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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.
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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
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