But Haight Ashbury was not about drugs.

In cooperation with All Saints Church and later via the Haight Ashbury Switchboard at 1830 Fell Street, they arranged free “ crashpads ” for homeless youth drawn to the Haight-Ashbury area.

Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets.

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 Ashbury Heights and Cole Valley neighborhoods to the south.

The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870.

Both Haight and his nephew as well as Ashbury had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood, and, more importantly, nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception.

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council ( HANC ) was formed at the time of the 1959 revolt.

* Haight Ashbury Beat

* 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

Corner of Haight and Ashbury streets

Haight Ashbury, San Francisco

The iconic center of the Flower Power movement was the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco, California.

By the mid-1960s, the area, marked by the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets, had become a focal point for psychedelic rock music.

In 2004, he died of acute polysubstance abuse, including methamphetamine, at his home in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco, where he had lived since 1960.

Kahn moved to Sausalito, California in 1965, where he began gravitating towards the rock culture that was in full bloom at the very time that Haight Ashbury was becoming the capital of Hippiedom.

In December 1966, the Print Mint opened a second store on Haight Street, in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco, in a building that Moe Moscowitz had purchased to install a book store.

What was called the " New Tribe ," a period of more stable membership and ideology, began in 1971 based in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco.

From 1971 until 1991, the community was centered at the Kerista Commune ( not a single physical building ), founded in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco, California.

The volume of publications and art work produced by Kerista Commune was quite a bit greater than other groups that were active in the Haight Ashbury during this period.

The two older daughters, Charlotte and Victoria, wore flowers in their hair while selling the paper flowers to tourists visiting the Haight Ashbury neighborhood.

* 1990 – Haight Ashbury Flashbacks ( Ronin Publishing ; 2nd edition ) ISBN 0-914171-30-5

The Victorian and Edwardian houses tend to be less ornately painted and maintained in the Lower Haight than in the Haight / Ashbury neighborhood, and rent can be lower.

In the documentary " Eat the Sun " ( 2011-Peter Sorcher ), he was caught on camera eating a big meal in a restaurant on 500 Haight Street, San Francisco, U. S. A.

Accordingly, the Organic Act, establishing the University of California, was signed into law by Governor Henry H. Haight ( Low's successor ) on March 23, 1868.

Norman's next musical was Love on Haight Street, also written in 1969, and another project that involved Norman was Bailey ; Some songs from these unreleased musicals appeared later on various albums.

David B. Haight, former member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was born in Oakley.

Woodland was first settled in 1837 when Charles & Jonathon Galloway and Charles Haight moved here.

The ZIP Code also include parts of five townships in Ontonagon County to the west and north, including most of northern and central Interior Township, a small section of Haight Township, a large swath of central Stannard Township, the southeast corner of Rockland Township, and the southwest corner of Bohemia Township The population of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area was 444 in the 2000 census.

The New Hudson was set apart as the " Town of Haight " in 1825 from part of the Town of Rushford and changed its name to New Hudson in 1837.

The original name Haight was that of a militia general, who finally irritated the citizens enough with excessive demands that the people changed the name of the town.

The Kaysville area was originally settled by Hector Haight shortly after Mormon pioneers arrived in 1847.

The ' Haight ' was a neighborhood of run-down turn-of-the-20th-century housing that was the center of San Francisco's counterculture in the 1960s.

The occasion was the banning of LSD, by the California legislature in Sacramento, an enactment which virtually created a neighborhood of outlaws in the Haight, where ' acid ' was a staple of community culture.

The name " Upper Haight ", used by locals, is in contrast to the Haight-Fillmore or Lower Haight district ; the latter being lower in elevation and part of what was previously the principal African-American and Japanese neighborhoods in San Francisco's early years.

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 was hit hard by the Depression, as was much of the city.

By the 1950s, the Haight was a neighborhood in decline.

Fowler's Folly fell into disrepair, and finally-condemned as a public hazard-it was dynamited in 1897 by Fred C. Haight, demolition engineer for the city of Fishkill.

* Charles Haight ( 1838 – 1891 ), United States congressman who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1867-1871.

Hector Haight was the son of Horton D. Haight who had been involved in many trips in the Mormon trek and served as the first president of the stake that included Oakley.

The Commonwealth Party's Haight relied on centrists from the Democrats who believed that Sinclair had driven the party too far to the left.

The recordings were made by " Eddie Lee Sausage " and " Mitchell D .", who lived in a bright pink apartment building dubbed the " Pepto Bismol Palace " in San Francisco's Lower Haight district.

Flower child originated as a synonym for the children of Billy Ray Williams and his then wife Hazel Payne Williams who made and sold paper flowers while living on Haight Street, starting in the early 1960s.

The Oracle quickly developed a stable core group of staffers which included, among many others, Michael Bowen, Stephen Levine, Travis Rivers ( a Texan friend of Janis Joplin, he was at that time the manager of the Haight Street branch of the Print Mint ), George Tsongas, who had returned to the paper, staff artists Dangerfield Ashton, Ami McGill, and Hetti McGee, poet Harry Monroe, Gene Grimm, and Steve Lieper.

In 2002, the NYPD asked federal judge Charles S. Haight Jr., the judge who presided over the original case, to abrogate numerous provisions of the agreement, claiming that they inhibited the department's ability to prevent future terrorist attacks.

On May 1, 1988, AF held its first White Workers Day march on Haight Street in San Francisco, in which 65 participants, which included a few long haired white hippies who had spontaneously joined the march, marched unopposed.

Hamilton United Methodist Church, designed by architect Julia Morgan in the famous Haight / Ashbury District, was named for the " Phoenix Bishop " who helped raise the City Spirit from the ashes: " Together we will rebuild this city, one neighborhood at a time!

It was designed by the architect Charles C. Haight, who also designed buildings of the original Columbia University campus on the current site of Rockefeller Center.

This firm was started around 1923 by D. H. Haight, who had been supplying mining timber and fuel wood to the International Nickel Co. since the early 1900s.

The team is led by Danielle Spurgeon, who took over for Tom Haight in 2007.