This In 1667, over 100,000 young people from across America flocked with a small neighborhood of

Haid Ashbury in the hills of San Francisco.

Save up all your bread and fly Trans Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.

The heady summer days that followed triggered a major cultural and political shift.

It was nothing less than a countercultural revolution that would change not just America but the world.

Walls move, mines do too on a warm San Francisco.

No one really knows what's happening in San Francisco, but this is where it's at.

Traditional home of the Way Out, today Mecca of Happy hippies who cracking the smooth

silhouette of America's materialism with that ultimate weapon with love.

On a warm sand ramp, siskin night. I'm Marco Wirman and I'm Marco Wirman and maybe like me you're too young to

really remember the summer of love and I've just heard about it from your

parents or maybe even your grandparents.

So tune in, turn on, and drop out for this BBC World Service program

as we look back at those hedonistic and innovative times

through the music and stories of people who were there

50 years ago.

San Francisco.

At this point we are going to leave Golden Gate Park to go into a

slight sojourn through the Hate Ashbury District of San Francisco.

In the summer of 1967, respectable citizens of San Francisco could take a bus tour around

Hayd Ashbury to see these strange new beings called hippies.

In fact, I would say that the last 18 months has seen a tremendous increase of the so-called hippies.

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