Haight-Ashbury
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The Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, USA named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets, commonly known as The Haight. . The Haight-Ashbury 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.
The area is also referred to as The Upper Haight in contrast to The Lower Haight, or Haight-Fillmore, which is lower in elevation and a distinct district. The names of the streets themselves are taken from pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight, and one of the city supervisors of the time, a Mr. Ashbury. Both of them had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood, and, more important, Golden Gate Park at its inception.
The district is famous for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement, a post-runner and closely associated offshoot of the Beat generation who swarmed San Francisco's "in" North Beach neighborhood two to eight years before the "Summer of Love" in 1967.
