A FADED "HIPPIE" DREAM Haight-Ashbury five years later - Jerry W Webb - April 1971

Jerry W Webb

The flower children are gone. This one-time Mecca for hippie youth is now a fading memorial to Utopian dreams. WHAT happened? WHY did it fail? To find out, we sent one of our reporters to the once-famed hippie capital of the world-HAIGHT-ASHBURY. He filed this sobering report. San Francisco, People used to talk about Haight-Ashbury. The underground press wrote about it. Scott McKenzie and Petula Clark made it famous in song: "If you are going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. For in the streets of San Francisco you're gonna find some gentle people there...." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library