Ceasefire Line Through Jerusalem
Six Day War
Pre-1967
(photographer unknown)
Jane Rose Kasmir gives a flower to guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War in 1967
The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967, when an unprecedented gathering of as many as 100,000 young people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, creating a phenomenon of cultural and political rebellion. While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and across Europe, San Francisco was the epicenter of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics. The Summer of Love became a defining moment of the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
The ever-increasing numbers of youth making a pilgrimage to the Haight-Ashbury district alarmed the San Francisco authorities, whose public stance was that they would keep the hippies away. However Adam Kneeman, a long-time resident of the Haight-Ashbury, recalls that the police did little to help, leaving the organization of the hordes of newcomers to the overwhelmed residents.
During the Summer of Love, as many as 100,000 young people from around the world flocked to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley and other San Francisco Bay Area cities to join in a popularized version of the hippie experience. Free food, free drugs and free love were available in Golden Gate Park, a Free Clinic (whose work continues today) was established for medical treatment, and a Free Store gave away basic necessities to anyone who needed them.
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Today in #Beatles history: 1967 -June 24th- -The Beatles dress up in sandwich boards painted with “All You Need Is Love” in different languages, and conduct a photo shoot in an alley outside Abbey Road Studios, to promote their single, All You Need Is Love.
the 14 hour technicolour dream festival, April 1967.
Brigitte Bardot photographed by Jean-Claude Sauer, 1967.
(via fascinationdreams)
