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
Illumination of the Conservatory of Flowers on June 21, 2017
Hippie is a youth subculture that began in the United States and became popular in the Western Bloc as part of the baby boomers generation. It is associated with the wider counterculture movement of t
Summer of Love
…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 figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park. More broadly, the Summer of…
Contemporary hippie at the Rainbow Gathering in Russia, 2005
A 1967 VW Kombi bus decorated with hand-painting
Beatniks posing in front of a piece of beatnik art, 1959. The Beat Generation are seen as a predecessor to the hippie movement
Escapin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space It trembled and exploded Left a bus stop in its place The bus came by and I got on That's when it all began There was cowboy Neal At the wheel Of a bus to never-ever land – Grateful Dead, lyrics from "That's It for the Other One"