Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hey-wow n.

[mockery of the hippie’s cries of ‘Hey, wow, man, can you dig that...’ etc.]

(US campus) someone who clings to the styles of the 1960s.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 3: hey wow – Bohemian lifestyle, personality, or dress.
[US]Eble Sl. and Sociability 63: In the eighties and nineties people who clung to the styles of the earlier decade were described with gentle disparagement by things associated with the back-to-earth movement, for example, earth muffins, ferns, granolas, grape-nuts, groovers, and hey-wows.