News

Housed in a spacious building on the southeast corner of Haight and Ashbury streets’ intersection, the Counterculture Museum ...
War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.
“The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture that flowered in SF’s Haight-Ashbury in 1967.
Not long after I moved into the Haight-Ashbury, more than 20 years ago, a hippie friend gave me a redwood seedling and told me to go plant a tree. This particular sequoia sempervirens was about 3 ...
Hoskyns quite properly enters the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene of the mid-’60s by way of the beatniks’ Grant Avenue coffeehouses, and within the prologue he continues to follow the “reddish ...
San Francisco’s annual Hippie Hill event is anticipated to draw thousands of visitors despite its main organizer pulling out last month, leaving Haight Ashbury businesses and San Francisco ...
Boyd said that as they walked around Haight-Ashbury, hippies began to recognize Harrison. They joined the group for a while, but Boyd said the crowd turned on them when they refused drugs.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Haight Ashbury Street Fair will take place this Sunday with street closures in effect throughout the day. The annual event in the city neighborhood that’s most ...
“The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture that flowered in SF’s Haight-Ashbury in 1967.