--- title: Summer of Love San Francisco Tour: See Video From 1967 description: In this clip from a documentary about San Francisco's far-out summer, see what visitors to the Haight-Ashbury would have seen back then. canonical: https://time.com/4856511/summer-of-love-tourists/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-20T13:00:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:24:17.631Z article:section: History og:title: Go Inside a 1967 Tour Bus as It Visits San Francisco During the Summer of Love og:description: In this clip from a documentary about San Francisco's far-out summer, see what visitors to the Haight-Ashbury would have seen back then og:url: https://time.com/4856511/summer-of-love-tourists/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e7bae056caa753e/6988d595cf40a8b97fc48895/summer-of-love.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2292 og:image:height: 1289 og:image:alt: Summer of Love og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Go Inside a 1967 Tour Bus as It Visits San Francisco During the Summer of Love twitter:description: In this clip from a documentary about San Francisco's far-out summer, see what visitors to the Haight-Ashbury would have seen back then twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e7bae056caa753e/6988d595cf40a8b97fc48895/summer-of-love.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Go Inside a 1967 Tour Bus as It Visits San Francisco During the Summer of Love > Sponsored content. 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At least, that was the gimmick used by a tour company that organized a bus trip around San Francisco for tourists to gawk at the hippies who had flocked to that city in [1967](http://time.com/topic/50-years-ago-this-week/). “The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco is not so much a neighborhood as a state of mindlessness,” TIME had [explained](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-03-17/page/37/) earlier that year, as the city sat on the cusp on what would come to be known as the Summer of Love. “The Erewhon of America’s ‘pot left,’ a 10-by-15 block midtown section, has over the past year become the center of a new utopianism, compounded of drugs and dreams, free love and LSD. It is a far cry from the original Utopia, envisioned some 400 years ago by Sir Thomas More, whose denizens demanded six hours of work each day: the 7,000 mind-blown residents of San Francisco’s ‘Psychedelphia’ demand a zero-hour day and free freak-outs for all.” As seen in this clip, from the [PBS American Experience](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/) documentary _Summer of Love_ — which is being rebroadcast on Tuesday in honor of the 50th [anniversary](http://time.com/3871232/1967-pictures-from-a-pivotal-year/) of that remarkable season — what was going on in San Francisco intrigued those who would not themselves have been interested in tuning in, turning on or dropping out. As filmmaker Gail Dolgin said in a statement about the project, the California city “seemed like mecca” for the young people looking for “a visionary new society.” It seemed more like the moon for straight society, with visitors hoping to catch a glimpse at the outside from the protective distance of a moving vehicle. After all, as TIME would note in a [cover story](http://time.com/4835155/1967-hippies/) on the movement, “perhaps the most striking thing about the hippie phenomenon is the way it has touched the imagination of the ‘straight’ society that gave it birth.” ## Transcript [ SOUND ] The sight seeing company began running a bus down Haight Street calling it the only foreign tour in the domestic United States. [ SOUND ] The hippies take many trips and the trip of a hippies Instantly, an unusual one. A world about themselves, and of themselves. And marijuana of course, with LSD, is being used. [ INAUDIBLE ] immediately, after a year Tourists who are even provided with definitions of Hippie slang. A teeny bopper is a hippie in early teens. Speed, a combination of heroin and methedrine. Stoned, high, as on LSD. LAUGHTER Straight, square, conventional. Trip is an LSD experience. Turn- on is to commence a far out experience. it says to turn on the LSD weed is marijuana We've seen the better of the worst of the hate /? Asbury District. 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