"... it was the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle 60's was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words, music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. There was madness in any direction at any hour, you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning, that victory over the forces of old and evil was inevitable. Not in any mean or military sense, we didn't need that, our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum, we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, you can go up on a steep hill and look west and with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high water mark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back" - Hunter S. Thompson
So you still haven't outgrown the mostrously evil phoniness from which nothing good ever came, and idiots sill celebrate their indulgent selfish moral cowardlice:? Fried brains from drugs, neo-Marxist blindness to social organizing, a sex revolution that led to the mass murder of 63 million babies sent through the meat grinder of abortion. Unfortunately the self-worshiping idiocy and depravity of hippieism has never been extinguished.
I was born in 78 and would’ve loved to have seen the sixties as they happened but I wouldn’t change the direction the 80s and 90s went as a result I thought it was great times to grow up in!!!,’)
@@michaelmeliambro5117 I think that when I grew up in the 1960's& 1970's was a good time, it was a sampler time. But that is coming from a 60 year old woman who is looking back. I think that it may have been nice to have been old enough to have lived in the 1960's and been a true hippie. Love from Marysville, California
@@michaelmeliambro5117 Aw, be nice. I'm 60 years old and I smoke pot for my right knee, it's arethrdic and hurts me, but when I smoke pot it helps with the pain. Love from Marysville, California
I was in the Haight off and on for three years starting in '67. The whole scene turned ugly fast. Those that don't acknowledge that are looking through rose colored glasses or were not there. It also just got kind of boring. You can only hang out talking and trying to "find yourself" for so long. That's why the movement didn't last long. Overated.
Exactly. I was born in the 60s so this is before my time. I have heard San Francisco haight scene got ugly not long after. I don't know why they call 67 summer of love. Some places were riots. Amy tanks running through neighborhoods
Even though the epicenter was in San Francisco, the whole event, the whole life-style, radiated out across the entire USA. I was growing up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and we were all very aware of what was happening,....and on a micro-level it was happening in Cleveland, too. I was 14 in 1967,....and in school they were warning us about POT, and LSD, and they tried to scare us, that it was bad. They were really bad at getting that message across, and instead we took it as a challenge to see if they were lying to us. So for me, in the Summer of 1969, I couldn't wait to try POT, and wondered about (Acid), LSD. In Cleveland, hashish was readily available,...even easier to get, than "weed". I "turned on" for my first time on hashish, that summer, in 1969. And like anything new,....it took a few tries before it had any real effect on me. I didn't smoke cigarettes, and we were too young to drink beer. "Practice makes perfect" as the saying goes. During the Summer of 1969,...my best friend then, (and even now), we tried smoking hash, every weekend until it, FINALLY hit us. We got so stinking high,....(years later, I thought it almost felt like we were tripping on LSD.) We usually bought blond hash, but there was plenty of that sticky brown stuff, resembling dark chocolate. The beauty of it, was you only had to smoke a few slivers of it, and it hardly made much smoke. Our parents (early on) had no clue what we were up to. It made us laugh uncontrollably, for hours. It made anything that was boring and dull, new and exciting.
I live in Oregon and we're a legal state. Hasish is readily available for purchase at every dispensary. All you need is cash and a valid ID. I prefer the soft chocolate "bubble hash" because it lasts so much longer. 3-4 hits and your eyes are melting out of their sockets, especially if it's made from the purple indica strains. Grand Daddy Purple is the finest hash I ever had. Come see us sometime! It's sure is pretty here. 💚regon the Beautiful.
@@lethrbear32 Yeah,...I wish I could get out your direction. Ohio still hasn't legalized weed. We have medical weed dispensaries,...which don't appeal to me, even though I have medical issues, that would qualify me, for access. I still support the (black market) for my weed.
The Byrds helped to usher the hippie movement in LA in 1964-65. Roger McGuinn with granny classes and David Crosby with his cape. They were trendsetters.
I heard acid was not hard to find at one point in 60s disstrbuted all major citys. Maybe it was harder in late 60s because illegal. I have no idea i grew up in 80s all i know by that time it was lower grade acid which I though was good. Someone always had either acid or shrooms even when i didnt know anybody selling it. I still found it punk rockers in early 80s. He drove hearst worked cemetary. Fat jerry, statue of liberty hair
"... it was the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle 60's was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words, music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. There was madness in any direction at any hour, you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning, that victory over the forces of old and evil was inevitable. Not in any mean or military sense, we didn't need that, our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum, we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, you can go up on a steep hill and look west and with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high water mark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back" - Hunter S. Thompson
Yeah okay tinkerbell, Thompson blew his head off 🙄!!, pity some of them fruitcakes take it too farout 🙄
@@kevinruddy448 How very extremely uncool of u! We here in DC are hippies & Deadheads pity u. ❄️🌎❄️❣️😶👌❄️
So you still haven't outgrown the mostrously evil phoniness from which nothing good ever came, and idiots sill celebrate their indulgent selfish moral cowardlice:? Fried brains from drugs, neo-Marxist blindness to social organizing, a sex revolution that led to the mass murder of 63 million babies sent through the meat grinder of abortion. Unfortunately the self-worshiping idiocy and depravity of hippieism has never been extinguished.
yeah, i hope you're right...that it will never come again.
@@kevinruddy448 Your Je$u$ should have thought about that.
I was born in 78 and would’ve loved to have seen the sixties as they happened but I wouldn’t change the direction the 80s and 90s went as a result I thought it was great times to grow up in!!!,’)
Na the late '60s and '70s was where it was at. I am a child of that time, and now I live the hippie life. I will be 60 next year.
@@dorothydromgoole8040 In that case, there's a special place in Hell already reserved for you.
@@michaelmeliambro5117 I think that when I grew up in the 1960's& 1970's was a good time, it was a sampler time. But that is coming from a 60 year old woman who is looking back. I think that it may have been nice to have been old enough to have lived in the 1960's and been a true hippie. Love from Marysville, California
@@dorothydromgoole8040 And a nice "f*ck you" in return from New York.
@@michaelmeliambro5117 Aw, be nice. I'm 60 years old and I smoke pot for my right knee, it's arethrdic and hurts me, but when I smoke pot it helps with the pain. Love from Marysville, California
That's a great photo of my uncle Emmet @2:41! Man, we miss him. He died in '78.
Ya, I too have " tuned in, turned on and dropped out". I smoke pot and love it.
Get a job shelf stacking at tescos sweetcheecks 😂sort your self out and become a nun 😂
YOUR LOSS!!!!!!!!
Man that would’ve been so kool to have grown up then
I was in the Haight off and on for three years starting in '67. The whole scene turned ugly fast. Those that don't acknowledge that are looking through rose colored glasses or were not there. It also just got kind of boring. You can only hang out talking and trying to "find yourself" for so long. That's why the movement didn't last long. Overated.
Not really,
Exactly. I was born in the 60s so this is before my time. I have heard San Francisco haight scene got ugly not long after. I don't know why they call 67 summer of love. Some places were riots. Amy tanks running through neighborhoods
Hitchiked out there in 70
Ok ... I was just going to look 4 dis topic on da haight ashbury pwace
Damn hippies. I could not make it through this video because I could practically smell the BO right through my screen.
dirty hippies
Thought I try it once and wound up with more tracks than the Santa Fe lines
Hearing Bill Curtis narrate I am either expecting to be solving a cold case or answer a question on wait wait dont tell me.
I was 10 Yeats old then. Of course I thought it was cool. I wonder now why so many of them were so troubled?
That's, how you looked, listened to and did nothing but fuel more Capitalism.
BOHEMIA
I ran a squat in Hackney, no drugs ✋but booze, okay 👍and it was good 😊
must have been like going to the zoo every day...seeing all these strange creatures. free entertainment.
Not only that they baffeld by cloths, hair cuts ,razors and soap.
It's at Astbury Haigh janis joplin got offered smack 😕they were human excrement to do that 😝 !!
BS
What did you expect???? ALL Hippies are human excrement!!
I heard Janis bought heroin that wasn't cutt. She didn't know. Strong for human consumption
@@dannyhood7433 Probably cuz she was too stoned off her a** to know, AS USUAL.
Even though the epicenter was in San Francisco, the whole event, the whole life-style, radiated out across the entire USA. I was growing up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and we were all very aware of what was happening,....and on a micro-level it was happening in Cleveland, too. I was 14 in 1967,....and in school they were warning us about POT, and LSD, and they tried to scare us, that it was bad. They were really bad at getting that message across, and instead we took it as a challenge to see if they were lying to us. So for me, in the Summer of 1969, I couldn't wait to try POT, and wondered about (Acid), LSD. In Cleveland, hashish was readily available,...even easier to get, than "weed". I "turned on" for my first time on hashish, that summer, in 1969. And like anything new,....it took a few tries before it had any real effect on me. I didn't smoke cigarettes, and we were too young to drink beer. "Practice makes perfect" as the saying goes. During the Summer of 1969,...my best friend then, (and even now), we tried smoking hash, every weekend until it, FINALLY hit us. We got so stinking high,....(years later, I thought it almost felt like we were tripping on LSD.) We usually bought blond hash, but there was plenty of that sticky brown stuff, resembling dark chocolate. The beauty of it, was you only had to smoke a few slivers of it, and it hardly made much smoke. Our parents (early on) had no clue what we were up to. It made us laugh uncontrollably, for hours. It made anything that was boring and dull, new and exciting.
I live in Oregon and we're a legal state. Hasish is readily available for purchase at every dispensary. All you need is cash and a valid ID. I prefer the soft chocolate "bubble hash" because it lasts so much longer. 3-4 hits and your eyes are melting out of their sockets, especially if it's made from the purple indica strains. Grand Daddy Purple is the finest hash I ever had. Come see us sometime! It's sure is pretty here. 💚regon the Beautiful.
@@lethrbear32 Yeah,...I wish I could get out your direction. Ohio still hasn't legalized weed. We have medical weed dispensaries,...which don't appeal to me, even though I have medical issues, that would qualify me, for access. I still support the (black market) for my weed.
@@lethrbear32 LOL Well, I'm sure as hell not gonna be visiting THAT state, anytime soon!!
Actually LA was the first hippie community
The Byrds helped to usher the hippie movement in LA in 1964-65. Roger McGuinn with granny classes and David Crosby with his cape. They were trendsetters.
I heard acid was not hard to find at one point in 60s disstrbuted all major citys. Maybe it was harder in late 60s because illegal. I have no idea i grew up in 80s all i know by that time it was lower grade acid which I though was good. Someone always had either acid or shrooms even when i didnt know anybody selling it. I still found it punk rockers in early 80s. He drove hearst worked cemetary. Fat jerry, statue of liberty hair
Don't get off the bus at Haight-Ashbury. I hear it's a real sh*thole.
Capitalipsters, no?