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The Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park
This massive 30-acre group of polo fields was designed in 1904 as a monumental stadium with towers, seating for 60,000, and a horse track, one mile in circumference. But the fields are probably most famous for the 1967 'Human Be-In', the prelude to the hippie invasion of San Francisco. Those at the event for mass consciousness-sharing were treated to poems by Alan Ginsberg, music by Jefferson Airplane, and speeches by Jerry Rubin and Harvard Professor and LSD proponent, Timothy Leary who spoke the famous words inviting those in attendance to, "turn on, tune in, and drop out." The next morning after the tens of thousands had left, the park workers were stunned to find the polo fields pristine, without a single piece of trash left behind.
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