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  • I remember when the hippies hit Vancouver...interesting...cool­...eye popping for a kid...lol!

  • La verdad no me agradan mucho los heppes.

  • Kitsilano Beachs real name is Greer's Beach. you'll notice there is one small street nearby named after him.

  • Please let's start another hippie revolution!!

  • by "riding the magic carpet" does he not know that means heroin?

    lol

  • yea cuz ppl dont overdose and catch vd today.....jackass....oh wait AIDS EPIDEMIC.....much later.....everyone has some dumbass comment to make...

  • Tom Campbell would have supported bike lanes.

  • stupid commercial ...

  • ..and now they are all gone as white flight took hold and the Asian invasion came in..

  • Katsilano Beach? It's Kitsilano, dumbass!

  • @v8dodge69 - actually it was pronounced Katsilano back then, which was closer to the original name.

  • @medular Oh, I did not know that. I cheerfully retract my "dumbass" comment! :-)

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  • Stupid Vancouver and their buy nothing day... hippies

  • Fuck hippies- Eric Cartman

  • They should of played some slayer and they would have left

  • They are no good and ruin the way of life the native land of canada and show no respect for mother earth,,,deport them all..

  • @jshdy36e9dj you do realize this all happened 44 years ago, right? and that now the hippies are running things in vancouver and you're nothing more than a bitter, ignorant old relic?

  • what are the songs used in this? sounds groovy.

  • It was the summer of love, V.D.s and OD's yea was nothing but fun 

  • @nycwiseguy91 there are no OD's on marijuana, moron.

  • ITs muslims get ride of them never mind hippies

  • @jshdy36e9dj why you hatin on muslims?

  • The hippies were messing canada? com on thats just not true why not say now its the Muslims!!!!!

  • hippies were happy

  • I think the hippies broke trough the wall to future, if the hippies wouldnt come, what would have happend? i think the beautiful style of the 50's would have been there a little longer but at the same time the world would have been more strict. So i gotta thank the hippies for breaking trought to the other side or wathever they call it :)! ;)

  • man.. some smoking hot hippy bitches.. gotta find me some dem sluzzes.

  • I had to comment just because of how ridiculous these comments are. Vancouver is"being ruined" because it's becoming bigger and bigger, not because one particular group is now living here.

    If you think Gregor is the first "hippie" Vancouver has seen, you haven't been paying attention.

    And just why does everyone online have to act like a super tough ass hat? I think the problem with Vancouver and everywhere else is people being selfish, greedy assholes who think their opinion is the only right o

  • Tom Campbell neo NAZI! We had expression...creativity...grea­t music...tolerance---open minded people except Tom the A-Hole idiot! What do we have now? Walmart shopping Red-neck retards--and their dumb fat opinionated families-no original thoughts--anti gay---religious kooks--big 4X4 driving goatee wearing UFC watching goons, who are happy as long as they have a pound of burger and a box of Hamburger Helper, and 30 gallons of diesel in their black smoke belching, cock lengthening Dodge Ram Hemi..

  • Tom Campbell is a hero!!! Wish we have more mayors like him everywhere in BC.

  • Hippies are what currently destroys Van at the moment. Mayor Gregor Robertson is one excellent example. I know, because I grew up in Van.

  • Hippies in Van are lazy, deluded and thinks they're entitled to freeloading and "freebies" from the big bro gov't while sucking off taxpayer's hard earned money. They have no personal accountability or morality, and they live life without consequences.

    You can tell this is the case, because BC has one of the highest level of support for the NDP in the country.

  • northwest?? I think you mean southwest.

  • Purple violet squashed.

  • These folks are grandparents, man I can't stop laughing!

  • i <3 hippies :)

  • Don't buy into the revisionist hippie bullshit. They were just a bunch of lazy braindead punks with nothing going on. I was there and I can tell you from an eyewitness perspective that it was the greatest conglomeration of losers ever assembled at one time. The chicks were dirty and the whole place smelled.

  • they should have used planes to blanket the area with DDT to take care of the problem

  • Thanks forever to Canada for the sanctuary it offered draft dodgers from the Vietnam death grinder.

  • I would give up my right nut to get the chance to travel back in time to those days! Things looked a lot more organic, honest, relaxed...not to mention, the music was awesome. I love Vancouver how it is now, but I envy all those who experienced this beautiful city in the hippie heyday.

  • @lago4 Please take me with you. I want to be there in the 60s!

  • no...but vancouver rocks...san francisco people have lots of respect for you guys.rock on...

  • san francisco is a "north-west"city...

  • If you think young people are better or more aware now the song of 2010 should be something like , " All we are saying, is give us more money."

    " Imagine there's no limit in my credit cards today."

    "Don't trust anyone worth less than 30 million."

    "Just give me a piece of the pie, and peace on you."

  • Lennon's Give Peace a chance was 1969, not '67 ( Strawberry Fields & Lucy was '67).

  • @duffh Yeah, you're absolutely right! And it's not pronounced "KATsalino", it's "KITsilano". Whatever - at least the piece is informative if poorly researched.

  • What the fuck is it with this rose-coloured glasses bullshit look at the 60s, hippies, etc. Give me a break. Get over it. LOL. Campbell's right! Same bullshit today.

  • Yes PEACE IS POSSIBLE! PEACE OUT ALWAYS AND ALWAYS PEACE OUT.

  • all the footage from this video isn't from the same year.

  • i hate my parents for giving birth to me only 17 years ago.... i want to live through that wonderful era now all this rotten music with all these niggers with baggy clothes n shit.. i love hippies FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!

  • @rollipolioli did you like how they would throw dog shit on our soldiers and spit on them.Or how parents would gets calls from them saying their glad their son was blown up in Vietnam or how they got the std Pandemic rolling (it wasn't blacks fucking monkeys) or never did anything to contribute to society,o,yeah happies r great pshhhhhhhhhht

  • Where in, Vancouver, is the museum?

  • This was not 1967.

    The hippy movement did not really take hold in, the summer of 1967.

    It was more 1968 or 1969.

  • Mayor Tom Campbell was a Corporate scumbag Mother Fucker! Worst Mayor in Vancouver's HISTORY!

  • @fender4444

    No, we want more Vancouver mayors like him. The destruction of COV started with the election of Mayor Greggy in 08.

  • The FUCKING CIA fucked up all the hippies by introducing anti-theogenic drugs and alcohol.

    FUCK CIA

  • this is the dawning of Aquarius<3333

  • I LOVE hippies.

  • im 17 now and im going to be a hippy

  • too bad the "hippies" failed and Kitsilano is now over-run with ugg booted yuppies and guidos!!!!

  • oh and, this video is great! :) thank you for sharing

  • The only vibrant, viable and growing industry right now in Vancouver is marijuana.

    And guess what, it's run by those lazy useless hippies!

    Moron.

  • lazy useless hippies?

    Because they refuse to work the recycled life of work work work work work work work die? Jesus christ.. people cannot be THAT fucking stupid.

  • wrongperson lol

  • @faketubename --Sure faketubedummy--yeah the Corporate right wing wacko's have made things so much better for us all. Unattainable outrageous housing costs,mass poverty, pollution,high crime rates, slave offshore labour keeping Walmart alive, low wages. Why don't you dig your head out of the ass of some CEO that you are brown nosing at your job and get a dose of what's really going on in the world you preppy maggot! Fuck you!

  • @alapoet Pretty sure the HA is running that operation and last time I checked, they fucking hated hippies. Or was the Rolling Stones concert back in the day not a good enough example?

  • you should not confuse hippies with drug abusers.. yes, most of them did/do 'turn on, tune in and drop out" but not all hippies do drugs, and the drugs are not what makes a hippie.. it's about freedom to be yourself, to let other be themselves and to love and appreciate all that their soul is. to make peace and love with each other. i'm sorry if you feel you have a situation now because of people losing the real message of the hippie ways, but they have plenty of positive things to offer society

  • faketubename- it has always amazed on how many 40 year old men live in their parents basements,. yes still smoking pot and can't figure why the next man has a house and supports his family. they spread diseases and then when they have burned themselves to a crisp, then get onto disability. so we the tax payers can fully support them.

  • @faketubename IDIOT.

  • @faketubename

    do you live in vancouver?

  • @faketubename --Sure faketubedummy--yeah the Corporate right wing wacko's have made things so much better for us all. Unattainable outrageous housing costs,mass poverty, pollution,high crime rates, slave offshore labour keeping Walmart alive, low wages. Why don't you dig your head out of the ass of some CEO that you are brown nosing at your job and get a dose of what's really going on in the world you preppy maggot! Fuck you!

  • Чё думали организаторы???? Придурки бля.....Нах эти железные ограждения там ????? Бедный парень :(( Пусть земля ему будет пухом...

  • Wow.

    You really are that ignorant, aren't you?

    Hippies "dangerous" lol

  • alapoet- yes dangerous! follow the time line and compare it with social development, or in the case of the US the decline of.

  • Robot

  • rastafair- robot? if all the hippies just sit on their asses smoke pot and live off the government. does that make them rocks? i'd rather be a productive member of society.

  • Lol@Using stereotypes. Sure maybe some Hippies do those. Don't be ignorant in to think thats the definition of Hippie. You aren't being such a productive member of the precious society when you go around judging a group of people.

  • rastafaripoet- if it wasn't for government "charity" checks their would be no hippies.

  • How old are you?.. You really sound ignorant with all these assumptions.

  • rast- the truth sounds ignorant. then that makes you a liberal? i can tell my your statements that you'd prefer the tax payers to support you.

  • What truth?.. The only thing you've stated was an assumption that hippies = Lifeless, imature beings. When you possibly could not know that without assuming that to be the truth. So what are you a daydreamer? In other words ignorant? Also, I am a tax payer unfortunately. Which it will stop in the future. I'm against the support of murdering. How about you?

  • & Since this argument is obviously getting nowhere. I'd suggest you do some research on your friends known as the U.S. Government & beyond. On how they're treating you like a slave. Using your tax dollars to fund terrorist regimes in which we at the same time are "fighting for freedom". You'll find two good Documentaries on my page.

  • Also I would like to add. The same government you seem to adore. Is the same government kicking you in the ass everyday of your life. So congratulations supporting those crooks.

  • people need to start getting out in the streets and taking back there governments now days, this is bullshit, everyone thinks that they can trust there governments and give them more control, fucking insane, obama is a warmonger just like everyone else.

  • I like john alan martinson jr's take on the hippie 60's better.

  • I wish  I was alive in Vancouver then...

  • Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck!!!!!

  • Summer of love was 1969

  • The Summer of Love was 1967. Trust me, I was there.

  • @alapoet Yeah. My dad was there too. With an 89 year old bottle of cough medicine plus 250 shots of acid. I don`t know why he didn`t die!!

  • Hmm. Thanx then for the update! Peace.

  • @TheAliacatwoodstock was '69.

  • why dident the asian gangs deal with it? we all know they could have.

  • I'm originally from GVA but that was in the 1960's and 1970's. At that time it was a way better City then it is now.

  • i live in Van myself and i couldn't agree more with you...

    i wouldn't say "Fuck Vancouver" but everything else, yes

  • hahaha. arrest the dancing kids! leave the criminals. hahaha. what a mindset. could you imagine a freeway viaduct through vancouver? ridiculous. Do you think we'd have the money to take care of it (like Montreal's haha)?

  • assholes = you

  • Stop The Machine

    Come To Pittsburgh and Join The G20 Protest. They will set policy behind closed doors we will set a social agenda on the streets of Pittsburgh. The Best Class Room in the World will be on The Streets of Pittsburgh .... The G20 Summit Sept 22nd - 25th. United We Stand or Divided We Fall.

  • The influence of Political Activism is a neccessary component of society.Today we stand in Pittsburgh against the G20 Summit. The G20 will be behind closed doors dictating IMF policy we will be in the streets dictating a social agenda. The Machine has diminished our quality of life no longer is an 8 hour work day enough but a 16 hour work day is the norm. Mothers have no time for their children , fathers no longer have time to play catch or just sit on a porch with the family. Stop The Machine

  • I would rather work 16 hours a day or 3 days and get 4 days off than work 8 hours a day for 5 days and get 2 days off.

  • The Machine will have you work 16 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. The Machine never stops , it never rests and it wants it servants its slaves to work as it does. The need to stop The Machine is crucial before it stops you, your death is irrelevant to The Machine. What is it that you do not understand, we live in a society which no longer values human life it only wants workers which never stop working.

  • It's fascist republicans who complain about the government, not hippies.

  • your envy is showing. Your probably from Toronto :-)

  • New York

  • all you ignorant people stuck in the left and right, its both the republicans and the democrats, conservatives and the liberals, there all ruining everything.

  • Well if everyone is ruining everything we haven't got a chance !!!

  • everyone is not ruining everything, just the left and right, they got it hammered into peoples heads that there is only the left and right, which is complete bullshit, libertarian is the way to go, and anyways *the US in my case since that is where I live* was founded on Libertarianism, and has since been slowly being destroyed by Neo Conservatives and Liberals which are both owned and controlled by the special interest banking elite. There is no real opposition, the mainstream is controlled.

  • LOL! Leat's hear it for hippies!

  • This guy messed up the name of that beach!! It's NOT "cats-ilano beach", it's Kitsilano beach. What the heck kind of reporter is this guy? Couldn't he even read the giant sign showing the name right before you enter the beach?

  • i'm so moving to vancouver.....

  • i dont get hippis? there weird haha

  • "where is your will to be weird?" maybe you should research and let yourself see what they were all about.. they aren't too hard to get :)

  • i love this <3

  • Save Our City ~!~!~!~! 710 ashbury Hippies , Acid and Weed could Save the World long live the Grateful Dead era ~!~!~!

  • wow, those groovy canadians sang "give peace a chance" two years before the beatles released their own version.

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  • Yah, "Give Peace a Chance" was a Canadian song, the Beatles licensed it from us!

    And if you believe that...

    Groovy (if younger) in Canada

  • i wish i could be there

    good music

    good mariguana

    good life

    =D

  • hey man! hippie aint dead yet!! theres a war on! and were gonna stop it!!

  • yea bro...we gotta stop the war. hold up signs man! war isnt good for anythin.

  • fuck that uy at 1:10

  • I guess we'll have to annex Vancouver to Washington State. It 'd be easier than re-educating 80 million americans than a 1 million Canucks. Does anybody care east of Calgary about Vancouver>? (it's a just a lil joke) :)

  • When you're in the States, Vancouver is in the northwest.

    This broadcast is from the States.

  • Why would you say something like this? It has no significance to the video or to any real conversation, and its just a cynical view. Leave you comments to yourself if they are as worthless as this

  • Lemme tell you something, guys and gals, as one who was there in '67 - in my case Greenwich village - it was a wonderful time to be young and radical !!!

  • I knew I shoulda kept my fringe jacket!!!

  • hippies were once cool and a threat to the established order. hippies today or totally uncool and are ridiculed by the established order.

    that's why i don't understand why people just copy an era of the past. if people want to be hippies they should create a new way of being that, new clothes, new style, new music, new everything. don't just be an echo of the past, echos fade, and have no voice of there own.

  • I think you're paying too much attention to labels like "hippies" and not enough attention to the actual things they stand for.

    "Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit." ~ Abbie Hoffman

  • i'm actually a political and community organizer. I was about 20 years old (2003) I dropped out of college organizing to stop Bush. Today's young hippies actually are stuck in a fixed ideology, they are fashioning themselves to a particular decade, the hippies. They aren't allowing the natural process to happen to create thier own way, their own revolution. That's why more youth don't join in, hippie doesn't speak to our generation at large. It's a big problem at the universities.

  • I'd rather have hippies than most other groups.  They're not hurting anyone.

  • I LOVE your videos man, simply the best! Yes, if only people would stop with there damn ignoramus stereotypical view of what a Hippie was, is, and shall always be, "free spirits" loving the planet and ALL creatures great and small who SHARE it! Peace and Love to you, rock on my Brother!

  • Far out man....great video! Hippies are amazing..one of them myself. I am not sure about you while you are worrying about other things and plans but we know how to go with the flow and have a good time. Peace and Love to everyone!

  • Thanks for the blast from the past! Totally grooovin man!

  • I think that's the Seattle cast of Hair singing it.

  • I think that "Give Peace A Chance" footage is from the Strawberry Mountain Rock Festival, out past Mission, B.C. and 1969, not '67

  • I think you're right!

  • the original hippies are kinda flimsy, but at least they were not heavy on judgement, they were accepting, kind, real, full of love, with true causes, not spurred by hate, fear,or insecurity like the pseudo/neo hippies of today.

    death to the neo hippies!

  • No, not death to anyone. I think you are missing the whole point of the hippies. And you are WAY "heavy on judgment."

    Could you, by chance, be spurred by hate, fear, or insecurity?

  • HIPPIES WILL DESTROY THE WORLD! hahah

  • street gangs are much better imbecile nation

  • sure yu go do that

  • The katsilano pronunciation comes from the original first nations language. The modern pronunciation is kitsilano.

  • 1967 I love this time

  • yeah free assembly free speech aci and pot ,bad idea/crack ,coke and money thats good.oh and love and peace ,drive by shooting and knives are so much more trendy

  • i like hippies but why did they also have to rebel against soap and combs

  • they didnt rebel against combs and soap they went against societies rules that they needed to smell like soap and have groomed hair to be someone to be heard and talked to by others

  • "Kats a lino"..where the hell is that? You would think the moderator would have done some research on how places are pronounced in Vancouver.

  • 4:14, it's even spelt that way. It's the original spelling

  • I wish he would have built the freeways.

  • They will destroy all of canada. and even the world. darn hippies (LOL)

  • the mayor, and the narrator are complete idiots.

  • oh ya i live right beside kitsilano beach :)

  • i usedto like canada before i found out that their maple leaf wasnt a maryjowanaleaf. i know i spelled that wrong. whatever. instead of hippies, we now how punk and emo people.wich i cool

  • Looks like a DNC Convention

  • How can it be 1967, if they are singing "Give Peace a Chance" from 1969?

    Don't take the brown acid.

  • Maybe they had some 'time travel' acid. Anyway, it looks like fun.

  • I just saw this on TV a few days ago.

    The '60s were pretty rad.

  • Cartman would have taken care of that.

  • Great comment. Funny shit.

  • Haha, the reporters just see it as Fashion...read R. Crumb.. I'm 22 and the shit blows my mind.

  • "Katsilano"? WTF

  • ROTFLMAO.

    Pure 'trippyness'

    PS...its KITSALANO..dipshit Evening Mag dude. Not "Katsalano"