After 1967 the Haight - Ashbury was mainly a tourist trap. Our world went in doors and the parks. To many weekend hippies. From gwyn and James Spokane Washington
so odd that this should pop up following immediately upon f inishing a St John's alumni seminar regarding ageing alumni honorees. same time as my being alum back at that time.
The idealism and occasionally the behavior were as utopian as we imagined. Instantainious, overnight total change of our parents world that they worked (and played) so hard for blended with the youths changes as it usually does.
A lot of these folk weren't hippies or should I say yippies. There came a time when it was no longer hip to use "H" . They probably all dreamed of the lifestyle when they got back to work on Monday. John was right everyone should stay in bed for a day.
Sarah Vaughan puts these harmless children in their place in her version of Jobim's "Quiet Nights," which sees the quiet for what it was--a mirage that ended with the whimper of.a bossa nova song about nothing more than a babe passing by a rejected Lothario with a guitar and a wounded heart. "Oh, the humanity." Leave it to Sassy to drown the quiet..
San Francisco is still fkn kooky. It's the city of kooks. But angrier. Haight Ashbury is still a very lively part of town. Would have loved this video to have been without music.
by 1967 LSD was illegal. have heard summer 1966 was more intimate and acid was legal. unfortunately this lifestyle went coast to coast, aged jaded and scornful of straight society.
"Why did the dream die?" the singer asks. Simple...a lifestyle like this is unsustainable. Sitting around getting stoned is NOT a marketable skill. Therefore, you don't draw an income. Even drugs cost money. Food costs money. A place to live costs money. Clothing costs money. I haven't even mentioned owning a car (insurance, registration, gas, maintenance).
Once the CIA stopped the mk ultra they stop funding the hippies in San Francisco... nothing is free in exchange for their use of LSD and free food they experimented on them...read poisoner in Chief. Couple of the hippie bands were cover for the operation.
Agreed. And worse. A life like this where they basically just consume and don’t put anything back (working) is intrinsically parasitical. They keep consuming all the available resources, food, space, medicine and there is no order, discipline or vision beyond where they get their next meal or high from. Small wonder why it all fell apart and why this lifestyle eventually attracted and bred so many criminals, solipsistic narcissists, fools, sloths, mentally ill people and outright degenerates. I also wonder if MKUltra thought this would be the perfect place to test its mind control and mind altering substances. On people who they thought wouldn’t matter much, and nobody would miss and had given up on so much of their lives. And to recruit selfish grifters to make propaganda and subversive cultural messages.
Im pretty sure the hippies were the liberals especially since the culture started states like California Chicago and new York. The conservatives were the once who were fighting the Vietnam war coming from poor southern and midwestern rural conservative areas
Some of them definitely became conservatives, but if you're basing this off of modern voting patterns by age groups I suspect you're overestimating how many young boomers were actually haight-ashbury hippies (or in any way associated with the counter-culture). We remember the hippies bc 1. They were a new thing and made a lot of noise, 2. They produced a lot of popular culture (Particularly music) that was listened to by way, way more people than were actually hippies much less full-on 'hashbury' counter-culturalists and 3. A lot of their initial values (Mostly the good ones) actually kinda won out in the end, at least for now.
When it was still a tight little secret Bohemian community hidden from the rest of the world with some innocence about it. It all turned to shit a year later when the rest of the world found about it and corrupted its beauty!
Once these poor devils got past their drugs and excuse to be lazy, they all went to work, and raised families. Well at least most did, but some stayed in San-Francisco and got into politics, hence their current state.
Old Soldier Your analysis is correct. They cut their hair, put on suits, went into the educational system, into politics, and destroyed everything. It was a mass marxist experiment on society. Hence a part of the mk ultra experiment out of laurel canyon.
I love the Vibe, Earthiness & Natural ( inner & outer ) Beauty of Hippie Women. OnE LovE from NYC
Hippie men are very sexy too ....sensual and sexy actually
Really great old footage! Thanks for posting 🌻
this is actually one of the clearest sharpest videos i've seen
Ah, such a special time!
Yo. That dude flipped the 🐦 at hippies. Definition of a futile act. We LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
That was Rick Dalton who flipped the bird at those hippies.
@@hgodvilla00He is a good man for doing that!
After 1967 the Haight - Ashbury was mainly a tourist trap. Our world went in doors and the parks. To many weekend hippies.
From gwyn and James Spokane Washington
I want to belong to them too
Decent footage ruined by an embarrassingly mismatched soundtrack.
The street looks 10 years ahead of how UK streets looked in 67.
This is the year I was born.
flower children never died there is plenty around ^_^ , nice song by the way , thanks for the footage
so odd that this should pop up following immediately upon f inishing a St John's alumni seminar regarding ageing alumni honorees. same time as my being alum back at that time.
Love the video
Mute the dreadful song and just watch the people...
Same here.
So much really GOOD music came out of that time . . . what's THIS shitt ?!
Love this. Not a cellphone seen anywhere.
I'll bet nobody shredded on blue grass acoustic warped speed. blueberry grass hippy shakes.
I keep seeing that "Unique Men's Shoppe" in all the footage of the district from this era. I wonder what was so "unique" about it?
Vibes there I meditate daily and use THC most days thats all you need to be happy aswell as long walks through nature
The idealism and occasionally the behavior were as utopian as we imagined. Instantainious, overnight total change of our parents world that they worked (and played) so hard for blended with the youths changes as it usually does.
2:50
A Goth in 1967?
LOVE PEACE FREEDOM
lyrically that first song didnt even sound like a song. it sounded like they took somebodys book report and just sang it
That's hilarious 🤣
5:32 how I get down at the club
For anyone who was there the summer of love was the summer of 66’.
you are the only person to ever claim that.
Tyler Thompson
You are absolutely correct!
67 was the better year for music, though
Pure form of HippiePotcracy
the Guy at 2:00 didn't look all peace and loving lol
He must have been having a bad comedown.
He look like biker
Probably a prospect for the Hells Angels.
Thats a young Mike Pence
Can you blame him? Squares were bringing their cameras to Haight Ashbury and even sending tour buses to "look at the hippies" as if it was a zoo.
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whats the second song?
A lot of these folk weren't hippies or should I say yippies. There came a time when it was no longer hip to use "H" .
They probably all dreamed of the lifestyle when they got back to work on Monday.
John was right everyone should stay in bed for a day.
Silverlake/Williamsburg
0:01 Wrong from the first second, literally, it says "Summer of Love, 1968".
Needless to say the Summer of Love was in 1967.
How do you miss that?
There was a saying that went
"If you go to San Francisco in 1967, bring flowers. If you go to San Francisco in 1968, bring a gun."
The summer of 1967 was actually the summer of race riots. Haight Ashbury was not a microcosm of the greater society of that time.
It was 1967. I was there. A short lived movement in community building.
Needless to say? Hahaha
@@stormwulf117 👍😂😂😂😂😂
1:58 he just like me
What's the name of the singer of the first song that appears in the video?
Name of second tune?
donde habran quedado todas estas personas?
It was like the Acid Test spilled out onto the streets and went on for years.
That’s exactly what happened!
@B P Owsley hid out in Denver for a while. Wonder if Neal gave him the contacts.
Sarah Vaughan puts these harmless children in their place in her version of Jobim's "Quiet Nights," which sees the quiet for what it was--a mirage that ended with the whimper of.a bossa nova song about nothing more than a babe passing by a rejected Lothario with a guitar and a wounded heart. "Oh, the humanity." Leave it to Sassy to drown the quiet..
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agreed. but, the culture is open to much interpretation - try to do it better?
First stop would be the topless bar for me
What's the name of these songs??
Mis huevos
Summer of love.
So that's what the mute button's for.
San Francisco is still fkn kooky. It's the city of kooks. But angrier. Haight Ashbury is still a very lively part of town. Would have loved this video to have been without music.
I love the🖕Guy
i youtube searched 'lousy song with a shitty singer' and it brought me here
by 1967 LSD was illegal. have heard summer 1966 was more intimate and acid was legal. unfortunately this lifestyle went coast to coast, aged jaded and scornful of straight society.
"Why did the dream die?" the singer asks. Simple...a lifestyle like this is unsustainable. Sitting around getting stoned is NOT a marketable skill. Therefore, you don't draw an income. Even drugs cost money. Food costs money. A place to live costs money. Clothing costs money. I haven't even mentioned owning a car (insurance, registration, gas, maintenance).
InvestorGuy66 on Haight St to this day.. getting stoned all day is very marketable. I tried it dudee
Once the CIA stopped the mk ultra they stop funding the hippies in San Francisco... nothing is free in exchange for their use of LSD and free food they experimented on them...read poisoner in Chief. Couple of the hippie bands were cover for the operation.
Agreed. And worse. A life like this where they basically just consume and don’t put anything back (working) is intrinsically parasitical. They keep consuming all the available resources, food, space, medicine and there is no order, discipline or vision beyond where they get their next meal or high from. Small wonder why it all fell apart and why this lifestyle eventually attracted and bred so many criminals, solipsistic narcissists, fools, sloths, mentally ill people and outright degenerates.
I also wonder if MKUltra thought this would be the perfect place to test its mind control and mind altering substances. On people who they thought wouldn’t matter much, and nobody would miss and had given up on so much of their lives. And to recruit selfish grifters to make propaganda and subversive cultural messages.
Then some people started a religion to get all these things without working.
@@flaviolozoya
Grateful Dead
Didn't look too happy, especially after the money runs out.
Yesterday's hippies are today's FOX NEWS viewers!!!!!!
Maybe in _your_ fantasy world. Guess you've never heard of CNN or MSNB-Hee Haw.
Im pretty sure the hippies were the liberals especially since the culture started states like California Chicago and new York. The conservatives were the once who were fighting the Vietnam war coming from poor southern and midwestern rural conservative areas
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Some of them definitely became conservatives, but if you're basing this off of modern voting patterns by age groups I suspect you're overestimating how many young boomers were actually haight-ashbury hippies (or in any way associated with the counter-culture).
We remember the hippies bc 1. They were a new thing and made a lot of noise, 2. They produced a lot of popular culture (Particularly music) that was listened to by way, way more people than were actually hippies much less full-on 'hashbury' counter-culturalists and 3. A lot of their initial values (Mostly the good ones) actually kinda won out in the end, at least for now.
This joke. The so called summer of love took place in 1966.
When it was still a tight little secret Bohemian community hidden from the rest of the world with some innocence about it. It all turned to shit a year later when the rest of the world found about it and corrupted its beauty!
The music...bad
Lol, these people grew up to be the Pelosi's, the Clinton's, Trump, the Biden's, McDonnell...etc.
its all hype
unlike the self indulgent, the great, "BALLS DEEP",,,,
Posers in full force
At some point you have to get a job and work. Not everyone can hang around a street corner spouting nonsense.
...and not everyone did hang out on a street corner!
Fletch feminists do it all the time
2.44 Peter, one feminist walks off with Charles Manson
Fletch yep 😁
Once these poor devils got past their drugs and excuse to be lazy, they all went to work, and raised families. Well at least most did, but some stayed in San-Francisco and got into politics, hence their current state.
Old Soldier
Your analysis is correct. They cut their hair, put on suits, went into the educational system, into politics, and destroyed everything. It was a mass marxist experiment on society. Hence a part of the mk ultra experiment out of laurel canyon.
Interesting film. --- awful, Terrible music.
but what you all didn´t check, that the blond hippie right in the beginning of the video is donald trump.
Peace, love and harmony are not profitable, nor do they conform to the Christian ideology of war.
This has to be the worst music I´ve ever heard.
One of the worst songs I've ever heard