It was an epic moment in the decade of the 1960s when a generation of young people in the Haight Ashbury waved a rebellious flag in the face of mainstream America and tried to create a new world order. It was known as San Francisco's Summer of Love.

The Summer of Love was both a period of time and a state of mind. To some, it was defined by the months of June, July and August in 1967. But to many others, the Summer of Love was also about the larger experience of the Haight Ashbury in the mid '60s.

In its days of glory, the epicenter for this grand experiment was at Haight and Ashbury - two streets which intersected a straight universe and celebrated a hippie counterculture of sex, drugs and rock and roll and embraced the ideals of peace and love.

The hippies were offered inspiration by the beat generation of the 1950s by legendary figures Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and Mchael  McClure, beatniks who felt restless and alienated and who rebelled against the nuclear age and consumerism.

The Haight Ashbury was a neighborhood of cheap rents and old Victorians, a melting pot of students, artists, the working class and beats from North Beach.

Located next to Golden Gate Park, the neighborhood was nicknamed the 'Hashbury.'  For the disaffected, it was a new age Bohemia.