Haight-Ashbury

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'''Haight-Ashbury''' ({{IPAc-en|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'''.<ref name="sfstation.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfstation.com/districts/upperhaight.html|title=SF Station: Districts - Upper Haight|website=Sfstation.com|access-date=August 31, 2019}}</ref> The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.<ref>{{Citation | last = McCleary | first = John Bassett | title = The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s | publisher = Ten Speed Press | year = 2004 | pages = 246–247 | url = https://www.hippiedictionary.com/ | isbn = 1-58008-547-4 | oclc = 237866881 }}.</ref>

==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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sftravel.com/explore/neighborhoods/haight-ashbury|title=Haight-Ashbury|work=San Francisco Travel|access-date=2017-08-17}}o</ref>

The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/street/stnames4.html|title=San Francisco Streets Named for Pioneers|publisher=Museum of the City of San Francisco|access-date=2007-06-01}}</ref> and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Streets of San Francisco: The Origins of Street & Place Names|last=Loewenstein|first=Louis|year=1984|publisher=Lexikos|location=San Francisco|isbn=978-0-938530-27-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/streetsofsanfran00loew/page/5 5]|url=https://archive.org/details/streetsofsanfran00loew/page/5}}</ref>

Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception. The name "Upper Haight" is also used by locals in contrast to the Haight-Fillmore, or Lower Haight.<ref name="sfstation.com"/>

The Beats had congregated around San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood from the late 1950s. Many who could not find accommodation there turned to the quaint, relatively cheap and underpopulated Haight-Ashbury.<ref name=pc42>{{Gilliland |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19801/m1/ |title=Show 42 – The Acid Test: Defining 'hippy' |show=42 |track=1}}</ref>

Haight-Ashbury would later become notable for its role as one of the main centers of the hippie movement. The Summer of Love (1967) and much of the counterculture of the 1960s have been synonymous with San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood ever since.

==History==

===Gold Rush era and early urbanization===

The discovery of gold in 1848 and the subsequent California Gold Rush saw a rapid increase in population and urbanization in San Francisco. Before the completion of the Haight Street Cable Railroad in 1883, what is now the Haight-Ashbury was a collection of isolated farms and acres of sand dunes. The Haight cable car line, completed in 1883, connected the east end of Golden Gate Park with the geographically central Market Street line and the rest of downtown San Francisco. As the primary gateway to Golden Gate Park, and with an amusement park known as the Chutes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Chutes|title=The Chutes – FoundSF |date=March 1998| access-date=March 31, 2013}}</ref> on Haight Street between Cole and Clayton Streets between 1895 and 1902<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/firestation/hoodchutes.html|title=Old 21 – Neighborhood – The Chutes| access-date=March 30, 2013}}</ref> and the California League Baseball Grounds stadium opening in 1887, the area became a popular entertainment destination, especially on weekends. The cable car, land grading and building techniques of the 1890s and early 20th century later reinvented the Haight-Ashbury as a residential upper middle class homeowners' district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/firestation/hoodha.html|title=Old 21 – Neighborhood – Haight Ashbury|access-date=March 30, 2013}}</ref> It was one of the few neighborhoods spared from the fires that followed the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake of 1906.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Godfrey|first=Brian J.|date=1984|title=Inner-City Revitalization and Cultural Succession: The Evolution of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District|journal=Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers|volume=46|issue=1|pages=79–91|doi=10.1353/pcg.1984.0004|s2cid=145445809|issn=1551-3211}}</ref>

===Depression and war===

The Haight was hit hard by the Depression, as was much of the city. Residents with enough money to spare left the declining and crowded neighborhood for greener pastures within the growing limits, or newer, smaller suburban homes in the Bay Area. During World War II, the Edwardian and Victorian houses were divided into apartments to house workers. Others were converted into boarding homes for profit. By the 1950s, the Haight was a neighborhood in decline. Many buildings were left vacant after the war. Deferred maintenance also took its toll, and the exodus of middle class residents to newer suburbs continued to leave many units for rent.

===Postwar===

In the 1950s, a freeway was proposed that would have run through the Panhandle, but due to a citizen freeway revolt, it was cancelled in a series of battles that lasted until 1966.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Adams | first = Gerald | title = Farewell to freeway: Decades of revolt force Fell Street off-ramp to fall | newspaper = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 2003-03-28 | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/28/MN257078.DTL| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050308111606/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/28/MN257078.DTL| url-status = dead| archive-date = March 8, 2005}} </ref> The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) was formed at the time of the 1959 revolt.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Rodriguez | first = Joseph | title = City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American Metropolis | page = 40 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1ym7AAAAIAAJ&q=116 | publisher = Praeger | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-275-96406-1}} </ref>

The Haight-Ashbury's elaborately detailed, 19th century, multi-story, wooden houses became a haven for hippies during the 1960s,<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/doolan_nr.pdf San Francisco Landmark Number 253]</ref> 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.<ref name="alice">{{Cite journal |last = Ashbolt |first = Anthony |title = 'Go Ask Alice': Remembering the Summer of Love Forty Years On |journal = Australasian Journal of American Studies |volume = 26 |issue = 2 |pages = 35 |date = December 2007 |url = http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/2_07/Ashbolt.pdf |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090913113150/http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/2_07/Ashbolt.pdf |archive-date = 2009-09-13 }}</ref> The alternative culture that subsequently flourished there took root, and to some extent, has remained to this day.<ref>{{Cite news | last = White | first = Dan | title = In San Francisco, Where Flower Power Still Blooms | newspaper = The New York Times | date = 2009-01-09 | url = http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/travel/escapes/09american.html}} </ref>

===Hippie community=== thumb|Newspaper clipping, April 30, 1967 The mainstream media's coverage of hippie life in the Haight-Ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over America. Hunter S. Thompson labeled the district "Hashbury" in ''The New York Times Magazine'', and the activities in the area were reported almost daily.<ref>{{Cite book|first1=T. |last1=Anderson|title=The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee|publisher=Oxford University Press|year= 1995|page=174}}</ref> The Haight-Ashbury district was sought out by hippies to constitute a community based upon counterculture ideals, drugs, and music. This neighborhood offered a concentrated gathering spot for hippies to create a social experiment that would soon spread throughout the nation.<ref name="alice"/>

The first head shop, Ron and Jay Thelin's Psychedelic Shop, opened on Haight Street on January 3, 1966, offering hippies a spot to purchase marijuana and LSD, which was essential to hippie life in Haight-Ashbury.<ref>Tamony, Peter. "Tripping out in San Francisco". ''American Speech''. 2nd ed. Vol. 56. N.p.: Duke UP, n.d. 98–103. JSTOR. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.</ref>{{Verification needed|date=December 2025}} Along with businesses like the coffee shop The Blue Unicorn, the Psychedelic Shop quickly became one of the unofficial community centers for the growing numbers of hippies migrating to the neighborhood in 1966–67.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/17541328.2015.1058480|title = The business of getting high: Head shops, countercultural capitalism, and the marijuana legalization movement| journal=The Sixties| volume=8| pages=27–49|year = 2015|last1 = Davis|first1 = Joshua Clark|hdl=11603/7422|s2cid = 142795620|hdl-access=free}}</ref> The entire hippie community had easy access to drugs, which was perceived as a community unifier.<ref>Ashbolt, Anthony. "From Haight-Ashbury to Soulful Socialism: Culture and Politics in the Movement". ''Australasian Journal of American Studies''. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. N.p.: Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association, n.d. 28–38. JSTOR. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.</ref>

Another well-known neighborhood presence was the Diggers, a local "community anarchist" group known for its street theater, formed in the mid to late 1960s. One well known member of the group was Peter Coyote. The Diggers believed in a free society and the good in human nature. To express their belief, they established a free store, gave out free meals daily, and built a free medical clinic, which was the first of its kind, all of which relied on volunteers and donations.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Miles | first1= Barry | title= Hippie |date= 2004 | publisher= Sterling | location= New York| pages=106–112 }}</ref> The Diggers were strongly opposed to a capitalistic society; they felt that by eliminating the need for money, people would be free to examine their own personal values, which would provoke people to change the way they lived to better suit their character, and thus lead a happier life.<ref name="American Experience doc">{{cite AV media |people = Gail Dolgin; Vicente Franco |date = 2007 |title = American Experience: The Summer of Love |url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/index.html |publisher = PBS |access-date = 2007-04-23 |archive-date = 2017-03-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170325104758/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/index.html |url-status = dead }}</ref>

During the 1967 Summer of Love, psychedelic rock music was entering the mainstream, receiving more and more commercial radio airplay. The Scott McKenzie song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," became a hit that year. The Monterey Pop Festival in June further cemented the status of psychedelic music as a part of mainstream culture and elevated local Haight bands such as the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane and Country Joe and The Fish to national stardom. A July 7, 1967 ''Time'' magazine cover story on "The Hippies: Philosophy of a Subculture," an August CBS News television report on "The Hippie Temptation"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/88444.htm |title=AV #88444 – Video Cassette – the Hippie Temptation |access-date=2006-11-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319070344/http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/88444.htm |archive-date=2006-03-19 }}</ref> and other major media interest in the hippie subculture exposed the Haight-Ashbury district to enormous national attention and popularized the counterculture movement across the country and around the world. In September, Joan Didion published a famous essay on the Haight-Ashbury for ''The Saturday Evening Post'' titled "Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Based on her observations and interviews with the neighborhood's residents, the piece climaxes with Didion entering an apartment and seeing a five-year old girl high on acid.<ref>{{citation |first=Joan |last=Didion |author-link=Joan Didion |url=https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/14/in-the-magazine/didion.html |title=Slouching Towards Bethlehem |date=July-August 2017 |journal=The Saturday Evening Post |orig-year=September 23, 1967}}</ref> The essay, included in Didion's 1968 essay collection of the same name, is one of her most acclaimed and is considered a classic example of the New Journalism style that emerged in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Menand |first1=Louis |author-link=Louis Menand |title=The Radicalization of Joan Didion |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/out-of-bethlehem |website=The New Yorker |date=17 August 2015}}</ref>

The neighborhood's fame reached its peak as it became the haven for a number of psychedelic rock performers and groups of the time. The members of many bands lived close to the intersection. They not only immortalized the scene in song, but also knew many within the community.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1845230_1845056_1845029,00.html|title=San Francisco: 10 Things to Do — 5. Haight-Ashbury – TIME|magazine=Time|access-date=2017-08-17|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>

The Summer of Love attracted a wide range of people of various ages: teenagers and college students drawn by their peers and the allure of joining a cultural utopia; middle-class vacationers; and even partying military personnel from bases within driving distance. The Haight-Ashbury could not accommodate this rapid influx of people, and the neighborhood scene quickly deteriorated. Overcrowding, homelessness, hunger, drug problems, and crime afflicted the neighborhood. Many people left in the autumn to resume their college studies.<ref name="American Experience doc"/> On October 6, 1967, in Buena Vista Park, those remaining in the Haight staged a mock funeral, Digger happening, "The Death of the Hippie" ceremony.<ref name="PBS timeline">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/timeline.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515044905/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/timeline.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 15, 2007 |title=The Year of the Hippie: Timeline |access-date=2007-04-24 |work=PBS.org }}.</ref> News of the event was released by Ron Thelin on October 4, 1967, two days after the arrest of members of the Grateful Dead. Men shaved their beards and filled caskets to symbolize the dead hippie'''.'''<ref>{{cite web |date=2022-06-18 |title='Death of the Hippies': A Haight Street funeral for the Summer of Love |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/visuals/funeral-for-the-hippies/|publisher=The San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>

Mary Kasper explained the message of the mock funeral as:{{blockquote|We wanted to signal that this was the end of it, don't come out. Stay where you are! Bring the revolution to where you live. Don't come here because it's over and done with.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/filmmore/pt.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120527074943/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/filmmore/pt.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 27, 2012|title=Transcript (for American Experience documentary on the Summer of Love)|publisher=PBS and WGBH|date=2007-03-14}}</ref>}}Ron Thelin stated that Haight-Ashbury was: {{Blockquote|text=Portioned to us by the media-police, and the tourists came to the zoo to see the captive animals, and we growled fiercely behind the bars we accepted, and now we are no longer hippies and never were.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/visuals/funeral-for-the-hippies/|title='Death of the Hippies': A Haight Street funeral for the Summer of Love|publisher=The San Francisco Chronicle|date=2022-06-18}}</ref>}}

===Post-Summer of Love decline and community organizing (1968–mid-1970s)===

After 1967, Haight-Ashbury saw a rapid departure of residents due to overcrowding, high crime rates, and drug abuse, yet certain institutions such the Free Medical Clinic remained.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfheritage.org/heritage-in-the-neighborhoods/haight-street-renaissance/|title=Haight Street Renaissance|date=30 August 2022 |publisher=SF Heritage}}</ref> The Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) which had been created in 1960 to prevent the Panhandle Parkway project joined various San Francisco neighborhood groups to highlight inequities within San Francisco's political representation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hanc-sf.org/about-us/history|title=The History of HANC|publisher=HANC}}</ref> The HANC fought to preserve historic Queen Anne-style architecture in the neighborhood by lobbying and organising historic house tours. Additionally, it successfully rezoned parts of the neighbourhood to protect houses and deter developers and absentee owners or landlords. The Park Police Station was reopened in 1972 following the passing of Proposition K, in an effort to increase safety in the neighbourhood. Countercultural communes such as the Good Earth Commune continued to be active and supported low-income housing and community policing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Communes_and_Housing|title=Communes and Housing|publisher=FoundSF}}</ref>

===Stabilization and cultural legacy (1970s–1990s)===

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Haight-Ashbury saw an influx of middle-class families investing in homes. This revitalized the local economy but modified the hippie identity of the neighborhood. The HANC lobbied against commercialization, in particular opposing urbanization and developmental projects aimed at bringing chains and multi-unit housing developments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thethirdself.com/2020/12/03/haight-ashbury-a-history/|title=Haight-Ashbury: A History|date=4 December 2020 |publisher=The Third Self}}</ref> Grassroots organising and local activism in Haight Ashbury solidified itself in the political culture and legacy businesses including bookstores, boutiques and cafes marketed the essence of the sixties counterculture. In the 1980s, the Haight also became an epicenter for the San Francisco comedy scene when a small coffee house near Haight Street, in Cole Valley, called The Other Café, 100 Carl Street at Cole Street<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theothercafe.com/|title=The Other Cafe | Home for the famous Haight-Ashbury comedy nightclub|website=Theothercafe.com|access-date=August 31, 2019}}</ref> (currently the restaurant ''Crepes on Cole'') became a full-time comedy club that helped launch the careers of Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, and Whoopi Goldberg.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://theothercafe.com/the-official-other-cafe-story/ | title=The Other Cafe Story | year=2011 | access-date=Mar 30, 2013 }}</ref>

While the neighbourhood had been a place of convergence for the gay community in the 1960s, the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s caused the deaths and relocation of many gay residents in the Haight. Many gay bars, businesses and clubs shut down and were replaced with new businesses less catered to gay audiences, but existing cooperative medical and political establishments such as Haight Ashbury Free Clinic were instrumental in ensuring access to medical aid through their needle exchange program that decreased the spread of HIV/AIDS.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Haight-Ashbury's History and Heyday: How the "Ground Zero of Hippiedom" Happened |url=https://www.thebatterysf.com/article/the-haight-ashbury |publisher=The Battery SF}}{{Dead link|date=December 2025}}</ref>

===Preservation, gentrification and cultural identity (2000s–present)=== Preservation efforts in the 1990s and onwards have emphasized the neighbourhood's role as a pilgrimage site for countercultural history. The Doolan-Larson Building (located at Haight and Ashbury) was built in 1903 and became a symbol of the 1960s counterculture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 and has been operated by the non-profit San Francisco Heritage since 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.haightandashbury.org/about|title=About the Doolan Larson Building|publisher=SF Heritage}}</ref> The space has served as a collaborative space for community organisers and artists to preserve counter cultural legacy and foster community artistic expression.

Annual events like the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair and cultural festivals celebrate the area's countercultural past.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/event/festivals/haight-ashbury-street-fair|title=Haight-Ashbury Street Fair|publisher=SF Chronicle Datebook}}</ref> It has become a hotspot for tourists and locals alike, with walking tours, city-sponsored projects and boutiques or coffee shops tied to the counterculture ethos. Gentrification has strongly impacted Haight-Ashbury and led to increased property values and rents, displacing long-term residents and hindering affordable housing efforts. However, affordable housing initiatives such as a 100% affordable housing project at 730 Stanyan Street (the former site of a McDonald's restaurant) have provided 160 affordable units for low- to moderate-income families and transitional-age youth who have experienced homelessness.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.730stanyan.org|title=NEW Affordable Housing in the Haight|publisher=730 Stayan}}</ref>

==Attractions and characteristics==

[[File:Haight-Ashbury Street Fair, The Tubes.jpg|thumb|The Tubes performing at 2012 Haight-Ashbury Street Fair]] The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair started in 1978 and is held each year. This event attracts thousands of people, during which Haight Street is closed to vehicular traffic between Stanyan and Masonic, with one sound stage at each end.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haightashburystreetfair.org/|title=Home|website=Haight Ashbury Street Fair|access-date=August 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-haight-ashbury-street-fair-is-back/collection_bc41823e-442c-11ed-9a60-874b2ee8bd72.html|title=The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair is Back|publisher=SF Examiner|access-date=September 8, 2025}}</ref>

==See also== * The Red Victorian

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==Further reading== * {{citation |last=Davis |first=Joshua Clark |title=The Business of Getting High: Head Shops, Countercultural Capitalism, and the Marijuana Legalization Movement |journal=The Sixties: A Journal of Politics, Culture and Society |volume=8 |pages=27–49 |date=Summer 2015|doi=10.1080/17541328.2015.1058480 |hdl=11603/7422 |s2cid=142795620 |hdl-access=free }} * {{citation |last=Perry |first=Charles |title=The Haight-Ashbury: A History |publisher=Wenner Books |date=2005 |orig-year=1984}} * {{citation |url=http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738559940/San-Franciscos-Haight-Ashbury |first=Katherine |last=Powell Cohen |title=San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury |publisher=Arcadia Publishers |date=2008}}

==External links== {{wikivoyage|San Francisco/Haight}} {{Commons category|Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco}} * [https://wild-bohemian.com/timeline.htm The Haight-Ashbury 30 Years Ago: A Timeline] * [https://diva.sfsu.edu/bundles/189371 The Maze: Haight/Ashbury] – 1967 KPIX-TV documentary about the Haight-Ashbury district presented by writer Michael McClure, from the Digital Information Virtual Archive at San Francisco State University * [https://wild-bohemian.com/hip-dbf.htm Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury Era] * [https://www.slideshare.net/DoctorSequoia/the-haightashbury-era-of-the-1960s The Haight Ashbury Era]—a visual essay on the culture of the Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s

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