing customers with a Kodak Instamatic.