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.
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.
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 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!!!
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?
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 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!
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.
Every summer is a "summer of love" for me. I was born a hippie, and shall take my hippie spirit to the after-world!
What a year, what a decade, what a memory.
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.
all those happy faces wow
So beautiful and nostalgic.
Wish the world was still like this
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
One of the high points of western civilization along with the Renaissance. I was there too.
WOW!
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.
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 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!!!
I was 2 years old when this was filmed. How I wish I could live my life over again!!!
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?
I Just saw my Dad for the first time on this video.
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.
Craziest and happiest people i´ve ever seen! :) i want back in time <3
thanks for sharing these authentic scenes of the real flowerpower age.
a dutch SF-fan.
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!
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.