Season of the witch
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.
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- Season of the Witch is honestly such a great book. Nice to see it mentioned here.
- A great read on that very topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_of_the_Witch:_Enchantme...
- And on a city level, the history of San Francisco itself is filled with spectacular boom times followed by spectacular bust times. For me, a perspective shift was reading Season of the Witch by David Talbot, chronicling the boom/bust of the 1960s-1980s. Declaring the end of SF/Bay Area is a long-standing tradition, and yet the region always finds a way, in part because of the fundamentals you mentioned.
- Great! Other recommendations: City of Quartz & Season of the Witch (on LA and SF's civic development), everything by Jane Jacobs, Organization of Man
- There was _way_ too much couture tie-dye at the Haight-Ashbury street fair a few weeks ago.
But then I stopped by the California Historical Radio Society booth (Radio Day is July 23 in Alameda!), and spoke with them abuot their "KSAN Live Jive CD Project", and all the good memories came flooding back.
If you're curious about the Bay Area, read David Talbot's wonderful history, "Season of the Witch".
- I highly recommend a book called Season of the Witch by David Talbot. It's a great history of SF in the 50s-80s with a strong focus on the 60s and the counterculture. It's some amazing history that many people don't know much about.
If the 60s counterculture and the rest of America had been geographically segregated like the South and the North in the 1860s, you'd have had secession and civil war.
