| World / USA / California / San Francisco | Coordinates: 37°46'12"N 122°26'49"W |
The Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco, aka "the Haight," is named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets. The names of the streets themselves are taken from Henry Huntly Haight, Governor of California in the 1870's, and one of the city supervisors of the time, a Mr. Ashbury. Both of them had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and, more importantly, Golden Gate Park at its inception.
The district is famous for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement, a post-runner and closely associated offshoot of the Beat generation who swarmed San Francisco's "in" North Beach neighborhood 2-8 years before the "Summer of Love" in 1967.
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