As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie-style clothing and behavior, converged in Haight-Ashbury during the summer of 1967. Across the West Coast of the United States and New York City, the Summer of Love occurred amid hippie music, hallucinogenic drugs, anti-war, and free-love movements.
Charles Weever Cushman, an amateur photographer at that time, wandered the streets of Haight-Ashbury, a thriving San Francisco neighborhood where cultures from different eras come together. Hippies and famous singers (including the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin) made Haight-Ashbury famous in the 1960s as the home of revolutionaries and cult leaders.
Cushman captured the culmination of a movement with his camera loaded with Kodachrome film. Through these vibrant pictures taken by Cushman, see what life was like for the hippies in Haight-Ashbury.
