What was it like in the Haight/LA/hippie enclaves at the height of the counterculture and scene?

I wasnt even born yet, but can someone tell me what the Haight and the surrounding areas was like at the time? I get a picture of people who are barefoot, chanting, incense wafting, people getting into tarot, and just living it up. How close is what the media portrays about the time actually accurate for those who were on the ground at the time and in the scene?

 

My older siblings used to run up to the Laurel Canyon area, LA's Counter Culture paradise. They hung out with the folks in the Mamma and Pappas, Love, members of the Byrds with their friends . Having a great time with their friends and the people there .

But from what they tell me, it ended with the Mansion Family murders .

 

Many of the ones that actually made things happen there back in the 60s used to post here on Church of the Good Earth. Might be able to find some of their conversations---Ask Zen how to do so. ( they don't post anymore)

I was living in Santa Cruz in part of the late 60s and used to go up to Frisco ---for concerts---Joplin and many others.

 

I had so many adventures during the 60s--70s---walked / hung around the Haight for a bit--drove across Canada with 4 other hippie types--lived in Hawaii for years during those days--. I have a million stories with no one to tell them to.

 

I enjoy them! Been many of those places but only after bloom of the flower people was over. Lived with vestiges of it in Missoula and Olympia.

 

Start posting them !!!!

 

As some Tribal Elders told me, Hippies were a threat to White Colonials thinking, were out to bring better inter Human skills, compassion and justice against a Colonial mindset that is now poisoning their own kind.

When one goes against Colonial Establishmen ideals with threats of peace, just and equality .... it's a threat that they can not handle .