Haight Ashbury

Information: Iyanah Vemuri

Fun Facts:

· District in San Francisco, CA

· Located at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets

· Also called “The Haight” and “The Upper Haight”

· Known for being the origin of hippie counterculture

· Henry Haight à pioneer and exchange banker

· Munroe Ashbury à member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

· Was first a collection of farms and sand dunes

· The Haight Cable Car Line was invented, which connected the Golden Gate Park with the Market Street Line

· Many amusement parks, popular entertainment destination

· Hit by the Depression

· WWII housing shortage à Victorians split into apartments

· Postwar Era - 19^th century, multi-story, wooden houses, cheap rooms, vacant properties

· Bohemian subculture of the 1960s

· Psychedelic rock community

· Lots of media coverage on the hippies in Haight-Ashbury      
     -    Known as “Hashbury”

· District for social experiments that spread throughout America as drugs, music, ideas

· First head shop - marijuana and LSD easily accessible
     -   The Diggers - street theater, anarchists, free society and the good of human nature