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Haight-Ashbury

American  
[heyt-ash-ber-ee, -buh-ree] / ˈheɪtˈæʃ bɛr i, -bə ri /

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.


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He always dressed sharp and exuded power where his white romantic partner Steve Loomis exuded Haight-Ashbury hippiness.

From Los Angeles Times

O’Neill also explains that psychiatrist Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West, who is known to have ties to the MKUltra project, was conducting research on brainwashing in the Haight-Ashbury area at that time.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

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