European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Company they provided a treasure prove of anthems Rock n Roll was one of he Means of expression for people who were looking at life differently said promoter Bill Graham Whoso Fillmore auditorium shows became a kind of psychedelic social ritual the three Day Monterey International pop festival which began june 16.1967. And Drew 50,000 people marked Iho Dawn of the Era of Rock festivals. The show recorded Wilh new eight track tape technology featured More than 20 acts. Including tie who and tha Jimi Hendrix experience the beatles ushered in the summer with sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band later in the month the group performed Alt you need is lava Over an International television Hook up that reached an estimated 700 million people. The song that captured the love generation in a single verse. San Francisco be Sura to Wear Flowers in four hair written by John Phillips of the mamas and the Papas and Sung by Scott Mckenzie promised a summertime love in in the City. Reality was something else. 1 Titis Beautiful song Drew them in like Hies and Ihen the fog came in and they found out that summer in san Francisco waa really cold said Smith who remembers opening his clinic doors Tor the first time and seeing a line of 250 people snaking around the Block. One Hundred More arrived in the Haight each Day an estimated 75.000 came Over the summer to Sample he new Freedom the Street was a non Stop no Host party an experimental theater whore everyone was both performer and audience. For some Long time residents and merchant it was not so much a Celebration As a i sumption just the sheer numbers of people people coming who had nov sled interest in really being Here other than to sow their Oats o logo though a growing phase in heir lives people who could not act As they were acting Here anywhere else said Belle Mosias who runs far out fabrics and Mendel s Art supplies on Haight Street. In the 60s, her father sold paint and linoleum from their store but Slock changed with the times. Congestion made it impossible Tor customers to pick up purchases no one cared of tug a Roll of linoleum five blocks. There were not Only the hippies whoever hey Are. But there were probably More people who came to look at the hippies which was the strangest phenomenon i could Ever imagine Mosias recalled. There would be people who would 5il in heir cars either Wilh their windows rolled up or Down depending on How secure Thoy fell taking pictures then there were the ones no were More Brazen who would actually get out and walk the streets. There d be Mother father children clean Cut coming to see it. And i d hear if i Ever catch you Here a bus company s hippie hop tour of the Haight promised the Only foreign tour within the Continental limits of the United Stales " Holcombe recalled Wal chm television in a hotel Tobby in Paris where he was vacationing in the summer of 67 and seeing his store at Haight and Ashbury Flash on the screen. By Hal ume. When the whole world seemed to have caught wind of Itie Haight Ashbury happening. The scene had already begun to deteriorate All kinds had been lured to the Haight Many of them hardly gentle Flower children there were the people who were just looking for a fasl Lime or a Good Lay or hard drugs or  Cohen said there were takeovers of the Streel that caused the police to come Oul and tear Gas everyone. If became almost a weekly occurrence among the latecomers was Charles Manson who moved to the Haigh in april 1967 with an entourage of women then known As Charlie s Girts " Smith who knew Manson then said there was no hint of the violence to come to was talking peace and love and he had a theory society corrupted and you had to get Back to a child like state the doctor said. There was a tremendous tolerance for weirdness in the Haight Ashbury then. So he was t thought Olas crazy rather As kind of  Appolo there was a tremendous tolerance forwardness in the Hal tit Ashbury. Charles Manson was t thought of crazy Rattler us kind of  the paranoid delusions and violence did t begin until Manson and his followers moved to soul Hern California in jury 1967 and began taking am Palaminos of Speed Smith said. In August 1959, Manson family members acting under his orders killed actress Sharon Tate and four House guess and. The next night to ally grocery owners Leno and Rosemary Labianca whal happened to the Manson family on one level he said is what happened to the whole Counslor culture dream by the time Manson left Ifie Haight looking Lor a place to get away irom the  Asho Pul it Speed and other drugs mowed freely in Iho a nigh from mid-1967 to mid-1968, there wero60drug-feialed murders and 21 businesses closed on Haight Strewl Twenty years later the Streel named Lor California s 10th governor. Henry h Haigh buzzes with renewed Energy alive on any Given Day with shoppers and workmen and volunteers circulating petitions Tor one cause or another the grateful dead still serve up Marathon concerts to fanatic followers in 60s regalia All tie dyed and beads. Charles Manson is in prison along with Many of his family shopkeepers Holcombe and Mosias still serve their customers like their fathers before i hem. Smith s free clinic still serves the cily. Ackling cocaine abuse and aids summer o leva productions the group of artists and peace activists sponsoring an All beings Parade in the Haight on june 21, the first Day of the summer of love say they want to celebrate the positive aspects of the Era and show flow Hoy have shaped the 80s the feeling is that a seed was Ptan Lod during that time from which a number of thirus have  said Bill Mccarthy Whoso group also plans a the 20th anniversary of the summer of love Celebration on Cpl. 12. Ii was the beginning of the Anli War movers it. The women s movement the environmental movement the Gay and lesbian movement " the raised consciousness of one generation has been passed to the next Many survivors of the summer of love believe today More than 400 free medical clinics nationwide Are modelled alter Smith s children March alongside parents in demonstrations against nuclear weapons and u 5 involvement in Central America. Right now we re looking at band Aid. Live Aid farm Aid where people Are Starling to look a i the planet and figure out what they can do to take his Rock n Roll and help reduce  said Wavy Gravy an older statesman of the hippie scene he added. I Sec a lot of Young people who feel they were cheated because Thoy did t gel to experience the 60s i Tell them Hal the 80s Are the gos k years later old  and a new Bird " in the Haigh Ashbury one old Feather is Back. Someone has tacked up an Aileen alive Streel sign. Not like someone Cid 20 years Belore the word love Over Haight " hippies turned out on a 120,1986 1967 to Parade around hug tit Ashbury. Until cops called a halt and began arresting them for unlawful Assembly. The stars and stripes page15