[Chi-townChief]

All of these 50-65 year-old hippies running around is probably a sight you don't wanna see.

[ronnie raygun]

It was just a time to refuse a bath, throw up on your feet and dumb down!

[Hoodat]

Let's examine what really happened during the Summer of Love. Here is what liberalism wrought:

Detroit Riots

Newark Riots

Plainfield Riots

Milwaukee Riots

Cleveland Riots (1966)

Seattle Riots

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

What's there to live for?
Who needs the peace corps?
Think I'll just DROP OUT
I'll go to Frisco
Buy a wig & sleep
On Owsley's floor

Walked past the wig store
Danced at the Fillmore
I'm completely stoned
I'm hippy & I'm trippy
I'm a gypsy on my own
I'll stay a week & get the crabs &
Take a bus back home
I'm really just a phony
But forgive me
'Cause I'm stoned

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!
How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya
Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

Hotcha!

First I'll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band
To go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lore
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the sh#t out of me on the street
I will sleep . . .
I will, I will go to a house
That's, that's what I will do
I will go to a house
Where there's a rock & roll band
'Cause the groups all live together
And I will join a rock & roll band
I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them
And I will get the crabs
But I won't care


Ah, the genius of Frank Zappa!

[ChocChipCookie]

It’s actually sad that such a large group of people still identify with that era. They really haven’t grown beyond it, which is even sadder. But not so sad that I can’t mock and ridicule them.

[HitmanLV]

Such a remarkably self absorbed generation. Very overrated.

[Shion]

>>when rock music, drugs and sexual liberation fused to create the Summer of Love.<<

As one of their inheritors I can honestly say that only one of those three thinks is worth anything.

The Summer of Love? Great, thanks, now sex kills, not just itches.

[Revolting cat!]

She was there with flowers in her hair!

[Florida native]

All of these 50-65 year-old hippies running around is probably a sight you don't wanna see.

We '50 year olds' were only 10 in 1967 - and speaking for myself, I was never a hippie - I was just a kid climbing trees and riding my second-hand bicycle.

[the invisib1e hand]

sorry. the sixties died off for good in the 90’s.

[JoeSixPack1]

1967 = 14, and loved every minute of it! :-)

[6323cd]

Charles Manson recruited his “family” from amongst those peaceful flower children in San Francisco circa 1966-67. That’s a fact frequently ignored.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

kent state - a good start.

[FierceDraka]

Seems like every ten years (when the year ends in the number seven), the Boomers engage in an orgy of self-congratulatory garbage.

I remember back in 1987 - you could NOT get away from all the damned "Summer of Love" remembrances and tributes.

Didn't catch any of the hype in 1997, because I was too busy trying to just survive.

That said, I must add that I am absolutely sick and tired of the damned smugness and sense of entitlement of the Spoiled Generation. We Gen-X'ers have had to claw and fight and scratch for everything we've got.

[Steve_Seattle]

"It was a very special moment of optimism and idealism,"

I was there, and it was no such thing. Like everything associated with the Left, it was a time of cynicism, self-centeredness, and hate. The left knows nothing of idealism. It is, and always has been, crude materialism.

[Moleman]

Wow, I will be 40 this year...OMG...

[Mr. Silverback]

I welcome discussion of the Summer of Love. It offers an opportunity to discuss how much these idiots screwed up the world in the intervening 40 years.

[Aquinasfan]

"It was a very special moment of optimism and idealism," said Amalie R. Rothschild, a photographer who amassed an archive of 20,000 photos of the era's rock musicians, mainly from their performances at the legendary Fillmore East concert hall in New York's East Village.

The movement came to its logical end at Altamont, with the Hells Angels murdering a black man while the Stones sang "Sympathy for the Devil."

It's funny, my wife is five years older than me, and fondly remembers the flower power, hippy-dippy, peace and love '60s crap. I remember the darker end, when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath constituted the unofficial jr. high religion.

I also remember my dad calling hippies, 'beatniks.' It was like, soooo embarassing. 8-)

Other fond elementary school memories: an argument in second grade over how to draw a peace sign correctly; an argument over whether "psychedelic" was a color; Yellow Submarine lunch boxes; Space Food Sticks.

[Badeye]

‘All of these 50-65 year-old hippies running around is probably a sight you don’t wanna see.’

The irony of course is found in the slogan of the times.

‘Don’t trust anyone over thirty’