SFist Photo: Something Hippy This Way Comes
Tens of thousands showed up today to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park.
It's official - today marked the ruby anniversary of the S.O.L. Were you one of the wistful?
Please cheer up and see how groovy things looked today, after the jump.
Well, the promoter certainly didn't book no undertaker - were there more people here than on the Playa? Very possibly. Dig all the crazy colors here and here. Did you spot Jimi? Dude was everywhere.
"To impeach is patriotic."
Hello Kitty! The panthers, or at least the Commemoration Committee that grew out of the panthers, were on the scene.
Parking hubris results in instant carma.
Looks like the "fewer garbage cans" idea is catching on.
You turn sideways to the sun/ And in a moment [or two or 300], you are gone.
Were all these people scheduled to appear actually here? Wow, seems like a lot. Who was your fave? Later, man. See you again in ten years!
"Country Joe McDonald, Moby Grape reunion (all original members), Taj Mahal, Lester Chambers (from Chambers Brothers), Canned Heat, Moby Grape (reunion), Lydia Penseand Cold Blood, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jerry Miller Band (from Moby Grape) featuring Tiran Porter and Dale Ockerman (from the Doobie Brothers) and Fuzzy John Oxendine (from the Sons of Champlin) , Banana (from the Youngbloods), Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek (from the Doors), San Francisco’s First Family of Rock, Brian Auger, David Laflamme, Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer, Chris and Lorin of the Rowan Brothers, The Alameda All Stars (from Gregg Allman band), Brad Jenkins, Terry Haggerty (from the Sons of Champlin), Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, George Michalski - Pete Sears “Dueling Keys,” Freddie Roulette , Ron Thompson , The Charlatans, Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer), Greg Douglas (from Steve Miller), Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship), Essra Mohawk (from Mothers of Invention), Barry “The Fish” Melton, All Night Flight featuring David Denny and Steve McCarty (from Steve Miller), Jack King (from Cold Blood) and Dale Ockerman (former Doobie Brothers), Merl Saunders (supporting the event), Hair (reunion Original Cast), Squid B. Vicious with Buddy Miles, Jim Post (Friend and Lover, Siegel Schwall Blues Band), Charles Lewis – Harmonica, David Harris, Fayette Hauser and the Cocketts, Cindy Sheehan (political activist), Jack Hirschman (Poet Laureate of San Francisco), Scoop Nisker, Ben Vareen, Terrance Hallinan (former SF DA) ruth weiss (Beat Poet), Richard Eastman (marijuana initiative), Lenore Kandel (Beat Poet), Paul “Lobster” Wells, Khenchen Rinpoche (Buddhist Monk), Dr Hip (Eugene Schoenfeld), Artie Kornfeild (Producer of Woodstock), Wavy Gravy, Mouse man (Bagpipes), David E. Smith (Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic), Bruce Latimer (Bruce Latimer show), Rabbi Joseph Langer, Bruce Barthol (Mime Troupe), Stephen Gaskin, Doug Green, Howard Hesseman (schedule permitting), Benjamin Hernandez (Harts hands and Elders),American Indigenous people’s, Agnes Pilgrim and 13 Grandmas, Lakota War Ponys, Merle Tendoy (6th generation of Sacagawea) Shonie, Albert Tenaya, Harry Riverbottom (Chippewa), Chief Sunne Reyna, Iroquois Tribe, Dakota Tribe, Seminole Tribe, and Emit Powell and the Gospel Elites."