Posts Tagged ‘Summer of Love’
History of the Summer of Love – 1967: Part 4, Rock & Roll
Reading Time: 7 minutesHISTORY OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE – 1967: PART 4, ROCK & ROLL It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play They’ve been going in and out of style But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile Rock & Roll in the late ’60s was exemplified when The Beatles…
Read MoreMy Top 5 Articles of 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy Top 5 Articles of 2022 These are the Top 5 articles from my blog this year based on the number of reader views at billpetro.com: 1. History of Telemachus The story of the monk who caused the Roman gladiatorial games to be ended upon his martyrdom on January 1, A.D. 404. It is often told…
Read MoreHistory of the Summer of Love — 1967: Part 3, Drugs
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE — 1967: DRUGS When I was a Resident Assistant at U.C. Berkeley in the early ’70s, a local police officer I knew gave me a tour down nearby Telegraph Avenue. He told me: “All the major drug deals on the West Coast go down within a two block stretch…
Read MoreHistory of the Summer of Love — 1967: Part 2, Sex
Reading Time: 5 minutesHISTORY OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE — 1967: PART 2, SEX “Make love, not war” and the call for “free love” represented a cultural shift in mores in 1967. Even The Beatles sang “All You Need Is Love.” If the ’60s was the time of the “sexual revolution,” the natural question is: who won? There were…
Read MoreHistory of the Summer of Love — 1967: Part 1 – Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE — 1967: SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL The Summer of Love was fifty-five years ago, the Summer of 1967, with its epicenter in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It was a summer of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Both San Francisco and Liverpool celebrated 30-year anniversaries in 1997. While…
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