So.......every summer for you, then, is the same???? You'd rather have them stay that way instead of doing something different with 'em????? No wonder the Hippie movement was such a flop!!!
I am proud to have been a "hippie" back then. I still have a bumper sticker which reads, "God Bless the Freaks". I am so very very grateful to have been young and living that life in the sixties.
Indeed a social revolution that was explained to us younger people as a mere sexual revolution.Something pretty dirty thus. So little attention is paid on social rebirth of nations. In my country they only spoke about the month Mai 1968.They connected that also directly to the invasion of Russia into Tchechoslovakia and the death of Jan Pallach. My son does not even know the name Woodstock. As from the 70 ies music business was so good that anyone listening to music would be confronted with 1967 Woodstock. Since 1967 we don't have had such worldwide expression of a social idea nonetheless most governments in Europe are fanatic over social ideas and openly call themselves socialist or social democrate. I must say even in the most conservative households the hippy movement was a topic, good or bad. Many parents in Europe could not and would not withhold their kids of showing in some way symphatie to the hippies.Therefor the movement was too strong and too peaceful. There simply was not all too much bad to say about the hippies.What parent could oppose to flowers, and peace. You just cannot imagine what effect hippy movement had on the smallest rural towns. I still live in one.
my eldest sister wanted: a jupe in orange with big yellow flowers cut above the knee, white pumps on a big heel, a poncho also orange and with fringles. She got that from my conservative parents.
I totally tripped down memory lane watching this awesome footage of the era that I was lucky enough to be a part of!!! I was a hippie n still am to this day heart n soul n mind!!! It was so cool back then when you met people in the parks n on the streets n at the beach n boardwalks!! This was so wonderful to see yet for some reason I am choked up watching this because it is an era that is lost to us nowadays!!! Oh, to be back in that atmosphere again!!!
dailyflash you people live in a bubble,the hippie movement only showed how decadent and stupid humans can become when following a utopistic ideology,what did they achieve uh? peace and love my ass the world we live in is brutal and violent(always been) btw i'm not even american but here in europe we regard the hippies as potheads,lazy,dirty promiscous wannabe "saviours".
10anto82 You're clueless dude. The hippie movement and student movement helped end the Viet Nam war, just one of MANY things accomplished. The number of lives saved in that one instance can be attributed to us hippies and student protesters. All we were saying is give peace a chance. We supported and helped usher in civil rights, gay rights even rights for the handicapped. There were thousands of hippies in Europe as well. The corporations that run the world will always fight wars for profits and territorial gains - those are the people you should direct your misguided anger toward.
No sir -- YOU have done nothing. Where is YOUR generation's great movement to change something for the better? Where do you get off putting down a generation that aimed for the sky, instead of sitting on their money? Where the hell is your character?
Thanks for posting. I'm in the Haight every day and still love it. I was only 7 years old in '67, but I remember it well. It seems that back in '67 one could actually live the alternative lifestyle. These days everything is so insanely expensive and so living the "alternative" lifestyle is a real luxury only the super wealthy can afford. Everyone else is constantly working like crazy to make ends meet. Those of you who did experience the Summer of Love firsthand were very fortunate indeed.
I remember '67 too but was a little older at 8. I lived in Southern California, in Yoba Linda. Wish I still lived there I miss it. And the good times I had growing up back then.
my boyfriend's mother was a teenager at this time and lived in San Fransisco (her family still lives there, she moved to NY state in the '80s when my bf was 4 years old). She said her and her girlfriends would go down around Haight to check things out and that you'd often see people "making homemade movies" and they would walk past several times trying to get recorded because it made them feel like real actresses LOL
I grew up in the wrong decade! I swear the 60s is where I belonged! The best were the 60s. Back when people had respect for others, people opened their minds and weren’t sheeps, back when music was actually good and people really played instruments, people stood up for what they believed in, fashion just wasn’t fashion it was a lifestyle your style, they expressed themselves how they wanted and didn’t care, 60s had JFK and the Beatles, THERE WAS NO CELL PHONES COMPUTERS IPADS, you actually communicated had conversations TUNING OUT meant something completely different. Ugh I wish I could have been there!
Ironically, without your phone or laptop, you'd never see this footage! You can play this music, dress in a hippy way, pour yourself a drink, and escape to the 60's whenever you want. Buy yourself a '69 Mustang!😃👍💃
This is beautiful--such awesome times! I really wish I could have been alive for them. Young people now-days seem to be more interested in their iPhones and Facebooks than the people and world around them, which is really very sad. Nobody seems to care about anything anymore--what happened to the passion? Thanks for sharing this; it's great. Peace, love, freedom...what a beautiful concept for the world. I wish everyone could realize that.
Good observation; that generation was extremely passionate about lots of things, way more than any decade following the 60's. I know our '70's gen felt dissapointed that we didn't burn down a bank on campus. Yeah, current teens are passionate about politics, but putting an establishment candidate into office isn't what I'm talking about. They're mostly manipulated, NPC-type followers, not firebrands or huge risk takers. Also that generation actually lived their truth; all our preoccupation with food ingredients comes from the macro-biotic movement of young leftists years ago. Even personal computers comes from them, the Internet was built by college kids in '69. Yeah, every generation is in the shadow of that first '60's gen.
Human kind is breeding the emotion out of ourselves by over-automating everything, instant gratification on demand, & becoming sedentary observers of life as opposed to taking part in life for life's sake. Who would've thought this back then? It was not that long ago.
@@Pimp-Master the internet didn't come from late 60s stoners such as the ones in this film, the the liberal/leftist U. Berkeley was the sight for a majority of the research/infrastructure led by a team of seasoned, mostly conservative engineers with a sprinkling of young hipsters on the low end. Also, a lot of those kids from the late 60s movement went on to embrace those evil capitalist vibes becoming movers and shakers on Wall street. ua-cam.com/video/yJDv-zdhzMY/v-deo.html
Carmen, Amazing - I'm in it. At 1:20, wearing an above-the-knee multi-color red/brown tapestry "swing" coat, walking away from the camera, short "bob" haircut. I know that coat because I made it. In 1966-1967 I was publicity director for Esalen Institute, & we were often on Haight, walking over to Maggie's restaurant for lunch on the corner of Haight & Masonic. Oh, and the music - perfect marriage of Hey Jude.
Was scanning the crowds for one 16/17 yr old skinny kid. Turned 17 that summer. ‘Hey Jude’ was a BIG thing. So was “All You Need Is Love”. The local FM station looped it over and over for at least the first 24 hours after it came out. I remember being stoned out of my mind listening to it for hours, chilling in a flat somewhere in the Haight.
@@michaelmeliambro5117 how do I live with myself… for mistakes I made over 50 years ago - are you serious? You have no idea what I might have accomplished in my life since then.
@@macabhaird8789 But I do have a good idea what you probably did then.......acid trips, giving STD's to girls, hanging around drug dealers and dope peddlers all the time.......SHAME ON YOU!!!
Pretty cool to see the mix of characters strolling the streets...and to think now most are in their 70's...crazy.definitely not a jaded cynical bunch,yet.
I was there. Didn't make it into this video but it was a real hoot of a time! A truly once in a lifetime experience. A whole cultural change began here at this time, for better or worse. How often does that happen?
Asi se veia San Francisco en esos dias del verano del 67..y la cancion de Hey Jude de los Beatles,,ocupaba el primer lugar en el Hit Parde...Fueron tiempos fue una era que ya no volvera..todo tenia MAGIA..........peace and love my friends !
Love to watch this old stuff. I watched one called Monterrey 40 and there was a girl in a headband passing a joint with some guy. She was my high school teacher Pegi Kaspar. She has since passed but she was a great teacher.
I went to the first Be In and throughly enjoyed the idealistic efforts of my fellow hippies for the the year and a half I was in San Francisco; first as a letter carrier, then on the Morningstar Commune for a few months. What I love about this video is that it's home movies of the Haight, not just the artists and famous people. I'm always hoping to see myself in old pictures.
I also like the down to earth home movies... This was the eve of two destructive forces. Drug fallout and Free Love Fallout. Free Love = No traditional family values. Free Love = Not caring, self-absortion, Dr Spock instant gratification, resulting in hurtful burnout. Romney's children are refreshing role models to all this.
I Just saw my Dad for the first time on this video. 6:06 walking stick cabbie cap and flowered shirt. And that my friends is what I wear and I have a diamond willow staff.
How cool that must've been to see your Dad in the film! He looks great. Turbulent but beautiful time. A real sea-change took place during those years. I was a kid then but remember it well.
The kid at 4:38 looks identical to my middle son. Long hair, all of it. Pretty cool that before I was even born, that my ‘soon to be’ son was hanging out on Haight Asbury. Explains why his favorite band is The Beatles and anything else before 1977.
That would be mathematally impossible for it to be your son if you aren't even thought of yet never mind your son it's clearly not your son it's just someone who resembles him your son wasn't hanging out on haight asbury in 1967. I advise you to stop taking whatever magic mushrooms you've been taking.
Great video!!! I am a young hippie, and I was raised very near the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It's great to see these old videos of my hometown before I was born. Haight-Ashbury is still very cool, but it's too expensive...sort of gentrified....so some of the spirit is lost. It's still awesome nevertheless.
@greenplanet2400 Going going gone! The quiet chill of time taking us all on a ride. Those hippies were young, but not for long...... We think..... Me-ism? getting old? Come on? What a wild experiment!
thanks for posting.I got out of the Navy September 1966 in the SF bay area.I became a "hippie and attended concerts at the Fillmore, Avalon, GG Park,and became a Musician(still am!)
This was a bad time to be in vietnam, crazy ass times I was in the 5th grade. Check out late 60's early 70's teenage groupie Iris hanging with ten years after. It's here on youtube, she is beautiful.
A friend an I made an attempt at age 14 of running away from home an was going to hitchike from Fort Worth TX to the land of make believe. Yes Haight Ashbury. I realize now that God intervened. Had we made it, I probably would not be here now. Discovered that the illusion was never as good as it was In reality. I am still an activist an aging hippie. I finally did make it to there in April 88. Could still feel the far out groove. I miss those days of fun and innocence ✌
I'm 68 years old but lived 1/2 block from Ashbury on Haight in 1967,down from the Drogstore Cafe[used to be called Drugstore but was re-named because of our using drugs].The first day i got there was the 4th.of July-saw bands playing on a flatbed truck in Speedway meadows.The Angels used to ride their bikes up to Benches cafeteria on Haight.Many,many great memories of those days.
I was only 7 years old this year. I remember our family drove up to here in '67. I remember the name of the Hotel we stayed at, it was called The Senator Hotel. I remember the pulley elevators. The hotel is still up but looks different.
Thanks for your comments. The music behind the home video is a cover, and while Hey Jude wasn't released until 1968 the length of the music worked for this very long clip. We hope you will still enjoy the slice of life on Haight Ashbury in the 1967 Summer of Love. This is from our family home videos files digitized 10 years ago.
I guess this is the most "realistic" 1967 I have seen. And makes me think that it is not much to long for. Even though it may be a hundred, or a thousand, times better than 2011.
I was there. it really happened. it was both much worse and infinitely better than you imagine. and i was very young. it was a precursor, a glimpse of our future selves, after the messiah comes, and when we can all drop our masks. we are in an interregnum, and must fight our darkside, and we can emerge at the other end, cleansed. bon journee, mes ami.
We all wished upon a star then woke up and it was the future and we all had become older some not so wise and for others the groove was lost That's life folks
The period, from 1965 to 1975..... changed America beyond recognition....like someone once said: Americans lived through more national and social history than they could handle.....
It lasted what-four years? 1965-69. I lived every second like it was heaven. All my friends were grad students or incredibly famous musicians and we lived very well. I still do. Teeny Boppers pretty much took over the scene in 1969. Then came "country rockers" that crawled out of a garbage can. Then Disco. Then America pretty much sold out and took to admiring thieves and crooks. There isn't much here for me anymore except my new Porsche... But I'm still here. Somewhat bohemian.
That's the year I arrive in USA Was only 19 ,no English but fell in love then and still love San Francisco unique city ,gas was only .29 cents a gallon smoke .25cents a pack good old days love it,white front stores
my mom lived in hayward,ca and went to the haight at this time, looking for one of her runaway friends.. I always tell her u were so lucky to have seen this for real... we all now live in las vegas..lol
As a child in the 60's my mother wouldn't allow me on to Haight St. But boy did I make up for it in the 70's, and Benedetti's was my favorite liquor store. I would ask the hippie's to go in and by beer for me.
Hippies looked like really cool people. I only wish to have been born 20 years earlier so I could of been a part of it. Those who were there as young adults, you don't realize how lucky you are for having to have been a part of that revolution.
Wow, some people still are afraid to rock the boat. Until you get the balls to try and reinvent your country for something better, you're in no position to be putting down a generation that did.
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That could be Hollywood Blvd., Sunset Strip, Telegraph Ave. Had love ins at Venice Beach, Echo Park, Exposition Park. Will say Golden Park was convenient being right there.
in 2017 will be fifty yrs since we had the courage to gather in such numbers now is the time to bring the young old and children to gather once again and to disscuss our countrys and what needs to change would love to see this kind of statement of real change in large numbers just maybe we can make a difference once again
That youth was at some point outside the system of the moment. They created music, culture, revolutionized society and experimented (not all experiments have to be successful) but at least this searching for something else. That's the big difference. Nowadays, the system has learned the lesson appropriating the leitmotivs, providing the accurate dosages of lack of inhibition and replacing lsd for drugs that allows you to go to work on monday.
Some things that stand out versus today; everyone is dressed/covered up, hairstyles are long but nothing drastic, no weird/rude behaviours on a busy street. Everyone has a slim build. No ink from head to toe or shaved heads. Great vid!! Cheers !!
Great video ... I was growing up in Greenwich Village as a kid at the same time ... Different ... maybe the same ... I was too young. Thanks BTW: I remember those short skirts. First time I realized women had anything above the ankles! :)
I so miss this time. Then it devolved into darkness. It is just life I suppose. George Harrison didn't like what it had become when he visited. (I understand restrictions and why this is not the Beatles' version) Love you.
Was there in April 88. Feeling groovy. The area and city has gone down hill since. An far too many in my generation sold out or gave up. ✌️💖 Where have all the flowers gone??
Where have all the flowers gone?? < you stomped them all in the 80s when you guys became yuppies. You gave us a future and then destroyed it when you embraced "greed is good".
@@lenini056Plenty were not yuppies you id iot And you are literally styled like My Generation and Culture and My Parent's Generation and Culture Like a RIGHT OLE C U L T U R E V U L T U R E ! So maybe PIPE DOWN !
The guy at 4:39 looks just like my 18 year old. Same hair color, hair length, nose, smile. Really kind of cool. And weird because my 18 year old loves music from the 60's and 70's. ~Groovy~
was there for 4 years on Height Asbury in the beginning of this film you will see a short clip of the ''Drogstore Cafe I use to go there every morning and do a hit of acid with my coffee and freak out
A Golden Age! So much better in the following ways. San Francisco was affordable. Great clothes. Great music. Guilt free smoking. Legal LSD. Young people who gave a crap and fought back. Free love. All gone!
Every summer is a "summer of love" for me. I was born a hippie, and shall take my hippie spirit to the after-world!
BIG HUGE SAME ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So.......every summer for you, then, is the same???? You'd rather have them stay that way instead of doing something different with 'em????? No wonder the Hippie movement was such a flop!!!
I was born a Hippie too, 10 years to late! ;-)
@@georgecav And violently protesting, rioting, and demonstrating against "the establishment" is somehow NOT fake virtue signalling?????
@@georgecav LOL You mean the song "Ohio," written by a hippie??? THAT DOESN'T COUNT!!! Take your counterculture trash someplace else!!!!
What a year, what a decade, what a memory.
@kis6318 LOL I DON'T.
I am proud to have been a "hippie" back then. I still have a bumper sticker which reads, "God Bless the Freaks". I am so very very grateful to have been young and living that life in the sixties.
I barely recovered from a fringe and suede overdose.
@@Pimp-Master why even comment on a almost decade old comment get real.
@@hoosier-daddy6807 eh?
Freaks=A**holes. They're one and the same.
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One of the high points of western civilization along with the Renaissance. I was there too.
Indeed a social revolution that was explained to us younger people as a mere sexual revolution.Something pretty dirty thus. So little attention is paid on social rebirth of nations. In my country they only spoke about the month Mai 1968.They connected that also directly to the invasion of Russia into Tchechoslovakia and the death of Jan Pallach. My son does not even know the name Woodstock. As from the 70 ies music business was so good that anyone listening to music would be confronted with 1967 Woodstock. Since 1967 we don't have had such worldwide expression of a social idea nonetheless most governments in Europe are fanatic over social ideas and openly call themselves socialist or social democrate. I must say even in the most conservative households the hippy movement was a topic, good or bad. Many parents in Europe could not and would not withhold their kids of showing in some way symphatie to the hippies.Therefor the movement was too strong and too peaceful. There simply was not all too much bad to say about the hippies.What parent could oppose to flowers, and peace. You just cannot imagine what effect hippy movement had on the smallest rural towns. I still live in one.
my eldest sister wanted: a jupe in orange with big yellow flowers cut above the knee, white pumps on a big heel, a poncho also orange and with fringles. She got that from my conservative parents.
she never thanked you
I was 2 years old when this was filmed. How I wish I could live my life over again!!!
Wish the world was still like this
bring back lsd .
@@flognaw6633 KEEP THAT SH*T AWAY FROM ME!!!
So, in other words, you don't want change???? LOL I thought you idiots wanted revolution!!!!
I totally tripped down memory lane watching this awesome footage of the era that I was lucky enough to be a part of!!! I was a hippie n still am to this day heart n soul n mind!!! It was so cool back then when you met people in the parks n on the streets n at the beach n boardwalks!! This was so wonderful to see yet for some reason I am choked up watching this because it is an era that is lost to us nowadays!!! Oh, to be back in that atmosphere again!!!
We love you! All of the hippies that try to make a better world. Thank you so much and sorry for not continuing the movement
Stupid America /Florida. A word... 🎉😅
Not continuing? Where do U live?
So beautiful and nostalgic.
WOW!
Great times.
The best of times.
Peace.
I hope the future listens to what we did.
you did nothing worthful mentioning, get over it.
10anto82 Proud ignorance.
dailyflash you people live in a bubble,the hippie movement only showed how decadent and stupid humans can become when following a utopistic ideology,what did they achieve uh? peace and love my ass the world we live in is brutal and violent(always been) btw i'm not even american but here in europe we regard the hippies as potheads,lazy,dirty promiscous wannabe "saviours".
10anto82 You're clueless dude. The hippie movement and student movement helped end the Viet Nam war, just one of MANY things accomplished. The number of lives saved in that one instance can be attributed to us hippies and student protesters. All we were saying is give peace a chance. We supported and helped usher in civil rights, gay rights even rights for the handicapped. There were thousands of hippies in Europe as well. The corporations that run the world will always fight wars for profits and territorial gains - those are the people you should direct your misguided anger toward.
No sir -- YOU have done nothing. Where is YOUR generation's great movement to change something for the better? Where do you get off putting down a generation that aimed for the sky, instead of sitting on their money?
Where the hell is your character?
Thanks for posting. I'm in the Haight every day and still love it. I was only 7 years old in '67, but I remember it well. It seems that back in '67 one could actually live the alternative lifestyle. These days everything is so insanely expensive and so living the "alternative" lifestyle is a real luxury only the super wealthy can afford. Everyone else is constantly working like crazy to make ends meet. Those of you who did experience the Summer of Love firsthand were very fortunate indeed.
Ah, yes days gone by from a perspevtive of a 641/2 yr. old.
@@hugbug4408 some day you will, if you are lucky will be that age too. Knock off the generational hate.
I remember '67 too but was a little older at 8. I lived in Southern California, in Yoba Linda. Wish I still lived there I miss it. And the good times I had growing up back then.
@@dorothydromgoole8040 Yoba Linda, home of Nixon!
@@jensandersen7011 Yes, I lived in Yorba Linda and I miss it.
Dommage qu'il n'y ai pas d'horloge qui tourne à l'envers.C'était une merveilleuse aventure ,une époque superbe ! Merci d'avoir partagé
my boyfriend's mother was a teenager at this time and lived in San Fransisco (her family still lives there, she moved to NY state in the '80s when my bf was 4 years old). She said her and her girlfriends would go down around Haight to check things out and that you'd often see people "making homemade movies" and they would walk past several times trying to get recorded because it made them feel like real actresses LOL
I grew up in the wrong decade! I swear the 60s is where I belonged! The best were the 60s. Back when people had respect for others, people opened their minds and weren’t sheeps, back when music was actually good and people really played instruments, people stood up for what they believed in, fashion just wasn’t fashion it was a lifestyle your style, they expressed themselves how they wanted and didn’t care, 60s had JFK and the Beatles, THERE WAS NO CELL PHONES COMPUTERS IPADS, you actually communicated had conversations TUNING OUT meant something completely different. Ugh I wish I could have been there!
Ironically, without your phone or laptop, you'd never see this footage!
You can play this music, dress in a hippy way, pour yourself a drink, and escape to the 60's whenever you want. Buy yourself a '69 Mustang!😃👍💃
@@noelgibson5956 I think I'd sooner commit self-harm than do half of that stupid sh*t.
In the age of aquarius you can do what you want - as long as it was ok with everyone else - illusion.
Life was so good outside in those days.
This is beautiful--such awesome times! I really wish I could have been alive for them. Young people now-days seem to be more interested in their iPhones and Facebooks than the people and world around them, which is really very sad. Nobody seems to care about anything anymore--what happened to the passion?
Thanks for sharing this; it's great.
Peace, love, freedom...what a beautiful concept for the world. I wish everyone could realize that.
Good observation; that generation was extremely passionate about lots of things, way more than any decade following the 60's. I know our '70's gen felt dissapointed that we didn't burn down a bank on campus. Yeah, current teens are passionate about politics, but putting an establishment candidate into office isn't what I'm talking about. They're mostly manipulated, NPC-type followers, not firebrands or huge risk takers.
Also that generation actually lived their truth; all our preoccupation with food ingredients comes from the macro-biotic movement of young leftists years ago. Even personal computers comes from them, the Internet was built by college kids in '69.
Yeah, every generation is in the shadow of that first '60's gen.
Human kind is breeding the emotion out of ourselves by over-automating everything, instant gratification on demand, & becoming sedentary observers of life as opposed to taking part in life for life's sake. Who would've thought this back then? It was not that long ago.
SO TRUE !!!
@@Pimp-Master the internet didn't come from late 60s stoners such as the ones in this film, the the liberal/leftist U. Berkeley was the sight for a majority of the research/infrastructure led by a team of seasoned, mostly conservative engineers with a sprinkling of young hipsters on the low end.
Also, a lot of those kids from the late 60s movement went on to embrace those evil capitalist vibes becoming movers and shakers on Wall street.
ua-cam.com/video/yJDv-zdhzMY/v-deo.html
Carmen, Amazing - I'm in it. At 1:20, wearing an above-the-knee multi-color red/brown tapestry "swing" coat, walking away from the camera, short "bob" haircut. I know that coat because I made it. In 1966-1967 I was publicity director for Esalen Institute, & we were often on Haight, walking over to Maggie's restaurant for lunch on the corner of Haight & Masonic. Oh, and the music - perfect marriage of Hey Jude.
Was scanning the crowds for one 16/17 yr old skinny kid. Turned 17 that summer. ‘Hey Jude’ was a BIG thing. So was “All You Need Is Love”. The local FM station looped it over and over for at least the first 24 hours after it came out. I remember being stoned out of my mind listening to it for hours, chilling in a flat somewhere in the Haight.
And doing absolutely NOTHING constructive in that time!!!!!!
@@michaelmeliambro5117 true
@@macabhaird8789 How do you live with yourself???
@@michaelmeliambro5117 how do I live with myself… for mistakes I made over 50 years ago - are you serious? You have no idea what I might have accomplished in my life since then.
@@macabhaird8789 But I do have a good idea what you probably did then.......acid trips, giving STD's to girls, hanging around drug dealers and dope peddlers all the time.......SHAME ON YOU!!!
Pretty cool to see the mix of characters strolling the streets...and to think now most are in their 70's...crazy.definitely not a jaded cynical bunch,yet.
I was there. Didn't make it into this video but it was a real hoot of a time! A truly once in a lifetime experience. A whole cultural change began here at this time, for better or worse. How often does that happen?
Craziest and happiest people i´ve ever seen! :) i want back in time
thanks for sharing these authentic scenes of the real flowerpower age.
a dutch SF-fan.
Asi se veia San Francisco en esos dias del verano del 67..y la cancion de Hey Jude de los Beatles,,ocupaba el primer lugar en el Hit Parde...Fueron tiempos fue una era que ya no volvera..todo tenia MAGIA..........peace and love my friends !
Love to watch this old stuff. I watched one called Monterrey 40 and there was a girl in a headband passing a joint with some guy. She was my high school teacher Pegi Kaspar. She has since passed but she was a great teacher.
Great to see people walking around smiling.
I went to the first Be In and throughly enjoyed the idealistic efforts of my fellow hippies for the the year and a half I was in San Francisco; first as a letter carrier, then on the Morningstar Commune for a few months. What I love about this video is that it's home movies of the Haight, not just the artists and famous people. I'm always hoping to see myself in old pictures.
I also like the down to earth home movies...
This was the eve of two destructive forces. Drug fallout and Free Love Fallout.
Free Love = No traditional family values. Free Love = Not caring, self-absortion, Dr Spock instant gratification, resulting in hurtful burnout.
Romney's children are refreshing role models to all this.
"Romney's children are refreshing role models"
Help! My eyes.........can't....stop...rolling....!
I Just saw my Dad for the first time on this video. 6:06 walking stick cabbie cap and flowered shirt. And that my friends is what I wear and I have a diamond
willow staff.
How cool that must've been to see your Dad in the film! He looks great. Turbulent but beautiful time. A real sea-change took place during those years. I was a kid then but remember it well.
germanicus Funny you should say sea of change. Clifford was a deep sea fisherman. So does that make me his little seaman
jom archer I guess so!
Grateful dad😂
The kid at 4:38 looks identical to my middle son. Long hair, all of it. Pretty cool that before I was even born, that my ‘soon to be’ son was hanging out on Haight Asbury. Explains why his favorite band is The Beatles and anything else before 1977.
That would be mathematally impossible for it to be your son if you aren't even thought of yet never mind your son it's clearly not your son it's just someone who resembles him your son wasn't hanging out on haight asbury in 1967.
I advise you to stop taking whatever magic mushrooms you've been taking.
Hey Jude was released in '68
To all the dreamers... Peace and love.
If only it could be this good again.time machine please.
Yes this song gives so much meaning and I relate to it well.
Great video!!! I am a young hippie, and I was raised very near the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It's great to see these old videos of my hometown before I was born. Haight-Ashbury is still very cool, but it's too expensive...sort of gentrified....so some of the spirit is lost. It's still awesome nevertheless.
@greenplanet2400
Going going gone!
The quiet chill of time taking us all on a ride.
Those hippies were young, but not for long......
We think..... Me-ism? getting old?
Come on?
What a wild experiment!
50 anos depois..... precisamos de mais um !!
Amazing and poignant. Thank you for posting.
- Brother Ron
thanks for posting.I got out of the Navy September 1966 in the SF bay area.I became a "hippie and attended concerts at the Fillmore, Avalon, GG Park,and became a Musician(still am!)
This was a bad time to be in vietnam, crazy ass times I was in the 5th grade. Check out late 60's early 70's teenage groupie Iris hanging with ten years after. It's here on youtube, she is beautiful.
I visited Haight Asbury in 1992. Not far from the intersection was an old VW Beetle all painted with flowers, peace symbols etc. - very cool indeed!
BOMB HAIGHT ASBURY!!!!
I was at Haight and Clayton. Many years. Across from the free clinic. Thanks for sharing.
Would love to have this for my children.. ❤️
A friend an I made an attempt at age 14 of running away from home an was going to hitchike from Fort Worth TX to the land of make believe. Yes Haight Ashbury. I realize now that God intervened. Had we made it, I probably would not be here now. Discovered that the illusion was never as good as it was In reality. I am still an activist an aging hippie. I finally did make it to there in April 88. Could still feel the far out groove. I miss those days of fun and innocence ✌
Hey UA-cam creator, "Hey Jude" was released in the summer of 68, a year after the Summer of Love.
The baby that appears in this must be just a few months older than me. I was born in the fall of '67.
I'm 68 years old but lived 1/2 block from Ashbury on Haight in 1967,down from the Drogstore Cafe[used to be called Drugstore but was re-named because of our using drugs].The first day i got there was the 4th.of July-saw bands playing on a flatbed truck in Speedway meadows.The Angels used to ride their bikes up to Benches cafeteria on Haight.Many,many great memories of those days.
This moment is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be. Lets make nostalgia a thing of the past.
The 60s were my parents favorite decade in the same way the 80s were mine.
Anytime I watch videos of this time - one of the things that strikes me is how everyone was thin
Back when people were more alive and confident then today. No social media bull sh it ! People were vibrant
I was only 7 years old this year. I remember our family drove up to here in '67. I remember the name of the Hotel we stayed at, it was called The Senator Hotel. I remember the pulley elevators. The hotel is still up but looks different.
A real insight into those times...awesome footage!!
I was there, drove from Seattle in June. I have a few videos and many pictures of myself and friends around there
-Peace (as we would say then)
wonderful video. It is timeless.
They're all walking around like they're looking for something. Nowdays people walk around looking at something they just pulled out of their pocket.
Ok boomer.
@@hunchofmateus2422 WTF 🙄dude did not do anything wrong. Okay Trumper.
They were looking for something that had not yet been invented.
@@anubisrapture992 B&tch. I'm not even American wtf.
This is the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love - 2017.
Thanks for your comments. The music behind the home video is a cover, and while Hey Jude wasn't released until 1968 the length of the music worked for this very long clip. We hope you will still enjoy the slice of life on Haight Ashbury in the 1967 Summer of Love. This is from our family home videos files digitized 10 years ago.
Carme001 do you have any more dude because this is pretty awesome.
Love it....thanks for sharing ! 👍🌈💕✌
Fantastic 😎
Absolutely priceless footage of an age that has passed into legend.
Ao ver esse video como as pessoas eram mais felizes.
I guess this is the most "realistic" 1967 I have seen. And makes me think that it is not much to long for. Even though it may be a hundred, or a thousand, times better than 2011.
I was there. it really happened. it was both much worse and infinitely better than you imagine. and i was very young. it was a precursor, a glimpse of our future selves, after the messiah comes, and when we can all drop our masks. we are in an interregnum, and must fight our darkside, and we can emerge at the other end, cleansed. bon journee, mes ami.
@sgbobsg I'm to high for this whole thread. I shouldn't have read it. Y'all be safe. Stay positive and love your life.
I like that.
Re: Your comment from 2018 - "... and we can all drop our masks..." - How insightful for 2020 and beyond!
i was there from 1964 to 1967it was the best.
I had to Do my military service at this time in Germany. And I felt, that with San Francisco a totally new time will start.
And so it was!
We all wished upon a star then woke up and it was the future and we all had become older some not so wise and for others the groove was lost
That's life folks
Was 10 in 3/30/67 , but tune was big in mid autumn 68!
Right. Even the dorks in this video back then were cooler than people today.
I was 19 at the time! Miss those days!
mais sentimentos e amor pelo planeta terra e sem mais guerras...
that must have been great times to live.
THANK YOU!! Wish I coulda been there!Would love to have felt the way it felt the day you shot this and the sounds,smells etc!!
Nice shots of the old neighborhood!
The period, from 1965 to 1975..... changed America beyond recognition....like someone once said: Americans lived through more national and social history than they could handle.....
It lasted what-four years? 1965-69. I lived every second like it was heaven. All my friends were grad students or incredibly famous musicians and we lived very well. I still do.
Teeny Boppers pretty much took over the scene in 1969. Then came "country rockers" that crawled out of a garbage can. Then Disco.
Then America pretty much sold out and took to admiring thieves and crooks. There isn't much here for me anymore except my new Porsche... But I'm still here. Somewhat bohemian.
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
peace and love forever!!! Mankind needs love not war!
Fantastic video.
March of 1967..my first time In San Francisco
I came to sf the same month
That's the year I arrive in USA
Was only 19 ,no English but fell in love then and still love San Francisco unique city ,gas was only .29 cents a gallon smoke .25cents a pack good old days love it,white front stores
my mom lived in hayward,ca and went to the haight at this time, looking for one of her runaway friends.. I always tell her u were so lucky to have seen this for real... we all now live in las vegas..lol
I just wanted you to know that I'm a hippie from the 68' and I love it very much and I will not forget the roots that I came from ok?????
As a child in the 60's my mother wouldn't allow me on to Haight St. But boy did I make up for it in the 70's, and Benedetti's was my favorite liquor store. I would ask the hippie's to go in and by beer for me.
try using the song by Scott McKenzie - San Francisco came out in 1967...always loved this song
Hippies looked like really cool people. I only wish to have been born 20 years earlier so I could of been a part of it. Those who were there as young adults, you don't realize how lucky you are for having to have been a part of that revolution.
Antonio Caban and how much their drug damaged generation did to screw up this country when they gained power. Hello Hippies Goodbye America...
Wow, some people still are afraid to rock the boat.
Until you get the balls to try and reinvent your country for something better, you're in no position to be putting down a generation that did.
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I was 19 love those times
Most had their heads up their asses.
That could be Hollywood Blvd., Sunset Strip, Telegraph Ave. Had love ins at Venice Beach, Echo Park, Exposition Park. Will say Golden Park was convenient being right there.
in 2017 will be fifty yrs since we had the courage to gather in such numbers now is the time to bring the young old and children to gather once again and to disscuss our countrys and what needs to change would love to see this kind of statement of real change in large numbers just maybe we can make a difference once again
Walking around in those days was like being in some kind of happy parade
That youth was at some point outside the system of the moment. They created music, culture, revolutionized society and experimented (not all experiments have to be successful) but at least this searching for something else. That's the big difference. Nowadays, the system has learned the lesson appropriating the leitmotivs, providing the accurate dosages of lack of inhibition and replacing lsd for drugs that allows you to go to work on monday.
Some things that stand out versus today; everyone is dressed/covered up, hairstyles are long but nothing drastic, no weird/rude behaviours on a busy street. Everyone has a slim build. No ink from head to toe or shaved heads.
Great vid!! Cheers !!
I can remember the summer of '67 but I was only 9 years old.
I was 21, as I recall 😊
Great video ... I was growing up in Greenwich Village as a kid at the same time ... Different ... maybe the same ... I was too young. Thanks
BTW: I remember those short skirts. First time I realized women had anything above the ankles! :)
I so miss this time. Then it devolved into darkness. It is just life I suppose. George Harrison didn't like what it had become when he visited. (I understand restrictions and why this is not the Beatles' version) Love you.
Yes. Wasn't he upset about the out of control drug abuse he seen?
super sensacional..
Was there in April 88. Feeling groovy. The area and city has gone down hill since. An far too many in my generation sold out or gave up. ✌️💖 Where have all the flowers gone??
Where have all the flowers gone?? < you stomped them all in the 80s when you guys became yuppies. You gave us a future and then destroyed it when you embraced "greed is good".
@@lenini056Plenty were not yuppies you id iot
And you are literally styled like My Generation and Culture and My Parent's Generation and Culture
Like a RIGHT OLE C U L T U R E V U L T U R E !
So maybe PIPE DOWN !
@@lenini056 The boomers are not the hippies
Nice to be young. 👦 👧 👍
Thank u for sharing this
nice job on the video and to the band performing, "Hey Jude!"
I would say that most of the people in this video if still alive are in there late 70s through 80s. Time goes by so quick.
You think you could have selected a song for the back drop that actually came out in 1967! Hey Jude was 1968
The guy at 4:39 looks just like my 18 year old. Same hair color, hair length, nose, smile. Really kind of cool. And weird because my 18 year old loves music from the 60's and 70's. ~Groovy~
I heard Hey Jude in Amougies for that rock festival when I enter I still love it with the Beat Less
was there for 4 years on Height Asbury in the beginning of this film you will see a short clip of the ''Drogstore Cafe I use to go there every morning and do a hit of acid with my coffee and freak out
Yes, it was cool.
I was 3 yers old at this time, in France.
A Golden Age! So much better in the following ways. San Francisco was affordable. Great clothes. Great music. Guilt free smoking. Legal LSD. Young people who gave a crap and fought back. Free love. All gone!
GET YOUR LSD THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!