San Francisco’s intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets was ground zero during the “Summer of Love”; a 1967 gathering of young people searching for an alternative lifestyle that included free love, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.- Haight Ashbury, known as the epicenter of the hippie movement and counterculture, gained fame during ...

Flower Power and all, good buzz of the 1967 experience still resonates in the not-so-mean streets of San Francisco. Positively Haight Street, in San Francisco, specializes in tie-dyes, on this 40th ...

The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

The thing about the Summer of Love is that it was also, simply, 1967 in San Francisco. It’s true that hordes of hippies heeded Timothy Leary’s call to turn on, tune in and drop out, and that less ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Haight-Ashbury neighborhood merchants will continue to celebrate ...