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The Hippie Tour

1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S.

Aired 07/26/2017

American Experience

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.

Aired 07/26/2017

Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Summer of Love: Chapter 1

Video has Closed Captions

Watch the opening scene of Summer of Love. (8m)

Free Love & Free Stuff

1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.” (2m 24s)

Mind-Altering Drugs

Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s. (3m 5s)

Summer of Love

A portrait of the Haight Ashbury district at the height of the hippie movement. (30s)

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