62 year old here and I'm a 2nd wave baby boomer. Grew up in the late 1960's and though the 1970. I loved it and I miss it. Love from Marysville California

The only thing I take away from this, as far as the "love generation" goes is that for a very brief period in time, a certain segment of the 60s generation experienced a sort of naivete about how the world's problems could be overcome by simply coming together around the word, love. As naive as that maybe, you have to admit that there hasn't been such a generation since. So to their credit, I think these young people deserve to have their history and be complimented for engaging in behavior that, if anything, gave the world pause to consider an ideal we no longer seem able to imagine.

@Schuman4x

3 жыл бұрын

Another consideration, or another perspective - perhaps that of the counter culture, is the naivete that the geopolitical systems in place at the time were sustainable towards providing human rights for every person across the globe. Of course answers to these problems are never black & white, and the perspectives of each generation are vastly different from one another; challenging a system that many think they understand, don't understand etc.

@johnfalkenstine8377

3 жыл бұрын

We were young but not as naive as is the common assumption. For example I was 1-A in 1967. I knew young men that had already come back in a coffin and I had a friend who dropped out of school and was drafted. That had an effect on your thought processes. We simply "did not come together." We were often enjoying ourselves because for a young man, there was a bad thing coming. Also, school was affordable.

@tenbroeck1958

3 жыл бұрын

As someone who is likely a little old and remembers the hippies, I would say the "founders" of the Love Generation were not at all naïve, but rather there were hundreds of problems with the Levittown-as-America paid for by the military industrial complex, and there couldn't be hundreds of answers until there was one overarching & simple framework: compassion/love. It unified people to fight racism, war, etc.

@juancastillonb

2 жыл бұрын

yes... you just said that way ...you hit the nail in the head

@juancastillonb

2 жыл бұрын

it was not only one word ... there were 2 words : PEACE AND LOVE ... and their weight was awesome ... and yet is.

Thanks for your hard work and fairness, Dave. I was born in 1960, just greeted my first granddaughter, and I’m still enthralled by it all. Life is definitely worth examining. Love y’all 🌸🙏🏼💜😎🕊

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, George. Congratulations. David Hoffman filmmaker

Really appreciate your hard work putting together these great documentaries❣️

@michaelfuller2153

3 жыл бұрын

I visited a small town in Georgia in 1970, right after the Rock Festival there. The local paper showed a young couple walking down a railroad track...from behind...not a stitch on! Way past wacky! WHO really started all of this? I wish the whole story could be told. The Summer of love...led to Roe vs. Wade in1972 or 3. Think about that for a few minutes.

David, I’m a baby boomer, raised in a middle class neighborhood of small town America. Patriotism was a paramount element of our citizens and I subscribed to that ideology. Yet in the mid sixties I was also caught up in the music of the day. I loved the Mama’s and the Papa’s and their “California Dreamin” mentality and the 1967 “Summer of Love” in drug induced Hieght/Ashbury. I loved the music of popular bands such as Buffalo Springfield but especially Creedence Clearwater Revival, whose many songs were a protest of sorts of the status quo. I was torn by the message of the music on one hand and the required, absolute patriotism of my fellow townspeople. It was a difficult time. I played guitar, belonged to a band that played for weekly dances the music of the day, yet I had this underlying sense of the necessity of supporting my country. To be honest I have never, to this day, reconciled the two conflicting ideologies. I was drafted into the Army, served in Vietnam because my inherent patriotism demanded I do so. In reality, despite the message of the time, I was and am proud to have serve my country regardless of the popularity of that war. The times were confusing for many of us but that confusion should not negate the decisions we made at the time. We simply followed our hearts, whether patriots or resistors. I hold no animosity to anyone who did what they felt was right during a very difficult time.

@andytaylor5476

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was a dilemma. I came to hate the Vietnaum War and America's involvement. I was a a "hippie". I had hippie friends who went to Nam, not all came back. My friends and I supported those fighting. It was a terrible war. Thanks for your service.

@sarahdeshay1394

3 жыл бұрын

You seem to not get the true meaning of patriotism. David mentioned (professor) Howard Zinn in this piece, you should listen to what he has to say about patriotism. In my eyes Howard was the greatest American patriot ever, he spent his life educating the youth and was always on the side of the oppressed that’s what makes him a hero.

@dalegriggs5392

3 жыл бұрын

Sarah Deshay I don’t need you to speak to me about patriotism.

@dalegriggs5392

3 жыл бұрын

Haha Porter V I truly feel sorry for you. You have no idea what sacrifices have been made to enable you to express your opinion and your “hatred of the USA. Fine, move to Venezuela or Cuba, you will be much happier there I’m sure. Us “Old Fucks” will even pay for your exit from a country you hate so much.

@dgillett41

3 жыл бұрын

@Haha Porter V Easy to criticise, and foul language seems to come naturally to you, but do you offer any alternative? Amazing how many people are desperate to come to the US and UK and become 'dirty whores'. "Always look on the bright side of life". Good luck!

Yess more late 60s videos and hippie topics!!! I gotta pack me a bowl for this one, cheers and stay educated and medicated all💯🔥🌱🌻☮

Am a aging Hippie. Also a recovering addict. Trying to get the hi consciousness without the drugs. Hippie to me is someone who is aware of what is going on. Cares about the world and humanity. They try to bring about positive changes, without violence. Can chase financial security, while helping to bring about changes. ✌️💖 We were having Love Ins from 85 to 93, in Griffith Park Los Angeles.

In the 60's my family still lived in the Ozarks. My daddy was a farmer who raised 7 children..... We had a two room shack with a dirt floor.... Ofc, no plumbing, electricity, etc. We lived off the land and life was great. We moved to a Kansas City suburb in 68... My parents still didn't let us girls shave our legs and we had home-made dresses. The first few months was a nightmare.

@hawaiingirlbeth

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 77 and my mom made my clothes darn near sll of elementary school.

@thatgirlwhousedtohavereall5549

3 жыл бұрын

My mom didn’t want me to shave my legs or underarms either! What was up with that? So weird... Thankfully my dad stepped in & I was able to take care of things, but there was a month or more of turmoil in our house because of it. Ridiculous!

@aubreyjames8795

3 жыл бұрын

That is an amazing story and upbringing.

@jaklumen

3 жыл бұрын

I guess things change with the times, or, it's just individual preference. I mean, I rather have to encourage my wife to shave her legs and also her underarms, and I'm never sure if my 18 year old shaves those areas, or not. Even then, I'm mostly asking the missus to shave if those areas aren't covered, i.e. for the pool, for summer clothing, etc.

@TREVASLARK

3 жыл бұрын

Bonnie, It would please me no end to some day meet and chat with someone like you. You must be about my age or a little younger, but that's where the similarity ends. My family was very lower middle class, but the difference was that we lived in a bit cosmopolitan city. My parents were very liberal (not politically)and not religious. They divorced when I was tiny, and basically I grew up alone. It is nice not having someone telling you what to do, but it's not so great when no one cares much what you do !!

That sounded like Quicksilver Messenger Service in the background. The "West Coast Sound" or SF Sound was very important in the progression of R&R over the years. Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, they all had a distinctive sound banging on those Fender Telecasters. Jack Cassidy was a great bass player. For me the '60s really took off in '66 all the way until the Kent State shooting deaths in 1970. We really thought we could change the world and I still believe that love is the way to go. I see a softening of America somewhat from the hate that prevailed in those days. There are still many hateful people but others have changed to listening to other people and seeing why they are in such pain. We were willing to do whatever we thought it took to break down barriers, even to the point of living with two partners or in a commune where sex with anybody was OK if you wanted it. It didn't work of course. Too much jealousy and ego involved. We disliked money and thought it was the root of all evil. If you got into a higher state of mind, a higher consciousness, it was thought that we could rise to a new level as a society. Didn't happen. Not enough people went along with the idea. But we truly believed that we were saving the world with love. Cannabis and LSD only reinforced these ideas of oneness.

As a 70 year-old guy who was around in that era I can say that there was a lot of pretentiousness. Just look at the oddball hats and other various "look at me" styles. It was fashionable to talk about love and just be "far out". That moment in time did not last long because it was not _real_ . Having said all of that, I miss that time in my life. In the summer I would go down to the local public lake to swim and have a couple of cans of Stroh's beer, chase girls, go cruising in a '66 Chevelle, and play basketball at the park.

@GalileoSmith

3 жыл бұрын

You are what we used to call "a regular guy".

@JG-tt4sz

3 жыл бұрын

No matter what era people are born in, everyone misses their youth.

@LosBerkos

3 жыл бұрын

"Public lake" 🤣🤣

@alexander_the_great_1975

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the whole "love" thing is nice. But, people took it too far with the drugs, alternate lifestyle, and such. I can relate to "love one another". We can use the good things from these folks, why not?

@joanbradshaw333

2 жыл бұрын

@@GalileoSmith a regular guy or a straight but probably not a greaser and definitly not a head.

Thank you, David. I was only 11/12 in 1967, and never got sucked into being a hippie, but it was a good time to be love, to speak it, to act lovingly.

I was 17 in 1967 living in Montreal. We went everyday all summer to Expo 67 and had an amazing experience. Yes we were hippies but I remember so many good things from that time.

@andytaylor5476

3 жыл бұрын

I was a hippie then and went to Expo 67. It was great!

@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon

3 жыл бұрын

if you can remember then ya werent doing it right

@kevinmcgrath3431

3 жыл бұрын

Reformed White Knight those apartments were (are?) called Habitat. My dad worked on them. I was 10, expo 67 was fantastic.

@tenbroeck1958

3 жыл бұрын

Peace be with you

@AFaceintheCrowd01

2 жыл бұрын

We were living in Maryland and my dad took the family to Expo 67. We just loved it - it was so cheerful and optimistic. Futuristic in a really happy way that energized the participant. It was a marvelous experience. Later that year, we left the country and moved to London.

Thanks David Hoffman for everything. May god continue to bless you.

As a kid I was too young to be a part of' the '67 free love movement but i was in the Bay Area that summer and it was one of the best times of my entire life!

Interesting about the overuse of the word love taking away from the meaning of the word.

@1DennisK

3 жыл бұрын

I've felt love only a few times, and each time was when somebody died; my dad, my grandmother or my dog. When I've been in relationship with another living thing, there always existed, however remote, the possibility of one of us screwing it up beyond repair. Usually always, 'love' is conditional, and that doesn't really seem like love at all. To say "I really really LIKE you" is a lot more honest but doesn't sound nearly romantic. In my humble opinion, "I love you" is just a nice little white lie that we'll all just have to live with.

@lindamahrer1760

3 жыл бұрын

@@1DennisK : LOVE IS NOT JUST ROMANCE .. IT IS A BOND..LOYALITY ..IT IS CARING. IT IS GIVING OF YOUR TIME, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE - IT IS SHARING AT EVERY LEVEL IF IT COMFORTABLE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. WE GIVE, WE DO FOR OTHERS FROM OUR HEARTS. THIS IS WHAT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THY SELF IS.. IT ALSO REFLECTS THE GOLDEN RULE DO UNTO OTHERS AS WE WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO US. THIS IS GENUINE RESPECT & KINDNESS TO ALL LIVING THINGS AND CREATION , ALL OF HUMANITY, PETS, FOLIAGE, LANDSCAPE - THE BEAUTY. IT IS BEING THERE FOR OTHERS - STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE OFFERING A HELPING HAND OR OPENING YOUR HOME TO OTHERS WHO ARE IN NEED UNTIL THEY GET ON THEIR FEET. IT IS PROVIDING A PLACE FOR CHILDREN WHO NEED A HELPING HAND. IT IS HONORING A PERSONS CHARACTER/ INTEGRITY/ INNER BEAUTY... BEING GIVING..PROTECTING..HELPING..NOT BEING JUDGEMENTAL. IT IS A DEEP APPRECIATION OF ALL YOU COME TO KNOW AND THAT INCLUDES ( THEIR SKILLS, GENUINE LOVING, GOOD & KIND NATURES) IT IS ENJOYING AND APPRECIATING FAMILY AND FRIENDS. LOVING IS ALSO, A DEEP GRATITUDE FROM THE PERSON WHO HOLDS A DOOR OR SETS YOUR PLATE AT DINNER. IT IS RECOGNIZING THE TEACHER THE ONE WHO TAUGHT DISERNMENT..THE ONE WHO TAUGHT TO LET GO OF PETTINESS..AND CHILDISH THINGS.. THE ONE WHO TAUGHT THAT ONCE THERE IS UNDERSTANDING THERE IS FORGIVENESS...AND WITH FORGIVENESS COMES WISDOM...( IT ALSO, MEANS THAT YOU MUST LOVE, TRUST, RESPECT YOURSELF, BE SECURE WITHIN YOURSELF - KNOW YOURSELF, YOUR STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS- THESE QUALITIES AND PRAYER ..MEDITATION..OPEN DOORS...

@wariswaldo9790

3 жыл бұрын

Chop Tank Lovely words. I think a lot of times relationships start as I really, really, like you. But anyone who has stayed in a relationship through thick and thin and honestly gives their heart and seeks to serve each other and not always waiting to be served. Real partners, no dictatorships, Loyalty, trustworthiness and mutual respect over time blossoms into knowing Love. I feel bad for anyone who doesn’t get there or can’t relate to what I’m saying. Sounds like you know what I’m saying. It’s possible Love was there the whole time, but there comes a time when you really know it’s Love. You love and know you’re Loved.

@lindamahrer1760

3 жыл бұрын

@@dennissmith5037YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY 💯. EVERY EXPERIENCE GOOD OR BAD IS A LEARNING PROCESS- A LESSON LEARNED. LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS A SHOWER OF FLOWERS. IT IS THE YING and YANG. NAIVE..GULLIBLE.. TOO TRUSTING..IT IS ALL TRUE ESPECIALLY, WHEN YOU HAVE ONLY KNOWN KIND LOVING PEOPLE.. THE REAL SHOCK COMES INTO PLAY WHEN YOU REALIZE THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS A GRIM PLACE-. how do you handle it..one thing for sure one learns that little word Fear can be a blessing or a curse..it sends an alarm, a warning be aware ( this is the healthy fear). Instinctively there are many signals to protect. ( FEAR of the unknown, the what if's, doom & gloom insecurity is the damaging unhealthy fear) DISCERNMENT IS A MUST. ANOTHER KICKER IS WHEN LIFE TAKES A TURN: WISHES, DISAPOINTMENTS, IT COULD BE A SIBLING ETC., OFFER ENCOURAGEMENT, HELP ETC., ( at times nothing is appropriate) YOU STILL CARE but must step back or move on. NONE OF US CAN ALLOW OTHERS TO DEFINE US. I READ SOMETHING THAT STATED: WE ONLY GET WHAT WE PUT UP WITH. TRUTH ISN'T IT ?

@keithjohnston6861

3 жыл бұрын

We are now in the age of Aquarious that is why there is so much upheaval in the world. It is no different from an pieces person's beliefs compared to a aquarious beliefs. The pieces is about the best for the individual ware the aquarious is about the best for the community.

I was born in 1959 so I was just a kid through most of the 60's ...even so , I watched a Lot of TV back then in N.Y.C. after school and on weekends... and if you want to get an understanding of whats going on in a culture ...watching how TV producers decide to tell the story of that Era is always a really good way to understand what's going on... back when I was a Kid you got to see the 60's so-called free love and hippy stuff all the time on Kids TV shows but Hollywood always made sure that there were strong parental types in the shows that would pull the hippy kid back into line when they acted up with an appropriate dash of a laugh track thrown in to imply the whole thing was just a kid acting like kids always do. .... so those who did'nt live back in those days don't get this ..they see a few modern specials on TV about the 60's and think there was this massive social deviation from the Norms ......that just did'nt happen . What did happen was Madison Avenue Advertising houses saw a good thing to make money off of and helped produce this false notion that The 60's Hippy Generation was a bigger artistic and intellectual movement than it actually was ... part of this advertising ploy is when they brought on major narcissists and nonsense spewing hustlers like Rubin who was just the 60's version of a 90's Shock Jock ....this kind of nonsense caused bunches of shy and unsure kids still living under the psychological yoke of the 50's to think they could finally let go and have some fun to want to be part of this and through no fault of their own failed .... they failed not because their concepts were inherently wrong , part of their failure came about because very few people are bullshit artists like some of the obviously phony Beatniks were and just could've reproduce that silliness in their own lives ..and even more important is realizing that American Elite Power Players are perfectly happy with fads and new trends that make them money but they only let you go so far and won't let you rebel to the point where their money is endangered ...so to ensure that... this whole thing was taken over very early on by Hollywood and ad men who were thrilled that they could sell new TV shows and movies and produce tons of groovy clothes and lunch boxes ...but they also knew you did'nt want the society and youth to become anarchists or back to the land hippy types who wouldn't buy their products ...so they dropped showing the Rubin big mouth Types , focused on the Partridge Family Model of Trendy Cool Hippy lifestyles and continued through the early 80's TV shows being all Mod Squad and Cool but always carefully had a way to show the rebellious youth was foolish and needed to be sent to his room for a timeout...

I met Nancy Sinatra in Vegas in 1972, performed with a group in her Vegas show. She was funny, sweet, genuine and gorgeous! I almost knocked Bob Hope down rushing out the theater door as he was coming in to see her show. Bob was startled, but laughed. His hulk of a body guard not so much...

@dominysynclair

3 жыл бұрын

Cool story...

I remember that almost everything coming out of the media was so opposite of what we all saw and experiencing that we paid no attention to it. It was laughable

Wow I have never seen anything like this before. So raw and ahead of its time for TV. Love it !!

The all time classic " Surrealistic Pillow " was being listened to by all. Jefferson Airplane ruled the airwaves.

8:10. That guy with the mustache and sideburns makes some great points in the midst of the chaos. I thought all these segments were great and well handled by the interviewer David Silver. Really captures the moment well: 1967! Sounds like word got to Nancy's Dad...then it was game over!

I remember the "Diggers" a group in Boston, I think. I am from Boston and attended many a love in on the Boston Common. I am grateful to be alive today...

@041882

3 жыл бұрын

Grateful to be alive?

@deborahfairbanks4012

3 жыл бұрын

@@041882 yes.

@alwayslernin4400

3 жыл бұрын

@@Citadin some hippies got into politics and worked for change. We got rid of alot of pollution that way. I remember alot of filthy rivers that got cleaned up that way.

@nicolasrossi5978

3 жыл бұрын

There were diggers in San Francisco and other large cities too. I think they started in S.F

It is fun to hear other generations talking about how much fun we were having, how lucky we were with Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll when it was really a time of many unseen dangers ..Just having long hair and walking along a country road could get you hurt of worse. We were all just a few months away from the Mekong Delta and that was the impetus that drove our actions .

@user-pq1cj3hy3q

3 жыл бұрын

so what was the fuel, drugs and less restrictions from the law as well as less social pressure

@TheAaronir3

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah no I don't believe that. Your generation literally had it easy if you were white

@robertl.fallin7062

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAaronir3 Am white and I was aware of how bad things were for black people. Our ships corpsman (medic for most of you) told me the food onboard ship was not so bad especially since befor enlisting in the Navy he had never had more than two meals in a day while he was growing up in Jackson Ms.. The corpsman was awarded a silver star for duty in Vietnam edit: change "duty" for heroism .

@ryanjacobson2508

3 жыл бұрын

Violent crime was at its worst from 1990-1992. Most of us would much rather live in the 60's than the depressing and ugly era that started in 1990.

@Dentropolis

3 жыл бұрын

TheAaronir3; Pretty much everybody was white in those days, before they allowed in, or didn’t stop immigration legal or otherwise. Did everybody have it good then? No.

All we need is love... whatever that means anymore. I'm 69 yrs old and lived through all of this and I have no answers or hope.

@andytaylor5476

3 жыл бұрын

67- I feel the same.

@usefulidiom

3 жыл бұрын

At the expense of sounding like a religious zealot...seek Jesus. For real...my life was without hope as well until I sought Jesus Christ. My life has never been the same. God bless you and I pray you find hope, peace and the answers you seek. Hosea 10:12

@sadhu7191

3 жыл бұрын

Modern hippies went underground growing shrooms at home searching within. Lots of them today

@haroldhardrada7449

3 жыл бұрын

@MrHoppers002 Almost all the radical leaders of the 60's were from the silent generation. I tend to think their politics had something to do with them missing the Second World War. To prove themselves they had to downplay the success of their older brothers by showing they fought for a corrupt system.

@jamesb.9155

3 жыл бұрын

Still plenty of social experimenting going around the world but I don't know if Humans will ever evolve into something really harmonious before we all destroy this planet! There's too much corporate and nationalistic power playing going on and the stakes have never been higher and with an idiot like Trump making it to the WH it's hard to feel like we've been making 'progress'!

That was absolutely fascinating ! Thanks David 👍

Thank you so much for preserving and sharing footage of this generation. I believe many things influenced these times. Timothy Leary telling the young people to drop out and tune out. The Beatles,. Beatniks, Viet Nam war, communism, the birth control pill and of course drugs.

In 1967 I joined the Navy. It was a weird time, but not weirder than now.

Thank you so much for your videos! I love learning history on influences of ideas, societal changes, music, culture, fashion trends, etc. I love your channel 💖.

I really appreciate your correct identification of Howard Zinn. His anti-American history books unfortunately are being taught in most American schools today.

@ravineseder3133

3 жыл бұрын

Citizens deserve to hear the truth about their country, instead we're as brainwashed as communists about our own culture that few of us realize or see it. What kids are taught in history class is a very sanitized version of history, and one that celebrates US empire and expansionism. Yeah, I know, what's wrong with that, right? Well see what I mean?

Very interesting! This was from the year I was born. I see nothing much has changed. I didn’t want this clip to end. I wanted to see and hear more.

TYVM 🌟💖🌟 David Hoffman 1967 Nancy Sinatra David Silver British producer he was cut off. always love your videos David H.

This is very interesting. i was born in 1969 to Parents who were drug free uptight stick-in-the-mud People. They're still married to this day...

@kurtfoulke5130

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they had a good time before you crashed the party ?

@FLStelth

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. My parents married in 1964 and I was born in 67. They are still married today (soon to be 56 years) neither got into the hippie nonsense and were great parents to me and my siblings. My wife and have been married 24 years.

David, I'm constantly mind blow by the footage you share with us. BLOWN uh-way.

The british guy has a similar style of interviewing to the youtube channel 'all gas no brakes.'

@Orangeflava

3 жыл бұрын

That channel is hilarious. Andrew Callaghan has a good thing going and i hope it continues for a while!

@zeusapollo8688

3 жыл бұрын

Greatest joy

@knottsscary

3 жыл бұрын

I literally thought the exact same thing

Great commentary! I am glad Disney made the Love Bug movie. My favorite memory of the 1960’s movement. Of course, I was only 7 years old and was just interested in my morning cereal and playing outside.

@grantkruse1812

2 жыл бұрын

You didn't know the BEATLES ? Even as a 7 yr old, we mostly were into it...Too bad your parents never opened those doors for you...It's a weird wild wonderful world in the 1960s- but pretty f'd up these days-fossil fuels, you know....

Good one, David! Does give a strong sense of the many jumping in on the positive vibe rather than necessarily as a considered political decision.

I was born in 1955 and I remember how The Beatles changed the world. They were the spark that lit the fire of a social revolution. I guess it had been brewing for some time. Suddenly everything changed: the music, the clothes, the hair, the behavior of the people. It was more fun.

@johnricco5366

3 жыл бұрын

too young to have been part of this. in 1964 you were 9 lol. just barely a teen. real sixties influenced people were born no later than 1951 or 1952. had to have been hitting your teens by 1964 (beatlemania) if you were younger it wouldnt have meant as much and just been background noise. i was born in 1949 so the 1950s,which i remember,were mostly background noise to me,unlike someone born about 1942,who would have been entering their teens in 1955 when elvis and many 50s artists broke out.

@ellen4956

Жыл бұрын

@@johnricco5366 And yet they try to push the people born in '55 into the same cohort as "baby boomers"! I think those of us born in '55 are invisible to the world. We were not a part of the 60s cultural revolution, and those of us who tried to feed on the scraps left behind by the so-called revolution soon found out how hollow and meaningless it was. I went to see Haight & Ashbury streets and the surrounding neighborhoods in '72, and the people who hadn't become "Yuppies" had gone home or had become disappointed and burnt out.

Thanks again David. I have for years been putting together some ideas of what happened in San Francisco during the Sixties, which was obviously a pivotal moment for not only the country but ultimately the world. And I see what's happening on the streets today as a Sixties redux. I was in my young teens in San Rafael California. I saw it as a legendary time but also without any romanticism. To me darkness settled upon the whole scene quite heavily by 1969. Anyway I really appreciate these documents. Thanks for sharing David.

@akamano5

3 жыл бұрын

..I remember there was a parade ..the death of the Haight and the hippie movement..late 60ish... it was on the local news..hippies were marching down Haight with a cofin full of hippie stuff... posters , beads flowers etc..it was on the local news..

@Castropher

2 жыл бұрын

"To me darkness settled upon the whole scene quite heavily by 1969." Could you elaborate more on what you mean by this?

@classygary

11 ай бұрын

@@Castropher RFK MLK murdered followed by Kent State Nixon re-elected the Manson B.S. Altamont Fest going off the rails Acid Casualties The Beatles broke up and an escalation of the war as the exclamation point ad infinitum . Things definitely shifted gears going into the Seventies . Tis every season turn turn turn .

I never new the hippies had a distinction from the love generation. Wow!

You have Abbie Hoffman on film here and no one seems to be catching it. He was very young in this film, wearing a dark hat during the circle interview that takes place towards the end.

I would love to see a show like that!

Very interesting. The more things change the more they stay the same!

Dave.... this is great and I appreciate your work. This film shows that every generation has their share of malcontents. The only difference now is that one political party is pandering to the malcontents.... the people in this film are completely mild mannered and tame as compared to today. Our democratic way of life is threatened to a greater degree in 2020 than 1967.

@andytaylor5476

3 жыл бұрын

yes!

I graduated high school in 1970, and I was not part of the love generation or hippies. Felt like I belonged in the 1950's.

In the year 1967 I was 11 years old in Canada. Because I was 5 ft. 8 1/2 at 11 years old it got very problematic whenever outdoors in the city where we lived. Most of all whenever trying to walk outdoors with a female relative friend in another city at a family function special occasion there. My parents were fearful for me as a result. In contrast I was a self-confident fool trusting in my ability to take charge if something were to go wrong after growing up the oldest with 2 siblings close in age who just so happened to be male. Since my father as a child at around 6 gave me and my younger siblings 3 sets of boxing gloves and set up a punching bag and from the same age were starting to learn about how to ride horses at the same age when not learning how to box we were climbing trees on weekends on my grandparents and in the winter tearing around on ski-doos. My brothers grew to be at age 14 - 6 ft. 4 soon enough - or so they thought. In the early 1970's one of my brothers by the name of Lyle got beat up in a road rage incident once only becuase of his long hair and because he too was a self-confident fool like me at the time when someone kept on pointing out to hm something was wrong with the rubber tires on his dump truck which my 2 brothers purchased by saving their money from paper routes and for doing farm chores to buy, thanks to a family friend by the name of Barbara Hesse's mentoring of them, silver coins to save before silver coins were no longer in circulation. Good thing Lyle learn enough boxing to get out of that one. Sometimes I wished to have continued on in the free martial arts classes in the highschool we 3 went to. Then the rest is history I guess.

The Diggers! They were the real deal. Love this, Mr. Hoffman. Thank you!

Love your work, I was born in 1960 ✌💛🤟🕊💒 kinda in the middle of 60's and 70's growing up guess I'm a boomer 🤣🤗💟 thanks for your videos. God bless you....

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. David Hoffman - filmmaker

Millennial here, can I just say I love these videos. My parents are baby boomers and seeing their generation is really neat to me because I see a lot of similarities actually. The first clip when he’s interviewing kids reminds me of KZread videos where they ask very similar questions. The kids all hanging out and being weird and quirky is a lot like kids at comic cons and on tiktok. The later interviews again are definitely things you don’t see on tv now but you’ll see them on KZread/tiktok. I love this and I think we all need to realize that as different as our fads and historical moments were we all go through similar cycles in life. There’s always a new movement with the young adults, there’s always push back from the elder generations and the world will always evolve to new mind boggling heights we could never imagine. At the end of the day I think we do need to remember love. As naive as it may be, compassion and consideration for every being and their experience is what gives us our humanity.

Thank you for bringing us to yesteryears. 😎😎😎

Brilliant. I really enjoyed this. These young people just wanted to be free and let loose. One has to consider that the generation before them and the generation before them were so restricted by convention, they went and fought in 2 world wars. I agree with one of the girls interviewed when she said that the older generation were"fixed up". I assume she means conditioned into a way of thinking, doing, living. The young people here are trying to break out of that box. Much love and warm regards always David. Thank you a million times.💗💗💗

@dgillett41

3 жыл бұрын

It's called 'taking responsibility'. Look around you at the results of free 'love' and 'letting loose'.

@leatherandtactel

3 жыл бұрын

The hippies were conditioned by the media and the record industry, none of these was a natural process. Thinking outside of the box ends up being thinking inside this new box.

@alwayslernin4400

3 жыл бұрын

@@ReformedWhiteKnight some people with "moral standards" are far from moral. That was the point. Like those moral people that sent kids to Vietnam. Always question authority, that is what our country was founded on. People were conditioned to accept whatever the government said. JFK assassination, pollution, Vietnam all made it impossible to ignore.

I attended college in the San Francisco bay area during the 90s, right in the middle of the rave scene. At it's best, before it was co-opted by profit-minded promoters, I feel like it mirrored some of the culture, ideas and aspirations of the free love scene of the late 1960s. I spent countless nights following hints and clues down dark side streets in the Mission, Haight Ashbury and the wharehousesy that dominated South of Market. We'd pass through unassuming doors into a dark and empty storefront where a disembodied whisper would calli us to the back where a staircase hidden beneath two large metal trap doors in the floor that opened to reveal a basement busily decorated with art and graffitti, each room filled with the sounds of a different DJ or group earnestly performing their particular take on EDM .The whole space would fill with partygoers dancing in outfits that popped up hnn mnnn I p with unwarranted confidence and dystopian optimism. Riuian empty commercial building in the Mission district or some giant warehouse south of market where we'd dance and chat and laugh and make new friends until the sun came up, telling us it was time to catch the first train back down the peninsula to sleep the day away in our dorm rooms.

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! You’re so cool!!! I have been watching your videos for a couple years now and finally my Grandpa Freeman showed up at 7:14 in this one!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! COOOOOOOLLL!!!

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. What is there to be critical of? Every generation tries to leave the matrix. Every generation tries to get it right. Give us twenty years and we'll look approximately as ridiculous, if this is ridiculous...

I'm 37 years old consider myself conservative and I love your stuff Sir!! I've been following you for about 6 months now

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that

@BBURKE617

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker you are wlecome👍

I just love the opportunity to revisit, re-cognize, and re-member the experiences, the mindsets, the times ... the openings, beginnings, and the shear innocence in planting and sowing of the seeds of the enlightenment of a generation, and those generations that follow, who attend to the perspectives, ideals, hope, and the love that catalyzed an awareness ... an evolution of consciousness ... that continues, slow by slow ... on its eternal path toward improvisation. "We are an unfinished product of an evolution that is yet to be." ~ Teilhard de Chardin ~ ... To Be Continued... 😷👍👍💓 Thank you!! 😁👀😷👌

It's crazy that those kids in the very beginning are all probably Grandmas now.

@annedavis6090

3 жыл бұрын

They are great grandmas now

@juliebraden4865

3 жыл бұрын

@@annedavis6090 Not great grandmas unless they started having kids very young. I'm 62, born 1958. The film was made in. 1967. I was 9 that year. The girls look about that. If 3 generations in a row start having kids by 20 yrs old. So technically, but not that likely for most. Gimme a break! Bored due to lockdown. 🙄

@timraldo2249

3 жыл бұрын

Even the men are grandmas now

@juliebraden4865

3 жыл бұрын

@@timraldo2249 OMG! Good one Tim! 😂

@Anonymous-wb3nz

3 жыл бұрын

@Gene Cox Uh, not everybody pops out kids....

Fantastic

I come here now and then and it’s always a well worth time. I don’t watch everything but the videos I do watch has that pure unfiltered quality with the pre and post commentary by you David. And that is refreshing and interesting.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying so. David Hoffman - filmmaker

@pronemanoldbutyoung5548

3 жыл бұрын

David Hoffman No I really mean it 🙂

It was the best of time and worst of times. Hahaha. That was great TV, David Hoffman.

What happens in Hollywood, and what is shown on screen, definitively affects the entire world. I wonder if those people shown here, actually met their objectives, and are now enjoying their lives as they envisioned them to be...

Very interesting, im a veteran, VIETNAM, VERY HARD TIME IN OUR TIME,It was said ALL WE NEED IS "LOVE "🖖🖖👋

I'm not sure what's going on but I found it very interesting seeing people interview of back then. The quality was too good! I'm very interested in this David Silver interviews

Thank you David!

Beautiful ❣️🙏☘️

I wish I could have experienced what it was like even just for a day

@oliviadriver1362

3 жыл бұрын

I came of age in the 60's and it was fantastic! The music, the living, the loving, it was wonderful.

@azazelone905

3 жыл бұрын

The hippie gen were just spoiled and bored. They were wrongly educated brats in my mind. As hypocritical as they come. We had sort of a hippie revival in the 90’s when I was a teen. We wore the clothes, played with “hackie-sacks” while skipping class and smoking weed. Listened to all the classics and did a bunch of shrooms and acid too. Dock martins etc.... I came to realize early on that it was bullshit. Laziness all around. The only good thing that came out of it was the art. Which has its place in the world yeah but the hypocrisy I couldn’t stand. Hating on corporations while eating a big Mac with one hand and playing PlayStation with the other. Note: it’s the hippie gen from the 60’s that pretty much govern academic bodies today. And look what the universities are producing... They’ve done more harm than good. Love my ass.

@louwster3000

3 жыл бұрын

@freedomisnocrime the washed and shaved pedos running the world are the generation from the 60's dumbass. The 60's had way more wars than they do now anyway. Everyone looks back fond of times when they where young, dont think you are special.

Gosh! I'm 35yrs. young 😉 and I just love your content. You are a very good story teller and easy to listen to.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

Thanks man. I love your views on these moments in time.

This is where many of our current problems come from in the USA.

I traveled the Grateful Dead for 15 years. I was born in the late 60s. We need this type of power right now more than we ever have in our entire lifetime. Love is the only thing that it's going to fix what's happening around the world right now. The next four days or so are going to be the last days of the five planets in retrograde and more than 20 million people around the planet are and meditating on peace. Thank you, my brother because this is exactly what the planet needs to see right now. Ty kind sir ♡

Thank you for putting a spotlight on the Sixties generation. It is an underappreciated time period, especially among the younger, rightwing channel creators that comprise most of KZread. There is literally a movement among a lot of them to convince each other in groupthink that “boomers are bad people.” Many of them have tried to spread the belief that being a “boomer” means that you are an evil person. It’s a bizarre version of “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” I’ve seen plenty of those insipid videos. If anything, many boomers risked everything, because of their desire for others to have justice, and that people care about more than just keeping up with the Joneses. Many of the Sixties generation became activists for good causes, like the environment and equality. Young rightwing creators hate that, and they criticize activists, and call them “social justice warriors.” It is my belief as a product of the Sixties that we are all supposed to make this world a better place.

@classygary

11 ай бұрын

Thinking of yourself as a “product” of anything, time or one… isn’t ever a good perspective.

i was born in late '67. it's really interesting to see what people were doing the year i entered the world.

You know... Odds are that many of these people are alive today. I would really like to see them watching this video of themselves. It would be great to hear what they have to say about their attitudes back then and how they feel about life today in their so called old age. Especially now that they have experienced the world post 1960's. Thanks for the upload. Take care. sincerely, Dean O. :-I

Thank you so much for sharing your work sir!

David, I appreciate everyone of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your life and work with us.

Hi David! This was fabulous! TY so much. All over Nancy Sinatra? What a waste of a talent.

Just now realizing that most hippies were privileged college kids. Reminds me of when I learned flappers were only super rich women. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hated the narcissistic jerk at 7:05. Fell in love with the woman at 4:18. Hope she had a good life.

@owlcowl

3 жыл бұрын

The jerk is none other than Abbie Hoffman. No relation to David, presumably. A lot of those folks did have a good life (provided they didnt succumb to drugs), better than many of their peers, and given their youth, most of them are still around.

@1DennisK

3 жыл бұрын

@@owlcowl Thanks. He looked like somebody I thought I should recognize. I didn't want to though because he was talking like such an ass. When I was in 9th grade back in '71, I thought his 'Steal This Book' was the coolest thing ever. He died from prostate cancer as I recall. That probably wasn't much fun.

Thank you David for such an illuminating piece on that time. It is usually romanticized and cleaned up. Lots going on.

I'm a baby boomer my self. This year I will turn 60. And I missed the love generation, I was born in 1962 and wouldn't be old enough to enjoy anything until the 1970's. I was a teenager in the middle of the 1970's.

The words "I Love You" are meaningless if they have been said a lot, only if you depended only on the words themselves to be the source of Love, rather than your own heart.

I am 19, and no matter where we stand it seems that the drama or the confusions are just what they have to be to create dynamic shifts. I don’t agree with the way a lot of those in my generation are doing things with drugs and straight up carelessness, but I can see that there is always something in it that defines our next steps.

I was 12 then, and traumatized by the assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK. Surely, this culture implant was a CIA brainchild. Thanks David, great historical snapshot💕

@BunnySlippers82

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. And some of what came out of the 60s movement has been the worst thing that's ever happened to our society.

@hawaiingirlbeth

3 жыл бұрын

👍Yep

@Gruliet

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean CIA brain child?

@mysticallymerry5523

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gruliet I think they're referring to the ushering in of Liberalism. NWO agenda.

@akristen4971

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gruliet if you research the CIA and GHW Bush there is enough evidence of an organized CIA conspiracy to do these assasinations for me to believe this. Bush was the CIA head and top dog in secret societies that JFK wanted purged. When asked where he was the day JFK was killed he says he doesn't remember, yet there is a photo apparently of him in Dallas that day. In the '80's he did a speech in which he chuckles as he says "one deranged madman" did it. There is more but I am not here to convince you, only to offer an answer to your query

I do remember the summer of 67. The people around me seem to mellow out. The ones close to me were not quite as judgemental. The people I worked for were a little more tolerant. After the Labor Day holiday, the crap started up again. I let it be known the first chance I get, I am out of here. Gone like a wild goose in Winter.

Personally I became conscious . I became aware and wanted a better world. I see there were other ways and solutions i never thought of. I paid attention and listened. I watched in horror through the years as most the long hairs changed mentally back again and became the problem taking advantage of this true loving caring generation. It was quite the experience.

David, good sir, I will simply say that the clip gives more nuance and context to the counterculture movement than I had been exposed to. At the end of the day, I still think the counterculture was part of a social experiment of a certain intelligence agency, but, I think this tells me that people got involved for a variety of reasons. I thought it interesting that one interviewed suggested that hippies were all homosexually oriented; at least it was him saying "I'm not involved that way and don't give me that label." His comments on Communism and Marxism were also interesting. I think such ideologies WERE involved, but again, I'm getting the impression that people got involved for a multitude of reasons that weren't all easy to pin down.

Amazing! Big shock of cultures/generations... Maybe the first big echoes of the post modernity that came with the atomic bomb in 45

I noticed a elderly lady watching what was going on. I wish he had interviewed her!! Thank you for sharing this piece of history with us.

Man I bet you can tell some awesome stories. Seems you have had an adventurous life. Great video!

Hold up, if thats Michael Lang that stands up when asked are you communist then this is beyond historic television. Its a national treasure. Two years later Lang organizes WOODSTOCK. This early video would be beyond significant.

@tammyjoma

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think it is Michael Lang as he didn't seem to have a cleft chin like the guest. Good thought, though. They also both seemed to have a desire to help & serve others.

@tammyjoma

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes, I see that, Pontiac Soviro. Thank you. I wonder if he and David Hoffman are related.

@phillong7009

3 жыл бұрын

tammyjoma look like berry Melton

@keef7224

3 жыл бұрын

That’s definitely not Michael Lang.

@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921

3 жыл бұрын

@@keef7224 look again

Interesting the “Summer Of Love” preceded some of the most tumultuous years in our recent history 1968 and 1969. Now we have the Seattle mayor calling 2020 the new summer of love, I think not. However there is no doubt our country is entering in more tumultuous years. I am grateful my parents were very straight and considered square by the hippies. I love the extra story regarding David Silver and outing Nancy Sinatra’s various physical augmentations. Let’s say her papa Frank had a lot power in those days. Heads would and did roll.

I always enjoy your documentaries. Thank you David for your insights.

David, this was so good. What’s striking is how well-spoken the wo/man on the street was at that time. Why does the public seem like a pack of illiterate slobs when shown on TV today? Maybe it’s lack of education. David Silver was wonderful, too. Great stuff!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZread is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

@AFaceintheCrowd01

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Happy to oblige.

I love watching your videos it’s like hidden history. A lot of what we are taught about these times feels like a general picture but you’re video allows me to see different angles. It’s not just the professional side of it but the goofy and scary parts between that has been forgotten and only remembered by few. Thank you very much for uploading everything.

As a Millennial, I appreciate alot of the personal freedoms we have today that the hippies gave us, however I still think the movement did more harm than good. The morals they discarded is unforgivable.

Love you David!!

David, doing a juxtaposition of your vignettes and material about the past with the events in the world today could give this material a new life and a more powerful exposition. I love your commentary. Thanks for sharing these.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

An interesting idea, Martin, but challenging as you probably know. Using present-day material is copyrighted by someone else and KZread will quickly pull down my ability to present advertising, which is how I am making a portion of my living. Using still photographs from the present might work but currently I leave it to the viewers to see the connections between the past I am describing in the present we are living. David Hoffman - filmmaker

Thanks for this. I was 14 and just entering the hippie scene in upstate NY. I was a misfit in my catholic school who protested the war during the moratorium and was seeking my tribe. I found it in the park with others who were often much older than I. I have never felt such a sense of belonging and transformation. I took LSD and was never the same. It was the start of my critical view of society and what it could be if we tried to change it. We succeeded in many ways but failed in many others. I have never given up the hope however. I’d like to think I would have answered some of these questions more intelligently but who knows. I was so young and naive. As a hippie I was searching for myself in a society I couldn’t relate to. It took years... A great window to the past!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said, Kathleen. Thank you for sharing just a bit of your thinking. David Hoffman - filmmaker

Superb

Collectivised narcissism, presenting its self-indulgence as the solution for a Fallen World. Groovy, man!

Thanks again ! Great content, as always !