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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 figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park. [1] [2]
San Francisco Bay, August 1972 San Francisco PCC-type streetcar 1167 southbound on Church Street. San Francisco in the 1970s was a global hub of culture. It was known worldwide for hippies and radicals. The city was heavily affected by drugs, prostitution and crime.
Two San Francisco police officers were investigating reports of a woman screaming. Bassist Peter Albin recalls the band raising the roof off one day in the 1960s when their playing was interrupted ...
When San Francisco's Fox Theater went out of business, hippies bought up its costume stock, reveling in the freedom to dress up for weekly musical performances at their favorite ballrooms. As San Francisco Chronicle music columnist Ralph J. Gleason put it, "They danced all night long, orgiastic, spontaneous and completely free form." [19]
Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher (2005), about Lonnie Frisbee; Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) Hippie Masala [1] (2006), Swiss documentary about the hippies who live in India. Hippie Movie (2008, Polish/English) Huerfano Valley [2] (2012, English), about a 40 years old hippie commune in Colorado. Three ...
This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
Martin, whose real name is Martin Mendoza, moved to L.A. from San Francisco nearly 30 years ago and has been DJing underground house music parties ever since as an early adopter of the acid house ...
Joy of Cooking was an American music ensemble formed in 1967 in Berkeley, California. [1] Associated with the hippie culture, the band's music combined rock & roll with folk, blues, and jazz. [1] The band released three studio albums on Capitol Records in the early 1970s as well as a minor hit single in 1971, "Brownsville". Led by guitarist ...