One thing for sure, that "Summer of Love" could not happen in San Francisco today, simply because the struggling artists and hippies could not afford the city anymore. In the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, ground zero for the counterculture 50 years ago, a two-bedroom apartment now rents for $5,000 a month.
San Francisco does still remain a magnet for young people, but even those with six-figure salaries in Silicon Valley complain about costs.
In the mid-1960s, rent in the Haight-Ashbury was extremely cheap.
Bob Weir remembers that the Grateful Dead shared a spacious Victorian on Ashbury Street. Janis HJoplin lived down the street. Across from her was Joe McDonald, of the Country Joe and the Fish band.
--Psychedelic, Man. --Coothip
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