The Hippie Tour
Clip: Season 29 Episode 12 | 1m 8s
1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S.
Teenie bopper, speed, stoned, turn on. These were just a few of the words that were defined for tourists as they took a bus ride down Haight Street in San Francisco during 1967 — the Summer of Love.
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The Hippie Tour
Clip: Season 29 Episode 12 | 1m 8s
Teenie bopper, speed, stoned, turn on. These were just a few of the words that were defined for tourists as they took a bus ride down Haight Street in San Francisco during 1967 — the Summer of Love.
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1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.” (2m 24s)
Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s. (3m 5s)
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