Hippy Days

I was always into music and as a teenager in the sixties I was a bit of a hippy.  I modelled my look on a cross between Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and Roy Wood of The Move but in reality, on pocket money and thirty bob a week for a Saturday job, I was a bit limited.  I loved all the psychedelic music of the time so when, twenty years ago, I found myself in San Francisco one of the places I had to see was the Haight-Ashbury area, the birthplace of the Hippy Movement.  I hadn’t realised before going that my visit coincided with the 24th Annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair so there was plenty to see and do, and I noticed when looking at the souvenir poster from the event that I bought that it was actually 20 years ago today.

I had a search through my old photos and managed to find a couple from the day that I took; a rather larger than life character who reminded me a little of Wavy Gravy as he was in the 60’s, and the sign on the street corner where it all began.  I’ve added them in extras.