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Haight-Ashbury ( / ˌheɪt ˈæʃbɛri, - bəri /) is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called The Haight and The Upper Haight. [5] The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s. [6]
Summer of Love. The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
That summer in 1967 between 75,000 and 100,000 young Americans flocked to Haight-Ashbury to protest the Vietnam War and materialism, experiment with drugs and sexuality, practice alternative religions, or otherwise seek and experience the hippies’ idealized view of enlightenment.
Jun 14, 2012 · It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers behind the ...
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- Snap a Pic Below the Haight-Asbury Street Signs. It's a pilgrimage for Deadheads, hippies, and everyday visitors alike: the northwest intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, where two perpendicular street signs have become a symbol for freedom, peace, love, and the entire '60s counterculture movement.
- Get Your Grateful Dead On. Speaking of the Dead, the Haight is synonymous with this eclectic rock band and is ground zero for Deadheads, who come to walk in their footsteps, relive the music, and revel in San Francisco's Summer of Love memories.
- Enjoy the Views From Atop Buena Vista Park. Buena Vista has long been a stop on the SF hippie circuit. It's San Francisco's oldest official park and undoubtedly among its steepest: a 37-acre expanse that climbs its way up a 575-foot-tall hillside from Haight Street just east of Central Avenue.
- Browse the Stock at Amoeba Music. Opened in 1997 in an enormous 24,000-square-foot former bowling alley, Amoeba Music brought a new wave of music to a neighborhood already steeped in sound.
Aug 21, 2017 · August 21, 2017. A Photographic Trip Through the Summer of Love, 50 Years Later. In the summer of 1967, a hundred thousand young people descended upon the Haight-Ashbury district of San...
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Haight-Ashbury, district within the city of San Francisco, California, U.S., adjacent to Golden Gate Park. The district became famous as a bohemian enclave in the 1950s and ’60s and was the centre of a large African American population.
