European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Love plus 20  the Oldrock of onus such thu on Rte of dead Jeff non air plane t Pago 14 the stars and stripes by Lisa Levitt Ryckman associated press Wenty years ago in san Francisco Haigh Street was so packed with people it took an hour to drive the single Block from Haight and Clayron to Haight Axi Ashbury the place whore a loss generation four itself. It was a Lime when thousands of Young people rejected a system thai served up the Vietnam War with supper and instead embraced a philosophy that said All you need is love and we can work it out or at least Well try with a Willie help irom our friends. It was Flowers and Bare feet and Long hair and Ltd and communal living. Ii was belief in peace and love and changing the world through openness and communication. It was Timothy Leary exhorting the alienated to turn on Lune in and drop  it was the grateful dead s music and Ken Kesey s electric Kool Aid acid tests and the Laboratory of Augustus Owsley Stanley Iii tha eccentric chemist who cooked up enough Lyser Gic acid Dianthy Falde to Lurn on everyone in san Francisco five times Over it waa the place called the Haj Ghl Ashbury. Ii was the time called the summer of love. A yes. The summer of love recalled Para psychologist Chris Morningstar in a recent Haight. Ashbury newspaper interview. Kinds takes you Back to memories of Blue Skloss great drugs free concerts in the Park everybody Friendly places to crash in abundance gurus incense inkling Bells. Everything was new and  the summer of love you mean the summer of drugs said Alex Holcombe who watched the counterculture revolution happen in he Street outside his a Olry store Al the Corner of Haight and Ashbury. Tha summer of love was really she Peak and die beginning of the end said or. David Smith who opened his Haigh Ashbury free medical clinic on june 10, 1967. O Misler of the health needs of Youthful crowds who came looking for a better Way and got More than they bargained or. The beginning of the beginning probably was two years earlier when the amorphous melting pol known As the Haight Ashbury became a stomping ground for refugees from North Beach s beat Era and other creative radicals. Qts by s Ltd in red Green and Blue pills containing exactly 250 micrograms each became the psychedelic glue Hal bound the Community s Ever expanding consciousness. Ltd was Iha catalyst for experiencing a deeper sense of our humanity than most of us had been Laught or expected to exist said Alton covers editor of the san Francisco Oracle a 60s-Ora counter culture monthly and an Early distributor of Owsley s product. It was More than colors and lights. Ii was a sense we were All United together on a planet in a universe hat was unified and could be experienced As a great harmonious and ecstatic  in 1967, tune Magazine gave its Man of the year award 1o anyone under 25, a nod to the youth driven movement that first found its foothold in the Hainzl Ashbury. Ii was a quiet neighbourhood that evolved into an entire movement people with personal opinions producing social change said Ron Frazier a 44-year old san Francisco artist. The love pageant flatly held on the Panhandle next to Golden Gate Park on oct. 6,1966 the Day Ltd became illegal in California was one of the Early expressions of that change. Several thousand people showed up with Lowers fluxes lags and feathers to dance in he Sunshine to the music of the grateful dead and Jam Joplin. T1� of Toto had begun to eel their Power. The next big Celebration tha first human be in and gathering of the tribes on Jan 14,1967, Drew More than 20.000 people to Golden Gate Park. The idea according to Cohen one of the organizers was to bring together the peace Loving lower children with Politica radicals. It was also designed to attract reporters who Wera quickly spreading the word about the hippies in the Haight. In a press release the organizers declared that. A new tree vital soul is reconnecting tha Irving centers of he american body. Berkeley political activists and the love generation of the Haight Ashbury will join together in pow wow celebrate and Prophesy the epoch of liberation love peace compassion and the Unity o Mankind. Hang your Leas at he door and join the future interwoven in the future s fabric was the fixated san Francisco sound tha acid Rock of groups such As the grateful dead Jefferson air plane it s a Beautiful Day and Janis Joplin. With big brother and the homing saturday. Jurt