Haight - Ashbury - wikipedia Haight - Ashbury This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2011 ) Haight - Ashbury, San Francisco Neighborhood Cole Street, left, and Haight Street, right Nickname ( s ) : The Haight, Upper Haight, Hashbury, Psychedelphia Haight - Ashbury, San Francisco Location within Central San Francisco Coordinates : 37 ° 46 ′ 12 '' N 122 ° 26 ′ 49 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 37.7700 ° N 122.4469 ° W ﻿ / 37.7700 ; - 122.4469 Coordinates : 37 ° 46 ′ 12 '' N 122 ° 26 ′ 49 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 37.7700 ° N 122.4469 ° W ﻿ / 37.7700 ; - 122.4469 Country United States State California City and county San Francisco Government Supervisor London Breed Assemblymember David Chiu ( D ) State senator Scott Wiener ( D ) U.S. rep. Nancy Pelosi ( D ) Area Total 0.309 sq mi ( 0.80 km ) Land 0.309 sq mi ( 0.80 km ) Population Total 10,601 Density 34,253 / sq mi ( 13,225 / km ) Time zone Pacific ( UTC − 8 ) Summer ( DST ) PDT ( UTC − 7 ) ZIP code 94117 Area codes 415 / 628 Haight - Ashbury 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 for its history of, and being the origin of, hippie counterculture. Contents 1 Location 2 History 2.1 Farms, entertainment, and homes 2.2 Depression and war 2.3 Postwar 2.4 Hippie community 2.5 Recent history 3 Attractions and characteristics 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links 8 Geographic situation within San Francisco Location The district generally encompasses the neighborhood surrounding Haight Street, bounded by Stanyan Street and Golden Gate Park on the west, Oak Street and the Golden Gate Park Panhandle on the north, Baker Street and Buena Vista Park to the east and Frederick Street and Ashbury Heights and Cole Valley neighborhoods to the south. The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders : Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870. Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and, more importantly, nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception. The name `` Upper Haight '', used by locals, is in contrast to the Haight - Fillmore or Lower Haight district ; the latter being lower in elevation and part of what was previously the principal African - American and Japanese neighborhoods in San Francisco 's early years. The Haight - Ashbury district is noted for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement. The earlier bohemians of the beat movement had congregated around San Francisco 's North Beach neighborhood from the late 1950s. Many who could not find accommodation there turned to the quaint, relatively cheap and underpopulated Haight - Ashbury. The Summer of Love ( 1967 ), the 1960s era as a whole, and much of modern American counterculture have been synonymous with San Francisco and the Haight - Ashbury neighborhood ever since. History Farms, entertainment, and homes Before the completion of the Haight Street Cable Railroad in 1883, what is now the Haight - Ashbury was a collection of isolated farms and acres of sand dunes. The Haight cable car line, completed in 1883, connected the east end of Golden Gate Park with the geographically central Market Street line and the rest of downtown San Francisco. As the primary gateway to Golden Gate Park, and with an amusement park known as the Chutes on Haight Street between Cole and Clayton Streets between 1895 and 1902 and the California League Baseball Grounds stadium opening in 1887, the area became a popular entertainment destination, especially on weekends. The cable car, land grading and building techniques of the 1890s and early 20th century later reinvented the Haight - Ashbury as a residential upper middle class homeowners ' district. It was one of the few neighborhoods spared from the fires that followed the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Depression and war The Haight was hit hard by the Depression, as was much of the city. Residents with enough money to spare left the declining and crowded neighborhood for greener pastures within the growing city limits, or newer, smaller suburban homes in the Bay Area. During the housing shortage of World War II, large single - family Victorians were divided into apartments to house workers. 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. Postwar In the 1950s, a freeway was proposed that would have run through the Panhandle, but due to a citizen freeway revolt, it was cancelled in a series of battles that lasted until 1966. The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council ( HANC ) was formed at the time of the 1959 revolt. HANC is still active in the neighborhood as of 2008. The Haight - Ashbury 's elaborately detailed, 19th century, multi-story, wooden houses became a haven for hippies during the 1960s, due to the availability of cheap rooms and vacant properties for rent or sale in the district ; property values had dropped in part because of the proposed freeway. The bohemian subculture that subsequently flourished there took root, and to a great extent, has remained to this day. Hippie community The mainstream media 's coverage of hippie life in the Haight - Ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over America. Hunter S. Thompson labeled the district `` Hashbury '' in The New York Times Magazine, and the activities in the area were reported almost daily. The Haight - Ashbury district was sought out by hippies to constitute a community based upon counterculture ideals, drugs, and music. This neighborhood offered a concentrated gathering spot for hippies to create a social experiment that would soon spread throughout the nation. The first ever head shop, Ron and Jay Thelin 's Psychedelic Shop, opened on Haight Street on January 3, 1966, offering hippies a spot to purchase marijuana and LSD, which was essential to hippie life in Haight - Ashbury. Along with businesses like the coffee shop The Blue Unicorn, the Psychedelic Shop quickly became one of the unofficial community centers for the growing numbers of freaks, heads, and hippies migrating to the neighborhood in 1966 - 67. The entire hippie community had easy access to drugs, which was perceived as a community unifier. Another well - known neighborhood presence was the Diggers, a local `` community anarchist '' group known for its street theater, formed in the mid to late 1960s. The Diggers believed in a free society and the good in human nature. To express their belief, they established a free store, gave out free meals daily, and built a free medical clinic, which was the first of its kind, all of which relied on volunteers and donations. The Diggers were strongly opposed to a capitalistic society ; they felt that by eliminating the need for money, people would be free to examine their own personal values, which would provoke people to change the way they lived to better suit their character, and thus lead a happier life. During the 1967 Summer of Love, psychedelic rock music was entering the mainstream, receiving more and more commercial radio airplay. The Scott McKenzie song `` San Francisco ( Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair ), '' became a hit that year. The Monterey Pop Festival in June further cemented the status of psychedelic music as a part of mainstream culture and elevated local Haight bands such as the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Jefferson Airplane to national stardom. A July 7, 1967, Time magazine cover story on `` The Hippies : Philosophy of a Subculture, '' an August CBS News television report on `` The Hippie Temptation '' and other major media interest in the hippie subculture exposed the Haight - Ashbury district to enormous national attention and popularized the counterculture movement across the country and around the world. The neighborhood 's fame reached its peak as it became the haven for a number of psychedelic rock performers and groups of the time. The members of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin, all lived close to the intersection. They not only immortalized the scene in song, but also knew many within the community. The Summer of Love attracted a wide range of people of various ages : teenagers and college students drawn by their peers and the allure of joining a cultural utopia ; middle - class vacationers ; and even partying military personnel from bases within driving distance. The Haight - Ashbury could not accommodate this rapid influx of people, and the neighborhood scene quickly deteriorated. Overcrowding, homelessness, hunger, drug problems, and crime afflicted the neighborhood. Many people left in the autumn to resume their college studies. On October 6, 1967, those remaining in the Haight staged a mock funeral, Digger happening, `` The Death of the Hippie '' ceremony. Mary Kasper explained the message of the mock funeral as : We wanted to signal that this was the end of it, do n't come out. Stay where you are ! Bring the revolution to where you live. Do n't come here because it 's over and done with. Recent history After 1968, the area went into decline due to `` an influx of hard drugs and a lack of police presence, '' but was improved and renewed in the late 1970s. The Haight Ashbury was the origin of several communities and movements. The Farm started here as did the Rainbow Family. The Haight was at one point the home to hundreds of intentional communities, few lasted and many moved outside the area. The last hippie commune with a continuous presence there may have been Kerista Commune. Throughout the 1980s, the Haight became an epicenter for the SF Comedy Scene when a small coffee house off Haight Street called The Other Café at 100 Carl Street ( currently the restaurant Crepes on Cole ) became a full - time comedy club that helped launch the careers of Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, and Whoopi Goldberg. Also from the 1980s to the early 1990s, the I - Beam nightclub on Haight Street became a hot spot for modern rock dance music in San Francisco, and a popular venue for live performances by new wave, punk, industrial and indie bands. Attractions and characteristics Storefronts on Haight Street The Red Victorian hotel is a popular attraction. An independent theater of the same name operated about a block away from the hotel from 1980 to 2011. The Tubes performing at 2012 Haight - Ashbury Street Fair. The Haight - Ashbury Street Fair is held on the second Sunday of June each year attracting thousands of people, during which Haight Street is closed between Stanyan and Masonic to vehicular traffic, with one sound stage at each end. See also The Red Victorian, a theme hotel Haight - Ashbury facade. San Francisco Bay Area portal Chinese Immersion School at De Avila Counterculture of the 1960s Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Haight - Ashbury Switchboard Huckleberry House Haight Street Grounds I - Beam ( nightclub ) Kerista Commune Magnolia Thunderpussy The Process Church of The Final Judgment ( religious movement formerly based in Haight - Ashbury ) The Red Victorian References ^ Jump up to : Spann, Edward K. ( 2003 ). Democracy 's Children : The Young Rebels of the 1960s and the Power of Ideals. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 111. ^ Jump up to : `` Statewide Database ''. UC Regents. Retrieved November 4, 2014. 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But by winter, with drug pushers moving into the neighborhood in force, the Haight abruptly turned into a teenage slum of robbers, rapists, and speed freaks. Jump up ^ `` Haight - Ashbury ( district, San Francisco, California, United States ) ''. Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 October 2012. Jump up ^ The Other Cafe Jump up ^ `` The Other Cafe Story ''. 2011. Retrieved Mar 30, 2013. Jump up ^ Johnson, G. Allen ( July 7, 2011 ). `` Red Vic Movie House in San Francisco to Close ''. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 14, 2011. Jump up ^ Street Fair website Further reading Joshua Clark Davis, The Business of Getting High : Head Shops, Countercultural Capitalism, and the Marijuana Legalization Movement, The Sixties : A Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Summer 2015 Cohen, Katherine Powell. San Francisco 's Haight - Ashbury. Arcadia Publishers, 2008 Perry, Charles. The Haight - Ashbury : A History. Wenner Books, 2005. 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Question: who lived in haight ashbury in the 60s
Answer: hippies