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You can even stay at The Hotel Zeppelin, part of the Viceroy Hotel Group, complete with a giant 12-foot peace sign constructed of repurposed license plates and guestrooms with vintage posters and rock band wallpaper. The kids will like the "Den" arcade with vintage games like shuffleboard and quick-shot basketball. (We are also fans of the newly renovated small Inn at Union Square that offers free breakfasts, Wi-Fi and afternoon social hours.)

Here are 10 places in San Francisco for the entire family to get their groove on this summer:

-- Head to the 55-acre San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park anytime July 13 through July 24, and sing along to songs from 1967, thanks to pianos located in the many smaller flower gardens.

-- Listen to the spontaneous drumming that you can often find at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. Pack a picnic, including a Boudin Sourdough Peace Bread.

-- The Presidio is a national park in the middle of the city that borders on the Golden Gate Bridge, but during the '60s, San Francisco's former U.S. Army base was a key link in the projection of American military power into the Pacific during the Vietnam War.

-- From April 15 to August 20, the de Young Museum will show off rock posters, light shows and music and pictures from great musicians from the Summer of Love, including the The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.

-- Use photographs to get a new understanding of the era at the California Historical Society's exhibit "Summer of Love: A Photographic Journey" from May 11 to September 8.

-- Check out the autographed Grateful Dead guitar, a painting of Jerry Garcia by Grace Slick and more at the Hard Rock Cafe at Pier 39.

-- Take selfies with iconic stars and thinkers of the Summer of Love at Madame Tussauds.

-- Take the teens to The Fillmore, a ballroom with a long history of helping to launch the musical careers of major acts like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Jimi Hendrix.

-- Ride a VW hippie bus with San Francisco Love Tours.

-- Experience Flower Power (from June 16 to October 1) at the Asian Art Museum to see the "Flower Power" exhibit -- brightly colored artistic representations of what it was like to be involved in the Summer of Love.

Got your tie-dyed shirt? Now the question is whether or not the kids and grandkids will want to be seen with you.

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