The tide of history swept through the nation and San  Francisco in the summer of 1967 as hundreds of thousands of young people converged on the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco with shouts of "Make love, not war," "U.S. out of Vietnam!" and "equal rights for all!" Ideals of peace, social justice and ecology have resounded from the Haight-Ashbury ever since. Sami Sunchild, owner-conservator of The Red Victorian Bed, Breakfast & Art declares, " I have long been aware of the impact on our culture of the spiritual and life teachings of Asia, of the gurus of India, but it is only since coming to the Haight-Ashbury that I learned of the reverse ideological migrations of "peaceniks," of ecologists, writers, artists and hippies to other parts of the world. The hippies who flooded out of the Summer of Love in all directions, to India, Europe, Australia, made an influence on those cultures that continues to resonate. Today more Americans and foreigners know that the Summer of Love occurred in San Francisco than know that the United Nations was founded here. In 1967 during the Summer of Love, at Haight and Belvedere streets, there was an upstairs Victorian hotel affectionately known as the "Jeffrey Haight." In these upstairs rooms the ideals of the Flower Children were discussed all night and experimentally lived out for that brief summer and, to some extent, beyond. Soon thereafter the drug dealers, the lost and lonely, the down-and-out took over and Haight Street's storefronts were boarded up. The lovely Victorian neighborhood faded into crime, ignorance and poverty. What of the Haight today? Folks come from all over the world to reminisce, and to tell each other how that one brief Summer of Love affected their lives. Over the big breakfast table at The Red Victorian, creative dreams and actions for the present and future of the world are discussed. Peace, ecology, entrepreneurship and yes, personal responsibility and power, are enticing subjects of the ongoing global conversation at today's Red Victorian. READ MORE ABOUT THE SUMMER OF LOVE IN THE RED VIC'S IN-HOUSE NEWSPAPER WHICH IS FOUND IN ALL THE GUEST ROOMS. The Red Victorian Bed, Breakfast & Art 1655 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 94117 Phone: (415) 864-1978 Fax: (415) 863-3293 hj Email: reservations@redvic.com Sami Sunchild Web site design © 2003