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The Love Pageant Rally took place on October 6, 1966 [1] —the day LSD became illegal—in the 'panhandle' of Golden Gate Park, a narrower section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The 'Haight' was a neighborhood of run-down turn-of-the-20th-century housing that was the center of San Francisco's counterculture in the ...
Haight Ashbury Free Press, San Francisco; Haight Ashbury Tribune, San Francisco (at least 16 issues) Illustrated Paper, Mendocino, 1966–1967; Leviathan, San Francisco, 1969–1970; Long Beach Free Press, Long Beach, 1969–1970; Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles, 1964–1978 (new series 2005–present)
Harrison busked the song at the hill during his visit to Haight-Ashbury in August 1967. The single followed soon after Sgt. Pepper , which historian David Simonelli describes as "the most important cultural moment of 1967" through its resonance "across every boundary of class, age, gender, race and geography". [ 77 ]
The main centre was the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, while movements were also underway in London, Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris. [7] Timothy Leary, a former Harvard professor, extolled students and young professionals to "Turn on, tune in, drop out", a phrase that became a catch-cry for the hippie phenomenon. [8]
"The Summer of Love" PBS video narrated by Peter Coyote; The Haight Ashbury - A History by Charles Perry Random House 1984 ISBN 0-394-41098-X. Pg 126 Reference to the Switchboard and Crash Pads; Pg 143 Reference to the 1967 Concert; Pg 150 Reference to the debt after the cocktail party; Pg 177 Reference to the Switchboard after the departure of ...
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.
Haight-Ashbury (/ ˌ h eɪ t ˈ æ ʃ b ɛr i,-b ər i /) 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 . [ 5 ]
This early-1970s documentary (1974 according to one source) [22] was titled Gone for a Better Deal, but it has never been released in any video format. Haight-Ashbury Golden-Gate park poet Ashleigh Brilliant, later known for his pot-Shots epigrams, released a CD of his songs and parodies about "life in the Haight," including two songs about the ...