Vibrant Kodachrome Pictures of Hippies in Haight-Ashbury During the Summer of Love

The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. More broadly, the Summer of Love encompassed the hippie music, hallucinogenic drugs, anti-war, and free-love scene throughout the West Coast of the United States, and as far away as New York City.

During that time, amateur photographer Charles Weever Cushman wandered along Haight Street in Haight-Ashbury, a thriving San Francisco neighborhood where cultures and eras meld together. Made famous by the hippie movement in the 1960’s, Haight-Ashbury was once the home to revolutionaries, famous singers (including the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin) and cult leaders.

With his camera loaded with Kodachrome film, Cushman captured the culmination of a mvement. Take a look back at the hippies in Haight-Ashbury through these vibrant pictures taken by Cushman: