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Summer of Love: Media
[1967]
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hippies during the Summer of Love
Hippies playing music in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco during...
© Ted Streshinsky—Corbis/Getty Images
Haight-Ashbury intersection
Tens of thousands of young Americans descended upon San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury...
© Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey sitting atop a bus while holding a flute in San Francisco, April 26, 1967.
© Joe Rosenthal—The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images
psychedelic Grateful Dead poster
A psychedelic Grateful Dead poster, designed by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, advertising...
Eddie Ledesman—Contra Costa Times/Zuma Press, Inc./Alamy
A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In
A flyer advertising “A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In,” held at Golden...
Blank Archives—Archive Photos/Getty Images
Monterey International Pop Festival
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company performing at the Monterey International...
© Ted Streshinsky—Corbis/Getty Images
George Harrison in Haight-Ashbury
The Beatles' George Harrison strumming a guitar while walking through Golden Gate...
© Bettmann/Getty Images
Death of the Hippie
Residents of Haight-Ashbury hauling a coffin over their heads during the “Death of...
© Peter Breinig—The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images
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Summer of Love in Pictures
Take a look at how the fateful summer of 1967 unfolded in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury...
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