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The San Francisco sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in San Francisco, particularly the Haight-Ashbury district, during these years. [ 1 ]
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight, [8] and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870. [9] Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception.
The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers (1649–1650) who had promulgated a vision of society free from buying, selling, and private property. [2] [5] During the mid- and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers organized free music concerts and works of political art, provided free food, medical care, transport, and temporary housing and opened stores that gave away stock.
Human Be-In - 1/14/1967 - Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park - San Francisco, CA, via Music Vault on YouTube: Human Be-In 50th Anniversary; Allen Cohen's website, with history from an insider. Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s 'Rockument' commentary and sound bites. 1967 Berkeley Poster for 'Pow-Wow: A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In'
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During the "hippie" period 1967–1968 in San Francisco, an individual named Al Rinker started an organization located at 1830 Fell St in the city's Haight Ashbury district called the Switchboard. Its purpose was to act as a social switchboard for people living there.
The music world of the 1960s was filled with fashion icons, from the Beatles to the Ronettes, from Jimi Hendrix to the Supremes, from Motown to Haight-Ashbury. But for some of us, the mid-1960s ...