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The Haight-Ashbury's elaborately detailed, 19th century, multi-story, wooden houses became a haven for hippies during the 1960s, [23] 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. [24]
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 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.
The Haight Ashbury - A History by Charles Perry Random House 1984 ISBN 0-394-41098-X. Pg 126 Reference to the Switchboard and Crash Pads; Pg 143 Reference to the 1967 Concert; Pg 150 Reference to the debt after the cocktail party; Pg 177 Reference to the Switchboard after the departure of Al Rinker
The Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc. was a free ... 1967, during the counterculture of the 1960s. ... The clinics merged in 2011 with Walden House an addiction ...
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 ...
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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 ...