The Hippies
1
DO YOUR OWN THING, WHEREVER YOU HAVE TO DO IT AND WHEN- EVER YOU WANT. DROP OUT. LEAVE SOCIETY AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IT. LEAVE IT UTTER- LY. BLOW THE MIND OF EVERY STRAIGHT PERSON YOU CAN REACH. TURN THEM ON, IF NOT TO DRUGS, THEN TO BEAUTY , LOVE , HONESTY , FUN . THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA’S FLOWER CHILDREN TIME MAGAZINE JULY 7, 1967 BASED ON ERIC HOFER’S TRUE BELIEVER DER WONDERVOGEL ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL III THE MUSIC FESTIVAL CANADA CANADA UNITED KINGDOM VANOUVER NEWPORT BEACH WOODINVILLE DENVER LEWISVILLE MILWAUKEE TORONTO WHITE LAKE ATLANTIC CITY LAUREL ISLE OF WIGHT HAMPTON HALLANDALE communal living 100,000 300,000 200,000 400,000 EMMETT GROGAN 1942-1978 DR. TIMOTHY LEARY 1920-1996 KEN KESEY 1935-2001 ALLEN GINSBERG 1926-1997 “PEOPLE LIKE LEARY HAVE DONE THE BEST THEY CAN TO CHART IT SORT OF UNDERGROUND BUT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POWERS DO NOT WANT THIS WORLD CHARTED BECAUSE IT THREATENS ESTABLISHED POWERS. IT ALWAYS HAS.” KEN KESEY IN “COMES SPAKE THE CUCKOO” “THIS IS JUST SHIT. IT’S HAPPENING. NO BLAME. HAPPENING AND ON THE RISE IT WOULD APPEAR.” LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG THERE ARE GOING TO BE TIMES WHEN WE CAN’T WAIT FOR SOMEBODY. THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST BE OBSERVANT AND TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR PERSPECTIVES A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS - DRUG USE INDEPENDENCE AND STRENGTH, BACK AWAY FROM COMMITMENTS BOB DYLAN 1941- TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT NEAL CASSADY 1926-1968 WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA - THE IMAGES - CONTROLS THE CULTURE THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ JACK KEROUAC 1922-1969 ALDOUS HUXLEY 1894-1963 Dr. BENJAMIN SPOCK 1903-1998 JIM MORRISON 1943-1971 JOHN LENNON 1940-1980 JERRY GARCIA 1942-1995 JANIS JOPLIN 1943-1970 JOAN BAEZ 1941- WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 1914-1997 WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA, CONTROLS THE MIND. IF WE HAD ANY NERVE AT ALL, IF WE HAD ANY REAL BALLS AS A SOCIETY, OR WHAT- EVER YOU NEED, WHATEVER QUALITY YOU NEED, REAL CHARACTER, WE WOULD MAKE AN EFFORT TO REALLY ADDRESS THE WRONGS IN THIS SOCIETY, RIGHTEOUSLY. ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE PETER COYOTE 1942-1978 IF YOU LOOK DOWN AT ME YOU WILL SEE A FOOL; IF YOU LOOK UP AT ME YOU WILL SEE A GOD; IF YOU LOOK STRAIGHT AT ME, YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF. THE ONLY WAY TO SUPPORT A REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE YOUR OWN. ABBIE HOFFMAN 1936-1989 EVERY REVOLUTION SEEMS IMPOSSI- BLE AT THE BEGINNING, AND AFTER IT HAPPENS, IT WAS INEVITABLE. JERRY RUBIN 1938-1994 ANGELA DAVIS 1944- I AM NO LONGER ACCEPT- ING THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE. I AM CHANGING THE THINGS I CANNOT ACCEPT THE POWER TO DEFINE THE SITUATION IS THE ULTIMATE POWER. “YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE GROOVING AS HARD AS YOU CAN ALL THE TIME.” STEPHEN GASKIN 1935-2014 “THE TIME HAS COME, EVERYBODY LIE DOWN SO YOU WON’T GET HURT WHEN THE SUN BURSTS” BERNARDINE DOHRN 1944- BILL AYERS 1944- NOAM CHOMSKY 1928- over all, many of society’s values are a cesspool PAUL KRASSNER 1932- DAN GEORGAKAS 1938- CHARLES MANSON 1934- “THEY WERE A GENERATION UTTERLY SEPERATED FROM THEIR PARENTS BY THE UNBREAKABLE GAP OF ACID.” SAN FRANCISCO MARIN COUNTY ALTAMONT SPEEDWAY LOS ANGELES SAN JOSE the music THE BEAT GENERATION LSD ADVOCATES PERFORMERS COMMUNES THE DIGGERS CHICAGO 7 WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND BLACK PANTHERS REJECTION OF RECEIVED STANDARDS INNOVATIONS IN STYLE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS PEACEFUL REVOLUTION BROKE AWAY FROM RESTRICTIONS IN SOCIETY DESIRED CHANGED VIOLENT REVOLUTION “FORTUNATE” SONS PEACE, LOVE & BROTHER- HOOD ANARCHISM, RADICAL & VIOLENT wandering bird THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT OF THE 1960’S ACTUALLY HAS IT’S ROOTS IN GERMANY. DERN WONDERVO- GEL WAS A MOVEMENT OF YOUTH GROUPS THAT STARTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. THEIR IDEA WAS TO SHAKE OFF THE RESTRIC- TIONS AND GET BACK TO NATURE AND FREEDOM . AFTER WWII,THESE GROUPS WERE OUTLAWED AND MANY PRACTI- TIONERS IMMIGRATED TO THE WARM CLIMATE OF CALIFORNIA WHERE THEY COULD CONTINUE THEIR FARMING PRACTICES. THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN MIDDLE-CLASS YOUNG PEOPLE GROWING UP IN THE LATE 1950’S FELT THAT THEY DID NOT FIT INTO ACCEPTED SOCIETY. NOT ONLY DID THEIR FUTURE SEEM PLANNED OUT FOR THEM, WITH OFFICE JOBS FOR THE MEN AND MOTHERHOOD AND HOUSEW- WORK FOR THE WOMEN, BUT THOSE FUTURES ALSO SEEMED BORING AND SUFFOCATING. THE VIETNAM WAR EXPANDED IN THE 1960S. YOUNG MEN WERE BEING DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY WITH NO OTHER CHOICE. YOUNG PEOPLE WANTED THEIR PEACE AND PERSONAL FREEDOM EVEN MORE. JFK IS SHOT NOV 22 1963 BEATLEMANIA LANDS BEATLEMANIA HIT THE UNITED STATES HARD. APPROXIMATELY 74 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED THEIR FIRST APPEAR- ANCE ON ED SULLIVAN. THE DEMAND FOR LIVE PERFOR- MANCES FROM THE QUARTET LED TO THE BIRTH OF WHAT WE KNOW AS “STA- DIUM ROCK” WE’RE ALL HUMAN BE-IN(S) PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT CULTURAL DECENTRALIZATION COMMUNAL LIVING ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS ILLICIT DRUG USE RADICAL LIBERAL CONSICIOUSNESS REJECTION OF THE “MIDDLE-CLASS MORALITY” INTUITIVE SPONTANEITY. HUMAN BE-INS FOCUSED ON THE KEY IDEAS OF THE DEVELOPING COUNTER CULTURE; FROM THE USE OF PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS TO FREE LOVE AND SEX. THE FIRST BE-IN WAS IN RE- SPONSE TO LSD BEING MADE ILLEGAL IN 1966. THE EVENT SAW 30,000 PEOPLE CROWD THE HAIGHT ASHBURY DISTRICT OF SANFRANCISCO. A GENERATION OF CHANGE A NUMBER OF THE SOCIAL INFLUENCES CHANGED WHAT POPULAR MUSIC WAS AND ENDED UPGIVING BIRTH TO THE DIVERSITY THAT WE EXPERIENCE WITH MUSIC TODAY. the other side THE ACID TESTS WERE A SERIES OF PARTIES HELD BY KEN KESEY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CENTERED ENTIRELY AROUND THE USE OF, AND ADVOCACY OF LSD. KESEY TOOK THESE PARTIES TO PUBLIC AREAS AND ADVERTISED THEM WITH POSTERS THAT READ “can you pass the acid test?” A DROP CITY HOME IN THE 1960S THERE WAS A SURGE IN THE “BACK-TO-THE-LAND” MOVEMENT. PEOPLE WANTED TO GIVE UP THEIR LIVES AND MOVE TO THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO LIVE OFF THE LAND WITH PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THE SAME. STEPHEN GASKIN, A PROFESSOR AT THE TIME, SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT HIS VISION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IN HIS CARAVAN OF BUSSES WITH LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS. EVEN- TUALLY HE ANS HIS GROUP SETTLED ON THE FARM IN TENNES- SEE, ONE OF THE LONGEST STANDING AND SUCCESSFUL COMMUNES. OTHER FAMOUS COMMUNES INCLUDE DROP CITY AND STRAWBERRY FIELDS. THE ACID TESTS THE FARM STRAWBERRY FIELDS DROP CITY STRAWBERRY FIELDS MONTEREY RUSSIAN HILL FISHERMAN’S WHARF NORTH BEACH MARINA PACIFIC HEIGHTS CHINATOWN NOB HILL FINANCIAL DISTRICT SOUTH OF MARKET RICHHMOND SEACLIFF LAUREL HEIGHTS WESTERN ADDITION SAN FRANCISCO WAS THE EPICEN- TER OF THE SOCIAL EARTHQUAKE THAT WAS THE HIPPIE REVOLU- TION. YOUNG PEOPLE WERE ATTRACTED TO THE CHEAP, VICTORIAN HOUSES THAT LINED THE STREETS WITH THOUSANDS FLOCKING TO THE CITY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR DISSATISFACTION WITH SOCIETY THE PANHANDLE THE FILMORE AVALON BALLROOM SUMMER OF LOVE THE HAIGHT - ASHBURY DISTRICT WAS THE PLACE TO BE DURING THE SUMMER OF LOVE IN 1967. THERE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN AS MANY AS 100,000 HIPPIES THAT CON- VERGED ON THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD. MUSIC FESTIVALS , BE - IN’ S DEMONSTRA- TIONS , CONCERTS AND DRUG- THEMED EVENTS WERE HAPPENING EVERY DAY WITH WITNESS TO A GROWING SOCIAL , POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION. S A N F R A N C I S C O PSYCHEDELIC ROCK WAS INCREDIBLY POPULAR DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1960S. THE INTENTION WAS TO ENHANCE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LISTENERS WHO WERE USING LSD OR OTHER DRUGS. LYRICS WERE STRANGE AND THE LYRICS WERE STRANGER. PROTEST ROCK WAS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE MUSIC SCENE. CURRENT EVENTS BECAME A MAJOR INFLUENCE AND MANY SONGS WERE WRIT- TEN IN PROTEST TO THE VIETNAM WAR, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND OTHER EVENTS. AS DEMONSTRATIONS INCREASED, VIOLENT CLASHES ETWEEN PROTES- TORS AND MILITARY INCREASED AS WELL. “ THESE DIFFERENG PERSPECTIVES MIRRORED WIDE- SPREAD 1960S SOCIETAL TENSIONS THAT TENDED TO FLOW ALONG GENERATIONAL LINES REGARDING THE WAR IN VIETNAM, RACE RELATIONS, SEXUAL CUSTOMS, WOMEN’ S RIGHTS, TRADITIONAL MODES OF AUTHORITY, EXPERIMENTATION WITH PSYCHE- DELIC DRUGS AND OPPOSING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.” 2 KILLED 12 INJURED JACKSON STATE 4 KILLED 9 INJURED KENT STATE 3 KILLED 28 INJURED ORANGEBURG 1 KILLED 500 INJURED HARLEM RIOT 1964 34 KILLED 1,032 INJURED WATTS RIOTS 1965 43 KILLED 1,189 INJURED HARLEM RIOT 1964 ANTIWAR RACE RIOTS POLITICAL 6 KILLED ? INJURED WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND MUSIC FESTIVALS WERE AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PART OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT. FESTIVALS THAT INCLUD- ED BANDS WHO SHAPED THE VALUES OF HIPPIE IDEOLOGY WERE SURE TO BRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER FOR ONE THING; TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT. CALIFORNIA NEW YORK going furthur IN 1964, KEN KESEY PURCHSED T A SCHOOL BUS TO CARRY HIM AND HIS “ MERRY PRANKSTERS” ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, FILMING THEIR COUNTERCULTURE ADVENTURES AS THEY WENT. WITH NEAL CASSADY AS THE DRIVER, FURTHUR STARTED OFF IN LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA TO END UP IN NEW YORK FOR THE PUBLICATION OF KESEY’ S LATEST NOVEL. THE PASSENGERS OF FURTHER WERE HEAVILY FUELED BY PROLIFIC PSYCHEDELIC DRUG USE. THE BUS WOULD LATER HEAD TO AN ANTI - VIETNAM WAR RALLY IN 1966 AND WOODSTOCK IN 1969. SARAH LAMOUREUX COMM4679 GOLDEN GATE PARK
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DO YOUR OWN THING, WHEREVER YOU HAVE TO DO IT AND WHEN-EVER YOU WANT. DROP OUT.
LEAVE SOCIETY AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IT. LEAVE IT UTTER-
LY. BLOW THE MIND OF EVERY STRAIGHT PERSON YOU CAN REACH. TURN THEM ON, IF NOT TO DRUGS, THEN TO BEAUTY, LOVE, HONESTY,
FUN.
THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA’S
FLOWER CHILDREN
TIME MAGAZINEJULY 7, 1967
BASED ON ERIC HOFER’S TRUE BELIEVER
DER WONDERVOGEL
ISLE
OF
WIG
HT FE
STIV
AL
III
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL
CANADA
CANADA
UNITED KINGDOM
VANOUVER
NEWPORT BEACH
WOODINVILLE
DENVER
LEWISVILLE
MILWAUKEE
TORONTO
WHITE LAKE
ATLANTIC CITY
LAUREL
ISLE OF WIGHT
HAMPTON
HALLANDALE
communal living
100,000
300,000
200,000
400,000
EMMETT GROGAN1942-1978
DR. TIMOTHY LEARY1920-1996
KEN KESEY1935-2001
ALLEN GINSBERG1926-1997
“PEOPLE LIKE LEARY HAVE DONE THE BEST THEY CAN TO CHART IT SORT OF UNDERGROUND BUT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POWERS DO NOT WANT THIS WORLD CHARTED BECAUSE IT THREATENS ESTABLISHED POWERS. IT ALWAYS HAS.”
KEN KESEY IN “COMES SPAKE THE CUCKOO”
“THIS IS JUST SHIT. IT’S HAPPENING. NO BLAME. HAPPENING AND ON THE RISE IT WOULD APPEAR.”
LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG
THERE ARE GOING TO BE TIMES WHEN WE CAN’T WAIT FOR SOMEBODY.
THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
BE OBSERVANT AND TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR PERSPECTIVES
A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS - DRUG USE
INDEPENDENCE AND STRENGTH, BACK AWAY FROM COMMITMENTS
BOB DYLAN1941-
TURN ON, TUNE IN,DROP OUT
NEAL CASSADY1926-1968
WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA - THE IMAGES - CONTROLS THE CULTURE
THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN’
JACK KEROUAC1922-1969
ALDOUS HUXLEY1894-1963
Dr. BENJAMIN SPOCK1903-1998
JIM MORRISON1943-1971
JOHN LENNON1940-1980
JERRY GARCIA1942-1995
JANIS JOPLIN1943-1970
JOAN BAEZ1941-
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS1914-1997
W H O E V E R CONTROLS THE MEDIA, CONTROLS THE MIND.
IF WE HAD ANY NERVE AT ALL, IF WE HAD ANY REAL BALLS AS A SOCIETY, OR WHAT-
EVER YOU NEED, WHATEVER QUALITY YOU NEED, REAL CHARACTER, WE WOULD MAKE AN EFFORT TO REALLY ADDRESS THE WRONGS IN THIS SOCIETY, RIGHTEOUSLY.
ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
PETER COYOTE1942-1978
IF YOU LOOK DOWN AT ME YOU WILL SEE A FOOL; IF YOU LOOK UP AT ME YOU WILL SEE A GOD; IF YOU LOOK STRAIGHT AT ME, YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF.
THE ONLY WAY TO SUPPORT A REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE YOUR OWN.
ABBIE HOFFMAN1936-1989
EVERY REVOLUTION SEEMS IMPOSSI-
BLE AT THE BEGINNING, AND AFTER IT HAPPENS, IT WAS INEVITABLE.
JERRY RUBIN1938-1994
ANGELA DAVIS1944-
I AM NO LONGER ACCEPT-
ING THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE. I AM CHANGING THE THINGS I CANNOT ACCEPT
THE POWER TO DEFINE THE SITUATION IS THE ULTIMATE POWER.
“YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE GROOVING AS HARD AS YOU CAN ALL THE TIME.”
STEPHEN GASKIN1935-2014
“THE TIME HAS COME, EVERYBODY LIE DOWN SO YOU WON’T GET HURT WHEN THE SUN BURSTS”
BERNARDINE DOHRN1944-
BILL AYERS1944-
NOAM CHOMSKY1928-
over all, many of society’s values are a cesspool
PAUL KRASSNER1932-
DAN GEORGAKAS1938-
CHARLES MANSON1934-
“THEY WERE A GENERATION UTTERLY SEPERATED FROM THEIR PARENTS BY THE UNBREAKABLE GAP OF ACID.”
SAN FRANCISCO
MARIN COUNTY
ALTAMONT SPEEDWAY
LOS ANGELES
SAN JOSE
the music
THE BEAT GENERATION
LSD ADVOCATES
PERFORMERS
COMMUNES
THE DIGGERS
CHICAGO 7
WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND
BLACK PANTHERS
REJECTION OF RECEIVED STANDARDS
INNOVATIONS IN STYLE
USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS
PEACEFUL REVOLUTION
BROKE AWAY FROM RESTRICTIONS IN SOCIETY
DESIRED CHANGED
VIOLENT REVOLUTION
“FORTUNATE” SONS
PEACE, LOVE & BROTHER- HOOD ANARCHISM, RADICAL & VIOLENT
w a n d e r i n g b i r dT H E H I P P I E M O V E M E N T O F T H E
1 9 6 0 ’ S A C T U A L LY H A S I T ’ S R O O T S
I N G E R M A N Y. D E R N W O N D E R V O -
G E L W A S A M O V E M E N T O F Y O U T H
G R O U P S T H A T S T A R T E D I N T H E
L A T E 1 9 T H C E N T U R Y. T H E I R I D E A
W A S T O S H A K E O F F T H E R E S T R I C -
T I O N S A N D G E T B A C K T O N A T U R E
A N D F R E E D O M .
A F T E R W W I I , T H E S E G R O U P S W E R E
O U T L A W E D A N D M A N Y P R A C T I -
T I O N E R S I M M I G R A T E D T O T H E
W A R M C L I M A T E O F C A L I F O R N I A
W H E R E T H E Y C O U L D C O N T I N U E
T H E I R F A R M I N G P R A C T I C E S .
THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAINM I D D L E - C L A S S Y O U N G P E O P L E
G R O W I N G U P I N T H E L A T E 1 9 5 0 ’ S
F E LT T H A T T H E Y D I D N O T F I T I N T O A C C E P T E D S O C I E T Y.
N O T O N LY D I D T H E I R F U T U R E
S E E M P L A N N E D O U T F O R T H E M ,
W I T H O F F I C E J O B S F O R T H E M E N
A N D M O T H E R H O O D A N D H O U S E W -
W O R K F O R T H E W O M E N , B U T
T H O S E F U T U R E S A L S O S E E M E D
B O R I N G A N D S U F F O C A T I N G .
THE V IETNAM WAR EXPANDED
IN THE 1960S . YOUNG MEN WERE
BE ING DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY
WITH NO OTHER CHOICE . YOUNG
PEOPLE WANTED THE IR PEACE
AND PERSONAL FREEDOM EVEN
MORE .
JFK IS SHOTNOV 22 1 963
BEATLEMANIA LANDSBEATLEMANIA H IT THE UNITED STATES
HARD. APPROXIMATELY 74 MILL ION
PEOPLE WATCHED THEIR F IRST APPEAR-
ANCE ON ED SULL IVAN. THE DEMAND
FOR L IVE PERFOR-
MANCES FROM THE
QUARTET LED TO
THE B IRTH OF WHAT
WE KNOW AS “STA-
DIUM ROCK”
WE’RE ALL HUMAN BE-IN(S)
PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT
CULTURAL DECENTRALIZATION
COMMUNAL L IV ING
ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS
HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
ILL IC IT DRUG USE
RADICAL L IBERAL CONSIC IOUSNESS
REJECTION OF THE
“M IDDLE-CLASS MORALITY”
INTUIT IVE SPONTANEITY.
HUMAN BE- INS FOCUSED ON THE
KEY IDEAS OF THE DEVELOPING
COUNTER CULTURE ; FROM THE
USE OF PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS TO
FREE LOVE AND SEX .
THE F IRST BE- IN WAS IN RE-
SPONSE TO LSD BE ING MADE
ILLEGAL IN 1966 . THE EVENT SAW
30,000 PEOPLE CROWD THE
HAIGHT ASHBURY D ISTRICT OF
SANFRANCISCO.
A GENERATION OF CHANGE
A NUMBER OF THE SOCIAL INFLUENCES CHANGED WHAT POPULAR MUSIC WAS AND ENDED UPGIVING BIRTH TO THE DIVERSITY THAT WE EXPERIENCE WITH MUSIC TODAY.
the other side
THE ACID TESTS WERE A SERIES OF PARTIES HELD BY KEN KESEY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CENTERED ENTIRELY AROUND THE USE OF, AND ADVOCACY OF LSD. KESEY TOOK THESE PARTIES TO PUBLIC AREAS AND ADVERTISED THEM WITH POSTERS THAT READ “can you pass the acid test?”
A DROP CITY HOME
IN THE 1960S THERE WAS A SURGE IN THE “BACK-TO-THE-LAND” MOVEMENT. PEOPLE WANTED TO GIVE UP THEIR LIVES AND MOVE TO THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO LIVE OFF THE LAND WITH PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THE SAME.
STEPHEN GASKIN, A PROFESSOR AT THE TIME, SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT HIS VISION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IN HIS CARAVAN OF BUSSES WITH LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS. EVEN-
TUALLY HE ANS HIS GROUP SETTLED ON THE FARM IN TENNES-
SEE, ONE OF THE LONGEST STANDING AND SUCCESSFUL COMMUNES.
OTHER FAMOUS COMMUNES INCLUDE DROP CITY AND
STRAWBERRY FIELDS.
THE ACID TESTS
THE FARM
STRAWBERRY FIELDSDROP CITY
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
MONTEREY
RUSSIANHILL
FISHERMAN’SWHARF
NORTHBEACH
MARINA
PACIFICHEIGHTS
CHINATOWN
NOBHILL
FINANCIALDISTRICT
SOUTH OFMARKET
RICHHMOND
SEACLIFF LAURELHEIGHTS
WESTERN ADDITION
SAN FRANCISCO WAS THE EPICEN-
TER OF THE SOCIAL EARTHQUAKE THAT WAS THE HIPPIE REVOLU-
TION.
YOUNG PEOPLE WERE ATTRACTED TO THE
CHEAP, VICTORIAN HOUSES THAT LINED THE STREETS WITH THOUSANDS FLOCKING TO THE CITY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR DISSATISFACTION WITH SOCIETY
THE PANHANDLE
THE FILMORE
AVALON BALLROOM
SUMMER OF LOVETHE HAIGHT-ASHBURY DISTRICT WAS THE PLACE TO BE DURING THE SUMMER OF LOVE IN 1967. THERE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN AS MANY AS 100,000 HIPPIES THAT CON-
VERGED ON THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD.
MUSIC FESTIVALS, BE- IN’S DEMONSTRA-
TIONS, CONCERTS AND DRUG-THEMED EVENTS WERE HAPPENING EVERY DAY WITH WITNESS TO A GROWING SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION.
SAN
FRANCISCO
PSYCHEDELIC ROCK WAS INCREDIBLY POPULAR DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1960S. THE INTENTION WAS TO ENHANCE THE EXPERIENCE
OF THE LISTENERS WHO WERE U S I N G LSD OR OTHER DRUGS. LYRICS WERE STRANGE AND THE
LYRICS WERE STRANGER.
PROTEST ROCK WAS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE MUSIC SCENE. CURRENT EVENTS BECAME A MAJOR INFLUENCE AND MANY SONGS WERE WRIT- TEN IN PROTEST TO THE VIETNAM WAR, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND OTHER EVENTS.
AS DEMONSTRATIONS INCREASED, VIOLENT CLASHES ETWEEN PROTES-
TORS AND MILITARY INCREASED AS WELL.
“THESE DIFFERENG PERSPECTIVES MIRRORED WIDE-
SPREAD 1960S SOCIETAL TENSIONS THAT TENDED
TO FLOW ALONG GENERATIONAL LINES REGARDING
THE WAR IN VIETNAM, RACE RELATIONS, SEXUAL
CUSTOMS, WOMEN’S RIGHTS, TRADITIONAL MODES
OF AUTHORITY, EXPERIMENTATION WITH PSYCHE-
DELIC DRUGS AND OPPOSING INTERPRETATIONS OF
THE AMERICAN DREAM.”
2 KILLED 12 INJURED
JACKSON STATE
4 KILLED 9 INJURED
KENT STATE
3 KILLED 28 INJURED
ORANGEBURG
1 KILLED 500 INJURED
HARLEM RIOT 1964
34 KILLED 1,032 INJURED
WATTS RIOTS 1965
43 KILLED 1,189 INJURED
HARLEM RIOT 1964
ANTIWARRACE RIOTSPOLITICAL
6 KILLED ? INJURED
WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND
MUSIC FESTIVALS WERE AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PART OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT. FESTIVALS THAT INCLUD-
ED BANDS WHO SHAPED THE VALUES OF HIPPIE IDEOLOGY WERE SURE TO BRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER FOR ONE THING; TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT.
CALIFORNIA NEW YORK
going furthurIN 1964, KEN KESEY PURCHSED T A SCHOOL BUS TO CARRY HIM AND HIS “MERRY PRANKSTERS” ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, FILMING THEIR COUNTERCULTURE ADVENTURES AS THEY WENT.
WITH NEAL CASSADY AS THE DRIVER, FURTHUR STARTED OFF IN LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA TO END UP IN NEW YORK FOR THE PUBLICATION OF KESEY’S LATEST NOVEL.
THE PASSENGERS OF FURTHER WERE HEAVILY FUELED BY PROLIFIC PSYCHEDELIC DRUG USE.
THE BUS WOULD LATER HEAD TO AN ANTI-VIETNAM WAR RALLY IN 1966 AND WOODSTOCK IN 1969.
SARAH LAMOUREUX
COMM4679
GOLDEN GATE PARK
