“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 ...

Pieces like Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (1968) painted an amusing but disturbing picture of the hip scene in outposts like San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district — one ...

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 ...