The Summer of Love overwhelmed San Francisco
What started as a utopian hippie enclave quickly devolved into an absolute logistical nightmare when national media coverage essentially published a travel brochure for 100,000 broke teenagers. The 1967 Summer of Love turned the Haight-Ashbury district into the site of the first modern counterculture mass-pilgrimage, completely collapsing the city's infrastructure.

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