119K views · 1.3K shares | Fifty years ago, young people from across the United States came to San Francisco to take part in what came to be known as the Summer of Love. Check out the first chapter of "Summer of Love," airing next Tuesday, July 25, at 8/7c on PBS. | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

This silent home movie excerpt filmed by renowned two-time Academy Award winning cinematographer James Wong Howe depicts #LunarNewYear festivities that took place in San Francisco circa 1954. In this excerpt, several performers are engaged in a traditional Chinese lion dance to bring upon good luck and fortune for the new year as the crowd throws firecrackers onto the street. Home movie excerpt courtesy of the James Wong Howe Collection at the Academy Film Archive | The Academy

84K views · 1.1K shares | #ThrowbackThursday to these Hippies in Haight-Ashbury dancing and listening to the Grateful Dead as they play on a temporary outdoor stage in Panhandle Park on April 20, 1967. (Footage by Getty Images) | SFGATE | Facebook