Late 1960s Haight Ashbury Hippie Community, San Francisco, HD

[@Dasalsim]

KZbin is truly the closest we will get to a time machine. Feels like you're right in the middle of it.

[@finallythere100]

It brings back a lot of memories of the styles! I wonder where some of these people are today, if still alive...

[@olgashevchuk1055]

True. Inredible how this experience of feeling the vibes through the old film makes possible to restore faith within an stubborn materialist like me.

[@okamijubei]

I wouldn't say it's youtube. More like it's a tool to channel though the world to see the past. The ones whom filmed that are the ones that make the time preserve.

[@delix787]

Totally agree!! 🫢

[@johndardani9224]

My parents were 18 and 20 in 67, the year befo re I was born. My grandparents, parents and myself are all native San Franciscans. Thanks for great film!

[@mrpeter557]

Seeing footage of an era you "subconsciously" think of as a different universe, helps you realize that everything is NOW. Literally what you see around you, how you look at the sky and the trees is exactly how a person 70 years ago experienced it. At the exact same pace.

[@Jamestele1]

Jerry Garcia said there was nothing really special about the Haight in San Francisco: it was just where creative types all convened. Before that, there was Venice Beach and Greenwich Village. There's been a million Haight-Ashbury's all over the world, before that and since. Van Dyke Park in Fairfax, VA in the late 70s/early 80s was a gathering place for a small group of stoner "Freaks".

[@unholylemonpledge9730]

Duh

[@maureenobrien4807]

@@Jamestele1 But they weren't as groovy. The LSD that got dumped. into that time. afterr.the CIA. did. this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax

[@maureenobrien4807]

@@unholylemonpledge9730 lol

[@benmoore6612]

@@Jamestele1 Jerry Garcia wasn't the best person to ask - wherever he went, the 1960s went. Don't get me wrong, you're mostly correct. However, it was San Francisco and the 1960s so it was even more freewheeling than most countercultural spots.

[@christinefortner7725]

Not quite all of us! I graduated from Galileo High School located on Van Ness by Fisherman’s Wharf in 1969 & am presently a young 69 years! I witnessed much of what is in this video &, I must say, those times were pretty awesome. My best friend & I spent a lot of time at the Wharf, the beach out by Cliff House, & walking on Union Street on the wknds. Her dad was stationed at the Presidio, & we went to lots of movies on base. I worked a part-time job on Market while the entire street was closed during BART construction. Rode the cable car every day & believe I was in a lot of tourists home movies! It was a time I shall never forget...a part of my heart will always be there. ❤️

[@mmaranta785]

My father was an English teacher at Galileo in the 60’s thru 80’s

[@christinefortner7725]

What a coincidence...I believe my senior year English class was World Literature. Can’t recall my teacher’s name, sadly. 📚

[@karlalbert6794]

Very sensitive your testemony and so beautiful ... you had one good oportunity to be present there and to share.. . ♡🌷.. 🌹😘

[@HCmetal022]

@@christinefortner7725 Do you think the 60s or the late 60s had more color in the 50s

[@WALDENSOFTWARE]

I feel like SF was so much fun up until the new millenium. Then it was just ok. Now it's terrible.

[@2MuchPurple]

I was 18 in 1968 and a senior at Lowell High. This was such a unique time and it had a kind of energy that will never be duplicated. I was there, born and raised in SF and though I was ultra shy and though not a hippy, later became a successful gallery artist in the '70s. It was an amazing time to be young

[@musingsofrock]

Would you say what is shown is an accurate description? Was it just like what is shown in the video?

[@Mardet14]

I was a senior at Lowell High in 1960. Out of the Marine Corps after 4 years and a student at SF State. My wife would not let me be a hippy.

[@if6was929]

@@musingsofrock This video is cinéma-vérité, its real!

[@ВаленинаМамон]

​@@Mardet14я думаю сейчас вы ей за это благодарны...что она вас спасла и вы стали настоящим человеком...

[@Mardet14]

@@ВаленинаМамон Person. Yes. Real? Who knows?

[@rabbitt83]

I was there, I got to the Haight in 66 ,the Haight was our Disneyland it was the best time to grow up, great memories I am 73 and glad I was there

[@ebonyrenna]

What kind of memories do you have? Please share 😊

[@bobfrog4836]

I was told that if you remember the 60s you weren't there. LOL

[@eeddieedwards3890]

I Haight Ashbury.

[@kingjamesjr.3278]

​@@bobfrog4836I was told by your wife that you suck dick for a living buddy

[@thewkovacs316]

projection how many children have you molested? maga=pedos

[@room111photography5]

The film is incredibly clean. No dust. Exposure very good. Both the camera operator and processing lab did a great job. Thanks for sharing this.

[@Philflash]

Limited projection or transfer off original camera negative.

the city was clean back then too. so sad how it all turned out

[@dannyhood7428]

Amazing it doesn't look old as it is.

[@manuelcastillo6251]

I lived un San Francisco CA i know all this strees i am from México but i ,am 33years here i am usa this my country It,s emocion that years did not exist my selft i love 👍🙏🙏💪💗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💪

[@naufrage0]

Probably a restoration as well

[@billyc6678]

In 69 I was 7yrs old and went to Woodstock with my mom, uncle and there friends. This is what the world looked like for me. All kinds of ppl, just diggin life. It was the coolest time ever.

[@alevine1951]

Youth slipped through my fingers like sand and I wasn't paying attention.

[@stephenwalker5712]

For me , it was like what is happening ? Major change in what normalcy was taught to me. But, we ended up happy with life and stuck to the basics of the American dreams. Tides change and we’re really back to what matters and the basic values of the American dream. Not really too complicated.

[@daisychain3007]

We should be happy that we are still alive, Sightseers. Not everyone is.

[@beverlyledbetter8906]

Some of those people looks as though they've had it already!

[@orcuttnyc]

@@stephenwalker5712 Sounds like you missed the point ;)

[@doomprophetess6286]

Oops! Hippiedom is ALL about PAYING ATTENTION lol

[@cmscms123456]

Most of those young people are 75 years old and older now

[@hulkbeast8759]

Yea its weard to think about it

[@r1.454]

Doubt the Dude n the checkered shirt is still with us.

[@Noor-jw2tn]

Yeah and people think 75 year Olds are old fashion. They started it. More hip than anyone will be

[@pauleypavillion6088]

and most are dead and others are strung out from abuse of drugs begging in the streets and become street bums.

[@rclc161]

so weird

[@BaBaYaga1999-p7u]

Look at all these beautiful, skinny, crazy kids that became our grandparents

[@kungpao-wp2sq]

6:30 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@daphne4983]

My grandparents were from 1900-1920

[@david-lt9wj]

My great grand father 1860...and I met him...he had a lovely party on his 100th..three wives and digging the garden at 100.

and wrecked the country

[@kungpao-wp2sq]

@ ur thinking of the globalist banking cartel not these sweet sensitive ppl

[@michellexbeauty9832]

i love the quality of this. i’m 19 and could totally see people my age wearing the outfits here. everything is so vibrant and the color really adds life to the film. i can’t explain exactly what i mean, but of all the historic videos i’ve seen on youtube this one is just the “realest”

[@1m2a3t4t5]

Really. Have trends come and go, particularly retro stylings become present again really help us understand what was going on in those eras fashion wise.

[@sexobscura]

only potatoes feel the pressure of submission

[@larschristensen9367]

Spend Chinese New Year’s Eve in S.F in February 1970. Me and my friend from our danish cargo ship, Sargodha, met som hippies who showed us around town, seeing the dragon parade, all the fireworks and eventually going to Fillmore West to hear Country Joe &The Fish. Great experience.

[@ivana_playsjumpropeinyouryard]

This video has no sound, so I played strawberry alarm clock as background music and it fit well.

[@TheIndependentLens]

Hmmmm . . . I wonder why? I'm sure "Incense and Peppermints" was one of the songs.

[@lopezb]

Incense and Peppermints...

[@funkster007]

I played Sunshine Superman by Donovan. It's perfect. haha

[@KB-ke3fi]

Or maybe Janis Joplin songs...

[@tw6873]

Jefferson...

[@teaberrywmn]

People walking around engaging, watching, looking without phones. What a nice scene.

[@archimetropolis]

And one dude straight up pulling the finger at the camera

[@tangospirit22]

and no obesity anywhere....

[@immortalobelisk6302]

🙄

[@johnallen2771]

Well, I was walking right down those streets in both '67 and '69. The first time I was there it was hopping. Had a great time and met so many wonderful people from all over the world, smoked cannabis for the first time. Second time I was there it was predominantly speed freaks, junkies and tourists. I've been there more recently though and it's a great city once again. If you want to hear some songs from back then, not Top 40 crap, I've got a playlist on YT called: "Around 1960's Music. Mind Blowing. Supersonic." More than 1700 songs. There was more music created in this decade than at any other time in history before or since. And it was all so different, from the Beatles to the Moody Blues to Jefferson Airplane to the Animals and on and on. I'm 70 and I never stopped rocking.

[@alexthunder4694]

So great what you say, i really want to know more abaut sixtees! I was born in 1983, however, this 60 decade seemed so wild and interesting. What did teenagers do to have fun at that time? Because now if kids dont have internet, they die :)

[@johnallen2771]

@@alexthunder4694 My mother bought an MGB in her second childhood so naturally me and my buddy started driving it. We used to spend many hours just driving around the countryside in that little sports car. It's amazing what you can find if you get off the interstates. We spent a lot of time outdoors and met so many interesting people. We drove cross country four times in one year.

[@alexthunder4694]

@@johnallen2771 ohhhh life back then allowed meet other people and have real talks face to face and be curious to go to different places. Music must have been awesome too! Did you go to woodstock?

[@johnallen2771]

@@alexthunder4694 I had to work the week of Woodstock but I went to many festivals in the '60s and the music was everywhere. For some good tunes from that era listen to my playlist on KZbin: "1960's Super Fantastic Music. It's All Too Much." More than 1200 songs from the '60s that are NOT "Top 40."

[@alexthunder4694]

@@johnallen2771 it must have been a great experience smoking some weed in the sixtees and hippies around! Not many people can say that ;)

[@danjameson1572]

oddly enough this entire scene looks incredibly normal to me, as if this is the way it spozed to be.

[@judevientos4039]

You’re right. Like the way you spelled spozed

[@megadave1197]

What did you think it would look like. It’s just a day in the life. If there was a camera in the street in 1834 it’d be the same people just living

[@Truth_Seeker96]

I read your comment at the 5:49 mark. Lol.

[@danjameson1572]

@@megadave1197 whereas if you tookthe same film of Haight Street today I don't think It would look normal in the same sense I was talking about...i.e., hardened millenial zombies with their heads down on their phones.

[@kelechi_77]

@@danjameson1572 If you go outside most people aren't even on their phones. Go to a place like NYC and spot people on their phones. It's no different to the 80s or 90s.

[@jszoradi8650]

Noticed how everyone was dressed in their own unique style?

[@caroltenge5147]

a real freak show.

[@ClueSign]

No GAP, Banana Republic, Athleta, Hollister, JCrew etc mass-market clothes for the young. We shopped for jeans and jackets at Army-Navy stores and sweaters and skirts and antique jewelry at thrift shops and put together our own creative 'looks'.

[@studebaker4217]

Back when 'brands' were something used on cattle, not people. How we ever allowed ourselves to accept visible clothing brand names beats me.

[@shawnparker1207]

unlike now

[@claudiamarin9213]

Now, wherever you go, any country everybody is looking the same, there's no big differences. Before even in the 90's was difficult at least in my country, yo find "cool" clothes. Now who dictate what to wear are the big fashion industry, and the inditex group.

[@Wayner71]

There was so much promise in that era. Time travels so fast. It has accelerated lately.

[@trybalone396]

Yes, just crazy amounts of hope and optimism. I'm thinking that this was tied to an idea that they could not only do life better than their recent ancestors, but that doing this was dependent on rejecting certain core, Judeo/Christian values and worldviews; which was their downfall. Some things will always need to be preserved and built off of.

[@richieb2456]

Then John Lennon died

[@sunkintree]

@@trybalone396 Not really. We've been moving away from Judeo/Christian values since the enlightenment 400 years ago. We're doing much better now because of it.

[@1olddirtroad]

Tons of people move to my state now from Kalifornia. Been happening since the early 70's. Google Stephen Gaskin and Ida Mae Gaskin. They moved to Tennessee and started "The Farm"

[@adamwest3266]

Sh!t hole then, Sh!t hole now.

[@Glenonica1]

Ah The Haight, I remember strolling those streets with my sister.. Our parents had no idea we took the bus across the BB and made our way over there. It was like another world only it was across the Bay. We used to hang out in Berkeley a lot too. Great memories for two teenagers. Peace and Love

[@1944GPW]

One thing very noticeable is the almost complete absence of people wearing t-shirts with logos, pictures, slogans, products, band names on them. Mostly solid colours and patterns instead.

[@Killswitch1411]

Shit they dont even wanna wear shoes.

[@blossom1643]

Hey that’s true isn’t it!! When & Why did we all start giving all these companies Free ads?!?

[@AstriaTVTruthExposed]

Look at how much more loving and peaceful they seem. A smile on everyone's face, people embracing their loved ones. No distractions of cellphones, just pure human to human connection.

[@Forcoy]

Everyone was happy until the 70s. When reality set in.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Yep, 60s and 70s were carefree and happy times. I was born in the early 60s and I'd go back and start all over again if I could. Best times for kids to grow up in.

[@Forcoy]

@@tonycollazorappo unless youre a minority

[@if6was929]

@@Forcoy Freaks (hippies) were a minority, a small percentage of the Boomer generation and they were treated as such by mainstream society. They were denied employment, profiled by authorities, harassed by police, pilloried by politicians, shot at and killed on college campuses. They felt, first hand, the sting of prejudice and injustice known all too well by minorities.

[@CirilloRuca]

@@Forcoy Nah the 70s, people were happy. It was during the 80s that things began to change.

[@sfopera]

I remember it all very well. The clothes, the hair, the strung out guys everywhere. I loved it all then, and would love to have it's spirit back today when San Francisco has been ruined by the ultra wealthy.

[@robstockton911]

- no phone zombies - no obesity - people well-dressed and stylish - everyone smiling & happy except a few old gawker-grumps - no trash on sidewalks - great music that had some character (why no soundtrack with this video? Opportunity missed.) I love this era!

[@jojojo6147]

4:17 This guy not too happy.

[@ineedstuff8286]

the silence... this is very powerful to watch... especially that other hippie video... I am so moved seeing all these people, these snapshots of lives. It's odd that it really affected me immensely. It's the silence for SURE... had this been coupled with music, it'd been lost. Thank you

[@ななころび]

I can feel this energy walking around the haight now. Its vibrant, exhilarating and I love walking up and down thinking about its amazing past. Im 26 years old and wish in the future to take a time traveling acid trip back into 1960s.

[@michaelreidperry3256]

I especially love the hippies, and all our lovely hippie shit. Even seeing the straights back then moves me. It’s all good. I’m in tears. I feel these people here. Thank you!

[@Pimp-Master]

Be sure to blow them a love bubble.

[@dodibenabba1378]

Typical hippy, full of shit

[@michaelreidperry3256]

@@dodibenabba1378 What an unnecessarily shitty thing to say!

[@michaelreidperry3256]

@@goldilocks8307 You would expect that from those you already consider shitty people.

[@veronicacastillo1775]

Read TC Boyle Lost City, Very hippie 😉

[@rebekahb5275]

so much fashion inspiration! thankful for videos like these

[@Voodoo66Chile]

This 👌 👍

[@stopcensorship7365]

It's really amazing how moments in time can be captured like this. How cool

[@beatrizvignoli4053]

Couples hugging as they walked together. I miss that.

[@Pimp-Master]

By the early 90's all that couples-in-love, public behaviour was dead.

[@dannyhood7428]

Ha Ha! not laughin at you. Just laughin. Sorry.

[@david-lt9wj]

You need a boyfriend

[@dannyhood7428]

no

[@david-lt9wj]

@T123 the problem these days is it is difficult to reach around the girth...but holding hands should still happen.. but basically it was the summer of love,relationships didn’t last long....and everybody was always in that hot honeymoon period..

[@djr6876]

Im from SF, my parents would drive us kids around there just to ogle the “ groovy” scene.

[@lala4461]

My middle school students cannot wrap their brains around me being born in 1969 and that I'm not decrepit. They're like "you were born in 1969 and you go to the gym and take trips that's so crazy" I'm 51. Lol

[@Pimp-Master]

Your parents goals were to drink martinis and make it to age 65. Without the 60's revolution, we wouldn't be doing yoga at 70, eating raw, and traveling the world every year. Goals for everyone seriously changed after 1967.

[@karenboromeo899]

Wait till your students are 51 lol😃

[@peanutbutterjelly5861]

My mom turned 60 this year, She very active and plays alot of video games.

[@TheRhNegative]

OMG that's kind of sad to know that the narrative your students are being fed is that of, "old equals invisible" & "Old equals unable/unworthy" "you can do nothing and go nowhere unless you're young". WTF???? Curious reflection on the state of affairs and culture of today, isn't it?

[@EduardoSalamanca1960]

I’m 17 and my parents were born in 1969! In fact my mom was literally born on the second day of Woodstock.

[@garysullivan4474]

This brings me back to young years as a young man just feels like yesterday sometimes I miss the 60s

[@mikehernandezsr.8136]

I remember walking thru Haight and Ashbury in late '69 with my Parents and siblings, we stopped by San Francisco to eat at Fisherman's Wharf while on our way up to the Dalles, Oregon. I wasn't too keen being around the older hippies as a few of them were in a acid induced trip straggling on the roadways. Even though I'm from mid-valley Cali where the valley is flat and hot, San Francisco sure did have a lot of uphill and downhill roads. Still can't believe that was 52 years ago, seems like yesterday.

[@chello70]

1:04 You can see Charlie recruiting with his van slowly checking what was going on..

[@purplezoid1]

And that guy is still there to this day dancing... 🥁

[@jerrywatt6813]

Did he not come down from his acid trip ! Ha ha man that guy was out there ha ha !

[@JulianRaymond-no9jc]

@@jerrywatt6813nah now he’s one of those weirdos spazzing out or talking to themselves on the street corner

[@mr.myoozik7096]

I love that there are some who are freely walking around barefoot without a care and other people are barely noticing or reacting to it. I would love to live back then just to experience that sort of freedom of not having shoes in public.

[@mistofoles]

But what if you stood in a dog turd ?

[@punapeter]

@@mistofoles it's water soluable, you could wash it off in a puddle

[@mrlafayette1964]

That went into the 70's when I grew up, walking around without a shirt in summer was an everyday thing for a guy anyway. Barefoot in a grocery store was no big deal. By the 80's you'd see "no shirt no shoes no service ' signs crop up.

[@jeannerogers7085]

I imagine you can walk barefoot down Haight St. now and get little notice. San Francisco has seen everything.

[@ClueSign]

Thank you for not adding a cheesy "hippie" music track to this footage.

[@Sunmotherr]

What a time, wish I was around for it 😭 and the exchange at 7:13 - 7:17 is so cute!💕

[@Piratevideoz]

People actually interacting and talking with each other not looking down at their phones, wow

[@Pimp-Master]

Looks like they were interacting like the media had shown them how. People discovered SF only because of endless PR from the mainstream.

[@TECHLOVER_91]

OH SHUT UP people still communicate face to face nowadays if they actually want to 🙄😒

[@rkmugen]

1:28 The boy on the left is probably all like: "Yeah... the dude's dancing like his entire skeleton wants to leap out of his body, he ain't wearing any shoes.... and my parents are telling _me_ to behave."

[@wolfwilliams]

Before the obesity epidemic overwhelmed the country... It's stunning to see that the average American, five decades ago, walked around in a much healthier state.

[@elfispriestly]

Nope. Back in that time everyone was trying to get to San Francisco because of the “love in” and they would beg,borrow,steal and lie no matter how they had to get there. Most of them were young people who had no money except for what was in their pockets when they started the journey to California. They didn’t have money to eat so they depended on soup kitchens, rescue missions, handouts and the kindness of strangers. Don’t make like obesity is something new in America. Obese people were everywhere across the country then too.

[@ghostofcoolidge245]

@@elfispriestly I agree that the whole "no fat people, no cellphones" thing is the most retarded thing to bitch and complain about but not having money was a positive testament to the self reliance of Americans back then. Black families didn't need the government to carry them, they pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and kept on keeping on. Everyone these days has their fuckin hands sticking out at all times, and then they demonize and vilify the people who fund their endeavors. Its pure insanity, there's nothing rational about it

[@bigjay6697]

They was all too High to eat.lol food was a afterthought

[@Noor-jw2tn]

@@elfispriestly And they didn't care.

[@gabrielleg.1347]

SF still is full of fit people. I think it has the lowest obesity rates in the country. Health consciousness and active lifestyles are still a big part of the culture here.

[@urmomgae2466]

That baby holder at 2:02 is genius!

[@MichaelGrylsk-sd5ow]

i think those were baby curriers (rare) made by Sears or one of the large department mailorder stores.

[@MichaelGrylsk-sd5ow]

i think those were baby curriers (rare) made by Sears or one of the large department mailorder stores.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Something about the Haight Ashbury in S.F. is intriguing. I don't drink, smoke or do drugs - but I am a Musician. I Love the Earthy, Bohemian - All Natural Beauty of the Women. oNe LovE from NYC.

[@barnacles62]

The first of the hippies had a good movement. Hippies, hipsters, beatniks were all a branch from the roots of Bohemianism, a lifestyle created in France in the 1800s by artists, actors and poets that watched the Romani gypsies carefree lifestyle, un concern for conventional living, laws, and sexual conduct. They lived very nomad, and held only laws and ethics of themselves, uscathed by what religious or pillers of the community may frown upon. The people of the arts adopted the same lifestyle, very little commitment to anything but there passions, and the called it Bohemianism because the gypsies had just left Bohemia, and they mistook them for Bohemians(Czechs, Czechoslavakia, Czech Republic, Czechia). Artis such as Mucha, Klimpt, and art Noveau were born of it, and as Art Deco was response to it from America, it is a lifestyle very well used by many artists of all types. The problem is, the hippies began to use drugs. They had learned that Native Americans would use things like peyote to get a more spiritual realm, but the drugs the hippies used were used in excessive amounts, and were very mind alternating, so before long, the true meaning of the movement was lost, they spoke peace and love, but massive amounts of use created addicts, so by Haight Ashbury it was more about finding good drugs and plenty of sex, than the actual cause. It drew people like the Manson family,(though that was the very worst), and all the people putting down the system, government and average people were being kept alive by church and community handouts, free clinics for everything from VD to bad trips and ODs. They became a nusiance to society, and almost every hippy there was that had been well educated became very big capitalists. They started the drug culture of this country that is the biggest most denied problem in our society today, responsible for almost all violent crimes, divorce, single mothers, and has been genetically malfuctioning people for 60 years now. Bohemainism was about self expression, and doing that how a person chose to without careing how conventional society felt about it. Drug and alcohol abuse is about self destruction, which is what the hippies did. If one is wise, they will learn from the hippies everything NOT to do, and study history of those that had more to offer than a drug addict strung out on LSD....

[@John-nb7bw]

@@barnacles62 beautiful comment

[@isuzu008]

@@barnacles62 Thank you for that great insight. None of my other history professors could’ve have described this period better. BTW, I was born in 1965.

[@markkennedy9767]

@@barnacles62 Fascinating summary of a movement.

[@YA-qj8fx]

Now it is all junkies and mentally I'll crapping on the streets

[@eduardosalas2640]

The Happening was just a moment in time to be enjoyed. For young people it was the joy of being around others like us. Notice there’s a lot of standing around. Or sitting. We weren’t doing anything or going anywhere; just being there. Yeah there were drugs. Drugs help you be in the present. But you don’t need them for that.

[@georgecerulean70]

What I wouldn't give to be able to browse through those bookstores and record shops, and to collect as many as I can carry of those marvelous psychedelic posters!

[@KB-ke3fi]

You'd have to aquire some old money and coins before 1967 or so in order to buy them. Or dig into the bank box. lol

[@sunkintree]

@@KB-ke3fi Bring some smelted gold/silver back in time with you, if you don't want to work once you get there

[@casst346]

wow! incredible footage! thanks for sharing!

[@LScouser8]

I feel like there are so many different styles. Even among the young, some don’t look very late 60s but others really do. When I watch a film/tv based on this time it seems the producers are obsessed with making everything late 60s...but this video clearly shows they could probably relax a bit.

[@valentinius62]

Yeah. Try convincing young people now that girls didn't wear poodle skirts 24/7 all throughout the 1950s, or that every guy into Punk in the '70s and '80s didn't have a mohawk or a skinhead, etc.

[@bizyizziaz4831]

lol people´s ideas of fashions from other eras is generally hilarious as fuck

[@kenhoyer8601]

Very few of the youth had long hair back then. It wasn’t until the 70s that long hair was accepted and was a style. You were accepted in the Haight ashbury ghetto but anywhere else you looked like a freak and got harassed. SF wasn’t that liberal then

[@kenhoyer8601]

It was the beginning of the end when all the kids from out of state came in. Most of the young people weren't locals, they came to be apart of the parade and to look groovy. Most locals didn't hang out down there unless there was live music.

[@stenjerdenius1683]

Great to watch! I stayed in San Fransisco in the summer of 1968, I went to Haight Ashbury of course and to the Fillmore West and to demonstrations in Berkely and loveins at the Golden Gate park. Such a great time.

[@johncokos9849]

And the free concerts at the Park......

[@bartonpercival3216]

Yes, and I also remember the 1st ever "Be in" at Golden Gate Park in 1967

[@trique9776]

This was filmed after 1967 when moving there became a trend, and disenfranchised kids all over the USA started moving there. Much of the original community of hippies that lived there before had left. In 1967, there was actually a ceremony in Haight Ashbury that declared it to be dead, and even people like the Grateful Dead and many others moved to other parts of the bay area and Northern California.

[@1m2a3t4t5]

Where do you get this information, unoess you lived it

[@trique9776]

@@1m2a3t4t5 It is called learning about history my friend.

[@trique9776]

@@1m2a3t4t5 I think it was a PBS or other documentary on 1960's Haight Ashbury and the summer of love. You can fact check. That is good that you demand sources, I do the same thing, but usually more pertinent when it comes to issues where there is speculation or political motivation. Not sure what reason there would be for a media source to lie about how hippies moved out of Haight Ashbury in the late 1960's lol

[@1m2a3t4t5]

@@trique9776 Its not that I dont believe you I was just wondering howd you know such a piece of info. I think you took my original reply as condescending where I was really just curious.

[@1m2a3t4t5]

@@trique9776 I think about scenes a lot, wheraes year by year younger kids were getting into (perhaps years late even after scenes mostly ended) and older young adults had felt like the core scene died or else they personally needed to move on.

[@Laura-Yu]

So many people walk bare feet

[@Snowboy2015]

I would walk barefoot across a street in the Haight to get to you..

[@lkxnqno]

@@Snowboy2015 walk through the screen instead

[@mikemanners1069]

Cannot walk in bare feet now in SF.....too much Human excrement on the streets.

[@azeoprop]

@@mikemanners1069 yes its disgusting

[@skyearthocean5815]

I go barefoot white a bit, you can an entirely different sensory experience doing so, I really enjoy it. I prefer a nice nature trail, but I will barefoot some in urban environments like these people are. I've even been barefoot in SF (in the 2000s, not in the 60s). I will say though that I would probably put shoes on in that one part of market street that has been taken over by homeless people though.

[@robertshields5541]

Imagine the people who are in this video that have no idea this video exists... imagine how much they’d appreciate being able to see their younger selves

[@DarthScorpio11]

ikr

[@camhamster3891]

The Haight is barely a shadow of its former self these days. The vitality is long gone.

[@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961]

homeless young losers from rich upbringings

[@WALDENSOFTWARE]

I think it's been completely gone for around 20 years now. It was going downhill since before that tho.

[@johncokos9849]

@@WALDENSOFTWARE Yea, by 1970 the ' Scene " was pretty mean. Drugs, Crime and The Hells Angels.....It was NOT Peace and Love, your money or your life some times.

[@youfuckmywife6719]

I lived in upper Haight from 1994-1999 . It was the place to be ! Back then, you could afford to live and work in the same neighborhood in that fair city . Not anymore. Ashbury Heights has the highest concentration of millionaires, DINK (Double Income No Kids). Nothing but hot women in that neighborhood. All kinds . I had more fun in one decade in SF, mostly the Haight . I was part of it . I still have that same smile . It sure took me a decade to recover from all of that action. I had my fun !

[@tonyarioli3979]

The sapping of the vitality of the Haight began with the so-called "Summer Of Love" (1967) - a media induced avalanche of kids from all over the country swamped the district with no viable means of support; I can remember seeing some kid who looked to be drugged out - barefoot, one of which was bleeding and stepped into a pile of dog shit - totally oblivious to it.

[@spankyharland9845]

if you're going to San Francisco, make sure you wear flowers in your hair. .. boy do I miss those years.

[@oldiesmusic76]

And walk barefooted.

[@spankyharland9845]

@@oldiesmusic76 not recommended unless you want to feces surf down a steep hill.

[@doctorotis3743]

Was there 1966, drafted USN, Treasure Island. Lived Daly City. WHAT A chance of a LIFE TIME. Yes eyes started to open.

[@johncokos9849]

I was stationed on an Ammo Ship at Port Norris, Frisco was my home away from home..

[@KB-ke3fi]

My dad was stationed at the Bridge in 1952

[@jamesdettmann94]

What I would give to be a part of that generation, born in the late 40s, growing up in the innocent days of the fifties and early sixties, and then witness and partake in the wild, transforming, liberating late sixties

[@hilbert551]

Wasn't all that great. People are still the same essentially. The so-call love generation wasn't about real love. It was all about lust.

[@bettymiller1929]

I don’t understand why people who were not there are so interested in it... it was not that great... it was all just kids talking and making it seem great but being there was sad

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

Skip 40s 50s and 80s 😉

[@sunkintree]

@@hilbert551 Nah, lust was a component for sure. But it was about real love

[@pparth22]

I thought that my parents were old but they were born after this video was recorded and this video look very modern so weird

[@reach831]

well the 1960s wasn’t that long ago when you really think about it lol

[@andicasos316]

Hahha same lol

[@brianhenry7983]

amazing footage of one of the most unique time and places in the world

[@TheSpaceman332211]

Before the hippy culture arrived in SF, SF was one of the safest, cleanest, prosperous, beautiful cities in North America.

[@xsitied2708]

60s and 70s my favorite decades in my opinion and i’m 15 i wish i was around in those days

[@forgottenmind1]

6:30 : she looks like an angel. The footage looks so clean. I have the feeling SF was yet so modern in the late 60s...

[@Fireglo]

The frizz tho.

[@kenhoyer8601]

She looks like the same spaced out girl in the Monterey Pop film . I think during the Country Joe set

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@kenhoyer8601 CJ was a bit spaced out and having a good time himself at Monterey

[@JulianRaymond-no9jc]

Based on that very spaced out look she has. I can probably say she’s on a great trip lol

[@legacyteam5581]

I love walking through there now. I discovered Free Gold Watch just passing through that neighborhood.

[@taimeuppe6174]

we all got old and miss those sunny days

[@mikesullivan6603]

1967 I was 10 I got my first Beatles lp and remeber summer of love the airplane on radio flower power I live east of Seattle then. Good memories

[@taelew]

I wish cell phones were never created! If only we could go back to the days where people actually interacted with one another and everybody wasn’t the walking dead! I love watching videos like this. So many happy faces and so much life being lived!!! 🌞🌻🍄☘️🕊

[@yekctzi]

i’m in my 20’s but i agree. but with the pandemic imagine how sad we would be! at least now we can talk and see them thru our phones!

[@timbrink]

Who do you think invented those cell phones?

[@jordangordan8980]

Back when people didn't do things to get Instagram points

[@JohnnyFriendly]

@@timbrink It wasn't silicon valley hippy boomers, if that's what you're implying. Cell phones were invented in 1973 by Motorola.

[@JulianRaymond-no9jc]

@@JohnnyFriendlyyou’re right it was actually a silent gen professional from the Midwest that invented it lol

[@gkprivate433]

i was born in 57. Around 1964 my family had some cousins visiting and we went to the Newport Rhode Island Jazz and Folk festivals. I recall liking the folk. Didn't appreciate the Jazz at that age. I also remember my Mom getting a huge kick out of the hippies that were all laying around on their beach blankets on the grassy areas listening to the music.

[@gomezaddams4347]

Funny how even the people sitting on the sidewalk look clean, like they are familiar with the inside of a bathtub.

[@balloonfarm5903]

The hot tub was invented by the hippies.😎✌🏽☮️🎸

[@kungpao-wp2sq]

I was hoping these hippies would be more dirty but you’re right they all look pretty clean

[@balloonfarm5903]

@@kungpao-wp2sq Why would you want that?😐

[@kungpao-wp2sq]

@@balloonfarm5903 the same reason I like my goths sad and my punks edgy

[@balloonfarm5903]

@@kungpao-wp2sq The “ dirty hippie “ thing was mostly a myth based on an overwhelming influx of kids who had no plan, no money and no place to stay. So late in the summer of ‘67 there were barefoot teens literally living on the street and a few were getting ripe before they went home to mommy and daddy. But the adults showered and hot tubbed together so they got down and dirty while they got clean.😉

[@paulhewson4600]

Man love to hear from people that are actually on this footage and chime in on their time stamp,,, cool times

[@DrusillaC]

Love it, takes me back to very happy times!

[@snaomi67]

I love my city by the bay ❤️ Born at SF General in '67 and lived on Van Ness and the Excelsior/ Mission district.

[@pepsiq11965]

What a huge difference between the Swinging London video of the 60's and this.Two different worlds

[@balloonfarm5903]

England evolved from the mod scene you mention into the same freak scene by late ‘66. We called ourselves freaks, not hippies; that was a label created by the beats and the media.😎✌🏽☮️🎸

[@TheIndependentLens]

@@balloonfarm5903 Dracula A.D. 1972

[@iluv2create576]

The time before cell phones....now we have our heads looking down at a screen. Weird to see everyone looking up and actually paying attention to their surroundings!

[@oldiesmusic76]

WE?? I don't.

[@aquatarkus2022]

Just thinking about everything that was happening around this time, in SF and around the world, it's mind blowing. I was starting kindergarten.

[@jakecostanza802]

I'm 21 and love hippies. Thank you for sharing.

[@brandonm8131]

Awesome footage. the Haight looks so alive and vibrant.

[@martinezsantana8037]

3:22 The one on the denim jacket is Chas Chandler. The Animals´s bassist and the one who discovered and managed Jimi Hendrix. Wow!

[@bartonpercival3216]

Is he related to the guy from Chandler Guitars in San Francisco?

[@kenhoyer8601]

maybe

[@joeroberts2481]

Amazing, intimate time capsule of real life in action rather than fleeting B&W photos of the scene.

[@if6was929]

"... it was the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle 60's was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words, music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. There was madness in any direction at any hour, you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning, that victory over the forces of old and evil was inevitable. Not in any mean or military sense, we didn't need that, our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum, we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, you can go up on a steep hill and look west and with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high water mark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back" - Hunter S. Thompson

[@albertkundrat1734]

From what Sourse is this Quote of Hunter S. Thompson?

[@if6was929]

@@albertkundrat1734 Fear and Loathing... the movie.

[@rmbb1981]

The time that has passed since this, taken forward, gets us to 2075.

[@resistor27]

Didn’t really see anybody that looked too angry or people going off on each other over nothing.

[@Killswitch1411]

well besides the guy giving the camera a middle finger and a dirty look... It looks pretty normal, nothing out of the ordinary you would see on a city street today..

[@JulianRaymond-no9jc]

That would be across the bay in Oakland lol

[@devikakaul1494]

Late 60s and 70s are times I can identify with. I was born in 1973. My childhood was influenced by music and songs of those years because my father introduced me to those songs. My elder sisters were born in early sixties and they followed the fashions of that period 😄 I was also influenced by the literature of that period since I studied English and American literature. I am still fascinated by the drug and occult culture!!😜😅

[@surfthestreets86]

2:32 he totally looked at that cake.

[@BUBBA808]

🤣yeah but she has no “cake” she’s flat🤣

[@surfthestreets86]

@@BUBBA808 lol!!!

[@drumstick74]

Thanks for this gem! :) ☺

[@ANOSINCRIVEIS1973]

Such an amazing footage!!!....thanx for sharing!!!!

[@mikeg8276]

5:49 Checker shirt guy 😭

[@chicagolee]

I was there in 66 and 67, a 20, 21 year old student at San Francisco State College (it hadn't made university yet). On one occasion I found myself in the Manson pad on Cole Street. The vibe was off, and I could feel it. I didn't know why at the time, but we all know where it went. Beginning in 67, the scene unraveled due to an influx of criminals, speed and smack. I left, and when I went back in 72, it was all gone. The Haight had reverted to the working-class neighborhood it had been before. In the 90s some kids who weren't even born during the hippie days tried to revive them based on stories they'd heard. It didn't look like it was working.

[@JosephB-tv7gf]

What does the future hold? SF is a sanctuary city. And there are literally millions of Africans and Arabs who want a slice. My guess is that it will go M and you will have to eat halal and worship A.

[@calfolk7381]

That one dude who was really feeling the music probably went on and had distinguished career and raised a happy family

[@plm8550]

From all accounts from those who were there in the 60's & whose opinions I respect it was "righteous" in the beginning, '65 , '66 & early '67 but by the time the "Summer of Love" hit & the main stream media had gotten word out about the "groovy" scene in SF's Haight Ashbury & lots of clueless kids from across America started showing up & ruining a good thing, people who weren't there for the right reasons - community, love & respect. That's why many of the real hippies, including the Grateful Dead themselves left Ashbury Street & "split" for Marin. The same thing happened with the Grateful Dead scene 20 years later, as soon as they got some recognition & main stream success in 1987 kids started showing up for shows who weren't there for the right reason, the music, but to party in the parking lot, many didn't even try & get into the shows. Same concept... it's all good until a great thing gets spoiled by those who shouldn't be there in the first place. This video looks to be from during or after the Summer of Love ('67).

[@analogkid4957]

It would be interesting to see footage from the Summer of 1965 in the Haight to see how it looked compared to Summer of 1967

[@sadwookie11]

Look at you just levitating above the rest of us.

[@plm8550]

@@sadwookie11 No, Chewie, just me stating the facts as I see them - take care.

[@johncokos9849]

Spot on...was there 68-70 and it transformed into something else. Hard edged and too many people trying to make it work for them. After 66, Forgetaboutit( that's New Jersey speak).

[@analogkid4957]

@@johncokos9849 interesting perspective John. I guess by 1967 the media created the word “ hippie “ and it became commercialized. Whereas in 1964-1966 these people were just freaks or bohemians it was authentic

[@oncaphillis]

We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back

[@judevientos4039]

Had it between Ginsburg and Hunter S I’m glad my memory hasn’t failed me entirely

[@juliestrom412]

Love the cars! 💘

[@SuperGoldengoddess]

I was there...great stroll down memory lane!!

[@МарияСмирнова-ж6о]

Why do I feel it like happiness? ✨😊

[@kenmckinnell8153]

Since there is no audio to accompany this video, I recommend playing Wayne Newton's version of "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" while you watch.

[@daryllect6659]

Wayne Newton's version? Pffft... Tony Bennet's is far better.

[@erikthompson404]

4:16 best part by far. It seemed to be a true statement of culture and the integration to technology in the progression of society. And yet could be seen as somewhat ambiguous. I would like to take a moment and thank the archive that has preserved and public ally distributed this moment in history.

[@Fireglo]

He only flipped off the camera dude.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

The real San Francisco. The way it was. The way it should have stayed.

[@Doug-mc3dd]

Freaks! The early 60s vs late 60s like night and day. I was a kid and remember it all.

[@beth1627]

Me too. In 1967 my mom had the audacity to move our family into a hippie house there in SF. I hated it. Luckily we moved out after a few months. I was never a fan of the hippie scene. I remember driving in LA when we were on vacation, a couple years later, down Sunset Blvd and the streets were lined with them sitting down or walking around. I was it was awful.

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

@@beth1627Why would she move into a hippie house? Lol She was curious? What were they like?

[@beth1627]

@@IblewuponyourfaceIII Her older best friend decided to rent a house where people could live together and save money. I was six. I remember everyone being very nice to me, but I still didn't like it. I was so happy when we moved out. I think the draw for my mom was freedom because she had other people babysitting us. My sister was two. So this probably was part of it. She was only about 25 then.

[@tonyarioli3979]

This video was taken in 1967 - at 8:34, there is a window display of Avalon ballroom posters that date no later than that year.

[@grxracer-1606]

As a little kid I remember the hippie chicks. Loved the hippie style which even made it,s way into my die cast Corgi Cars from England. San Francisco was nothing compared to Swinging London of the 60,s.

[@decrox13]

San Francisco was the true home of the counter culture - hippiedom. Much more politically driven. Swinging London was a fashion thing. More ephemeral.

[@balloonfarm5903]

By late ‘66 the mod scene had evolved into the same scene as San Francisco, anchored by the Roundhouse. Syd Barrett formed the Pink Floyd in ‘66 and the Beatles released Sargent Pepper’s in 1967. The fashion of late ‘66 reflected this.😎✌🏽☮️🎸

[@JennRighter]

Wish there was sound but glad you didn’t put fake audio over it. Wonderful snapshot of history.

[@Craig94707]

WOW, the cars, the clothes, the activity. People in motion. No cell phones, no ear buds. The Berkeley BARB. Great footage, thanks for sharing!