The Summer Of Love 1967 - Page 5

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@Noel7Haight Ashbury, some of the shop owners threw water on us if we were standing outside their shop too long. There were kids everywhere, sitting on the side walks. I was only 17 that summer when we headed for California, I'll never forget that trip.LOL

SaRina · ‎04-17-2015

I am a wannabe Flower Child.

"If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear
Some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet
Some gentle people there

For those who come
To San Francisco
Summertime
Will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people
With flowers in their hair

All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation
With a new explanation
People in motion
People in motion..."

muttmom · ‎11-28-2012

The summer of 1967 was more significant than I could have known. My friends and I were going to be juniors which meant we were upperclassmen. There were a lot of parties and trips to the shore. What I did not know was that it was the last summer I'd have 2 legs. Near the end of junior year we learned I had cancer and I had my leg amputated.

Life changed a lot.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@blackhole99 wrote:
@Noel7Haight Ashbury, some of the shop owners threw water on us if we were standing outside their shop too long. There were kids everywhere, sitting on the side walks. I was only 17 that summer when we headed for California, I'll never forget that trip.LOL

The Diggers and the medical clinic were right there, free care and free food. They Diggers used to go up and down Haight giving out sandwiches and clean clothes. I wish they'd seen you @blackhole99

Those of us from the medical clinic also walked on Haight, giving warnings on any bad drugs we knew of.

tobes · ‎08-02-2010

My son, who now lives in San Francisco, was born in August 1967.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@muttmom wrote:
The summer of 1967 was more significant than I could have known. My friends and I were going to be juniors which meant we were upperclassmen. There were a lot of parties and trips to the shore. What I did not know was that it was the last summer I'd have 2 legs. Near the end of junior year we learned I had cancer and I had my leg amputated.

Life changed a lot.

I am so sorry that happened to you @muttmom And you were so young...

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Poodlepet2 wrote:
...I was seven years old, but I remember! My older sister got "big girl" magazines like "16" and "Tiger Beat": when she was gone, I would sneak into her bedroom...

If you can finish this song-not in writing, because of censorship, you are of a certain age:
"One, two three, what are we frighten for?
Don't ask me if I give a .....

I still love the Mamas and the Pappas....early Neil Diamond....Tommy Shondell (sic)....and "Hair".... I am feelin' groovy!

@Moonchilde, where y'at?
Hugs,
Poodlepet2

@Poodlepet2

I graduated from HS the Summer of Love. Went to "Be-Ins" at Griffith Park. Saw Neil Diamond perform at "The Troub(ador)" and saw Paul Revere and the Raiders and The Association. At the early incarnations of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire people walked around literally thisclose to nekkid (think giant fishnet and zero else) and the smell of...herbs was heavy in the air under the trees. How I wish I had some of the photos I took back then! The sheriff's deputies rode on horseback since it was such a primitive and remote area - now just a populated blink on the way from The Valley to Ventura, but back then - wilderness.

This past weekend was the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. I could easily have gone (weather was gorgeous) but I was very disappointed that for all the hype over the anniversary, the acts performing were not from Back in the Day - I had no idea who 95% of them were. Big Meh. The only person I would have wanted to see was Eric Burdon (of The Animals).

So funny that my 50th HS reunion is on my b/d right near the school, while when I lived in LA the reunions seemed to be always in Vegas. No, I'm not going. July in The Valley? Try 100 degrees easy. Ahh, the memories - classrooms and buses with no a/c. Grad Night at Disneyland. Girls were first allowed to wear pants to school the year after I graduated :-(

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@Noel7 wrote:
@blackhole99 wrote:
@Noel7Haight Ashbury, some of the shop owners threw water on us if we were standing outside their shop too long. There were kids everywhere, sitting on the side walks. I was only 17 that summer when we headed for California, I'll never forget that trip.LOL
The Diggers and the medical clinic were right there, free care and free food. They Diggers used to go up and down Haight giving out sandwiches and clean clothes. I wish they'd seen you @blackhole99

Those of us from the medical clinic also walked on Haight, giving warnings on any bad drugs we knew of.

I did not notice anyone giving anything free when we were walking around there. Of course we didn't stay there for long, we did not take drugs. I never even heard the word Diggers before you mentioned it.

lulu2 · ‎03-09-2010

@muttmom

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@blackhole99 wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@blackhole99 wrote:
@Noel7Haight Ashbury, some of the shop owners threw water on us if we were standing outside their shop too long. There were kids everywhere, sitting on the side walks. I was only 17 that summer when we headed for California, I'll never forget that trip.LOL
The Diggers and the medical clinic were right there, free care and free food. They Diggers used to go up and down Haight giving out sandwiches and clean clothes. I wish they'd seen you @blackhole99

Those of us from the medical clinic also walked on Haight, giving warnings on any bad drugs we knew of.
I did not notice anyone giving anything free when we were walking around there. Of course we didn't stay there for long, we did not take drugs. I never even heard the word Diggers before you mentioned it.

@blackhole99

The first Diggers began about 1649 in the UK, somewhat radical Protestants.

In 1967 they were as described in Wiki here:

The San Francisco Diggers

During the middle and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers (who took their name from the original English Diggers) opened stores which simply gave away their stock; provided free food, medical care, transport and temporary housing; they also organized free music concerts and works of political art. Some of their happenings included the Death of Money Parade, Intersection Game, Invisible Circus, and Death of Hippie/Birth of Free.

The Diggers were a radical community-action group of community activists and Improv actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Their politics were such that they have sometimes been categorized as "left-wing". More precisely, they were "community anarchists" who blended a desire for freedom with a consciousness of the community in which they lived. They were closely associated with and shared a number of members with a guerrilla theater group named the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Like the original English Diggers, they envisioned a society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. Actor Peter Coyote was a founding member of the Diggers.