Haight-Ashbury

[ heyt-ash-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]

noun

1. a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.

Example Sentences

The Grateful Dead will be honored as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday, 60 years after the groundbreaking jam band formed in 1965 and quickly became an avatar of the burgeoning counterculture based in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times

At a bar in the Haight-Ashbury — the neighborhood famous as the epicenter of Hippie counterculture — nearly 100 Republicans gathered to drink beer and root for Trump, including Jacob Spangler, president of the College Republicans at San Francisco State University.

From Los Angeles Times

The free-form rock station KSAN, the voice of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, threw him off the air for interviewing workers who had been fired by one of the station’s sponsors.

From New York Times

And like so many in the late 1960s, he had fetched up in the Haight-Ashbury district, drawn there by the alluring swirl of spiritual questing, political activism, experimental theater, free love and psychedelics.

From New York Times

Hippie Hill’s proximity to the famed Haight-Ashbury neighborhood transformed the site, which is in the Robin Williams Meadow section of Golden Gate Park.

From Los Angeles Times