DO YOUR OWN THING, WHEREVER YOU HAVE TO DO IT AND WHENEVER YOU WANT. DROP OUT. LEAVE SOCIETY AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IT. LEAVE IT UTTERLY. BLOW THE MIND OF EVERY STRAIGHT PERSON YOU CAN REACH. TURN THEM ON, IF NOT TO DRUGS, THEN TO BEAUTY, LOVE, HONESTY, FUN. TIME MAGAZINE JULY 7, 1967
THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA’S FLOWER CHILDREN
SARAH LAMOUREUX COMM 4679
DER WONDERVOGEL wandering bird
BASED ON ERIC HOFER’S TRUE BELIEVER
WE’RE ALL HUMAN BE-IN(S)
“FORTUNATE” SONS T H E V I E T N A M WA R E X PA N D E D I N T H E 1 9 6 0 S . YO U N G M E N W E R E B E I N G D R A F T E D I N TO T H E A R M Y W I T H N O OT H E R C H O I C E . YO U N G P E O P L E WA N T E D T H E I R P E A C E AND PERSONAL FREEDOM EVEN MORE.
HUMAN BE-INS FOCUSED ON THE K E Y I D E A S O F T H E D E V E LO P I N G C O U N T E R C U LT U R E ; F R O M T H E U S E O F P S YC H E D E L I C D R U G S TO F R E E LOV E A N D S E X . T H E F I R S T B E - I N WA S I N R E S P O N S E TO L S D B E I N G M A D E I L L E G A L I N 1 9 6 6 . T H E E V E N T S AW 30,000 PEOPLE C R OW D THE HAIGHT ASHBURY DISTRICT OF S A N F R A N C I S C O.
A GENERATION OF CHANGE
JFK IS SHOT
THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN MIDDLE-CLASS YO U N G PEOPLE G R O W I N G U P I N T H E L AT E 1 9 5 0 ’ S F E LT T H AT T H E Y D I D N O T F I T
B E AT L E M A N I A H I T T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S H A R D. A P P R OX I M AT E LY 74 MILLION P E O P L E WATC H E D T H E I R F I R S T A P P E A R A N C E O N E D S U L L I VA N . T H E D E M A N D FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM THE QUARTET LED TO T H E B I R T H O F W H AT W E K N O W A S “ S TA DIUM ROCK”
COMMUNAL LIVING E C O LO G I C A L AWA R E N E S S HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS ILLICIT DRUG USE RADICAL LIBERAL CONSICIOUSNESS REJECTION OF THE “MIDDLE-CLASS MORALITY” I N T U I T I V E S P O N TA N E I T Y.
PEACE, LOVE & BROTHER-
A F T E R W W I I ,T H E S E G R O U P S W E R E O U T L AW E D AND MANY PRACTITIONERS I M M I G R AT E D TO THE WA R M C L I M AT E O F C A L I F O R N I A WHERE THEY COULD CONTINUE T H E I R FA R M I N G P R AC T I C E S .
N OV 2 2 1 9 63
BEATLEMANIA LANDS
P E R S O N A L E M P OW E R M E N T C U LT U R A L D E C E N T R A L I Z AT I O N
THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT OF THE 1 9 6 0 ’ S A C T U A L LY H A S I T ’ S R O O T S I N G E R M A N Y. D E R N W O N D E R V O G E L WA S A M O V E M E N T O F YO U T H G R O U P S T H AT S TA R T E D I N T H E L A T E 1 9 T H C E N T U R Y. T H E I R I D E A WA S TO S H A K E O F F T H E R E S T R I C TIONS AND GET BACK TO NATURE AND FREEDOM.
I N T O A C C E P T E D S O C I E T Y. NOT O N LY DID THEIR FUTURE SEEM PLANNED OUT FOR THEM, WITH OFFICE JOBS FOR THE MEN AND MOTHERHOOD AND HOUSEWWORK FOR THE WOMEN, BUT THOSE FUTURES ALSO SEEMED B O R I N G A N D S U F F O C AT I N G .
ANARCHISM, RADICAL & VIOLENT
HOOD IF WE HAD ANY NERVE AT ALL, IF WE HAD ANY REAL BALLS AS A SOCIETY, OR WHAT-
Dr. BENJAMIN SPOCK
“THIS
1903-1998
EVER YOU NEED, WHATEVER QUALITY YOU
THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN’
IS JUST SHIT. IT’S
HAPPENING. NO BLAME.
JANIS JOPLIN 1943-1970
AN
EFFORT
TO
REALLY
ADDRESS
THE
WRONGS IN THIS SOCIETY, RIGHTEOUSLY.
ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
HAPPENING AND ON THE
THERE ARE GOING TO BE TIMES WHEN WE CAN’T WAIT FOR SOMEBODY.
THE POWER TO DEFINE THE SITUATION IS THE ULTIMATE POWER.
NEED, REAL CHARACTER, WE WOULD MAKE
RISE IT WOULD APPEAR.” LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG
JERRY GARCIA 1942-1995
1938-
EMMETT GROGAN 1942-1978 “THEY
THE
TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT
GOVERNMENT
AND THE POWERS DO NOT WANT THIS WORLD CHARTED BECAUSE IT THREATENS ESTABLISHED POWERS. IT ALWAYS HAS.” KEN KESEY IN
“COMES SPAKE
SEPERATED PARENTS
BY
THE CUCKOO”
DR. TIMOTHY LEARY
1894-1963
1920-1996
“THE
A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
THE ONLY WAY TO SUPPORT A REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE YOUR OWN.
- DRUG USE
INDEPENDENCE AND STRENGTH, BACK AWAY FROM COMMITMENTS
JIM MORRISON
TIME
HAS
COME,
STEPHEN GASKIN
EVERYBODY LIE DOWN SO WON’T
YOU
GET
1935-2014
NEAL CASSADY
HURT
WHEN THE SUN BURSTS”
1926-1968
“YOU’RE
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
JOAN BAEZ 1941-
1914-1997
“ THESE
DIFFERENG PERSPECTIVES MIRRORED WIDE-
SPREAD
1960 S
THE WAR IN VIETNAM , RACE RELATIONS , SEXUAL CUSTOMS , WOMEN ’ S RIGHTS , TRADITIONAL MODES OF AUTHORITY , EXPERIMENTATION WITH PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS AND OPPOSING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM .”
THE BEAT GENERATION LSD ADVOCATES PERFORMERS COMMUNES THE DIGGERS CHICAGO 7 WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND BLACK PANTHERS
GROOVING AS HARD AS YOU CAN ALL THE TIME.”
YOU WILL SEE A FOOL; IF
1942-1978
YOU LOOK UP AT ME YOU
ANGELA DAVIS
WILL SEE A GOD; IF YOU
1944-
ABBIE HOFFMAN
LOOK STRAIGHT AT ME,
I AM NO LONGER ACCEPT-
1936-1989
YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF.
ING THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE. I AM CHANGING
PAUL KRASSNER 1932-
THE
THINGS
I
CANNOT
ACCEPT
INNOVATIONS IN STYLE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS
MUSIC FESTIVALS WERE AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PART OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT. FESTIVALS THAT INCLUD-
400,000
PEACEFUL REVOLUTION
ED BANDS WHO SHAPED THE VALUES OF HIPPIE IDEOLOGY WERE SURE TO BRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
BROKE AWAY FROM RESTRICTIONS IN SOCIETY
TOGETHER FOR ONE THING; TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT.
DESIRED CHANGED VIOLENT REVOLUTION
300,000
going furthur CALIFORNIA
ANTIWAR RACE RIOTS POLITICAL
IN
1964,
NEW YORK
KEN KESEY PURCHSED T A
200,000
SCHOOL BUS TO CARRY HIM AND HIS
“ MERRY
WELL.
PRANKSTERS ” ACROSS THE STATES ,
UNITED
FILMING
THEIR
COUNTERCULTURE ADVENTURES AS THEY WENT . WITH
III
TORS AND MILITARY INCREASED AS
IF YOU LOOK DOWN AT ME
PETER COYOTE
NEAL
CASSADY
AS
FE ST IV A L
VIOLENT CLASHES ETWEEN PROTES-
1934-
100,000
W IG H T
INCREASED,
1928-
CHARLES MANSON
THE
O F
DEMONSTRATIONS
WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA, CONTROLS THE MIND.
NOAM CHOMSKY
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL
REJECTION OF RECEIVED STANDARDS
the other side AS
SUPPOSED TO BE
SOCIETAL TENSIONS THAT TENDED
TO FLOW ALONG GENERATIONAL LINES REGARDING
THE
UNBREAKABLE GAP OF ACID.”
1940-1980
1943-1971 ALDOUS HUXLEY
over all, many of society’s values are a cesspool
1944-
FROM
BE OBSERVANT AND TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR PERSPECTIVES
BEST THEY CAN TO CHART IT SORT OF BUT
THEIR
JOHN LENNON
BERNARDINE DOHRN
WERE A GENERATION
UTTERLY
1935-2001
UNDERGROUND
1944-
1938-1994
WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA - THE IMAGES CONTROLS THE CULTURE
LIKE LEARY HAVE DONE THE
BILL AYERS
JERRY RUBIN
1941-
ALLEN GINSBERG
KEN KESEY “PEOPLE
IT HAPPENS, IT WAS INEVITABLE.
DAN GEORGAKAS
1926-1997
1922-1969
BLE AT THE BEGINNING, AND AFTER
BOB DYLAN
THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
JACK KEROUAC
EVERY REVOLUTION SEEMS IMPOSSI-
DRIVER , FURTHUR STARTED OFF IN
IS LE
LA HONDA , CALIFORNIA TO END UP IN NEW YORK FOR THE PUBLICATION OF KESEY ’ S LATEST NOVEL .
T HE
OF
FURTHER
UNITED KINGDOM
PSYCHEDELIC DRUG USE .
CANADA
THE BUS WOULD LATER HEAD TO AN ANTI - VIETNAM WAR RALLY IN AND WOODSTOCK IN
ISLE OF WIGHT
1966
1969.
VANOUVER
A
WOODINVILLE
SAN FR
KENT STATE 4 KILLED 9 INJURED ORANGEBURG 3 KILLED 28 INJURED JACKSON STATE 2 KILLED 12 INJURED HARLEM RIOT 1964 1 KILLED 500 INJURED WATTS RIOTS 1965 34 KILLED 1,032 INJURED HARLEM RIOT 1964 43 KILLED 1,189 INJURED WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND 6 KILLED ? INJURED
PASSENGERS
WERE HEAVILY FUELED BY PROLIFIC
NC
O C S I
THE ACID TESTS
CANADA
THE ACID TESTS WERE A SERIES OF
TORONTO
PARTIES HELD BY KEN KESEY IN THE WHITE LAKE
MILWAUKEE
THE
HIPPIE
MARIN COUNTY
REVOLU-
TION .
ATLANTIC CITY
PEOPLE
ATTRACTED
TO
CHEAP ,
THE
THAT
LINED
STREETS
WITH
THE
CITY
UNDERSTAND
DROP CITY
SAN JOSE
LOS ANGELES
DISSATISFACTION
MONTEREY
THE FARM
NEWPORT BEACH
HAMPTON
TO
LEWISVILLE
TOOK
THESE
AREAS
AND
PARTIES
TO
ADVERTISED
communal living THE 1960S THERE WAS “BACK-TO-THE-LAND” MOVEMENT.
IN
the music
WITH
SOCIETY
PUBLIC
the acid test?”
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
THEIR
KESEY
“can you pass
WERE
THOUSANDS FLOCKING TO
ALTAMONT SPEEDWAY
VICTORIAN
HOUSES THE
AREA
THEM WITH POSTERS THAT READ
DENVER SAN FRANCISCO
YOUNG
BAY
USE OF, AND ADVOCACY OF LSD. LAUREL
TER OF THE SOCIAL EARTHQUAKE WAS
FRANCISCO
CENTERED ENTIRELY AROUND THE
SAN FRANCISCO WAS THE EPICENTHAT
SAN
A
SURGE
IN
THE
PEOPLE WANTED TO GIVE
UP THEIR LIVES AND MOVE TO THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO LIVE OFF THE LAND WITH PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THE SAME.
A NUMBER OF THE SOCIAL INFLUENCES
MARINA
RUSSIAN HILL
NOB HILL SEACLIFF
SUMMER OF LOVE
AND
NORTH BEACH
PACIFIC HEIGHTS
MANY AS
TO
HALLANDALE
THE
SOUTH OF MARKET
TUALLY HE ANS HIS GROUP SETTLED ON THE FARM IN TENNES-
1960S.
THE
INTENTION WAS TO ENHANCE THE EXPERIENCE
RICHHMOND
OF
THE
LISTENERS
WHO
WERE U S I N G
LSD OR OTHER DRUGS. LYRICS WERE STRANGE AND THE LYRICS WERE STRANGER.
VERGED ON THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD . MUSIC FESTIVALS , BE - IN ’ S DEMONSTRATIONS , CONCERTS AND DRUG - THEMED EVENTS WERE HAPPENING EVERY DAY WITH
THE PANHANDLE
WITNESS TO A GROWING SOCIAL , POLITICAL
THE FILMORE AVALON BALLROOM GOLDEN GATE PARK
WORD ABOUT HIS VISION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IN HIS CARAVAN OF BUSSES WITH LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS. EVEN-
DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE WESTERN ADDITION
HIPPIES THAT CON-
AND ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION .
BIRTH
PSYCHEDELIC ROCK WAS INCREDIBLY POPULAR
LAUREL HEIGHTS
THERE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN AS
100,000
UPGIVING
MUSIC TODAY.
FINANCIAL DISTRICT
PLACE TO BE DURING THE SUMMER OF LOVE
1967.
ENDED
DIVERSITY THAT WE EXPERIENCE WITH CHINATOWN
THE HAIGHT - ASHBURY DISTRICT WAS THE
IN
STEPHEN GASKIN, A PROFESSOR AT THE TIME, SPREAD THE
CHANGED WHAT POPULAR MUSIC WAS
FISHERMAN’S WHARF
SEE, ONE OF THE LONGEST STANDING AND SUCCESSFUL
PROTEST ROCK WAS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE MUSIC
COMMUNES.
SCENE. CURRENT EVENTS BECAME A MAJOR INFLUENCE AND MANY SONGS WERE WRITTHE CIVIL RIGHTS
TEN IN PROTEST TO THE VIETNAM WAR, MOVEMENT AND OTHER EVENTS.
A DROP CITY HOME
OTHER FAMOUS COMMUNES INCLUDE DROP
CITY
AND
STRAWBERRY FIELDS.