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- Title: Haight-Ashbury District
- Description: This neighborhood’s art scene began before the origin of the Hippy Movement, when in the early 1960s many members of the Beat Movement moved from the North Beach neighborhood to Haight-Ashbury due to rising rental prices. Over time, a counterculture movement developed in the neighborhood, which was characterized by ideals of peace and love, massive LSD and marijuana use, and a new psychedelic musical style. Many musicians took up residence in the neighborhood, including the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane. The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, featuring performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and The Mamas & the Papas, among others, helped to popularize the movement. The song by Scott McKenzie San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair), fully captures the essence of that time period. The huge media exposure given to the Hippy Movement attracted thousands of young people to the neighborhood (75,000 people during the summer of 1967 alone, known as the Summer of Love), but soon the momentum that existed at the beginning was lost and Haight-Ashbury became overrun by violence and degradation. The area is of high interest to curious tourists and shoppers with an eye for avant-guard artwork, clothing or drug use paraphernalia.
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- Added: Oct 7, 2021
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