Photography by Ernie Luppi
About The Author
Rick Parisi was born and raised in San Francisco and
graduated from high school in June during the Summer of Love. However, living during that time was so much more than sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Every neighborhood had a park that provided a safe place to go and learn how to play baseball, football, and basketball under the supervision of paid adults.
It was a time when the De Young Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Japanese Tea Garden offered a no-cost wonderland in which to soak up a diversity of cultural and cerebral richness while playing hide and seek.
