San Francisco was an important city on the west coast long before the 1960s, but it was during this decade that the city by the bay acquired a nearly mythical status.
While the decade started out quietly, it quickly grew to a fever pitch thanks to the countercultural movement that emerged in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District. This all culminated, of course, in 1967’s Summer of Love.
The vistas were iconic.
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Harvey Meston/Archive Photos/Getty Images
San Francisco was, in many ways, a very different-looking place in the 1960s — but one aspect that was unchanged between that era and the present day is the iconic Golden Gate Bridge.
As the city flourished both culturally and socially during the decade, the bridge was often prominently featured in photographs, films, and television.