Summer of Love
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The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture f
Intersection of Haight Street and Ashbury Street, the upper Haight neighborhood, San Francisco, celebrated as the central location of the Summer of Love
Spring Mobilization against the War in Vietnam march, from Second and Market Street to Kezar Stadium, looking towards City Hall, on Fulton Street, in San Francisco, on April 15, 1967
Mock funeral notice
Illumination of the Conservatory of Flowers on June 21, 2017
Haight-Ashbury
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Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called the Haight and the Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known as one
Summer of Love
…the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park. More broadly, the Summer of Love encompassed hippie culture, spiritual awakening, hallucinogenic drugs, anti-war sentiment…
Cole Street, left, and Haight Street, right
Newspaper clipping, April 30, 1967
The Tubes performing at 2012 Haight-Ashbury Street Fair