Editing Summer of Love (section)

== Events ==
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=== New York City ===
In Manhattan, near the Greenwich Village neighborhood, during a concert in [[Tompkins Square Park]] on [[Memorial Day]] of 1967, some police officers asked for the music's volume to be reduced.<ref name=Hinckley /> In response, some people in the crowd threw various objects, and 38 arrests ensued.<ref name=Hinckley /> A debate about the "threat of the hippie" ensued between Mayor [[John Lindsay]] and Police Commissioner [[Howard R. Leary]].<ref name=Hinckley /> After this event, Allan Katzman, the editor of the ''[[East Village Other]]'', predicted that 50,000 hippies would enter the area for the summer.<ref name=Hinckley /><ref>[[The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans|Mark Jacobson]] [http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2007/33987/ Long Hot Summer of Love] in New York, from ''New York'' magazine</ref> 

=== California ===
Double in size of the Tompkins Square Park concert, as many as 100,000 young people from around the world flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, as well as to nearby [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] and to other [[San Francisco Bay Area]] cities, to join in a popularized version of the hippie culture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.net.info.nl/cohen/|title=Allen Cohen: San Francisco Oracle, Human-Be-IN, History of the Haight-Ashbury|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030301191305/http://www.net.info.nl/cohen/|archive-date=1 March 2003}}</ref> A [[Haight Ashbury Free Clinics|Free Clinic]] was established for free medical treatment, and a [[Give-away shop|Free Store]] gave away basic necessities without charge to anyone who needed them.<ref name="American Experience doc"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flavorwire.com/606202/gelatin-silver-portraits-from-the-summer-of-love-in-1967|title=Gelatin Silver Portraits from the Summer of Love in 1967|website=Flavorwire.com|date=May 27, 2017 |access-date=August 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fubiz.net/en/2017/06/23/photographs-of-hippie-culture-in-san-francisco-by-elaine-mayes-2/|title=Photographs of Hippie Culture in San Francisco by Elaine Mayes|website=Fubiz.net|access-date=August 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinterest.com/pin/348677196135471950/|title=The band performing at Fantasy Fair in early June 1967.... &#124; Jefferson Airplane & friends &#124; Jefferson airplane, Jefferson starship, Grace slick|website=Pinterest.com|access-date=August 31, 2019}}</ref>

The Summer of Love attracted a wide range of people of various ages: teenagers and college students drawn by their peers and the allure of joining an alleged cultural utopia; middle-class vacationers; and even partying military personnel from bases within driving distance. The Haight-Ashbury could not accommodate this influx of people, and the neighborhood scene quickly deteriorated, with overcrowding, homelessness, hunger, drug problems, and crime afflicting the neighborhood.<ref name="American Experience doc">{{cite video
 |people       = [[Gail Dolgin]]; Vicente Franco
 |date         = 2007
 |title        = The Summer of Love
 |work         = American Experience
 |url          = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/index.html
 |publisher    = PBS
 |access-date  = April 23, 2007
 |archive-date = March 25, 2017
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20170325104758/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/index.html
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref>

=== Denver ===
[[Chet Helms]], [[Barry Fey]] and others who were constructing [[The Family Dog Denver]] in the summer of 1967 also held a [[Human Be-In]], in Denver's [[City Park, Denver|City Park]], with the goal of harnessing the Summer of Love vibe to promote Helm's new Family Dog Productions venture, which opened in September, 1967. 5,000 people attended the Be-In, with performances by bands like the [[Grateful Dead]], [[Odetta]] and [[Captain Beefheart]]. [[Ken Kesey]] and [[Timothy Leary]] were also reportedly in attendance. As Denver native Bruce Bond states in the 2021 documentary ''The Tale of the Dog,''<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 16, 2017|title=The Mystery of the Family Dog, Denver's Most Storied Rock Venue|url=https://www.westword.com/music/the-tale-of-the-dog-tells-the-story-of-the-family-dog-the-rock-venue-9369088|website=[[Westword]]}}</ref> "It's not like the Summer of Love ended in Frisco. It just moved east, to Denver."