WATCH: Seattle Mayor Says ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ Could Turn Into ‘Summer Of Love’

On Thursday night, speaking with CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan, who had compared Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” to a block party at a press conference, doubled down, likening the takeover of six city blocks to “more like a block party atmosphere” and answering Cuomo’s question “How long do you think Seattle in those few blocks looks like this?” by saying, “We could have the Summer of Love.”

Durkan referring to the “Summer of Love” was likely a reference to 1967, when roughly 100,000 people, mostly young hippies, descended on the Haight-Asbury neighborhood of San Francisco, or more broadly hippies gathered up and down the West Coast generally and across the nation. The scene was dominated by drug use.