San Francisco Culture And Culture

San Francisco is one of the most modern and accepting culture there is in the world. San Francisco has largely become what it is due to the past historical events that shaped this culture to the way it is, as well as the kind of people these events brought into this city. In a way, the series of events that unfolded seemed to work almost too perfectly, and turned San Francisco into the city it is today.

One of the powerful San Francisco events that merged history with the summer of love and the San Francisco culture was the Monterey Pop Festival. Some of San Francisco’s preeminent and famous artists such as Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix made an appearance during this event, which ultimately, spread their fame worldwide.

This festival was a pivotal moment in San Francisco history because it was the leading cause of rock music’s evolution as well as the Summer of Love. Monterey outlined the spirit, look, and sound of the Summer of Love and affected San Francisco forever. After the Summer of Love, San Francisco was molded as the carefree open-minded, loving city and people from all over the world came by to experience the san Francisco culture.

San Francisco culture was also mended by the cities’ love for their sports teams, especially the San Francisco 49’ers. According to Talbot, the 49’s was one of the worst teams in history during the late 1970’s. It was a depressing and dark time in San Francisco, and the teams loses only seemed to make the city seem more angry and restless, but regardless, never unfaithful. It wasn't until they plummeted their losses and fired Thomas, that they decided to start seeking out their new angel, Bill Walsh. Walsh did not succeed at first nor for the first couple seasons, but was able to recruit Joe Montana and Dwight Clark who created history for the 49ers. Walsh was a very good coach, strategic, education oriented, and was greatly respected by the team. Not

Although San Francisco in the present is known as the tech industry and contains some of the largest tech companies all around the world, it has not always been this way. The tech vision insight is told best through a historical group of San Franciscan journalists and entrepreneurs called Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. In 1968, this network, according to Turner, was congregated by a group of people and publications who conjoined series of encounters between the San Franciscan bohemian culture, and the technology culture in Silicon Valley and published the document: The Whole Earth Catalog. In 1985, they held the WELL conference which was said to have been “one of the most influential computer conferencing system of the decade” (Turner, 2) The Whole Earth Catalog had the ‘ new communalists working together and turning away from politics but rather towards technology. During the 1970s, the “new communalists” world was peaceful and harmonical according to Turner “ If the American state deployed massive weapons systems in order to destroy faraway people, the New Communalists would deploy small-scale technologies- ranging from axes and hoes to amplifiers……. To bring people together and allow them to experience their common humanity.” (Turner, 3) This part of the counterculture that was involved with the technological world was influential in