Posted on 05/28/2023 7:21:34 PM PDT by vespa300
The Summer of Love 1967 was a social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where as many as 100,000 young people, mostly wearing hippie fashions, converged. The term "Summer of Love" originated with the formation of the Council for the Summer of Love, composed of the Family Dog hippie commune, The Straight Theatre, The Diggers, The San Francisco Oracle, and approximately 25 other people, who sought to alleviate some of the problems anticipated from the influx of young people expected during the summer.
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I got to SF in the summer of ‘73, just too late for the Summer of Love. But the city was very clean, crime was low, there was no graffiti or litter, and the bums were contained in The Tenderloin. The city made it a point to contain the bums to that area. Even the area around City Hall was clean. I never felt unsafe in most parts of the city and everybody knew which parts to avoid (Western Addition, Tenderloin, Castro).
The Mothers Of Invention - Who Needs The Peace Corps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaZmyqCKUs
Interesting. Watching the movie, obviously filmed on location in around 1968, so many people there. I wonder, sometimes, how weird it would be to see Charles Manson in the background of a picture or movie or film that was done back then. He spent lots of time there. I look for him in the crowd shots. In the movie, the hippies are even barefooted on the streets. Imagine that today? No way.......thanks.
Cool. Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Seeds did some of the music in the movie above. I remember them well. Incense Peppermints....I think.
I came through Frisco on my way back to Nam, imagine a
skinhead in black shoes trying to buy pot in the Haight.
I heard my first Fire Sign Theater on the radio in the
transit barracks, all of a sudden all this insanity came
pouring out of the radio....Thirty one unclaimed melodies
and more, much more. Then back to it.
Our flight to Tokyo was delayed for 24 hours so a sargent
in the airport in Seattle hooked us up with a family that
took in service men. Treated us like family. Never forget
them, and the Korean vet I met in the airport that bought
me a beer, while everyone else gave me the stink eye.
God bless them.
Tet68
April, 2023, what happened today? Streets of Philadelphia, Street view. 
The drugs are so bad the streets are full of zombies.
I totally forgot about Firesign Theater. Those folks were absolutely nuts!
Yeah, that new drug “Tranq”.....it’s turning people into hunched over Zombies. Satan is real. I think God is slowly withdrawing and allowing these things to happen. He’s about to close up shop down here.
Summer of Sex and Drugs
Call it what it was
Coming home that time, we had to get new ID cards to get
paid. In admin the corporal had a small TV on the counter
and it was playing Star Trek, maybe the first episode.
We were like...Wow Sy Fy TV...cool.
Sure miss the music of those days, what we have today
is not worth listening to.
t.
>>>Summer of Sex and Drugs
Call it what it was>>>
Yes, as I heard Dennis Prager say, their motto was bascially, why go fight tyranny and for people’s freedom, when I can stay home and have sex. Something like that.
I remember being perimeter guard and sleeping on a sandy
cot in a bunker and dreaming about being in Frisco with
hippy girls then laying down in the grass and dreaming
I was on a sandy cot in a sandbag bunker...very confusing.
As my friend J.McClain from Stubenville Ohio, the
birth place of Dean Martin, as he always reminded us
would say...
I know, she said.
I know, he said.
Together they said, We know!!
Then I said, don’t tell me !
I’m not here, I’m in Viet Nam BABY !!!
It’s actually surprisingly good. Directed by Jack Nicholson under a semi-pseudonym.
“Sure miss the music of those days, what we have today is not worth listening to.”
Isn’t that the truth? There was SO much innovation in the 60s.
I do find some great new bands on Spotify in the Americana / Folk genre. It’s rare to have a group produce more than one or two songs I really like, but with the infinite library of Spotify, I can create playlists of many groups with one or two songs each.
yeah, have you seen it before? I never even heard of it.
Mucho respect and admiration for you Viet Vets. Nothing like that wall. I’ve been there. Sacred Ground. Thank you.
We could use Frank Zappa about now
I was 14 in 1968. The Seattle hippie scene was very familiar to Frisco at that time. My recollections are similar to yours - the acting is over the top to what I remember even if the street scenes are reminiscent.
We used to skip school and take the bus (or just hitch-hike) from our town (about 30 miles away) to watch the freak show up close. It’s funny that, naive as I was, I wasn’t as naive as any of the depictions in that movie.
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