First Love Generation

“The principal tenants held dear by Odd Fellows are friendship, love, and truth (FLT). The principal Odd Fellows emblem is the three links, standing for the virtues of Friendship, Love, and Truth. The duties enjoined upon Odd Fellows are to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.”

To hire trains to move 7,000 people from San Francisco to the city of Belmont, may constitute the first Human Be-In in the Bay Area, if not America. What was Carl Janke’s motive? His German Theme village was already a success. It had become a refuge for hard working people in what would become one of the greatest cities in the world, where one day tens of thousands of young people would flock, with flowers in their hair.

“The same year the Belmont Soda Works opened, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) hired 75 Southern Pacific…