Free Love & Free Stuff
Clip: Season 29 Episode 12 | 2m 24s
1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.”
With schools out in the summer of 1967, thrill-seekers flooded into San Francisco. When they arrived in the Haight and Ashbury neighborhood, they found a world where free love and free clothing was the norm. Joel Selvin reflects in the film: “The Free Store, what fun that was. I mean, just the idea was liberating, a place where they gave you things where money was no longer the relevant issue.”
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Free Love & Free Stuff
Clip: Season 29 Episode 12 | 2m 24s
With schools out in the summer of 1967, thrill-seekers flooded into San Francisco. When they arrived in the Haight and Ashbury neighborhood, they found a world where free love and free clothing was the norm. Joel Selvin reflects in the film: “The Free Store, what fun that was. I mean, just the idea was liberating, a place where they gave you things where money was no longer the relevant issue.”
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1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S. (1m 8s)
Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s. (3m 5s)
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