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The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. More broadly, the Summer of Love encompassed the hippie music, hallucinogenic drugs, anti-war, and free-love scene throughout the West Coast of the United States, and as far away as New York City.Hippies, sometimes called flower children, were an eclectic group. Many were suspicious of the government, rejected consumerist values, and generally opposed the Vietnam War. A few were interested in politics; others were concerned more with art (music, painting, poetry in particular) or spiritual and meditative practices. While the Summer of Love is often regarded as a significant cultural event, its actual significance to ordinary young people of the time, particularly in Britain, has been disputed.

Summer of Love - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1967 social phenomenon in San Francisco For the concurrent period of the 1967 race riots, see Long hot summer of 1967 . For other uses, see Summer of Love (disambiguation) . Summer of Love Part of the Counterculture of the 1960s and the hippie movement Spencer Dryden , Marty Balin , and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane performing at the Fantasy Fair , early June 1967 Date 1967 Location Haight-Ashbury , Golden Gate Park , San Francisco Participants ~100,000 (estimated) Outcome A surge in 1960s counterculture in t

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