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Posted by CN Staff on May 20, 2007 at 14:59:03 PT
By Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
cannabisnews.com San Francisco, CA -- By the time the fabled Summer of Love hit San Francisco 40 years ago, the party was already over in the Haight-Ashbury.
Yet the mythology of that summer in 1967 has never disappeared. The San Francisco hippie, dancing in Golden Gate Park with long hair flowing, has become as much of an enduring American archetype as the gunfighters and cowboys who roamed the Wild West. More importantly, the rise of '60s counterculture has had a significant impact on our culture today.
The Summer of Love resonates in strip mall yoga classes, pop music, visual art, fashion, attitudes toward drugs, the personal computer revolution, and the current mad dash toward the greening of America. While some of the counterculture's dreams came true, others, particularly the movement's idealistic politics, evaporated like the sweet-smelling pot smoke that saturated the air that summer.
"If you look at all the political agendas of the 1960s, they basically failed," says actor Peter Coyote, who belonged to a Haight-Ashbury commune called the Diggers in the late '60s. "We didn't end capitalism. We didn't end imperialism. We didn't end racism. Yeah, the war ended. But if you look at the cultural agendas, they all worked."
"It was sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, and those were all fun," says social satirist Paul Krassner. "But at the core of the counterculture was a spiritual revolution."
In the weeks leading up to the end of the 1967 school year, while many of the more forward-thinking of the Haight community left town to continue their social experiments elsewhere, San Francisco braced for an anticipated onslaught of more than 100,000 young transients for a psychedelic circus in Haight-Ashbury. "The Invasion of the Flower Children" announced one Chronicle headline.
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Summer of Love: 40 Years Later: http://www.sfgate.com/summeroflove/
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Author: Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic
Published: Sunday, May 20, 2007
Copyright: 2007 Hearst Communications Inc.
Contact: [email protected]
Website: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
Related Article:
Hippies Were Right All Along - We Knew That
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22941.shtml
Posted by CN Staff on May 20, 2007 at 14:59:03 PT
By Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
cannabisnews.com San Francisco, CA -- By the time the fabled Summer of Love hit San Francisco 40 years ago, the party was already over in the Haight-Ashbury.
Yet the mythology of that summer in 1967 has never disappeared. The San Francisco hippie, dancing in Golden Gate Park with long hair flowing, has become as much of an enduring American archetype as the gunfighters and cowboys who roamed the Wild West. More importantly, the rise of '60s counterculture has had a significant impact on our culture today.
The Summer of Love resonates in strip mall yoga classes, pop music, visual art, fashion, attitudes toward drugs, the personal computer revolution, and the current mad dash toward the greening of America. While some of the counterculture's dreams came true, others, particularly the movement's idealistic politics, evaporated like the sweet-smelling pot smoke that saturated the air that summer.
"If you look at all the political agendas of the 1960s, they basically failed," says actor Peter Coyote, who belonged to a Haight-Ashbury commune called the Diggers in the late '60s. "We didn't end capitalism. We didn't end imperialism. We didn't end racism. Yeah, the war ended. But if you look at the cultural agendas, they all worked."
"It was sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, and those were all fun," says social satirist Paul Krassner. "But at the core of the counterculture was a spiritual revolution."
In the weeks leading up to the end of the 1967 school year, while many of the more forward-thinking of the Haight community left town to continue their social experiments elsewhere, San Francisco braced for an anticipated onslaught of more than 100,000 young transients for a psychedelic circus in Haight-Ashbury. "The Invasion of the Flower Children" announced one Chronicle headline.
Snipped:
Complete Article: http://tinyurl.com/2bswjx
Photos and Videos: http://tinyurl.com/ysogxn
Summer of Love: 40 Years Later: http://www.sfgate.com/summeroflove/
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Author: Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic
Published: Sunday, May 20, 2007
Copyright: 2007 Hearst Communications Inc.
Contact: [email protected]
Website: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
Related Article:
Hippies Were Right All Along - We Knew That
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22941.shtml