Haight-Ashbury Investigation

This is a name of the two streets that meets each other. Not only this, but it was highlight place during the hippie movement in the 1960’s. During the summer of 1967 which was called the “Summer of Love” where thousands and thousands of young teenagers and young adults fled to unite for a social experiences. Around the time, the hippie culture came into public awareness. The Summer of Love began on June 14, 1967 where all high school and college teenagers went to the Golden Gate Park.

Way before the time of buildings and cars and all those investments, Haight-Ashbury was just an isolated farm village and it wasn’t until the time the cable cars were set up in 1883 that Haight-Ashbury changed. It became a middle-class district. Until the Great Depression, with families trying to survive and save each other, the houses became apartments so after the depression, it wasn’t the same. The upper class/middle class people moved nearer the suburbs, no longer in Haight-Ashbury.

Later, Haight-Ashbury became the home of bohemians and hippies. Along the street were also influenced by those cultures which flourished and took place which is still there as we speak. Around that time period, the area became aware for their illegal drugs such as marijuana and LSD and their music movement. Not only drugs but music influenced these places as well. They had music performers such like Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.

After all of these movements, Summer of Love and all the events that have occurred there, Haight-Ashbury has lost part of its charm, but it still shows its bohemian spirit and stores surrounding the streets.

The place still has the spirits of the hippies that stands strongly. Their movement changed the world a big deal.