The calm and tempered black

black the peace and temper

walking in the dark areas along the Black Street go east, you can also see still wearing make-up, plunge belted, the hippies beating a tambourine. There may be a beggar came up to say:" I need a ticket to Indonesia so that I can think that the Nike company, earned $ 33 a week." If you refuse him such a great dream, he would curse:" You ruined my day!" way to add some words beginning with F.

San Francisco

Chinatown glance

because of San Francisco provides a bonus, the black SAR repair the previous Victoria style house, Queen Anne architectural style coupled with gaudy decorations exaggerated form, to form a contrived but very special area. In the United States have shocked the whole before the hippie era of the community as a strong earthquake shook it in here.

respected the views of anarchist hippies - all the goods should be free to have the black the implementation of a shop area, in the store, there is no flow of money, customers take items arbitrarily. 1965" San Francisco Observer" reported" This is a group of young people who pursue Fashion," boys are sporting a long hair, a girl wearing a second hand store to buy velvet Victorian lace dress, everyone was beaded with India colored beads, rub peppermint oil, constantly testing new ways of life and art form.

a banned album" sex, narcotics and crude stimulus" describes the idealistic hippies - with the mysterious Orient life, to cannabis, hallucinogens, and sexual liberation as the center of the arbitrary. Stanford University conducted an experiment of hallucinogens in the leaflet asked:" you can pass the Acid (LSD) testing?" But in October 1966, California banned the use of hallucinogens, which makes hippies into an illegal situation. January 1967, tens of thousands of teenagers holding flowers gathered in the Golden Gate Bridge, polo field, launched a" humanitarian Juyi/Conference of the tribe all together against the mainstream" activities. Black Street became the birthplace of the American hippie movement, then to October from spring break, more than a million young people flocked to freely here, stepping on the rhythm of psychedelic rock, to clear to anti-traditional, anti war, war peace, the concept of equal rights struggle, the black area into a performance venue. This party's slogan is" look inward, concerned about the social, quit the secular," free love and communal style of life to become emphasized. Surprisingly, San Francisco police chief first," Love Generation" is added to the hippies called him.

San Francisco that summer became a test of idealism products, known as the" Summer of Love." The street was free accommodation and food, free clinics, medical students, lawyers provide free legal services. Hippies in the black proudly proclaim their value system, known as the hippie anthem of the" Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair" song of the boys and girls of the hippie look forward to the extreme . They call themselves" flower girl" , I hope you enjoy life with flowers and wearing. No matter how strange dress, the people of the sun on the floor barefoot incense in hand, all smiling and calm manner, showing that a good summer of love.

ideal ring under the undercurrent never stopped flowing, light and darkness is always shock each other a pair of hippies always free With LSD and cannabis, this innocent and wisdom will eventually be contaminated by drugs and promiscuity. Loyal suitors, the homeless, deranged, drug traffickers and violent crime to sleep on the streets of the hippies of the beautiful music out of tune, with the advent of October," Summer of Love" finally come to an end. In October's" Death of Hippie" parade, the hippies who burned a marked" Summer of Love," the word gray coffin, a coffin full of hippie culture, keepsake, orange peel, peacock feathers, cross and marijuana-flavored cookies ... ... this myth, this point can no longer reproduce the picture on the utopian period.

love and peace

Summer of Love is not just the Beatles left the old songs, as the gold movement is not just the wealth left by the owner. Nonconformist American community have greater tolerance for the practice, for women, homosexuals and ethnic minorities are also increasingly expanding openness. 70 years of the 20th century, San Francisco became the first time in American history of the city elections are open areas, San Francisco, who is still full of vitality, business, arts, tourism, and a happy coexistence of anti-secular city.

Every summer, there is still little more than an old hippie who will pay tribute back to the old way, search the hearts of youth, to find that paradise is also there is the image faintly.

in the materialization of the world, we can have enough music and video to remember it in an idyllic, which for the history, it is A lucky about love and peace.