"San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie was not only a career-defining hit but also one that helped define the entire Summer of ...

Unlike many things from the 1967 "Summer of Love," the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic survived. The clinic, now part of a larger network, still operates out of a second-floor office overlooking Haight ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

Before the Summer of Love was able to blossom, the seeds needed to be planted at the Human Be-In several months earlier.

The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...

What’s the worst song that you love? 1 For me, among a large and ever-growing lot of candidates, one clearly tops the list: “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair),” a 1967 top-ten ...

This year brings the 50th anniversary of 1967 and the “Summer of Love,” when young people from across America descended en masse upon San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to participate in what ...

No, not in 1967, but just now in 2017, on a two-hour, time-warped, phantasmagorical journey with San Francisco’s Magic Bus tour. It takes guests through S.F.’s hippie history — the music, the flower ...