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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 San Francisco Diggers were a community-action group of activists and Street Theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Since the revival of anarchism in the British anti-roads movement , the Diggers have been celebrated as precursors of land squatting and communalism .
Human Be-In - 1/14/1967 - Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park - San Francisco, CA, via Music Vault on YouTube: Human Be-In 50th Anniversary; Allen Cohen's website, with history from an insider. Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s 'Rockument' commentary and sound bites. 1967 Berkeley Poster for 'Pow-Wow: A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In'
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 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 film follows "Today" Louise Malone, a middle class runaway originally from Arizona, as she settles in Haight-Ashbury. The film opens with scenes of the June 21 Summer Solstice Love-In which kicked off the summer of 1967, then follows Today around the district as she panhandles for spare change, dances at the Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms, sells underground papers to passersby, takes LSD ...
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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 ...