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A Human Be-In was put on in Denver, Colorado in July 1967 by Chet Helms and Barry Fey to harness the energy of the famed San Francisco event that occurred in January and promote their new Family Dog Productions venue, The Family Dog Denver. [14] The event attracted 5,000 people and featured performances by Grateful Dead, Odetta and Captain ...
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.
Dock of the Bay, San Francisco; Free Spaghetti Dinner, Santa Cruz; From Out of Sherwood Forest, Newport Beach; Good Times, San Francisco, 1969–1972 (formerly San Francisco Express-Times) Haight Ashbury Free Press, San Francisco; Haight Ashbury Tribune, San Francisco (at least 16 issues) Illustrated Paper, Mendocino, 1966–1967
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]
Junction of Haight and Ashbury Streets, San Francisco, celebrated as the central location of the Summer of Love. On January 14, 1967, the outdoor Human Be-In organized by Michael Bowen [71] helped to popularize hippie culture across the United States, with 20,000 to 30,000 hippies gathering in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Street scenes Looking west on Grand Avenue in 1967, with Food Fair supermarket in the background. In 1976, a sign on U.S. 1 pointing drivers to the Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove.
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 ...
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 1960s. The major instigators of the rally were Allen Cohen and artist Michael Bowen , the creators of the San Francisco Oracle , which first hit the streets in September 1966.