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During the days preceding the event, Al Rinker described the event as the beginning of the end. Ron Thelin gave away everything in the Psychedelic Shop to the customers who came in. The funeral procession went from the park down Haight St and ended in the Panhandle. Ron (of the Switchboard) was one of the pallbearers carrying a trinket filled ...
The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight, [8] and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1870. [9] Both Haight and his nephew, as well as Ashbury, had a hand in the planning of the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park at its inception.
The initial impetus for the paper came from Allen Cohen and head shop owners Ron and Jay Thelin, who offered to put up the seed money to found an underground paper. In the summer of 1966 a number of meetings were held in the Haight-Ashbury district to discuss the idea of starting a paper, attracting an eclectic group of interested people.
Sources cite the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street in San Francisco as the first head shop in the United States. [3] [4] [5] Operated by United States Army veteran Ron Thelin and his younger brother Jay, it opened on January 3, 1966. Four months later Jeff Glick opened "Head Shop" on East Ninth Street in New York City. [6]
San Francisco canceled its official 420 celebration at Golden Gate Park this year, but the Church of Ambrosia says it will step in to provide services.
In San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, the Psychedelic Shop was opened in January 1966 by brothers Ron and Jay Thelin to promote the safe use of LSD. This shop played a significant role in popularizing LSD in the area and establishing Haight-Ashbury as the epicenter of the hippie counterculture.
San Diego’s ordinance went into effect at in July 2023, and according to local news reports, has been a relief to those not living in the, and a total disruption for the homeless people who have ...
The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love , which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word " psychedelic " to suburbia .