Summer of Love is a striking picture of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 — from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, All You Need Is The Summer Of Love: How 1967 Sparked A Revolution The summer of 1967 has taken on an almost mythical magic, a psychedelic summer of love with beautiful people turning on, The Summer of Love was fifty years ago, the summer of 1967, with its epicenter in San Francisco ’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It was a summer of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Both San The year 1967 was designated the “Summer of Love” when somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 youth flooded 25 blocks in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. Beforehand, the neighborhood was home to a small community of “hip” residents interested in art, music, theatre, and literature. The 'Summer of Love' refers to 1967 - not so much because that year saw a revolutionary new movement, but because that was when the media came to identify and focus on the hippy phenomenon, the EN49.