The first episode looks at how ideas, music and lifestyles from Asia, Europe and the American left became entwined in California. It traces the roots of the hippies back to a 19th-century German sect ...
The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...
The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...
On a sunny, unseasonably warm winter day in 1967, an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people participated in what would become a preview of the Summer of Love. On January 14, hippies and other ...
The “Summer of Love” was a defining moment in San Francisco’s history. In 1967, more than 100,000 people flocked to the city’s Haight-Ashbury district, where droves of hippies embraced psychedelic ...
The thing about the Summer of Love is that it was also, simply, 1967 in San Francisco. It’s true that hordes of hippies heeded Timothy Leary’s call to turn on, tune in and drop out, and that less ...
The untold story of how a German cult, pioneering psychologists and secret LSD experiments sparked a gathering of hippie tribes in 1967 San Francisco that would change the world.