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Amelia Lang
Amelia has traveled around the world backpacking, photographing, drawing, and attempting to learn various languages. After a long hiatus in Portland, Oregon, New Zealand, Spain, and Africa, she…
Amelia has traveled around the world backpacking, photographing, drawing, and attempting to learn various languages. After a long hiatus in Portland, Oregon, New Zealand, Spain, and Africa, she recently returned to her roots in San Francisco. She couldn’t find a city she liked more. Barcelona came close, Berlin and Tokyo were up there too, but as corny as it may sound, she left her heart in San Francisco. Amelia balances her love for both the rural coastline just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and the stimulation of city life. She graduated from University where she studied history and fine art. She comes from a family of artists and can’t help but indulge her own creative impulses. She looks forward to graduate school in design and art history, hopefully somewhere abroad. Although she knows she will always succumb to her gypsy spirit, for now she is happy nesting in San Francisco.
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Red Vic
1727 Haight St, San Francisco, CA
A Little Nostalgia in Hippie Land
So what was it like in San Francisco is 1967? Were there really people with flowers in their hair, everywhere? Was Golden Gate Park truly filled with young radicals? If you are looking for a little history of San Francisco or interested in more than just buying a tie-died t-shirt on the corner of Haight and Ahsbury, head to the Red-Vic for some real documentation. This Tuesday, the best independent theater in San Francisco will feature The Hippie Temptation. Originally aired on TV in August of 1967, the film documents everyday life in San Francisco during that legendary summer. With interviews by psychiatrists, parents, flower children, and musicians the film attempts to capture a more well-rounded story. If you are interested in a then and now look at San Francisco, this film is bound to be informative of both the city and the time.