The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

We’ve all heard the Legend of the Hippie. How in the mythical area of Haight-Ashbury in the wonderland of San Francisco in the year of our Lord 1967 there was the “Summer of Love.” Where young people ...

San Francisco — From his second-floor apartment at the counterculture crossing of Haight and Ashbury streets, Arthur Evans watches a new generation of wayward youth invade his free-spirited ...

Explore one of San Francisco's most iconic neighborhoods: the legendary Haight Ashbury. Haighteration editor Andrew Dudley offers this insider's guide to his favorite Haight haunts. Sip, shop, snack ...

Describe the atmosphere of Haight Ashbury. Named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, the Haight is best known as the center of the 1960s counterculture movement, ground zero for the ...

San Francisco’s iconic Haight-Ashbury may still be a mecca for Sixties counterculture nostalgia seekers, but these days it’s mostly a hub of busy vintage clothing stores and indie fashion boutiques.

The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco is not so much a neighborhood as a state of mindlessness. The Erewhon of America’s “pot left,” a 10-by-15 block midtown section, has over the past year ...