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The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight, [8] and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870. [9] Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception.
The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers (1649–1650) who had promulgated a vision of society free from buying, selling, and private property. [2] [5] During the mid- and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers organized free music concerts and works of political art, provided free food, medical care, transport, and temporary housing and opened stores that gave away stock.
Dock of the Bay, San Francisco; Free Spaghetti Dinner, Santa Cruz; From Out of Sherwood Forest, Newport Beach; Good Times, San Francisco, 1969–1972 (formerly San Francisco Express-Times) Haight Ashbury Free Press, San Francisco; Haight Ashbury Tribune, San Francisco (at least 16 issues) Illustrated Paper, Mendocino, 1966–1967
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Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas. 5: Apollo
[17] [49] Ironically, McKernan was arrested and fined after the cannabis bust on November 9, 1967, at 710 Ashbury Street, even though he did not use the drug. [50] The event was covered in the first issue of Rolling Stone , where the reporter noted McKernan had a substantial rifle collection [ 51 ] and McKernan's picture appeared on a ...
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]
The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the San Francisco Oracle, was an underground newspaper published in 12 issues from September 20, 1966, to February 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of that city. [1]