San Francisco 1969 Summer Of Love
As seen in this clip from the pbs american experience documentary summer of love which is being rebroadcast on tuesday in honor of the 50th anniversary of that remarkable season what was going.
San francisco 1969 summer of love. 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. A love in is a peaceful public gathering focused on meditation. August 21 2017 a photographic trip through the summer of love 50 years later. In 1967 an ocean away from the escalating vietnam war the summer of love bloomed with psychedelic colors in san francisco s haight ashbury neighborhood.
The local government in an attempt to warn hippies to stay away from the city unintentionally brought even more attention to the hippie haven. In the summer of 1967 a hundred thousand young people descended upon the haight ashbury district of san francisco.
