1967-1993 SPECIAL REPORT: "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HIPPIES OF HAIGHT-ASHBURY"?
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- The de facto capital of the hippies, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, was in ruins by the end of 1967. The influx of people into the district during the 'Summer of Love' was so high (pardon the pun) that overpopulation and unsanitary habits resulted in the spread of disease as well.
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what's the first song??
@@bluebellbeatnik4945 repetitive. lol
My mom was a hippie in HA… a few years later she moved back to the midwest, attended college and became a beloved 1st grade teacher. She married my dad (he was 10 years iolder than her and not a hippie). She was a wonderful teacher & mother.
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Was?
@@Nzbdjcnx franks
Believe it or not these folks are not Biden voters
They thought being in your 40s was too old for rock. Now their in their 80s and still rockin'!
Yeah but back then , people in their 30s and 40s didn’t grow up on rock and roll, it was jazz, big band, country…
That’s what separates this generation… they enjoy life with their kids and are usually close ( my generation, baby boomers). Couldn’t smoke pot with MY parents. With my kids and grandkids, yes.
@@barbarajohnson9050 I smoked with my parents. But I really should not have. It was kind of creepy. The smell of MJ gives me a creepy feeling still, and I. think that is why.
they were all socialists back then.... then discovered being entrepreneurial, industrious and ambitious was much better,
@@nickyalousakis3851 In other words, they found that the Establishment was right and they were wrong. 🤔
I was a freak, a country boy infected by the Hippies that swarmed north to rural Canada. God love them all, they gave me a way to think, just when I needed it. I guess I helped them, too, with country boy things that just seemed obvious to me.
Country Joe ;)
A Hippie told me something that changed my life. We seek in others that witch we can only give ourselves. Be your own best friend Man. ;0) You dont need anyone else you have yourself.
No ... we all need God .
Its amazing how things seem like they'll last forever, but inevitably, everything changes, in ways unimaginable, and the older your get the more staggering it is how this seems to be true for everything
You are not wrong. All Things Must Pass.
“The only constant is change.”
Everything changes except for the 2 mist wide spread religions.
I spent a few months on The Farm in 1976. It was an authoritarian, verbally abusive, poorly fed scene. They worked hard, but they did not eat nutritious food. They were vegans, but they supplemented their diet with white flour, sugar, and junk food right out of the packages, and Pepsi.
You won't get enough nutrition eating like that. When I left, I was diagnosed with anemia, and I really don't think I was the only one. I was shocked at how pink, how neon pink, the cheeks of the white girls outside the Farm were. Later, I realized that was how white people were supposed to work. On the Farm, they were much whiter. Casper white. Typing paper white. That was probably due to anemia.
Thanks for the first-person account! Much appreciated.
You buy 50kg. of rice and grow some unions, garlic, herbs, vegetables, fruits, and buy little bottles of ketjap and other taste makers. You can catch some fish, or buy a little meat, cheese, nuts, or a different meat replacement. It's so easy to cook healthy food, but I think a lot of Americans probably can't or don't do home cooking? In the '70s here in Holland there was a lot of macro dynamic foods, and people were very skinny and didn't have too much colour either. Later on they probably went back to the old fashioned potatoes, vegetables, gravy, and meat (and a little porridge or yoghurt as desert) Simple food, and it makes you feel very strong and healthy! We have these one-pan-dishes too (stamppot ) like potatoes with vegetables and cheese (or with meat) all stamped to a big mush, with some jus or sauce. Mmmm... nice healthy food for dark and cold winters! :)
They probably were short on vitamin B12
@@yukonnoka what they were short on was sense
My mom did her college dissertation on the Farm back in the mid 70's. She took me with her when she went for her research trips and I fell in love with the communal living mentality. I am sure the malnourishment and control were a real thing but I did not see this as a child. All I saw was individualists caring for other individualists. It gave me the knowledge that all paths are equal and there is a way to live without working ourselves to death for the corporate greed!!!
Gheez, that intro. Was it really necessary to put the same line on repeat a hundred times? I need to go bang my head against the wall to relieve the pain!
Yea, but you never knew what people would do for that Mexican smoke. (in those days, the majority of marijuana was from Mexico,)
😄😄😄 me too!!....
lol 😂that’s what I was thinking
Many burned out. " A man's got to know his limitations ! "
Magnum force..
I wonder how many became CEOs of companies and sold their souls and everything they thought they believed in?
Steve Jobs? Paul McCartney and bunch of other previously hippie super rich figures? No, CEOs of companies didn't sell their souls. Being successful is not evil.
Most. I was there.
Hard to believe years later here in 2021 the Stones are still together alive and well
To bad San Francisco isn’t!
Not since Charlie died last week
Yep - still touring . . . and Keith Richards has been Dead for over 15 years.
@@michael_caz_nyc 😂
@@dondressel452 ha,ha,ha, Just look at him. A walking Zombie. I can't believe that guy is still touring. It defies logic. I like the Stones. They really-are true Rock Stars. oNe LovE from NYC
The God for the hippies. I was born in the mid 70s but the message of peace , love and acceptance of each other's differences because in reality we are more alike than different was the truth then and it's still the truth now. Come together birds . Whatever your feather
The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco is a tourist attraction now. There are young people today who are poor and homeless or nearly so who come to S.F. seeking the life they heard about decades ago. Many work low-paying jobs in retail establishments. Some of them are still experimenting with communal living, dumpster diving for food, creating communal gardens, and scavenging for discards of clothing or other usable items on the street, such as furniture or cookware. Lots of them are still hoping for a mythical Marxian utopian vision of yesteryear.
Sounds desparate and sad in that case. Hippydom is ancient history if it ever truly existed at all, in any pure sense, back in the 60s.
@@brendanbrendan9435 I don't know how "sad" or "desperate" they are, I know a lot of them. They worship the past. They're into free jazz from the '50s & '60s, and the '80s punk scene. too. I found out from one of them that there's a thriving train-hopping scene. I can't image people riding trains as vagrants, but some young folks do it like so-called hobos did back in the day.
There’s only one reason I still go to that area and that’s amoeba records at the corner Haight and Stanyan… Ive been going there since the 90s
@@jamesmack3314 It's just one part of San Francisco.
The marxist utopian vision is still alived. As opposed to what, your horrible non utopian vision?
Could only watch a couple of minutes! Very distracting watermark!😵💫
For real!!! I stopped too.
Awww The Airplane. Looking forward to this one Hezakya had to put it on pause for a day when I could enjoy with no interruptions. Thanks for these fantastic Trips down memory lane.
We were right about the CIA and the FBI. Preach sister.
Ironic as she was probably one of their test subjects who they studied if she took lsd and led an ‘alternative lifestyle’. For all she went through, she hasn’t really gained much insight and has a child who has to grow up with a single parent. Poor kid.😢
The CIA Created the Hippies. ;0) Tavistock institute Man.
You should read Tom O'Neils book Chaos. It's a good dose of truth about the psyops they ran from here.
@@tooberetta I do know a little of that book. I have a mild case of Manson obsession so I’ve seen discussions on if Manson was working with the CIA which reportedly that book claims. People a little closer to truth like Nick Shreck say the book got that wrong, but I really should read it anyway.
@@tooberettahis book is nonsense. Now you know
doyou have to put your logo in the middle of the screen for the entire thing? cant like that, now I hate Wazee digital, thats what I got from tjis
Thank you! I really enjoyed the archival footage- I was 14 in 1968 and still consider myself a "partial" re-entry haha! It was an amazing era with a legacy that continues to resonate today. What a long strange trip it still is!
Yeah, subsequent generations are forever in your debt (I mean we’re living with YOUR DEBT)
Okay, my friends and I were there in L.A. at the Hullabaloo, then Whisky and finally (after 10:00 pm) Canters (who would let us inside when the police came up the street; we weren’t yet 18) EVERY weekend. 1966-1970. Lived in Laurel Canyon in summer of 1970. Squeaks, Mush, Mark, Randy Tooth, Mike & Art; Marty & Donny; Wildman Fisher; and Mayor of Sunset Strip (Rodney Bingenheimer) & Elliot Mintz. We saw everyone and went everywhere. It was amazing. I’m still alive and live on East Coast now. 🤚
Wow, sounds like you were at the epicenter of the scene and all the stuff was going down on sunset Boulevard you’re surrounded by people like Joni Mitchell the beginnings of folk rock with Crosby stills Nash Frank Zappa was up there members of the doors love etc that was LA at its best not like today
Ever see Charlie and his girls?
Spent time in Haight Ashbury in the early 1990s. Some of the old hippy spirit was still there but was fading fast. Old Victorian houses that were energy inefficient once made for cheap rent which attracts artists & the Bohemian types. Those days are gone.
Do Americans really call houses built between 1837 and 1901 Old Victorian houses? Do they know anything about Queen Victoria? In the UK we call them either Houses or Victorian Houses!
@@paulfrost8952 Not really. But since this is CZcams & since ppl now copy architectural styles in new construction I used the word “old” to start a sentence that described Victorian houses. Unfortunately, as a culture, we don’t have the years nor the wisdom of our cousins across the pond.
Paid 200$ a month at 439 cole st in the Haight in 68- zillow says today’s rent would be 3400 -go figure
@@carygray9831 Wow!!!! That’s amazing. I don’t know how the latest mess to San Francisco has affected Haight Ashbury. The city itself seems to have descended into chaos.
In october 1967 a symbolic burial was carried on.Hippism had been declared dead, what followed was nothing but merchandising.
What came after was a CIA operation to create smaller segmented society to be more easily controlled and it didn't stop in the 80s or 90s or at all since then.
Hip hop is another great example of a cultural event that was co-opted and manipulated for a wanted outcome.
Couldn’t last 3 minutes. How dare you edit/ loop classic Airplane tunes and stick that watermark up. Will never watch anything you produce again.
Don't forget all the speed & heroin the CIA pumped into the area. That was the real death blow.
Today , it's The Fenty
and lsd
Jolly West enters chat.
Haight wasn't in ruins by 1967, It was the summer of 1968 and the Haight riots. 67 was a great year and then came the night.
Yeah the dark scum, serpent energy took over, they love iodine.
It was a mess if you were in the Haight in 1965 and 1966. The original "hippies" scattered and the kids who were called in by the media invented a new kind of hippie by studyihg each other
I was only a child when I lived there during that era with my mom. But your chronology sounds about right. I asked my mom "How long did it stay good?" She said "Not very long."
@@adamseward4713 huh? I thought and was convinced 65 and 66 were the greatest years, the most authentic and honest years of counterculture behavior, which morphed into the hippie movement in 67 and beyond sounds like 65 and 66 were the best times to be there before it got to be commercialized
that's right@@jamesmack3314
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👍🌈🎃🎗 coool.
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Haha “ Ringo Starr is 49 and Paul McCartney is 47 “now they’re both in their 80s
We all got haircuts, real jobs, married , and kids.
And now those kids are mostly lame. How can so many parents who were supposedly “cool”back in the Day produce such a boatload of uncool kids
@@jamesmack3314many of the anti 2nd neoliberal oppressive supposed hippie types produced woke children. Children that are the supposed selfproclaimed antiracists yet are in favor of the implemention such socioeconomic theories as crtheory. The same crtheory that demonizes a whole sect of society by falsely claiming they're/we're inherently privileged and oppressors based on their/our skin color, which is literally bigoted hateful and racist. But there was a group of pro 2nd amendment right hippies that produces some truly great children and their working to Make America Great Again!
Lovin these deep bass sound bites of Jefferson Airplane's hits!
Some of it before Grace
Love the content! Where in the world did you find this old footage??
Just because some ppl liked long hair on a man was so under rated,, freedom, let ur hair grow, for girls, let ur hair down,, freedom from barbers throughout this country , let ur hair grow long ,straight or curls, this society is not just for girls.. said me back in 1974 ,16 and married a long haired guy,,(20) we had more than most by our tax paying jobs.. hard work and happy years !! bought our 1st home, had it built, in 1979.
10:52-10:57 that's how I feel about my generation today. We're young and we know there's an upset socially but, we're still very naive and lack alot of reasoning skills, comprehension skills, critical thinking and problem solving. But the biggest thing we lack to me is human empathy
The world was still civilized. Grew up in 80s/90s London. The last generation before people were programmed vis social media to be soulless, self absorbed, dumb down bots.
Yeah nobody has empathy, they say the most evil things on the internet without any kind of remorse, just go to an instagram comment section
Eat some iodine, you dark liar.
1000% accurate observation!!!!!
Some of you are alive and living deeply. I host Couchsurfers in Peru and I have met many who upwardly revise my view of the human race. I was in the Haight in 1965 and 66 and what we were there for is still rippling through the world
My landlord lived on Height in 67. He said it was "amazing". He was a crazed horder. Absolutey nutter.
Aww Wavy Gravy God Bless him.
He would of got my vote
Yessiree seen him in 94 in Cincinnati oh
Yes!! Waves Graves! Love that dude. I wish he was my papaw. Papaw Gravy.
Hugh romney ran Charles Manson's family off the hogfarm.
Forgotten how much I liked this channel 😊👍
19:57 John Phillips joking about a form of child abuse...that aged well! What a freak!
Hippy in 67 says Freedom Same person in 2023 says How Dare You want your freedom because all hippies are woke
Fascinating and important document, 100% relevant to today.
It’s frustrating that the actual AIR DATE of this program isn’t given. You have to guess by the cars and wardrobe.
Haight wasn't in ruins by 67, that was a Good year. The riots in the summer of 69? was the sword thru the heart. Maybe winter 1968. It was a good time but by Altamont, Manson, ...Haight was gone before that.....
What is this mexican smoke I keep hearing Grace sing about? Gimme some!👍👍👍👍👍
Haight Ashbury and Haight St in general stayed great until gentrification in the late 90's.
Isn't white flight if they leave and gentrification if they move in? Those terms have been stained by racist who call themselves antiracists today. 😡
@HezakytaNewz. You must be an exceptionally bright and philosophical AND sociological soul! The videos you find are historical as well as thought provoking.
What happened to the hippies? They're CEOs, politicians, and college professors - they became ''the man''
You got a good point. This shit infiltrated all aspects of our world
Yeah, and they’re arguably worse than any that came before as they are so certain of their opinion that they dismiss completely anyone who’s not with their program.
Mid late 80's we're great,I was a young teen and saw many of the Greats!!!
The watermark was slightly distracting, but enjoyed the footage.
SLIGHTLY lol....
Most of them fell into the same traps they once despised. It's sad, really.
I live in San Francisco, and was in the Haight last Sunday; not much different. Instead of hippies, mostly grungy runaway kids with pitbulls. Four totally naked people (3 men and a woman) walking around casually, tourists and locals. More commercialized than back then.
Couldn’t watch it with that obnoxious watermark smack dab in the middle of the screen.
Lol okay
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I spent some time here in 2011 as a street kid with a good friend and a dog. Hitch hiked from NJ and slept in the park most of the time or on the stairs on the haight st and masonic
2011 or so was the end of the era. Now it’s only yuppies and tech douches and it’s very sanitized. It was dead by 2015.
@@davidtalks2366 2011 had its own scene happening, the Freak left" movement, which was Occupy San Francisco. By 2015, yes, that scene was gone or almost so, and the second wave of tech gentrification was in full swing. Rents skyrocket, and most of the artists, poets, activists and eccentrics that had made the city so great moved out, if they survived at all. So basically, yes, you are right. There are still plenty of homeless people on the streets of SF, and in the Park, too. But most of them are sad, lost souls strung out on drugs that made the heroin, meth and cocaine of the past seem like a. health care routine.
And now???🙂🙂🙂....
89 the age of Aquarius 2.0 was a great time. If you wasn't there for 69 ? 89 was great too. That was when I got to do all that ACID and shit but with all the music and culture from 69. The Long hair. The Tune in and drop out phase that has never left me.
@@truthseek3017 Oh dear we have a sourpuss. I dont Lie.
I was at Haight street in 94 and I had a great time but you could tell that area was going down hill and the hard drugs were really bad then
What were the 2 songs in this video?
I work with homebound seniors, many whom are former hippies who never recovered from the drug culture.
And to repeat myself again...great upload and greatly appreciated
What do mean "never recovered from the drug culture"? Fried their brains on LSD? Moved on to hard drugs? Please elaborate!
Mexico - Jefferson Airplane
I was born there. I'm 70 now.. the counterculture was taken over by the unhip. it's really sad.
Just watched Wookstock 99. sickening.....
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I was there.... what happened is human nature, they became what they said they rejected.
My thoughts exactly…. if you’re gonna make it in this world, you have to conform to some degree
What happened to the people of Haight Ashbury there probably dead or great or great grandparents,
Were alive to declare the NEW Glory of God. Faithful 💪🏼 to the SF Bay, baby
They moved to Portland.😝
There in their 70s I was a little girl then
The "Wazee Digital" logo in the middle of the frame is really distracting.
45 is considered ole' geezer, lol.
What about 63☦️🏺🫒
Well with age comes wisdom, and therefore a threat to their experiments in human nature and alternative lifestyles.
Is playing music in a repetitive loop a style?
what's with the watermark right in the center of the screen.
Watch ..
The summer of rave 1989..
Lisern carefully from.....
'However there was a irony to.....
1993? This looks more like 1983....if that.
Love your work mate, it’s top class, and I like Grace slick, but that Mexican smoke rambling song at the beginning, I wanted to throw my phone of off of a skyscrapers sky deck! ;)
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Ya that was pretty terrible.
Same lol
It wasn't a rambling song, it was the same line of the same song on a loop, and yes, it made me want to skip ahead.
I thought they were singing "put the Mexicans to work", that was weird
Searching for love because you cant love yourself, or because self-love isn't enough, is a dangerous game.
Exactly. The woman said she didn't feel love at home, but she felt love in haight Ashbury?
@@dannyhood7433 the CIA will love you as long as you let them study you😢
@@dannyhood7433Because there they didn't judge her, they just accepted her as she was. To a vulnerable young mind this was love.
What you should do is love yourself and be enough for yourself (not NEED another human being), but also look outwards, love other people for themselves and try to be a blessing to other people and make connection with others....
It's easier said than done of course but I'm trying....
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The scene changed from smoking a joint to shooting heroin. It kiilled many.
"You're a legend Owsley, for your righteous dope...."
Specifically, he made strong, clean LSD, the best there was, many said.
what happened to the hippies? They’re in Eugene Oregon.
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This opening song is making me feel like I'm going crazy.
Wait, is the whole soundtrack composed of small samples looped endlessly?
Yeah I was a bit annoyed by that too tbh....
What are the names of the songs at the first of the documentary?
We are still here.
I can’t stand watermarks
A very square film made by square people .
The first Tiny Homes being built back in the 60's out of car doors and other items. A head of their times with the building of Tiny Homes.
Lol. Was that square’s name really Richard Thrillkill???
No way.
sure wish the watermark was bigger so it could cover more of the fantastic footage, but small odd snipes of sound loops serve as the audio equivalent. Still, amazing footage.
Wow the hippies were really concerned about the enviornment,sweeping the streets ….Now look what’s left of this planet……
I want to be free from the system
Oh by the way do you have a spare buck?
Well said!
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would love this but there has to be a permanent logo on screen with it. lame!!
19:57: Aged incredibly poorly.
Transcendent. It sounds like a lot of them missed the point, but it sounds like a lot of them carried the point to its next stage in evolution.
LOVE nic cage, especially his early work!
I wondered what happened to that kid at 8:10- he was in the Hoffman video and was so well-spoken and thoughtful. That's awful what happened him
This is incredibly poignant to our present. Personally I flipped from that hippie mentality to a wiser and far more informed view.
I also, but the open minded spirit of free thinking was born in the days of civil rights protests, anti war demonstrations and the ERA effort. I would not be the progressive I am today without that foundation.✌️❤ Coming of age in the 60's and early 70's was liberating for me.
@@nstark1066 f’ing narcissist boomers destroyed the world. How progressive of you!!!
@@nstark1066Progressive is regressive. Stop destroying America.
2024, and the Stones are still rolling!
What a long strange trip it is to hell and it ain't over yet
what's the first song?
Groovy! Gimme some skin. Far out! Cool!
Wtf?
These moments were really backed by great music (music being the first of it's kind ) A awakening, and drugs that did help shape people's awareness.
Today the streets are artificial, dead and lifeless,the music is two dimensional.
Today's world may be more sterile ,but it's phony and is backed by nothing.Its all just people miserable.We are seeing what lies do to a country,city, a world.
I have been sober, I have been on drugs,I have traveled .What's important is the people and the world around you.If you live in a world around you that is dead and lifeless than you got nothing.
The drugs today are from the pharmaceutical companies, the yuppies and there anti depressants and other garbage drugs .There is nothing wrong with experiencing life not trapped in your ego ( this world we need to melt away the bars that keep us imprisoned)
*solidair react*
I was an original in the Haight in 1966. For decades I thought the spirit was dead. I have hosted over 600 couchsurfers, people traveling poor around the world, and in them our spirit still lives
Reality is technology, the Internet, and especially smart phones have really done a number on social behavior in many different ways,mostly negative
Post content, but without the water print. Tacky! I ain’t hanging around for that.
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This show aired in 1989. Super cool!!!!!!
Everyone (hippies included) so much more ARTICULATE then 😔😔😔....
Probably partly because people read more books....
No hope? You were in the richest most powerful nation in history and you felt hopeless?
anyone know the song at 3.45?
GOT IT. Jefferson Airplane - Tobacco Road, if anyone’s interested.
The economist, Jagger,heart valves replaced don't last long. Keith struggles. The rest are dead. The era changed. Change with it, again. Parle Chinese?
Who sings the opening song?
Jefferson Airplane
Most annoying soundtrack ever; refrains keep repeating, I assume for copyright reasons. 17:21 "Did we find any exhippies that became bankers in Boston? The answer is no...there won't be many now or in the future". They didn't forsee the Yuppie phenomenon 18:20 "Old geezers" at 40, little did they know most of them would still be performing in their 80s
10:44 she hit right n the head…the war in Vietnam and at home; massive civil unrest and the boarder conflict between Russia and Chins in 1969.
She was looking for love, that's where the rubber hit the road.
14:29 an amazing answer 👏🏽❤️
LIVE IN THE HAIGHT
gotta love the phrasing of the straight media - "not everyone who took LSD became a mental patient." Be sure to leave out the fact that there were people taking LSD who had mental problems to begin with, who today may have had opportunities for diagnosis and treatment that were lacking then.