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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 iconic center of the Flower Power movement was the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, California. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] By the mid-1960s, the area, marked by the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, had become a focal point for psychedelic rock music. [ 30 ]
It was associated with the counterculture community in San Francisco, particularly the Haight-Ashbury district, during these years. [1] San Francisco is a westward-looking port city, a city that at the time was 'big enough' but not manic like New York City or spread out like Los Angeles.
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 ...
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]
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The Charlatans were an American folk rock and psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury music scene during the 1960s. [5] [6] They are often cited by critics as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound.