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Others were converted into boarding homes for profit. By the 1950s, the Haight was a neighborhood in decline. Many buildings were left vacant after the war. Deferred maintenance also took its toll, and the exodus of middle class residents to newer suburbs continued to leave many units for rent.
- 0.309 sq mi (0.80 km²)
- United States
- 10,601
- California
Denizens of “the Haight,” as it is sometimes called, included the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Jefferson Airplane. The district subsequently deteriorated, but it underwent regeneration in the late 1970s and was “gentrified” in the 1980s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 10, 2017 · The intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets was a beacon for thousands of hippies, thrill-seekers, and the simply-curious during the Summer of Love in San Francisco, Calif., in early summer, 1967.
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...
Haight Ashbury was a ghetto of bohemians who wanted to do anything—and we did but I don't think it has happened since. Yes there was LSD. But Haight Ashbury was not about drugs. It was about exploration, finding new ways of expression, being aware of one's existence.
- 1967
- Calm resolution, Inspiration for the Second Summer of Love
- Possibly 100,000 people
Oct 15, 2012 · Then the movement waned, and the area began to decay along with it. "By the fall of 1967, Haight-Ashbury was nearly abandoned, trashed, and laden with drugs and homeless people," blogger Jon Newman wrote in his essay Death of the Hippie Subculture. "With the Haight in ruins and most of its residents gone, it was simply unable to operate as a ...
