“I’d do the same.” One of the district’s most sympathetic observers is the Rev. Leon Harris, 60, pastor of The Haight-Ashbury’s All Saints’ Episcopal Church, whose favorite anecdote ...

In the Haight case the morning was spent in the reading of 50 letters from Mr. Haight to his wife, written between June, 1881, and Feb. 14, 1883. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, this neighborhood is best known as the center of the 1960s counterculture movement. Remnants of the long gone hippie culture endure ...