Re: Summer of Love -

["ARON KAY" <pieman>]

hey the mansonoids created such bad vibes especially in the la area...i grew
up there!!!
the poorer freex were not invited any more parties around laurel canyon,
topanga thanx to their murderous whims....love-ins at griffith park, etc..
would degenerate into culture clashes.
now the 40th anniversary is here!!! i still wish for the niceties of
1965-66-byrds , etc
Aron Pieman Kay
http://www.pieman.org
Bongs Not Bombs
Fight the good fight for peace and justice
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Perner" <ravensdawn>
To: "babel-list" <babel-list>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:23 PM
Subject: RE: Summer of Love -


> On second thought, yes, the Summer happened in '67 with
> the big San Francisco Human Be-in for an official starting
> point. '67 was a world-wide high water year for the innocent,
> flowers and beads hippy thing. By '68 a darker edge began
> to emerge; Charles Manson, heroin on Haight St., Hells
> Angels on speed, protesting kids trading in their picket signs
> for machine guns and pipe bombs.... and some very bad acid.
>
> There was a small group of hipsters in SF in '66 that declared
> a "summer of love" a year before at a sunrise gathering. If only
> they could have stopped time....
>
> Paul
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Gart, Mitchell <MGart>
> >
> > The wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love
> > starts out "The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967".
> > I have always thought of Summer of Love as meaning 1967 in
> > San Francisco.