The thing about the Summer of Love is that it was also, simply, 1967 in San Francisco. It’s true that hordes of hippies heeded Timothy Leary’s call to turn on, tune in and drop out, and that less ...

Fifty years ago a community health clinic first opened its doors as a safe, sympathetic space for countercultural youth. Today its motto is the... A 1960s 'Hippie Clinic' In San Francisco Inspired A ...

What’s the worst song that you love? 1 For me, among a large and ever-growing lot of candidates, one clearly tops the list: “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair),” a 1967 top-ten ...

Palo Alto’s Pace Gallery showcases Irving Penn’s sublime portraits from the heyday of the Haight Ashbury. Irving Penn “Rock Groups,” San Francisco, 1967 (Courtesy of the Irving Penn Foundation) “In ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

Unlike many things from the 1967 "Summer of Love," the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic survived. The clinic, now part of a larger network, still operates out of a second-floor office overlooking Haight ...