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Haight-Ashbury
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Haight-Ashbury () 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. The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.
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- Haight-Ashbury
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- The Haight, Upper Haight, Hashbury, Psychedelphia
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- Neighborhood
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- Cole Street, left, and Haight Street, right
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- United States San Francisco Central
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- Location within Central San Francisco
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- San Francisco
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- Supervisor
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- Bilal Mahmood
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Indigenous history
- Spanish colonial period
- Mexican era (1821–1848)
- Gold Rush era and early urbanization
- Depression and war
- Postwar
- Hippie community
- Post-Summer of Love decline and community organizing (1968–mid-1970s)
- Stabilization and cultural legacy (1970s–1990s)
- Preservation, gentrification and cultural identity (2000s–present)
- Attractions and characteristics
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Haight-Ashbury () 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. The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.
==Location== The district generally encompasses the neighborhood surrounding Haight Street, bounded by Stanyan Street and Golden Gate Park on the west, Oak Street and the Golden Gate Park Panhandle on the north, Baker Street and Buena Vista Park to the east, and Frederick Street and the Ashbury Heights and Cole Valley neighborhoods to the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haight-Ashbury” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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