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Street-by-Street: Haight Ashbury
Stretching from Buena Vista Park to the flat expanses
of Golden Gate Park, in the 1880s Haight Ashbury was
a place to escape to from the city center. It developed
into a residential area, but between the 1930s and
'60s changed dramatically from middle-class suburb
to center of the “Flower Power” world, with a free clinic
to treat hippies. It is now one of the liveliest and most
unconventional places in San Francisco, with an
eclectic mix of people, excellent book and record
stores, and good cafés.
2 Haight Ashbury
In the 1960s hippies congregated at
this major intersection, from which the
area takes its name.
Wasteland , at 1660 Haight
Street, is an anarchic used
clothing, curio and furniture
emporium housed in a colorful
painted Art Nouveau building.
Bargain hunters will find plenty
to delight them in this
unconventional store.
1 Golden
Gate
Panhandle
This thin green
strip runs west
into the heart
of Golden
Gate Park.
To bus nos. 7, 33
Cha Cha Cha is one
of the liveliest places
to eat in San
Francisco, serving
Latin American food
in a variety of small
dishes (see p227).
The Red Victorian Bed and Breakfast , a
relic of the hippie 1960s, caters to a New
Age clientèle with health food and rooms
with transcendental themes (see p214).
 
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