| World / USA / California / San Francisco | Coordinates: 37°46'12"N 122°26'52"W |
Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, USA named after the intersection of Haight Street and Ashbury Street, commonly known as The Haight or, in recent years, The Upper Haight. The names of the streets themselves are taken from Henry Huntly Haight, Governor of California in the 1870s, 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.
Category: neighborhood region
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12 months ago Grandma | -2 |
 
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Oh yeah! I remeber that place....back in 67 all the hipsters took over. I had to turn my garden hose on a few of them because they were just dirty. I offered to give free haircuts but nobody wanted to be normal.
I'm glad times have changed and todays youth are so predictable and pacified by video games and internet addiction. It keeps them indoors, quiet and out of sight where they belong. | ||||
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