27 Original Photos MAY 1967 Detroit Belle Isle Love-In Be-In - Hippies, Outlaws For Sale

Original lot of 32+ vintage color snapshot photographs documenting the May 1967 Belle Isle Park Love-In / Be-In in Detroit, Michigan. All with MAY 67 Kodak date stamp on border.

This was a landmark Detroit counterculture event held on Belle Isle just two months before the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. Photos taken by an attendee showing:

• Large crowds of young people gathered in the park, playing guitar, sitting on blankets • Multiple Harley-Davidson choppers and motorcycles parked along the road • Members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club Detroit chapter in leather with winged skull patch and Iron Mustangs motorcycle club• Detroit Police car # 653-009? and officers interacting with crowd, mounted police in distance • White 1964 Ford with handwritten slogans: \"GRASS IS BEST,\" \"TRIP OUT,\" \"I LOVE CARMEL FREE,\" \"LOVE\" • Man holding \"FOLK CELLAR III\" sign, man holding giant inflatable prop • Band shell / pavilion with spectators standing on roof, man climbing tree, fenced monument