Flower power history, and the beginning of the hippies.
Flower power history began about September of 1966, when about thirty thousand people gathered in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. They had slogans such as, "Make love not War", "Peace and Love" and "Time for Peace". They put colored flowers in their hair which was a symbol of non violence and they wore pants and tee shirts with many psychedelic colours and peace signs all over their clothes. A few weeks later there was about sixty thousand people gathered in San Francisco for a love in organised by Timothy Leary, Ken Kersey and Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead. In July of 1967, there were more than one hundred thousand hippies living in Haight-Ashbury. They stayed all summer but were forced to moved out by the Police and local officials in the fall of 1967. Most of the people were from California but a great number came from all over the States. Many of the young hippies had run away from home to protest the establishment. The hippies protested the war in Vietnam and against any thing that was establishment. Many of the hippies went to Canada to avoid the draft and not be forced to go to Viet Nam to fight for a cause they did not believe in. The young people dropped out to turn on and to tune in to a new generation of people against material gains. The Flower power history was a philosopie where the words such as Acid came from, which was in fact LSD. The words Love In, Draft Dodger and Trip, were words thought up by the Hippies. The word Head Shop, was a place, where objects were sold and were created by communes of hippies living together. Continuing with flower power history, do you remember the song ? "If Your Going to San Francisco Don't Forget to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair", yes, that was a great song at the time. The time of the sixties and seventies has never come back and the music will probably never be the same. Like the hippies said in the seventies, "Peace And Love" to you and your loved ones.
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