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The Summer of Lovewas a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Franciscoduring the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculturefigures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashburydistrict and Golden Gate Park.
That summer in 1967 between 75,000 and 100,000 young Americans flocked to Haight-Ashbury to protest the Vietnam War and materialism, experiment with drugs and sexuality, practice alternative religions, or otherwise seek and experience the hippies’ idealized view of enlightenment.
Nov 13, 2022 · If the hippies had a coming-of-age party, it was the entire summer of 1967 — better known as the Summer of Love. The Hippies Migrate To Haight-Ashbury.
Jun 21, 2021 · The Summer of Love Wasn’t All Peace and Hippies. Articles in the underground press capture what’s missing from our romanticized memory of that fateful season. From the cover of Volume 5, Issue 13 of Berkeley Barb. via JSTOR's Reveal Digital Independent Voices Collection. By: Jeremy Guida. June 21, 2021. 6 minutes.
Jul 31, 2022 · San Francisco’s hippies attempted to establish a new, free-for-all economic system during the 1967 Summer of Love. Here’s the incredible story behind why it flowered and how it withered by summer’s end.
Jul 3, 2017 · When it comes to 1967, year of the summer of love, one image looms especially large in the American popular imagination: hippies.
Jan 13, 2021 · In 1967, around 100,000 hippies descended upon the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco. There, they took drugs, performed and listened to psychedelic music, engaged in nonconformist political activism, and practiced "free love." The phenomenon was given a name: "The Summer of Love."
In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience,...
Aug 21, 2017 · These utopian-seeking artists, musicians, drifters, and hippies were there to take part in the cultural phenomenon known as the “Summer of Love.” New forms of rock 'n' roll pulsed through the...
The untold story of how a German cult, pioneering psychologists and secret LSD experiments sparked a gathering of hippie tribes in 1967 San Francisco that would change the world.
