SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There are neighborhoods in San Francisco that were struggling even before the pandemic. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was one of them. Homelessness, a drug crisis and business ...

Few intersections in the US hold as much cultural gravitas as San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. Made famous during the 1967 Summer of Love, these two then unassuming street corners blossomed under the ...

San Francisco's Summer of Love, 40 years old now, changed a lot of things. It brought the hippies out of obscurity and introduced them in a big way to the public. Who could ignore hundreds of ...

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 ...

"Once upon a heady afternoon on April 30, 1978, the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair burst onto the scene like a psychedelic phoenix rising from the incense-scented ashes of a faded Summer of Love. Born ...

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 Rose Theatre Company crew is revisiting “Haight-Ashbury,” Chris Manley's flashback to the Summer of Love. The show's driving force is the music. A trio of gifted vocalists — Jessie Rose, Jordan ...

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 ...

The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco is not so much a neighborhood as a state of mindlessness. The Erewhon of America’s “pot left,” a 10-by-15 block midtown section, has over the past year ...

Haight-Ashbury would soon sprawl outwards as a psychedelic playground, with musicians including the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin citing the area’s free-thinking nature and affordable ...

Janis Joplin, right, performs with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. (Photo by Marjorie Allette) Dennis McNally is the author of “The Last Great Dream.” (Photo by Susana Millman) Show Caption 1 of 3 From left ...

Our microguides series is inspired by the slow travel movement, encouraging travellers to relax their pace and take a deep dive into one particular neighbourhood in a well-loved city. Rather than a ...