In mid-1967, at the tail end of the Summer of Love, Berkeley freshman Danny Goldberg went down to Haight-Ashbury to check out the scene. The neighborhood was buckling under the weight of 100,000 new hippie inhabitants, but a sign in a store window told Goldberg all he needed to know; it read simply "Nebraska Needs You More." "It couldn't possibly survive the attention it got," says Goldberg of
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Author Danny Goldberg on Searching for the Truth Behind the Hippie Myth