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SAN FRANCISCO - Bags of bodies arranged San Francisco's Golden Gate Esplanade for the 50th Ceremony ceremony of the Summer of Love, that included a amazing ablaze appearance Wednesday and a chargeless four-hour concert featuring abounding of the allegorical bandage associates who helped change music history in 1967.
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The backyard in advanced of the iconic San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers was abounding with a bodies antic tie-dye t-shirts, flowers in their hair, and bright apparel in admiration to the styles of the Sixties.
"Fifty years ago bodies came actuality to accurate themselves and to anatomy association at a absolutely important time in our city's history and we are abutting accomplished to present tonight," said Phil Ginsburg, the administrator of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, which helped sponsor the event.
For some, it was an affecting moment to reflect and remember.
"It was a renaissance time, aggregate was new. Aggregate was amazing and fun," said Rusty Goldman, a San Francisco built-in who showed up in a top hat and bright glasses.
"I acquainted like I was in paradise, blessed paradise, with all the music, and all the blessed bodies and all the colors and the abundant acclimate and the smiles," said Eleanor Levine of San Francisco.
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The 1967 Summer of Adulation brought bodies from about the apple calm to San Francisco, and Golden Gate Esplanade and Haight Ashbury became a mecca for music and art.
It was an activation of a generation.
Fifty years later, the chargeless concert brought abounding of those music legends and their admirers back. Performing on date were associates of Jefferson Airplane, the Chambers Brothers, Moonalice, ALO, Ratdog, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Tarnation, Katdelic, Terrapin Family Band, New Monsoon, and Motherhips, amid others.
Steve Parish was the Grateful Dead's alley manager, and said on this 50th ceremony celebration, it was a accolade additionally to artists such as Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin, concert apostle Bill Graham, and others whose alcohol alive on.
"They would be honored," said Steve Parish, the Grateful Dead's alley manager, "Jerry consistently said annihilation that gives you pride in what we did...we adulation it... and anybody on ceremony other's shoulders."
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Pete Sears with Jefferson Starship performed for the crowd, canonizing an era that afflicted history
"It absolutely resonated, bodies absolutely analytic ascendancy and analytic the war in Vietnam," said Sears.
Ben Fong Torres, the music analyzer and above Rolling Stones editor helped emcee the concert and said the Summer of Adulation created a anarchy in the music business.
"The music generated by the Summer of Adulation and abounding of these musicians...signified a change in attitude appear music itself, the music industry," said Fong Torres.
For adolescent ancestors who abounding the ceremony celebration, it was a adventitious to allotment in the love.
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Alvaro and Emily Ramirez flew in from Maui with their own annual child, three ages old babyish boy Mosaic, to accompany their accompany for the celebration.
"San Francisco Pride is this Saturday and back this came up we afflicted our flight to appear actuality for this moment," said Alvaro Ramirez.
"I adulation the music, the appearance the freedom, that everybody was experiencing at the time." Michele DeBello who came into the burghal from Fairfax.
Donna Ewald Huggins of San Rafael showed up with her Summer of Adulation Rolls Royce covered in flowers, artwork, concert posters and autographs from iconic stars such as Jimi Hendrix.
By nightfall, the army watched as the Conservatory of Flowers was aflame in a colorful, consciousness-expanding ablaze appearance of annual mandalas and butterflies. A accolade to the abiding access that annual ability and a summer of adulation has had on bodies and history.
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The canicule of the Summer of Adulation were aboriginal and to be a allotment of that, makes me feel I'm a allotment of history," said Goldman.
The Summer of Adulation ablaze appearance will be on affectation from dark through midnight at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate esplanade through October 21st.
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