Hippies in San Francisco

if the counterculture movement had a headquarters it could be found at the intersection of two San Fransisco streets eight and Ashbury it's where the sounds fashions and ideals first fermented a place from which the hippie community would blossom and spread to all corners of America the aggressive determination of hippies to start a new society has made its mark upon San Francisco's haight-ashbury part of the neighborhood is occupied by ordinary people bewildered by what's going on part of it is occupied by a growing population of hippies [Music] beats were called hipsters the term hippies I think it's a sort of a diminutive of hipster indicates that they are younger and charming and harmless kind of a fun version of the beats and that's what they were they were also disillusioned disillusioned with their upbringing disillusioned with America's many deviations in the 1960s and in San Francisco's haight-ashbury they found an opening people moved to the Haight Ashbury because it was a low-rent neighborhood it was a working-class neighborhood and it was an integrated neighborhood the big diversity of people there and in the early 60s artists and writers and performers all were drawn to the Haight Ashbury by the mid sixties it was an enclave a sort of utopia an idealistic presentation of what society should and could be it was a driver of an emerging counterculture built to deconstruct the accepted mores and values we wanted the whole Haight Ashbury to be a free community if it's free the capitalist system can't exactly merchandise it profit this was central to the Biggers an activist group that would make up the moral compass of Haight Ashbury we were community outreach to make a new community Judy gold heft along with husband Peter Berg and a group of actors including Peter Coyote and Emmett Grogan formed the diggers in 1966 with the intention of appending the dynamics of capitalism they provided free food free housing opened a free store and a free medical clinic if we provided the basic human necessities then people didn't have to go downtown put on a white shirt and a suit become the man and the gray flannel suit they could actually live their life and explore what would be the most beautiful life they could leave they also performed Street Theater and organized free concerts which began showcasing the rise of a new sound before the Summer of Love the haight-ashbury was the center of this incredible new music that was coming out of San Francisco and specifically coming out of the Haight Jefferson Airplane Grace Slick Janis Joplin big brother in the holding company fantastic music that was visionary and was completely connected to this idea of a total change of consciousness it was music aligned with a psychedelia of LSD color seemed brighter you know trees seem to be breathing mimicking these sensations acid or psychedelic rock as it would become known broke with many conventions songs were heavily distorted often long and improvised psychedelic rock took music to a completely different place away from love songs and much more towards songs about big existential issues about freedom and about profound personal change and of all the genres soon to be stars non epitomized that more that a group named The Grateful Dead they were haight-ashbury mainstays led by singer-songwriter Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia was a very bright guy what key and the Grateful Dead tried to do was to you know create something different they didn't have any wild expectations that they were gonna change all the worlds you know tomorrow but they started with themselves and try to create a better way of life this is the house of a popular local band which plays hard rock music they call themselves the Grateful Dead they live together comfortably in what could be called affluence what what we're thinking about is a peaceful planet we're not thinking about anything else we're not thinking about any kind of power were not thinking about any of those kind of struggles we're not taking about the revolution or war or any of that that's not what we want nobody wants to get hurt nobody wants to hurt anybody we would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life that was in essence the premise of haight-ashbury a place removed from the mainstream and instead tapped into an alternative a freer way to be which by the end of 1966 was catching the attention of the entire country among those taking notice of the rise of Haight Ashbury was an anxious United States government anxious because what they saw was not the betterment of society but rather its downfall and disinclined to sit idly by they turned on what they considered to be the catalyst LSD though much to their chagrin their efforts would do little to temper the bubbling movement captivating the youth of America as the cultural rebellion taking hold in the city of San Francisco continued to grow alarm bells among those in the establishment began to ring loudly and no one stirred their panic quite like a rising figure named Timothy Leary Leary was a Harvard professor and he was one of those people who got one of the little packages from Sandoz laboratories with a supply of LSD and Larry had this gigantic experience and he began to proselytize for it for instance once he proclaimed that LSD released a huge amount of energy 90% of which was sexual energy he said no matter what how great you think your sex life is if you ever have sex while taking LSD your normal sex life would be like making love to a department store mannequin and so of course this got too enormous attention and looking at the statements that he's been making over a period of time as late as a month or so ago indicates quite clearly that he was promoting the use of LSD and promoting it in a way that it wasn't going to be supervised and in my judgment endangering the lives of many of our citizens and particularly many of our young people when a Harvard professor began to preach this and to urge the youth of America to take LSD this suddenly seemed like a huge cultural crisis to them and in the spring of 1966 it elicited congressional action a senator named Thomas Dodd held hearings and you know he had experts coming in to testify that LSD could be the downfall of our civilization it was a real sort of hysteria by the fall the state of California made the use of LSD illegal at the same time the the sort of cultural use of LSD among young people and college students was mushrooming so to speak and rather than abide by the rules and regulations of the establishment they resolved to send a message one that would demonstrate just how mighty the counterculture had become they created an event called the gathering of the tribes for the first great human being they being the editors of the San Francisco Oracle an underground newspaper started by Alan Cohen in haight-ashbury Alan had a dream he dreamt that he was flying over the world and he looked down and people were reading rainbow newspaper it was a dream he decided to turn into a reality and taking his cues from the vibrancy of psychedelics he created a paper that would become a leading voice of the counterculture the Oracle was a very important part of spreading the word the street word for our generation in his fifth issue the Oracle spread the word of a so-called human being meant not only as a response to anti LSD legislation but also as an opportunity to unify the movement referred to as the movement was divided between the cultural revolutionaries and the politicos so the human being was an attempt to get the politicos and the cultural conservative culture 11 areas or hippies to all get together and unite [Music] held on January 14 1967 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park the bein Drude tens of thousands perhaps there were a thousand people in the haight-ashbury and somewhere north of 40,000 people showed up in Golden Gate Park they all looked around and went there's a lot of us here among them was Timothy Leary who stood before the crowd and famously proclaimed turn on tune in drop out that phrase went far and wide and I think I think that phrase can be interpreted on many levels from the most superficial to the most profound and Timothy Leary himself has interpreted it I believe in many different ways over time but later in life he tried to explain that he was trying to get at something much deeper than just drop out of society he meant drop out of conventional reality drop out of the mainstream turn on using LSD marijuana's and tune in to a deeper consciousness and a more profound connection connectiveness of peace and love with your fellow beings I just thought that sounds great where is it it's in California man you know it's an action I went as would so many others lured by Leary's calling and the togetherness inspired by the bein they come from all over arriving in San Francisco that following summer to celebrate peace love sex drugs and rock and roll when we return we look at how the counterculture of peace love and rock-and-roll transformed into a mainstream phenomenon and transfixed a generation stay with us as we continue to look back to 1967 Summer of Love every weekend it's the decades binge with continuous episodes of classic TV favorites this weekend it's Cheyenne you want me an honest yes airing from 1955 to 1963 this Western series stars Clint Walker with his sight set on women bad guys and a good fighter team enjoy Cheyenne this coming weekend of a decade's beard call to see if you qualify to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan right now at Humana we believe great things are ahead of you would you start with healthy and part of staying healthy means choosing the right medicare plan Humana can help with Original Medicare you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits when you're sick but keep in mind you'll have to pay a deductible for each a Medicare supplement plan can cover your deductibles and coinsurance but you may pay 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your card 500 started just 999 when you enter promo code BC 500 had vistaprint.com visit decades calm for daily and weekly schedules program descriptions video and more log on and look back at decades dot-com as a movement attracted more and more attention they began showing up in droves young folks traveling from all over the country to experience a San Francisco scene by the summer of 67 the city was nearly overrun as thousands reveled in the ecstasy that Haight Ashbury was offering it was as history would remember it the Summer of Love it was 19 I was a college student and it was summer and I didn't have any plans internships or jobs and more money but I found a couple of other teenagers who had a VW Bug and they were gonna drive across country so four of us young people just drove across the country when we got there we went out to see the Pacific and then I said just drop me off at the corner of Haight and Ashbury for Georgia English and thousands like her it was a beginning of what promised to be an unforgettable summer a chance to embark on a new society a utopia uninhibited by the so called system I told someone hey I'm new here where should I go and they pointed my way to the park and as soon as I got there a beautiful expanse of emerald green and the Sun is pouring down like butter and there's you know hippies and dogs lying around all over the place and immediately people are smiling at you gesturing you over welcoming you and offering you you know a joint to smoke drugs flowed freely life was lived communally it was an atmosphere underscored by ubiquitous sound psychedelic music which made its indelible mark on the country during the summer of Love's unofficial kickoff the three-day Monterey Pop Festival my right pop was kind of a perfect moment in American history all the notion of flowers in your hair sweetness and light and and you know psychedelic sweetness that people thought of in the Haight Ashbury which had its moments and pockets but it was real in Monterrey from June 16th to June 18 1967 tens of thousands jammed the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey California where nearly three dozen bands were invited to perform included were janis joplin who performed with Big Brother and the Holding Company Jefferson Airplane the Mamas and the Papas the Grateful Dead the festival would also introduce American audiences to two future icons of 1960s music The Who and an electric guitar maestro named Jimi Hendrix Hendrix stole the show with his theatrics but he was mind-bogglingly brilliant too I mean you know it wasn't it wasn't just show like he had he had the game to back up the show it's truly a remarkable moment in music history more than a remarkable moment in music history the Monterey Pop Festival was a realization of the countercultures mystical aspirations everyone was there and and there for the right reasons but back in haight-ashbury as a summer progressed that mysticism proved fleeting I wasn't finding the the Allen Ginsberg's and the Tim Leary's the Peter coyotes to relate to I was more you know realizing that the majority of the kids who come out were really troubled kids who needed help really the whole summer of 67 consisted largely in the hate of a holding action to try and prevent a disaster where you have just too many people and not enough for them to do and not enough to support them so it you know it was a kind of a struggle the city was violently opposed to having all of these hippies from all over the country flooding into the people police pretty much beautify we'll all them up in their Zoo the health department was not going to provide any services the city of San Francisco turned a complete cold shoulder and so it was the diggers who together with other people in the community said we've just got to do something to take care of all of these people you know how are they gonna eat how are they gonna be taken care of [Music] we did all kinds of things get a free community within no time at all I was told everything is free you can have free food free clothes from the priest or and places to crash the dinners used free as cultural LSD it opened up your mind to what the different kinds of realities could be but of course I did understand that I did understand that ultimately nothing is free that means somebody's the resources have to come from somewhere I had seen you know the the resources played out and I had seen the kids who were so troubled and needed much more than is going to be able to give them for free so I left feeling trouble [Music] a whole lot of people many of whom deeply wooded I said oh I'll go there and it'll fix all my problems for many that idea fell short San Francisco in the summer of 1967 couldn't be a cure-all but what it could be and what it became was an agent of nationwide transformation because of thousands who'd come from all over would leave San Francisco empty-handed we're gonna stay in San Francisco we knew that so when they went 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rates and start saving money every month on your mortgage call Quicken Loans today or go to Quicken Loans calm for a mortgage experience that's engineered to amaze [Music] as the sunset on the summer of 67 the hate would see the end of its heyday but the movement it had come to epitomize would carry on incubated in San Francisco the messages and philosophies of the counterculture were soon spread far and wide eventually taking an irreversible hold on the country shaping an American ideology that's still prominent to this day [Music] at the end of the summer of love all of the the bands the underground newspaper everybody was saying to America's youth don't come anymore like the whole is it's over the Summer of Love is over and they had a funeral called the death of hippy in October 1967 the diggers organized a mock funeral it was actually burn immediate construction hundreds paraded down Haight Street surrounding a coffin for a ceremonial goodbye the diggers felt that they the term hippie with quotation marks around it was a construct of the media it was to say okay we're don't call it cookies anymore we are something else than but there was an added layer to the death of the hippie a deeper agenda meant to impart the expansion of the movement beyond the confines of Haight Ashbury so the message was don't come here anymore we can't handle it but go go go everywhere go back to your communities revolutionize your life wherever you live it was the end of the haight-ashbury moment and the the end of the idea that a mass migration to San Francisco was a good idea but it certainly wasn't the end of the counterculture the counterculture I think spread and bled all over the country and I think that we're a different completely different we're a different culture today it kind of soaked into the earth and now you're seeing all sorts of things sprouting up that really go back to the Summer of Love offered up a lot of counter arguments to American you know mainstream values it challenged the idea at the time of the Vietnam that the United States was always morally perfect and you know never did anything significantly bad and you know and all those things got called into question and are still being called into question to put a mildly a lot of things opened up a door was open for a change the way we dressed that way related to each other the idea of changing gender roles and of you know women women freeing themselves and the idea of going back to the land and gardening and having sustainable agriculture and the idea of getting away from using fossil fuels there's not a coincidence that after the summer of love Richard Nixon founded the EPA Environmental Protection Agency and again you know this is central to to current political battles so you know the issues of the haight-ashbury very much part of our daily lives the America we find today was in no small way shaped by the awakening that was the counterculture it was a generation of confrontation of 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part of the neighborhood is occupied by ordinary people bewildered by what's going on part of it is occupied by a growing population of hippies [Music] the beats were called hipsters the term hippies I think it's a sort of a diminutive of hipster indicates that they are you and charming and harmless and kind of a fun version of the beats and that's what they were they were also disillusioned disillusioned with their upbringing disillusioned with America's many deviations in the 1960s and in San Francisco's haight-ashbury they found an opening people moved to the Haight Ashbury because it was a low-rent neighborhood it was a working-class neighborhood and it was an integrated neighborhood have a big diversity of people there and in the early sixties artists writers and performers all were drawn to the Haight Ashbury by the mid sixties it was an enclave a sort of utopia an idealistic presentation of what society should and could be it was a driver of an emerging counterculture built to deconstruct the accepted mores and values we wanted the whole Haight Ashbury to be a free community if it's free the capitalist system can exactly merchandise it this was central to the Biggers an activist group that would make up the moral compass of Haight Ashbury we were community outreach to make a new community Judy gold heft along with husband Peter Berg and a group of actors including Peter Coyote and Emmett Grogan formed the diggers in 1966 with the intention of appending the dynamics of capitalism they provided free food free housing opened a free store and a free medical clinic if we provided the basic human necessities then people didn't put on a white shirt and a suit become the man and the gray flannel suit they could actually live their life and explore what would be the most beautiful life they could leave they also performed Street Theater and organized free concerts which began showcasing the rise of a new sound before the Summer of Love the haight-ashbury was the center of this incredible new music that was coming out of San Francisco and specifically coming out of the Haight Jefferson Airplane Grace Slick Janis Joplin big brother in the holding company fantastic music it was visionary and was completely connected to this idea of a total change of consciousness it was music aligned with a psychedelia of LSD color seemed brighter you know trees seem to be breathing mimicking these sensations acid or psychedelic rock as it would become known broke with many conventions songs were heavily distorted often long and improvised psychedelic rock took music to a completely different place away from love songs and much more towards songs about big existential issues about freedom and about personal change and of all the genres soon to be stars non epitomize that more that a group named The Grateful Dead they were he - Barry Bain stays led by singer-songwriter Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia was a very bright guy what key and the Grateful Dead tried to do was to you know create something different they didn't have any wild expectations that they were gonna change all the worlds you know tomorrow but they started with themselves and try to create a better way of life this is the house of a popular local band which plays hard rock music they call themselves the Grateful Dead they live together comfortably in what could be called affluence what we're thinking about is a peaceful planet we're not thinking about anything else we're not thinking about any kind of power we're not thinking about any of those kind of struggles we're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that that's not what we want nobody wants to get hurt nobody wants to hurt anybody we would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life that was in essence the premise of Haight Ashbury a place removed from the mainstream and instead tapped into an alternative a freer way to be which by the end of 1966 was catching the attention of the entire country among those taking notice of the rise of Haight Ashbury was an anxious United States government anxious because what they saw was not the betterment of society but rather its downfall and disinclined to sit idly by they turned on what they considered to be the catalyst LSD though much to their chagrin their efforts would do little to temper the bubbling movement captivating the youth of America as the cultural rebellion taking hold in the city of San Francisco continued to grow alarm bells among those in the establishment began to ring loudly and no one stirred their panic quite like a rising figure named Timothy Leary Leary was a Harvard professor and he was one of those people who got one of the little packages from Sandoz laboratories with a supply of LSD and Larry had this gigantic experience and he began to proselytize for it for instance once he proclaimed that LSD released a huge amount of energy 90% of which was sexual energy he said no matter what how great you think your sex life is if you ever have sex while taking LSD your normal sex life would be like making love to a department store mannequin and so of course this got too enormous attention and looking at the statements that he's been making over a period of time as late as a month or so ago indicates quite clearly that he was promoting the use of LSD and promoting it in a way that it wasn't going to be supervised and in my judgment endangering the lives of many of our citizens and particularly many of our young people when a Harvard professor began to preach this and to urge the youth of America to take LSD this suddenly seemed like a huge cultural crisis to them and in the spring of 1966 it elicited congressional action a senator named Thomas Dodd held hearings and you know he had experts coming in to testify that LSD could be the downfall of our civilization it was a real sort of hysteria by the fall the state of California made the use of LSD illegal at the same time the the sort of cultural use of LSD among young people and college students was mushrooming so to speak and rather than abide by the rules and regulations of the establishment they resolved to send a message one that would demonstrate just how mighty the counterculture had become they create an event called the gathering of the tribes for the first great human being they being the editors of the San Francisco Oracle an underground newspaper started by Alan Cohen in haight-ashbury Alan had a dream he dreamt that he was flying over the world and he looked down and people were reading rainbow newspaper it was a dream he decided to turn into a reality and taking his cues from the vibrancy of psychedelics he created a paper that would become a leading voice of the counterculture the Oracle was a very important part of spreading the word the street word for our generation in his fifth issue the Oracle spread the word of a so-called human being meant not only as a response to anti LSD legislation but also as an opportunity to unify the movement referred to as the movement was divided between the cultural revolutionaries and the politicos so the human being was an attempt to get the politicos and the cultural conservative cultural revolutionaries or hippies to all get together and unite [Music] held on January 14 1967 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park the bein Drude tens of thousands perhaps there were a thousand people in the Haight Ashbury and somewhere north of forty thousand people showed up in Golden Gate Park and they all looked around and went there's a lot of us here among them was Timothy Leary who stood before the crowd and famously proclaimed turn on tune in drop out that phrase went far and wide and I think I think that phrase can be interpreted on many levels from the most superficial to the most profound and Timothy Leary himself has interpreted it I believe in many different ways over time but later in life he tried to explain that he was trying to get at something much deeper than just drop out of society he meant drop out of conventional reality drop out of the mainstream turn on using LSD marijuana and toon to a deeper consciousness and a more profound connection connectiveness piece of love with your fellow beings I just thought God sounds great where is it it's in California man you know I went as would so many others lured by Leary's calling and the togetherness inspired by the be in they've come from all over arriving in San Francisco that following summer to celebrate peace love sex drugs and rock and roll when we return we look at how the counterculture of peace love and rock-and-roll transformed into a mainstream phenomenon and transfixed a generation stay with us as we continue a look back to 1967 Summer of Love every weekend it's the decades binge with continuous episodes of classic TV favorites this weekend it's Cheyenne you want me an honest yes airing from 1955 to 1963 this Western series stars plant Walker with his sight set on women bad guys and a good fighter to enjoy Cheyenne this coming weekend on the decades beers call to see if you qualify to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan right now at Humana we believe great things are ahead of you would you start with healthy and part of staying healthy means choosing the right medicare plan Humana can help with Original Medicare you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits when you're sick but keep in mind you'll have to pay a deductible for each a Medicare supplement plan can cover your deductibles and coinsurance but you may pay higher premiums than you do with other plans and prescription drug coverage isn't included but with an all-in-one Humana Medicare Advantage plan you could get all that coverage plus Part D prescription drug benefits all for an affordable monthly plan premium and in some areas no plan premium it's all described in this free book and DVD call for yours and discover how an all-in-one Medicare Advantage plan from Humana could save you money call 1-800 seven three four five seven zero eight you have a vision it drives it it inspires you it's why you can see what others can you know what you want and we can help you get it you need options we've got all kinds start with a photo [Music] get it just right wanna make it pop try a special finish if you need help we can do it for you and if you want a premium paper we've got that too you want it done right so we absolutely guarantee the paper the printing even your design every time for any reason [Music] because you have a vision and we have your card 500 started just 999 when you enter promo code BC 500 at vistaprint.com visit decade's dot-com for daily and weekly schedules program descriptions video and more log on and look back at decades dot-com [Music] as a movement attracted more and more attention they began showing up in droves young folks traveling from all over the country to experience a San Francisco scene by the summer of 67 the city was nearly overrun as thousands reveled in the ecstasy that haight-ashbury was offering it was as history would remember it the Summer of Love it was 19 I was a college student and it was summer and I didn't have any plans internships or jobs and more money but I found a couple of other teenagers who had a VW Bug and they were gonna drive across country so four of us young people just drove across the country when we got there we went out to see the Pacific and then I said just drop me off at the corner of Haight and Ashbury for Georgia English and thousands like her it was a beginning of what promised to be an unforgettable summer a chance to embark on a new society a utopia uninhibited by the so called system I told someone hey I'm new here where should I go and they pointed my way to the park and as soon as I got there a beautiful expanse of emerald green and the Sun is pouring down like butter and there's you know hippies and dogs lying around all over the place and immediately people are smiling at you gesturing you over welcoming you and offering you you know a joint to smoke drugs flowed freely life was lived communally it was an atmosphere underscored by ubiquitous sound psychedelic music which made its indelible mark on the country during the summer of Love's unofficial kickoff the three-day Monterey Pop Festival my right pop was kind of a perfect moment in American history all the notion of flowers in your hair sweetness and light and and you know psychedelic sweetness that people thought of in the haight-ashbury which had its moments and pockets but it was real in Monterrey from June 16th to June 18 1967 tens of thousands jammed the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey California where nearly three dozen bands were invited to perform included were Janis Joplin who performed with Big Brother and the Holding Company Jefferson Airplane The Mamas and the Papas the Grateful Dead the festival would also introduce American audiences to two future icons of 1960s music and an electric guitar maestro named Jimi Hendrix Hendrix stole the show with his theatrics but he was mind-bogglingly brilliant - I mean you know it wasn't it wasn't just show like he had he had the game to back up the show it's truly a remarkable moment in music history more than a remarkable moment in music history the Monterey Pop Festival was a realization of the countercultures mystical aspirations everyone was there and and there for the right reasons but back in haight-ashbury as a summer progressed that mysticism proved fleeting [Music] I wasn't finding the the Allen Ginsberg's and the Tim Leary's on the Peter coyotes to relate to I was more you know realizing that the majority of the kids who come out were really troubled kids who needed help really the whole summer of 67 consisted largely in the hate of a holding action to try and prevent a disaster where you have just too many people and not enough for them to do and not enough to support them so it you know it was a kind of a struggle the city was violently opposed to having all of these hippies from all over the country flooding into the chief of police pretty much viewed as like you know we'll all them up in their Zoo the health department was not going to provide any services the city of San Francisco turned a complete cold shoulder and so it was the diggers who together with other people in the community said we've just got to do something to take care of all of these people you know how are they gonna eat how are they gonna be taken care of [Music] we did all kinds of things within no time at all I was told everything is free you can have free food free clothes from the free store [Music] and places to crash the dinners used free as cultural LSD it opened up your mind to what the different kinds of realities could be I did understand that I did understand it ultimately nothing is free that means somebody's the resources have to come from somewhere I had seen you know the the resources played out and I had seen the kids who were so troubled and needed much more than is gonna be able to give them for free so I left feeling trouble [Music] a whole lot of people many of whom I said oh I'll go there and it'll fix all my problems for many that idea fell short San Francisco in the summer of 1967 couldn't be a cure-all but what it could be and what it became was an agent of nationwide transformation because of thousands who'd come from all over wouldn't leave San Francisco empty-handed weren't gonna stay in San Francisco we knew that so when they went back to where they live they they would have that that knowledge that there were other ways to do that [Music] tonight on decades before they were headliners they were on the comedy show pass the salt we never had solvent tonight at 5:30 p.m. Eastern on decades attention homeowners Quicken Loans has some very important information regarding the US government's Home Affordable Refinance Program or harp we've told you about harp in the past and we're happy to report 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ideology that's still prominent to this day [Music] at the end of the summer of love all of the the underground newspaper everybody was saying to America's youth don't come anymore like the whole is it's over the summer of love is over and they had a funeral called the death of hippie in October 1967 the diggers organized a mock funeral it was actually immediate hundreds paraded down Haight Street surrounding a coffin for a ceremonial goodbye the diggers felt that the term hippie with quotation marks around it was a construct of the media and it was to say okay don't call it cities anymore we are something else than but there was an added layer to the death of the hippie a deeper agenda meant to impart the expansion of the movement beyond the confines of Haight Ashbury so the message was don't come here anymore we can't handle it but go go go everywhere go back to your communities revolutionize your life wherever you live it was the end of the haight-ashbury the idea that a mass migration to San Francisco was a good idea but it certainly wasn't the end of the counterculture the counterculture I think spread and bled all over the country and I think that we're a different completely different we are a different culture today it kind of soaked into the earth and and now you're seeing all sorts of things sprouting up that really go back to the Summer of Love offered up a lot of counter arguments to American you know mainstream values it challenged the idea at the time of the Vietnam that the United States was always morally perfect and you know never did anything significantly bad and you know and all those things doesn't called into question and are still being called into question to put it mildly a lot of things opened up a door was open for change the way we dress that we related to each other the idea of changing gender roles and of you know women women freeing themselves and the idea of going back to the land and gardening and having sustainable agriculture and the idea of getting away from using fossil fuels it's not a coincidence that after the Summer of Love Richard Nixon founded the EPA Environmental Protection Agency and again you know this is central to to current political battles so you know the issues of the haight-ashbury are very much part of our daily lives the America we find today was in no small way shaped by the awakening that was the counterculture it was a generation of confrontation of challenging and pushing conformity and while much is left unresolved the resulting impact is a continued awareness and a willingness among many to carry that legacy forward subscribe to the decades newsletter at decades calm for stories trivia and history on decades programming sent right to your email address this is an important message for anyone with Medicare you may be eligible for an all-in-one Medicare plan that combines hospital medical and prescription drug coverage together with extra benefits that may include dental vision 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