RE: Summer of Love/ npc

["J" <jlregister>]

The "death of hippie" event was in the fall of 1967, in October I believe.
It was inspired in part by the fact that the "Summer of Love" was really a
media event that in effect destroyed the original spirit that had sprung up
in the Haight Ashbury.   There had been a wave of TV and print media focus
on the hippie scene in SF (Life magazine for example).  

Prior to that summer, many hippie activists had pleaded with SF City
officials to put facilities and services in place to deal with the expected
influx, but to no avail.  The Haight was really not the same after that
summer, and many of the original hippies moved away to rural areas and
formed communes or otherwise left.  Across the bay in Berkeley, Telegraph
Avenue held on for a couple of more years, but after the People's Park
events in May 1969, it went downhill too.  In both the Haight and Telegraph
Ave, the aftermath involved a lot of speed and heroin and a very different
sort of people being on the street.



 
 
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J


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-babel-list 
> [mailto:owner-babel-list] On Behalf Of Paul Perner
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:59 PM
> To: babel-list
> Subject: Re: Summer of Love/ npc
> 
> 
> Yes, symbolically. It was a "death of hippie" public parade
> and ceremony put on by a lot of the same people who
> were at the solstice '66 gathering. If anyone is interested
> in that scene, I highly recommend Gene Anthony's book,
> "The Summer of love." 
> 
> http://www.summeroflove.org/anthony.html
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Li Lightfoot 
> To: ravensdawn;babel-list
> Sent: 2/7/2007 11:51:44 AM 
> Subject:y Re: Summer of Love/ big oops for Patti?
> 
> 
> Wasn't the "last hippie" actually "buried" in Golden Gate 
> Park in 1967, come to think of it?
> 
> 
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