For all you hippies, this is the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park/Haight Ashbury; 1967-2017.
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March 1967 I left Massachusetts with a backpack and Martin 0-16 NYC guitar in hard-shell case....headed for the Big Sur, via Fla.and southern highways route to San Diego & eventually Ensenada -- then up the PCH to the Sur.
Hooked a ride to Union Square....and then to a second floor apt (as resident 'cook') on Haight St. for the summer. What a ride that was for an 18yr old!
Free Concerts in the Panhandle of G.G. Park with too many big name groups to mention (Jeff. Airplane, etc.), including Jimi.
Eventually back down to L.A. for "in's" at Griffith Park....
An amazing year. Seems like a few months ago....not half a century. Marriage license from L.A. county courthouse.
Too much to go over....but the short version is never arrested, no dope, and when panhandling with my guitar on Nob Hill or fisherman's warf I always quit when I hit $3.00....not greedy.
My 2nd most memorable event was our senior prom ,with Patricia, in the Jules Verne restaurant on the 2nd stage of the Eiffel Tower. Dad was stationed in Paris for all 4 of my high school years.
Stig
