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On January 14, 1967, a crowd of more than 20,000 gathered on Golden Gate Park's Polo Fields for a “Human Be-In”, the prelude to San Francisco's "Summer of Love". Counterculture celebrities Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary addressed the crowd, with the latter exhorting participants to reject the traditional path to success (“turn on, tune in, drop out"). Attendees swayed to performances by the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane.
The “Be-In” attracted widespread media coverage—and droves of young people who flooded into the city by the thousands over the coming months with a heady mixture of utopian philosophy, sexual revolution, and psychedelic drugs.
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📸: Participants at a celebration in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in the summer of 1967. (AP Photo/File)

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