Sometimes I miss the prevalence of the ’60s hippie culture. Mind you I wasn’t alive then but I miss it nonetheless.
What a short, strange trip: Be-in is 40
SAN FRANCISCO - Their hair, once a symbol of youthful rebellion, is mostly gray. Bodies that writhed with wild abandon when a guru invited them to “Turn on … tune in … drop out” now sport stiff knees and age spots.
“How many of you are on acid right now?” rock critic Joel Selvin asked an audience of former hippies who turned out this past week to mark the 40th anniversary of the Human Be-in, the counterculture event that unofficially launched the Summer of Love. “How many of you are on antacid right now?”
In many ways, the ’60s as we now know the era was born Jan. 14, 1967, when musicians, poets, visionaries, student radicals and wayward youth gathered in Golden Gate Park. It was the unofficial birth of the counterculture movement that defined San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, a prelude to the social and political upheaval that followed.
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