A woman walks toward the entrance to the de Young Museum, which recently debuted an exhibit revolving around 1967’s Summer of Love. (Josh Edelson / AFP/Getty Images)
As San Francisco celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a look at then and now.
The corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, the epicenter of the Summer of Love, on May 4, 1967, in San Francisco. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
The mountings on these famed street signs have been reinforced after being targeted by souvenir-hunters for half a century. (Alan Solomon / Chicago Tribune)
A boy carries paper flowers on a pole at a 1967 summer solstice celebration at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. (Ted Streshinsky Photographic Arc / Corbis via Getty Images)
A man braids a woman’s hair at a 1967 summer solstice celebration at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. (Ted Streshinsky Photographic Arc / Corbis via Getty Images)
The pink building at 635 Ashbury was, during the Summer of Love, home to Janis Joplin and her sometime lover, Peggy Caserta. Caserta owned a boutique on nearby Haight Street. (Alan Solomon / Chicago Tribune)
Members of the Grateful Dead were living in this house at 710 Ashbury St., not far from Haight Street, during the Summer of Love. The Hells Angels biker gang headquartered across the street, at 719. (Alan Solomon / Chicago Tribune)
For locals, it might be a burger joint, but rock fans here to eat up the neighborhood’s Summer of Love history will be drawn to the exterior artwork at Burger Urge, at Haight and Clayton streets, steps from Ashbury. (Alan Solomon / Chicago Tribune)
Mannequins in 1970s garb are seen on display as part of “The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll,” an art exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. (Josh Edelson / AFP/Getty Images)
A new exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco celebrates 50 years since the famed summer of 1967 that birthed activists, artists and a blossoming hippie movement. (Josh Edelson / AFP/Getty Images)
A portrait of Jimi Hendrix adorns the Haight Street building that from time to time housed the singer-guitarist and his girlfriend — but mainly his girlfriend. It’s painted red (faded now) in recognition of the Hendrix classic, “Red House,” released in May 1967. (Alan Solomon / Chicago Tribune)
Classic Haight-Ashbury still life: a snoozing lad, a bag and a guitar at the famous corner. Moments later, two policemen suggested he relocate. (Alan Solomon / Chicago Tribune)
Sunshine “Sunny” Powers, owner of Love On Haight boutique and a neighborhood booster: “This is San Francisco, and Haight-Ashbury is a beautiful example of what San Francisco is. Have a magical day.” (Alan Solomon / Chicago Tribune)
