If You're Going to San Fransisco, Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair....
This car, turned shrine, turned landmark, is about 20 steps from the colorful mailboxes I posted HERE on last Phriday Phun. I bet it's been sitting in this spot since the 60's and I wonder how many parking tickets it got before it took root! I've decided the residents of the apartments who own the mailboxes must be retired hippies who are still living the dream. This was my era as well, but thankfully, I followed a different dream. As for the photos, the subject matter just begged for some bright psychedelic colors. Now for those of you who want to walk, I mean shuffle down memory lane (J/K), here are the rest of the lyrics to this song that helped draw so many young people to the bay area in that decade:
If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
written by John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas
