If you're going to San Francisco --

[byronius]

I feel this song more than ever. And you're all welcome here.

[montana_hazeleyes]

1. You know, sometimes I sit and think, we who

were the sixties kids are now in our sixties. How did the time go so fast?

Regardless of what some people say, we did a lot of good back then and changed a lot of things that people take for granted now. And wanted to make life better for all, and the animals and the earth.

We went through a lot at a young age. The assassinations, the Vietnam war that was killing our relatives and school friends and thousands of other innocents.

And I look around now and see many of our age group who are in power now doing so much evil.

I guess I'm just old and thinking about stuff like that.

In my opinion the 1950s and 60s had some of the best music ever an lots and lots of it. Love this song and so many others like it. I have lived my whole life in San Francisco Bay Area and feel fortunate for that. Damn, sorry for going on and on.

[Tikki]

2. We just got back from San Francisco. Super nice people work there.

The Tikkis

[NBachers]

3. Live & work in the Mission District. I'm always grateful for the routine miracles of daily life here

[captainsardonicus]

4. Renaissance or Die

Thanks so for this tune, very moving to me even unto this day. I was radicalized during the Summer of Love, but the political/cultural (and, if I may say, spiritual) values expressed by that Renaissance eventually reached every corner of our culture. For me, the hippies represented a rare & necessary kind of mass awakening. Some of us oldsters have carried that spark for lo these many years.

Entering a period of national darkness, as we are now, makes the need for a similar cultural re-awakening more urgent than ever. Thanks again, byronius, and Peace & Love to all.

Here's an outtake from Pennebaker's great doc, Monterey Pop:

[yuiyoshida]

5. Represent!!!

[YOHABLO]

6. If you are going to SF bring lots of money! Most 60s kids sold out.

[byronius]

10. Chortle. Yeah, fuck those hippie scum!

[Bad Dog]

7. Never trust a hippy.

[byronius]

11. 'Hippies' are fine. 'Hippy' people, though -- wide hips are an immediate sign of pure evil.

I'm not a grammar Nazi. I'm a grammar alt-right.

[Bad Dog]

13. It's just a line from the song.

It makes a good point though, this huge baby boomer generation of the 60s was full of it. It didn't change the world, it lined its pockets and shat all over the subsequent generations. At least punk was honest, it made no promises.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Apparently the only ones 'going to San Francisco' are pretty

white women, mostly models.

I appreciate you posting this from back then, but man, the subject choices to go along with this song seem more LOOK magazine than reality.

(I least I think it was called LOOK magazine...my memory's a bit foggy on the 60's. )

[BumRushDaShow]

9. My nod to San Francisco

was having gone to a training course there and seeing a blank billboard at the top of a building near the Embarcadero spray painted in large letters with "FUCK BUSH".

It was not random that the U.N. charter was signed there and Gene Roddenberry put Star Fleet Academy there (on the site of the Presidio).

[McKim]

12. Make it Happen!

I was never a hippy because I didn't have enough money to just hang out and have my parents beg me to come back home and go to college. But I still have the revolutionary spirit. Boomers, this is our last chance to make it happen. It is time to stand up and fight against Trump. It will take work, courage and resistance. Many of us are retired with time on our hands, some cash and no jobs to worry about loosing. This is the opportunity of a lifetime! Make it happen!

[kebob]

14. --Watch Out For The Earthquakes!!!