I must confess that as a child I found the hippy dippy culture to be fascinating. I mean who doesn't want to believe in love, love, love and peace in our time. Of course, there was a dark side to this culture as in drugs and hedonism but the music was fantastic. Plus the posters for rock concerts and the art work on the album covers. Nothing today can compare to it.
I myself would have chosen Swinging London 67 and the mod clothing to Haight Ashbury in San Francisco. These do happen to be two of my favorite cities.
For a sobering and truthful look at the "Summer of Love", San Francisco based writer Cinnamon Stillwell wrote an excellent piece as always and reminds us of the repercussions we are still facing today from this era.
"Rethinking the Summer of Love"
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2007/07/25/cstillwell.DTL
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