Why San Francisco?

deezee · Feb 15, 2007

ChiefCowpie said:

i knew friends who were on the committee to decide where to have the summer of love... woodstock was rejected cuz the festival was going to be there in 69', l.a. was rejected cuz its being a tinsel town, and the only hippy into tinsel was david bowie, chicago was rejected cuz it was too far away from any mountains and the nyc hippies said they were focused on woodstock 69 and so the committee ultimately decided upon s.f.
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sorry but i don't know where you got any of these ideas. whoever told you that was misinformed. the woodstock festival wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eye in 1967, so this had nothing to do with who decided what. david bowie was NOT a known entity at the time...he was still davy jones and if he had any notoriety at all it was because he was being confused with davey jones the monkee (the reason BOWIE changed his name).the summer of love began with "be-in"s as they were called in a few major cities on saturday march 25 the day before easter in 1967. they had been happening in san fransico for awhile and on that easter weekend los angeles, new york and s.f. all had huge ones in their respective park areas. not sure about chicago, miami or any other city but i think they had them too. i was at the new york city one in sheeps meadow. "the summer of love" was something that it was called or named by the media and that's why it's called that today. i don't think you could have gotten 3 people on a "committee" to decide anything back then...we were against committees of any kind and way too stoned....:+)

btw..i saved the los angeles free press from the weekend before the monterey pop festival..here's the listing for it in the "what's happening" section of that paper. i was visiting my cousin in l.a. and she refused to hitch up there to go with me. i should have gone by myself.
...shoulda,woulda,coulda.
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OldTroll · Feb 16, 2009

shameless_heifer said:

I think SF fit more peoples style. LA and Hollywood was too bushwa.. I have never been to NYC but by the people I have known from there, it didn't suit everyone. SF was more of a laid back place, lots going on but at a slower pace. The weather stayed at the same temp most of the time and it rarely snowed.
Perhaps it was Golden Gate Park and the Panhandle that held the magic, bc that is where everyone gathered. The Park drew us. Haight Street was the Gateway to the Park. People lined the street moving along their way toward the Park with blankets and instruments and baskets of food.
By the time the fog lifted in the mornings people would fill the area on The Hill and spread their blankets down for the day. The music would begin and the dancing would commence. Everyone was joyous and in celebration of life. The LSD and Wine flowed freely and there was a feel of unity in the air. It was a time of love and peace amongst chaos.
Perhaps it was the LSD itself that opened up a new form of communication. Opening our minds to new possibilities of connection. We expanded our minds to the point of reaching the ALL and in the ALL we connected and gathered beconning our spirit bros and sis's to come and walk through the 'Looking Glass' to a new demension.

It would have work too, if not for the needle and what went in/with it. It enslaved minds and killed the body. It distroyed the Love and Unity, bc nobody wanted to share their 'Bump' they wanted it all. They became selfish and greedy. That's when the love went out and lust and greed took it's place.

Our 'Leaders' went past Zen and flew over to material gain and gave in to lust.. using all the young foolish girls/boys for their own pleasure, leaving behind a trail of broken dreams and false promises and holes in their arms. Our own 'Heros' turned to what they faught so hard against, Ego and death. It is Ego's job to kill the body.

A few of us got out alive, it's a miracal, but we did. With us we brought what we learned, a collection of truths so to speak. Some of us glorify it with bells and whistles, others know the sad truth and embrace the moment of enlightenment.

I don't think enlightenment can be judged or measured, it just is. Enlightened means to be aware, Our awareness comes from lessons learned, from what we experience and what effect it had on us and how we precive it.

I hope we are not doomed to repete ourselves.
sh
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You often bring tears to my eyes!

shameless_heifer · Feb 17, 2009

Through the laughter and through the tears, we make it through the bittersweet years.

shameless_heifer · Feb 17, 2009

ChiefCowpie said:

i knew friends who were on the committee to decide where to have the summer of love... woodstock was rejected cuz the festival was going to be there in 69', l.a. was rejected cuz its being a tinsel town, and the only hippy into tinsel was david bowie, chicago was rejected cuz it was too far away from any mountains and the nyc hippies said they were focused on woodstock 69 and so the committee ultimately decided upon s.f.
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That's not the way Artie Kornfeld recalls it, and he was co-founder of Woodstock69. You were 9 yrs old and had friends that coordenated Woodstock, wow you started young didnt you Cowpie?!?
The Summer of Love was a last celebration of The Haight, as she fell prey to the negative vibes that started flowing in. The Death Of The Hippie 67' soon followed.

gate68 · Feb 22, 2009

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gate68 · Feb 22, 2009

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