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Haight Ashbury Free Press, San Francisco; Haight Ashbury Tribune, San Francisco (at least 16 issues) Illustrated Paper, Mendocino, 1966–1967; Leviathan, San Francisco, 1969–1970; Long Beach Free Press, Long Beach, 1969–1970; Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles, 1964–1978 (new series 2005–present)
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 . [ 5 ]
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.
The main centre was the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, while movements were also underway in London, Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris. [7] Timothy Leary, a former Harvard professor, extolled students and young professionals to "Turn on, tune in, drop out", a phrase that became a catch-cry for the hippie phenomenon. [8]
The Love Pageant Rally took place on October 6, 1966 [1] —the day LSD became illegal—in the 'panhandle' of Golden Gate Park, a narrower section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The 'Haight' was a neighborhood of run-down turn-of-the-20th-century housing that was the center of San Francisco's counterculture in the ...
A remodeled "Painted Lady" Victorian in San Francisco is probably out of the price range of many people, but if you have $1,535,000 and want to live in San Francisco, this home at 819 Haight St ...
The Digger Papers was a free collective publication of the Diggers, one of the 1960s improvisational theatre groups in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The magazine was first published in Fall 1965. [1] Peter Berg was one of the regular contributors to the publication. [1]
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