Haight ashbury san francisco 1967

Online site of the Grateful Dead Archive at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Those long-haired tree-huggers sure had a unique way of talking. Here are some excellent hippie words, phrases, and slang with descriptions of what they mean and examples of how to use these terms in conversation. Let your freak flag fly!

Grateful Dead on the steps of 710 Ashbury, San Francisco, CA - 02/28/1967

Hippies in the Haight Ashbury

Named after the intersection of San Francisco’s Haight Street and Ashbury Street, the Haight-Ashbury district is also known as The Upper Haight or simply as The Haight. Because of its close proximity to Golden Gate Park, the Haight-Ashbury district had been a middle class residential area ever since the Haight cable car line connected it to the Market Street cable car line and the rest of downtown San Francisco. But the character of Haight-Ashbury changed radically during the 1960’s…

1960s Daily on Instagram: "Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, California, in 1967."

Hippiefest is happening in Pompano Beach on Sunday. Take a trip back in time with these photos of the real deal.

The Summer of Love was not just a season of great music and the zenith of the flower child, but the culmination of a movement that started back on a chillier Bay Area day, on January 14, 1967.

Visit SF's Haight Ashbury district for a taste of the 1960s and the Summer of Love.