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- Country: USA,
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- Duration: 46 min/Episode
- Genres: Documentary,
- Production: IMDbPro
News footage and contemporary interviews to reflect on San Francisco’s ‘Summer of Love’. A cultural phenomenon that was really in effect throughout the mid to late 1960s and focused in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood.
News footage and contemporary interviews to reflect on San Francisco’s ‘Summer of Love’. Provides perspective on a cultural phenomenon that was really in effect throughout the mid to late 1960s and focused in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Includes issues relating to: social trends in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood; the San Francisco rock scene; Jefferson Airplane; Big Brother and the Holding Company; Janis Joplin; The Grateful Dead; the Monterey Rock Festival; the use of drugs such as marijuana and LSD; Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests; the ‘Flower’ children and how the social experiment was eventually perceived to have failed, leading to widespread disillusionment. Also features interviews with: Michael McClure; Dennis McNally; Alison Osborn; Allen Cohen; Mickey Hart; Dr. David Smith; Carolyn Adams Garcia; Peter Albin and Richard Wilmot.
