Ara City Radio

San Francisco is a city of roughly 800,000 people located on the west coast of the USA in California famous for its spectacular golden gate bridge, large China town district and vibrant LGBTQI+ community. These days it is known as a commercial hub for large tech companies and a homebase to tech workers, just a stones through away from Silicon Valley but back in the 1960s the city became known worldwide for very different reasons. In the late 1960s hundreds of thousands of young people descended on the haight-ashbury neighbourhood in San Francisco at the intersection of the streets with the same names in a pilgrimage that became known as the summer of love. This was the birth of the hippie movement that would see the birth of flower power, anti-war protests, free love and acceptance of the consumption of psychedelic drugs popularised for a whole generation. This was a movement that opened the doors for creativity and popularised a number of influential bands from the period such as the grateful dead, jeffers