In this paper, I want to share the history of Haight Ashbury, and its transition from a small town with nice Victorian homes, to its deterioration in the 1960’s. The importance of a farm in Woodstock, to the Cultural Revolution and how it all spread from there including the role of radio and television in spreading the news of the hippie movement and how an attempt to free culture from its moral ideals and standards only led it with no standards or moral compass, and all they were left with was thought
They strived to liberate themselves from societal restrictions, choose their own way, and find new meaning in life. The term hippie derives from the word hipster, which was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. The word hipster was also used in the 1940s and 1950s to describe Jazz performers. Hippie is also a Jazz slang term from the 1940s. The hippies inherited their cultural dissent from bohemians and beatn...
them different. Hippies came from all over with various backgrounds to congregate in San Francisco on the corner of Haight Street and Ashbury Street, where the world got its first glimpse of this peculiar sub group. This corner which lies in the very center of San Francisco came to be known as the Haight Ashbury District. There was a tour bus that ran through the Haight- Ashbury District area in San Francisco called the Gray Line. The tours promotional brochure contained the statement: "The only
paved the way for the hippies by smoking weed and listening to jazz music (Sixties). The hippies took the Beats’ ideas and changed them to fit different standards. Haight-Ashbury was the beginning of the hippie movement and it changed the county with its music, community, and loving atmosphere. Haight-Ashbury is an area spanning out of Haight Street to the Golden Gate Bridge. With over fifteen-thousand hippies, one-thousand-two-hundred of them were teens that had run
collective charge when young adults voiced displeasure over the country’s entrance into the Vietnam War and the use of nuclear weapons. One group within this movement was coined the “hippies”. This paper will discuss the beliefs of the hippies of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, California and illustrate how the hippie “counterculture” transformed into an evolution of music, in the making of protest songs and the new “psychedelic” sound. It will elaborate on the musicians who found fame in responding
Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco” became the song that really kicked off the Summer of Love by enticing people to come to the Monterey Pop Festival June 16-18, 1967. The festival attracted exactly the type of people that were drawn to the Summer of Love, and people flocked to it in masses. “If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, If you're going to San Francisco, You're gonna meet some gentle people there, For those who come to San Francisco, Summertime will
Throughout the 1960’s, youth revolted in every which way they could. Young people nationwide began to see beyond the materialistic American dream. These people took the components of politics, art, culture and personal life and started a movement toward transforming the way people live. Views on politics, drug culture, rock and roll, education, and Cultural Revolution influenced this revolution. This revolution, against conformity. “Parents usually stated that hippies included everyone revolting
by consumer society. The Diggers took the name from the original English Diggers who had promulgated a vision of society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. Pete Coyote was the founder of the Diggers and active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-60’s, he was a director with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and was a key figure during San Francisco’s counterculture. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a theater that uses a mix of political satire and original music. They used
The Summer of Love became a symbol for everything the hippies stood for, while simultaneously becoming a symbol for everything they were not. Hippies were indeed "interested in getting stoned and having a good time." This was even more so the case with individuals that were there solely for the parties, drugs, sex, and music. ***these people were known as plastic hippies or weekend hippies???**** Furthermore, the use of psychedelic drugs was rampant among hippies. The use of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
The 1950‘s was a time noted for its high expectations and widespread conformity. The children growing up in the 1950’s were from the baby boomer generation. By the 1960’s some of these children began to migrate away from the ways of their upbringings. These children called themselves the Hippies. Even though the Hippie kids had grown up in the richest economy America had ever seen, they sought an alternative lifestyle to the one their parents led. This trend spread and eventually progressed into
had an impact on both social groups through the analysis of the hippie counter culture and the Vietnam soldiers. During the sixties thousands of people moved to the san Francisco bay area, settling in the north beach district, Berkeley, or the Haight-Ashbury. Among the people who moved were writers, artists, and musicians, and then there were some people seeking an alternative to the religions that their parents had impressed upon them. These kids seeking a spiritual refuge were inspired by the work
Fashion in the Sixties Throughout time the United States has changed, whether it is hairstyles, clothing styles or all around consciousness, the people of this fantastic era represent the patriotic lifestyle of the 1960’s. The appearance of the youth in the 1960’s was different than that of any era that came before, and many of the styles that originated then are still seen today, thirty years later. As one takes a look back upon the sixties one must remember that, unlike today, it was imbedded
The origin of the word hippie came after the group of young men called the beatniks moved to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. The beatniks fled commercialism in North Beach San Francisco and moved to the Haight-Ashbury area near the University of San Francisco. The beatniks were admired by the young people at the University and young people began to call the beatniks be hippies. The beatniks group
American society and culture experienced an awakening during the 1960s as a result of the diverse civil rights, economic, and political issues it was faced with. At the center of this revolution was the American hippie, the most peculiar and highly influential figure of the time period. Hippies were vital to the American counterculture, fueling a movement to expand awareness and stretch accepted values. The hippies’ solutions to the problems of institutionalized American society were to either participate
The Daze of Hippie Culture Hippies and their culture have been around since the early 1940’s and blossomed during the 1960’s, especially in teenagers and young adults. These young hipsters at the time believed in non-conformity and doing what one wishes, without worrying about potential future consequences. If you were a hippie, you were looked down upon during this time because many people thought that everybody should be the same and those who went against society were insane. Hippies liked the
What was known as the ‘Summer of Love’ occurred in 1967 in San Francisco. Considered to be the climax of the hippie movement occurring all over the world in the sixties, it was a time of rebellion against conformity, a desire for peace, and a soaring sense of individualism. However the media were responsible for the negative portrayal of the Summer of Love and still to this day, the media plays an important role in forming the attitudes of outsiders towards the ‘Hippie’ movement, commenting on their
In 1967, summer of love in San Francisco there were people traveling from across the world to go to Haight-Ashbury street to join the huge crowd. To listen to bands play while going wild. Taking drugs, having sex, dancing to music, people fighting for what’s right. During that year summer lasted a year long and not a lot of people complained. With what happened, there were multiple of things that had an impact on American society and culture, hippie movement became a trend, there were drugs, and
United States, and then the world. The efforts of the pioneers in the Haight-Ashbury to create an enlightened community took about two years, from 1964-66, to reach the flashpoint, and during those years the music reached an artistic high point. But the Summer of Love in 1967 lasted only a few months, and by the end, overcrowding and the negative reaction of police and the city's government combined to make life in the Haight miserable for everyone. Still, the taste for enlightenment had left a lasting
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values of traditional American culture and life. The people who participated or started this whole movement were called "hippies" who were mainly white, middle-class families' children under 25 years old (1960's 193). Hippies gathered mostly in the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco (Our Century 5). They were mostly college students or graduates and usually, hippies were the ones who opposed the old American values, culture, politics, the Vietnam War, racism and were concerned about civil and student