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"The city of San Francisco has been warned of a hippie invasion come summer in numbers almost too staggering to comprehend," declared one TV news reporter.

This loved-up ‘happening’ on a winter day in San ... of the Summer of Love. On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s ...