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Haight-Ashbury (/ ˌ h eɪ t ˈ æ ʃ b ɛr i,-b ər i /) 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. The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.
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.
- 1967
- Calm resolution, Inspiration for the Second Summer of Love
- Possibly 100,000 people
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 21, 2017 · In the summer of 1967, a hundred thousand young people descended upon the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. These utopian-seeking artists, musicians, drifters, and hippies were there to...
Mar 30, 2022 · Marble tombstone fragments from the city's former Gold Rush-era graveyards (which have since been relocated to Colma, in the South Bay) line some of the walkways, and coyote sightings have been common in recent years. View Map. Address. Buena Vista & Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA. Phone +1 415-831-5500.
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The history of the Haight Ashbury begins a long time ago. It appeared over a million years ago when the ocean floor buckled to form our present coastal range. For most of its existence, the area was wasteland. Sand dunes stretched from the ocean to the foot of Buena Vista Park and choked most life forms.
