Preview: Season 29 Episode 12 | 30s
Summer of Love is a striking picture of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 — from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, unsanitary conditions, and widespread drug use that ultimately signaled the end.
Aired: 06/13/17
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1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S.
1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.”
Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s.
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