Post #559026 by Lokepa on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 4:41 AM

The Dream Is Over (a long time ago!!)

By the end of the summer, the Haight-Ashbury scene had deteriorated. The incessant media coverage led the Diggers to declare the "death" of the hippie with a parade. According to the late poet Susan 'Stormi' Chambless, the hippies buried an effigy of a hippie in the Panhandle to demonstrate the end of his/her reign. Haight-Ashbury could not accommodate the influx of crowds (mostly naive youngsters) with no place to live. Many took to living on the street, panhandling and drug-dealing. There were problems with malnourishment, disease, and drug addiction. Crime and violence skyrocketed. By the end of 1967, many of the hippies and musicians who initiated the Summer of Love had moved on. Misgivings about the hippie culture, particularly with regard to drug abuse and lenient morality, fueled the moral panics of the late 1960s.

...and don't forget to wear flowers in your hair! LOL! i actually remember this event... here's a burnout story for ya: my girlfriend's brother went out to the Haight... wound up panhandling... took waaayyyyy too much acid and wound up in the mental ward... his mother had to fly out from NY to go get him cause they wouldn't release him on his own... i guess he was one of the lucky ones in the long run..

[ Edited by: Lokepa 2010-10-11 09:03 ]