The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...
San Francisco's Summer of Love, 40 years old now, changed a lot of things. It brought the hippies out of obscurity and introduced them in a big way to the public. Who could ignore hundreds of ...
The “Summer of Love” was a defining moment in San Francisco’s history. In 1967, more than 100,000 people flocked to the city’s Haight-Ashbury district, where droves of hippies embraced psychedelic ...
Flower Power and all, good buzz of the 1967 experience still resonates in the not-so-mean streets of San Francisco. Positively Haight Street, in San Francisco, specializes in tie-dyes, on this 40th ...
The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...
Editor’s note: This is Neighborhood Explorer, a series in which neighborhoods and culture correspondent James Salazar highlights the people and places that make their pockets of San Francisco unique.
The Rose Theatre Company crew is revisiting “Haight-Ashbury,” Chris Manley's flashback to the Summer of Love. The show's driving force is the music. A trio of gifted vocalists — Jessie Rose, Jordan ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Haight Ashbury Street Fair will take place this Sunday with street closures in effect throughout the day. The annual event in the city neighborhood that’s most closely ...