San Francisco 1968

What am I now that I was then?
May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
-- Delmore Schwartz

[@jamestowell2499]

I think the whole 60's flower power/ hippie culture is so well summed up in John Phipps and Scott Mackenzie's "San Francisco, wear some flowers in your hair". I was a teenager during the 60's. The best time to have grown up in.

[@zampieritto]

True. That song. Probably was like to take an holiday of one or three month for most

[@peterharris4386]

I TOTALLY AGREE

[@dannyhood7433]

Ozzy Osbourne said when he first heard the news about San Francisco in 67. Wear a flower in my hair in San Francisco? I've got no fucking shoes on my feet" like saying ozzy, would you favor a trip to Mars?

[@freespirit21newyork]

I was 3 years old in 1968 but I still love all the late 1960s stuff my Dad used to play all this on the big console stereo 💕🌠🤩🌻🪷🌹🌺🏵️🌼

[@jamestowell2499]

@@freespirit21newyork they really were great times.

[@MrTripletts]

Manson had already recruited most of his followers and within a year he would bring the summer of love to a screeching halt.

[@craigster1244]

I spotted Hybiscus dancing alone...We became lovers that year.

[@joanneroberts9346]

What a beautiful world it was back then. Love and peace! 💕🎸🎶🎸🌸

[@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz]

Joanne Roberts it was 1968 oh the memories

[@pinkydogbear]

And trust!

[@mickcarson8504]

Love and peace? WTF? Are you on drugs? In 1968 we had Vietnam war going and demonstrations against that blasted war. We had the threat of a Cold War, and you say love and peace, where? This is just a group of hippies smoking the peace pipe.

[@westtexas7]

@@mickcarson8504 You obviously were not part of what was happening because you are clueless.

[@jpulizzano]

@@westtexas7 Was there..'67 Summer was it....went down hill fast after that.....heavy drugs killed the haight..Berkeley, SF State, College of Sam Mateo....were controlled by the police after all the anti war protest and riots....and if you didnt have a 2S deferment off to Nam you went....soooooo 4-5 month of flowers in your hair was about it......

[@jim196869]

We were accually free back then even with Vietnam and a older generation that looked at us as outlaws. What a great time in history to be a part of. No generation has been free since the late 60s and early 70s. Hopefully a generation will come along and see what is really important. Some of us did not sellout.

[@kinndah2519]

May I ask what's this definition of "free" that you speak of? Bc I truly don't understand. You were free in terms of what? Technically most of us are "free". Unless your physically held hostage, isn't every other state of being considered free? Bc I don't wana misunderstand n be too stereotypical.

[@westtexas7]

Kindah Free to simply drop out of society and live without the suppression of a consumerism driven society that supported war.

[@kinndah2519]

James Jones​​​ I see. So that technically means we're all free lol. The thing is I don't understand what that had to do with acting like an idiot in public for no reason n taking drugs. Bc then your falling into hostage or becoming a slave to a drug addicted society that dictates your thinking. If hippies or anybody wants to fulfill that definition of free, then they must make their own fabric, homes n materials, food, transportation, electricity, plumbing, and self educate themselves on medicine n engineering. So basically they wana go back to the pioneer days, that's all it was lol. All this "hippie" business is just another term for "self sufficient". Also, I find it questionable and funny how they wanted to be "free" but still live in the middle of an urban city lol. If you wana drop out of society n be a pioneer again or self sufficient, shouldn't you move out to the wilderness or at least some where not urban lol? They just liked the idea...

[@ApartmentKing66]

James Jones Maybe the older generation looked at you as "outlaws" because you assumed the role and acted like it. The "younger" generation of that era not only looked at the "older" generation with just as much contempt, if not more, they *started* the contempt, and from somewhere, came up with the stupid notion that they were now the ones who knew everything and the older generation that actually HAD a quarter of a century more life experience (and the ones who put the food in your mouths and the clothes on your backs all your lives and basically spoiled you rotten) now all of a sudden didn't know shit. And it's funny how the ones who said "Question Authority" are the very same hypocrites who now say "don't you dare question authority" when THEY become said authority. Thank God not all Baby Boomers are, but by and large, that generation was arguably the most pampered, spoiled, narcissistic, ill-mannered, hypocritical generation America has ever produced

[@007mugabi]

+Kindah Any attempt to explain,on YT,is going to be difficult - forgive this novella. :) We were expected to look and act just like the generation before us - crew-cuts or burr haircuts were the choices. In short,we all were supposed to look like Richie Cunningham. We were not to question the government - ever. Then,..Vietnam. Do you ever question our government? When you do,does anyone tell you "America,love it or leave it." ? Thus,the 'generation gap' - you've heard of it? You are free to be exactly who you are,without being attacked,because of the movement. That is,I believe,what James Jones was trying to express. The movement was very much needed - you can't raise children with the notion of freedom and then immediately put a mountain of social restrictions on them. Study,if you wish,the Vietnam conflict/War,look into how our citizens were prepped for it by the 'Domino Theory' - a lie. They also told us that Vietnamese troops had fired upon our ships in the Tonkin Gulf - another lie (our guys,on those ships,said so). We became involved because France asked us to - through Charles DeGaulle. He told our government that France would turn to the Soviets for help if we refused and our politicians buckled. We had no business becoming involved in Vietnam - that,alone,justifies the movement. You don't cooperate with a corrupt system - you fight a corrupt system. Drug experimentation was only a branch of the movement - testing parameters,sometimes with unfortunate consequences,sometimes with brilliant results. We know much more about them because of the movement. Although many sold out - many did not. Materialism,blind obedience and conformity do not constitute a life of freedom. The music? We just threw that in for kicks - and you're welcome. Peace and love forever.

[@tomjones7089]

68 great year to be young.

[@chinzebo]

AWWW...I'm a displaced native San Franciscan but am so happy that I was THERE...WHEN!! Thanks for posting!!!

[@glenndrexler1677]

Flower Power!, those Where the Days!

[@RandyR]

What do think happened to so many in my generation? Today, we are going backwards ✌️

[@8088I]

To the tune of 🎶San Francisco🎶 ( by Scott McKenzie ) : "If it ever snowws in San Franciscoh, you can be sure to find me chil'n onn the soothing shores of Madagascaar. But as you can see todayy, Freddy beat me to the island paraadise with 180 kilometer winnds and destroyed all my dreams of any tyype of getawayy from this dastarrdly Climate Chaaange that got to my last precious haavenn, at Mad-at-gas-caaarr⛽🚘🚘..🚘💨💨🎴💨" ..

[@8088I]

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[@helenharp6758]

I was born in 68's and I'm a hippie and I love it!!!

[@sandramorey2529]

Helen Harp: By the time you could walk, it was all over. It was knocked out by Mayor Alioto &the Real estate board, who made every progressive possibility illegal. I spent the summer of love in europe. I was surprised to hear that they didn't much like San franciscans over there.

[@paularogers3549]

Yes the 60s and 70s were a great time. Good music good people great parties.

[@RandolphAgarn1]

I grew up in SF and was 8 years old in 68 and remember all of this

[@RandyR]

Where is the time machine? How can we get the planet back on track? Finally got to visit in April 88 ✌️ Where has all the flowers gone? I still believe in the dream. Love @ Peace Is the Ultimate Revolution

[@babygirlb3kah]

My Mother did not let me leave home, very cool as she made us a good home, I'm glad I was really young, and I was allowed to visit, my older brother, we always were free to get high, but keep it at home, no arrests, and I graduated. I survived much, in my lifetime, and still am a hippie.

[@zampieritto]

Well. One of the reasons I didn't graduate university because of that hippie thing. I was doing alternative jobs, working in the fields, Factory work. I left my course when 3 semestres to finnish, never came back. Now I am 58 and poor and unemployed.

[@Wglass90]

If I lived in the 60's I can definitely envision myself as being the biggest long haired, chopper riding, acid shooting bearded hippie that ever existed. It would've been awesome.

[@HartHendrix]

What a time it would've been to be alive! Hopefully with the recent legalizations of marijuana across the country a somewhat rebirth of the hippie movement could happen! Stay optimistic brother!

[@Wglass90]

Gritzalem Same. Judging from how people are perceiving and reacting to the recent election, I have a feeling people are gonna need it.

[@HartHendrix]

***** I'm personally not fazed much by the election as I've filled my cup of soul to the brim with optimism, but yea that'd be far out!

[@Wglass90]

Gritzalem Me either, and it won't really make much of a difference. People who are mostly affected are the ones who listen too much to what the media tells them.

[@HartHendrix]

***** Amen!

[@JamesBanfield1]

me too, lived in San Rafael just down the road from San Anselmo.. where some of the days hotest rock bands practiced.. a time I will never forget! wow

[@zampieritto]

How cool was.

[@mariadoloresgonzalezgaona297]

Que !! Recuerdos soy de esa fecha 10 de agosto de 1968😊🎸🎻🎵🎶🎷🎺

[@kenliss]

@workingclasssociety It was like this many days of the week in '67 and '68. Not always a live concert, but, many people out getting high and enjoying the scene. And the concerts, when they had them, were always free.

[@jeanhansel5805]

I remember the free concerts on Sunday afternoons at the Panhandle in Golden Gate Park, having arrived via the 33 Ashbury bus, and hearing the music as we were getting off the bus to walk down the hills to the Panhandle Such great music - The Quick Silver Messenger Service, The Jefferson Airplane; The Grateful Dead and so many others. In 1967 the Moby Grape lived in their bus on Hill Street, and Janis Joplin lived around the corner from there for a short time.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Hippie chicks are so Beautiful. All-natural ( "everything" ), earthy & bohemian = raw Beauty. Always thought Michelle Phillips was so Pretty. oNe LovE from NYC

[@zampieritto]

Most even didn't make up

[@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz]

1968 oh the memories. I remember like yesterday

[@donh7909]

I'm 67 and still luv'n the Dead.. Europe '72 is a great album set.. Then we're the days, pass that bone.. 😊😊

[@postman960]

@RandolphAgarn1 I grew up in the city too and was 8 yrs old in 68 too... i remember the free concerts in GG park quite often Chuck

[@ersvilanova919]

Amo a San Frencisco, viví ahí la época hippie ahora tengo 69 años su color, sus calles sus movimientos, su música siempre recuerdo mis fiestas al estilo Adan.

[@zampieritto]

Que invidia tener vivido en esta época. Yo tenía 6 años. Y no aprendiste inglés?

[@lorensmith4111]

Y yo igual

[@mikebtrfld1705]

I just turned 18, senior in highschool. 30 miles east of San Francisco my highschool made me register for the draft, or don't come back to school.

[@laurenchristianna2092]

@@sammyscotch9945 He meant during 1968

[@kenbranaugh8251]

Don't kid yourself. 60's still live.

[@josephbooker7326]

I was 10 in 67 loved RnB , Blu eyed soul liked the way whites rocked didn't physically feel the effect of the free love untill highschool . But even from before age 10 I felt the vibe of the 60s my regret is not taking a stand . But it was a great time to be young 60s 70s ...80s 90s

[@lizlocher3612]

To James To well I agree totally n I knew Scott McKenzie when I was a preteen our family used to go to Don McKenzie's house for dinner n such as my parents were friends of his. He was Scott's father and n entertainer in the Detroit area who played in bars n clubs n had records my Dad always played. Scott was about 5 yrs older than me. So sad at his demise. RIP Scott!!!

[@MikhnevichNatalya]

Классное время!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️люблю хиппи,!!!драгоценные кадры!👍👍👍🔥🔥

[@pbrucpaul]

The Dead were a real trip. You really had to get into their style. It was all good and too cool.

[@mickeymousebiker1]

So true. My friends left SF in Sept. '67. They went to NM and Colorado.

[@starcloud4959]

thank god for hippies yay! lets hear it for the good guys!!!!!!!!!

[@pinkydogbear]

Yeah!

[@gabbyc816]

Except for the ones who turned out to be yuppies :((

[@mushroomagical]

Groovy! Great footage and a great song!!!

[@captspock1]

I was there, it was groovy and absolutely bitching

[@Osc291]

Ha Ha my high school was just blocks from the Haight and a short walk to the Golden Gate Park, so always something to see, and I do mean something

[@starcloud4959]

Osc291 omg wow wee.how awesome that must have been!

[@gabbyc816]

Wow !! Dude I'm so jealous you got to experience that. Plus you didn't have the lame tech ppl there yet.

[@zampieritto]

I envy you

[@lulugemini]

I remember this cuz I was there, born in 1950.

[@RandyR]

Sadly, i have to wonder now how many of them sold out and are now Yuppies. I am convinced that time was altered and we ended up in the strange world we see today. Is far from the world i envisioned growing up. I finally made it to Haight/Ashbury in April 88 and i could still feel the groovy vibes. Yes, it has a long strange trip.

[@sammyscotch9945]

There are no yuppies today

[@zampieritto]

I didnt turn into a yuppie. I was always alternative person

[@zampieritto]

@@sammyscotch9945 there are Facebook dumbs and covid 19 generation

[@rr7firefly]

Where would we be today if this Love Generation had irrevocably changed the direction of this country? Would there be peace and love in every corner of the USA?

[@Dragon43ish]

I was there...

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

So Wonderful Man , Thank you for the Upload :) QC

[@TheHypnotstCollector]

Well, we're in their somewhere. And we are together today! A friend, Johnny would pull posters off the phone poles. No big deal. In 2006 he showed them to me. Some are worth $$thousands today. Like the skull with roses. others.

[@chuck5135]

When flower power hapenned in 1967 it was groovy to be in san francisco. But later in 69 70 71 72, it got seedy and dangerous there. Bad trips.

[@stephenhall11]

I hate Flashbacks.And Hippie culture has been so suppressed in the US. I lived in the Haight. And I saw some of my old friends. God I miss it so much. Every time I got together with Jerry Garcia all we would talk about was the Haight.It was so hard to go on living without it.We would always ask the question about what happened,where did it go. And Jerry would say,"When I looked out the window and saw the National Guard with fixed bayonets then I knew that America was a Fascist country!"

[@ElaineTate1937]

I remember this! Oh how the time just went by didn't it?

[@DavidWilson-ok5yp]

I'm in there, looking out at all you here..:) :)

[@ThousandShakes]

We need to bring back these values people. Now more than ever we have the tools to be free. What will it take?

[@bleedinlordreid]

the mosh pit scene back then was INTENSE!

[@irenacoppola8773]

I love hippies

[@purpleonmymind]

some of this footage makes me kinda glad I wasn't there.....

[@cristiandanielpopescu4793]

😂👍

[@saenza1113]

And look at us now

[@zampieritto]

You was in your temple

[@raystaar]

I was there, as well. If it didn't happen, then it was an amazing hologram....and by the way, AH, who is it who's "disproved" the reality of these events?

[@explorersforpeace5105]

✌️☮️❤️ Peace and Love.

[@nanciekruse7147]

Wow, Thank you.

[@DanSPsych67]

Great Video!! Should Have Used A Song That Was Already Released!! " Trucking" Was Released Until 1970..... DOes Fit However!!!!

[@walterfechter8395]

My friends who lived in North Beach predicted that the entire counterculture scene would go sour by the end of 1967. I'd say they were right (as anyone who lived in SF in 1968 could truthfully attest to). I couldn't get into the drug scene back then. I can fully understand why Frank Zappa frowned upon drug use. I believe Dennis Hopper had his regrets about doing drugs, as well. Time will catch us all.

[@sammyscotch9945]

I dont think anyone cared if you did or didnt do drugs. Cant afford to live in north beach now? Probably not the haight either I bet

[@zampieritto]

Those guys did the heroin

[@pinkydogbear]

Freedom says it all!

[@Bubimann12234]

life how it should be love & peace

[@momcolorloveallcolors474]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@kellyballaro7846]

Thought this was gonna be one of those then and now videos 😆

[@skoehler05]

The sound track doesn't match. I'd say this Dead recording was from the early '70s-72 or later.

[@Nicole2023]

Steve Koehler i agree

[@dans9463]

The low quality where the wind shifts affect the volume, makes it spiritual

[@zampieritto]

Dead they are just a country music band, not psychedelic stuff

[@danneeson7056]

@@zampierittoMy favorite song by the Dead is Cream Puff War a great garage/psych tune and my favorite album is Anthem of the Sun which is very psychedelic. But you are right most of their stuff is not psych. Most Deadheads i have met do not like Anthem of the Sun or Cream Puff War.

[@JANXDPDX]

thank you...great video

[@malcolmnicoll1165]

How could anyone not laugh at this stuff? Some of these scenes are absolutely hilarious! "Must've been them pills I took!" Thanks for posting.

[@leoroys9683]

ya see that little guy with the beard I knew him live there for 4 years

[@christianeroubert5454]

Tout paraît cool,si cool, cela était cool,son plus .

[@johnnystaccata]

Supposedly by 1968 the town was invaded by runaways and an increasing bad element. People were coming in from all over the country. It was probably a bad scene by that time. You might say the criminals grew their hair long, and you weren't sure if the were cool or not. The song Truckin' was first recorded in 1970. This live version may be a year or so after 1970.

[@leoroys9683]

Bob Anderson I what you mean I lived on Height Asbury for 4 years the first part was done in Candle Stick park,then it moved to hippie hill

[@sammyscotch9945]

? What were u doing in candle stick park? Watchn a ball game?

[@lucsbinnen]

fan total

[@marinasegoviaramblado7382]

Love and Peace

[@gergsnave]

Nice footage but Truckin didn't come out until 1970

[@chicklets4ever51]

The Grateful Dead's song "Truckin'," which we hear on the sountrack here, is from 1970, not '68. Otherwise, nice vid.

[@irenacoppola8773]

This it's fantastic, i'm hippie

[@unfulano3457]

Gross!

[@khqa3763]

seems fun, but really crazy

[@luisfelipesandovalsisalema7495]

como no me hubiese gustado vivir el los 60 lo mejor para mi

[@NoLimitIndustries]

Old people respect :(

[@dans9463]

Pure HippiePotcracy If girlfriend is in hospital... no problem.. be free... just love the one you're with. This spirit worked great for self-absorbed self-indulgent individuals. They Chased after their passion in the name of compassion.....

[@jensandersen7011]

That's me, the one with the long hair.

[@LouisPicasso]

super...

[@bob733333]

This song is from 1971. 1 Drummer.

[@derekedge6975]

Peace, hope and freedom until class A's messed it up.

[@Plushteddybear69]

Is it true that the sixties didn't really end until 1973?

[@rentslave]

They ended when Nixon resigned.

[@Wglass90]

+Plushteddybear69 I've talked to many people who lived through the 60's, and many of them consider the ending as being when Nixon withdrew the troops from Vietnam and when Disco, Heavy Metal, and Punk Rock started impacting the musical culture which up until that point was dominated by Psychedelic musical genres. With the Vietnam troops back home, the progressives/anti-war activists had no reason to be "pissed" or be overly infatuated with love anymore.

[@ianrenberger7441]

Plushteddybear69 it never ended

[@peterhogan9537]

that;s right, when Nixon waved from the helecpter everything changed, it was the end of an era. @@rentslave

[@maureendevries1904]

More like 1975 in the Midwest where I am from. We and the South were behind the times.

[@OzarkMan]

I was there it was a hoot but overall it didn't amount to much. The Dead sounded great in that video, just the way I remembered them live. I live in a cabin in the Ozarks now. More freedom here than anyplace I have lived. Then the cops were always on our butts. Calif had and has a lot of restrictions. Here in the Ozarks you can pretty much do as you please as long as you don't do anything to illegal. No building permits no zoning no petty guvmint inspectors. Want to live in a tent on your property feel free.

[@OzarkMan]

Oh and by the way the song wasn't written until 1970 so the video may have been made in 1968 and the song added but judging from the length of some of the dude's hair I would say 1970. Just a guess.

[@krm9760]

The soundtrack is not from the video; Truckin wasn’t played live for another 2+ years, but the scene is true.

[@1badapple957]

I was there! I think.

[@1960jack]

great footage!

[@screaminpman]

1. Which resources are you talking about--water? 2. I can afford to live here just fine working as a marketing writer. The cost of living is high, but so are the wages. True, not everyone can live here comfortably, though. It's a trade off--range of experience vs. big home. 3. Deadheads aren't the only kind of liberal. In my experience, the SF Bay Area is mostly center-left. There are plenty of radicals around, but they're mostly the exception and not the rule.

[@gergsnave]

It makes reference to them being busted in New Orleons-in 1970

[@stargate121]

Was there as much panhandling on the streets of SF back then as there is today?

[@ianrenberger7441]

Who's this song by .I like it

[@celticchild8024]

Ian Renberger Grateful Dead brother.

[@peterbetts858]

Ordovice Celt That ,Sir , Is a very clear, accurate ,description of the situation.i was alive then also, to remember, as such. its refreashing to hear such an intelligent answer on here, PEACE

[@luzamor1002]

Me gusta

[@bluewendigo672]

5:14 a bad LSD kick.

[@unfulano3457]

how much decay, kick a fucking hippies!

[@smokingstoking7357]

I love mk ultra

[@fatima46320]

go away if you think they are stupid...

[@BRUNO19365]

Hip por todos os lados

[@bwanna23]

And to think if it weren't for LSD, none of this would have happened.

[@zampieritto]

LSD was legal in 68. Only in Dec 69 they forbidden

[@jensandersen7011]

@@zampieritto 1966 it became illegal.

[@workingclasssociety]

Was it like this everyday or only on weekends or special days?

[@robf2769]

'Truckin' didn't come out until 1970

[@acerb4566]

Whos the MacLeans in here? If life sucks, then a spot of the old days can cheer things up, especially is liquid joy is flowing!! In 1745 you would have been a Jacobite! Loyal to our holy brave Charlie we never forget! Watch>>"The Corries - Come O'er The Stream Charlie"

[@peterbetts858]

mr Mr johnson a man who doesnt know the history , is doomed to repeat it.

[@Kamoblue]

I wish man..

[@vancegilmore5821]

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

[@carmenbrown3437]

Hare Krishna's were everywhere.

[@darylcumming7119]

Hadn't the Grateful Dead moved out of the Haight by 68?

[@umitkizek2921]

Truckin.. Greatful Dead

[@dillinghammatt50]

Lets Get High!!!

[@daystar4909]

Yeah Bro! I am in the mood to Party as well!!! :-D

[@TheRhNegative]

Holy smokes I can smell the patchouli from here in the future. LOL Just kidding. I'll have what they're having...