This Saturday the Love Parade finally comes to San Francisco. Spinoffs have been attempted around the world -- in Austria, England, Israel and South Africa -- but they never quite caught on.

Participants of the first annual Valentine's Nude Parade put together by the Body Freedom Network, pose for pictures prior to the start of the walk in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday Feb. 13, 2016 ...

Participants of the first annual Valentine's Nude Parade put together by the Body Freedom Network, pose for pictures prior to the start of the walk in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday Feb. 13, 2016 ...

Event details about Rally To Legalize Psychedelic Medicine & Nude Love Parade in San Francisco on September 29, 2018 - watch, listen, photos and tickets ...

On the Road to the Summer of Love: San Francisco folk and jazz singer Barbara Dane marches with her son and daughter in 1964 at an early Vietnam War protest. This photo by Erik Weber is featured ...

But, if you choose to explore other parts of San Francisco, you’ll be amazed by how pervasive the 1967 Summer of Love culture still is.

SAN FRANCISCO — They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s American orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an enduring legacy.