Haight Ashbury Summer Of Love 1967

The hippies migrate to haight ashbury.

Haight ashbury summer of love 1967. It was one of the only areas spared from the fires sparked by the 1906 earthquakes which meant that the neighborhood retained its charming victorian architecture if not its staunch sensibilities. Photos of hippies in haight ashbury san francisco in 1967 during the summer of love. If the hippies had a coming of age party it was the entire summer of 1967 better known as the summer of love. Yet the mythology of that summer in 1967 has never disappeared.

Hippies sometimes called flower children were an eclectic group. By the time the fabled summer of love hit san francisco 40 years ago the party was already over in the haight ashbury. On october 6 1967 after thousands of young subversives streamed into san francisco and basked in the glow of the summer of love the season was brought to a semi official close by members of the diggers whose objective according to the university of california santa cruz was to convince the world s media to stop covering the haight ashbury scene and for rootless hippies to bring the revolution to where you live. More broadly the summer of love encompassed the hippie music drug anti war and free love scene throughout the west coast of the united states and as far away as new york city.

The summer of love was a social phenomenon that occurred during mid 1967 when as many as 100 000 people mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior converged in san francisco s neighborhood of haight ashbury. Thompson labeled the district hashbury in the new york times magazine and the activities in the area were reported almost daily the haight ashbury district was sought out by hippies to constitute a community based upon counterculture. As american air raids wreaked havoc on vietnamese soil in 1967 in san francisco s haight ashbury neighborhood it was the summer of love. It was a summer of sex drugs and rock roll.

A series of natural and political events would transpire before haight ashbury would become the epicenter of the free love mentality. Jul 11 2016 neil patrick. The mainstream media s coverage of hippie life in the haight ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over america.