What is san francisco like?

What was San Francisco like in the sixties?

• What was San Francisco like in the sixties? I listen to the song If Going to San Francisco and it was made in the sixties. Was the town a hippie town? What does song mean when it says All across the nation such a strange vibration People in motion There's a whole generation with a new explanation People in motion people in motion Did people wear flowers in their hair? And is San Francisco still a hippie town?

• Answer:

  For America any way, the turmoil of the 60s is undoubtedly linked to San Francisco in popular imagination. San Francisco was the LSD (drug) capital of the country. The city was the first to welcome bohemians, hippies, and feminist sexual revolutionaries. It was the nexus of the free speech movement on college campuses. It had a heavy role in mobilizing Northern "support" for the civil rights struggles in the South. And of course, the Vietnam War protests attached millions of young people to the streets of San Francisco. As for what ultimately happened to the hippies... the general consensus among historians is that they "sold out" Many returned to their hometowns in the late 1970s and 1980s to settle into suburban domestic life (scolding their kids for engaging in activities not nearly as rebellious as their own). Those who stayed in San Francisco bought up real estate and are now rich landlords with multi-million dollar properties. San Francisco itself has settled into the more conventional European social democratic model of governance. Certainly, there's no longer a focus on radical 'revolution' (from the ground up) called for by the hippies, only more limited legal 'reform'.