Glimpses Of Another Time - One I Remember With Nostalgia

[Peter Lemkin]

Good times. Great photos. Classic visual insights to our culture and icons of that time.

...but all now gone...and in the USA not gone by their own natural evolution....rather, the CIA and others ACTIVELY infiltrated and destroyed this movement of peace, love, music, change, alternative thinking....even murdered many of the leading figures.....

....at this time I was living on the East Coast near NYC, but took a pilgrimage to San Francisco one summer (Summer of Love) when the Haight and Golden Gate Park were in their heyday.....it was an amazing and positive shock, even though much the same was going on in New York....it was more intense in San Francisco. Now, S.F. is just an expensive city for the yuppies of silicon valley et al....and the corner of Haight and Ashbury is just another street corner. I was also at Woodstock. All now moments and movements/feelings/happenings/events as dead as the dinosaur. It was more than anything a time of HOPE...real hope that things could be changed. Few failed to see how difficult the change would be to bring about...but we thought we could do it....and felt we had to and would.......