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  2. Haight-Ashbury - Wikipedia

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    Haight-Ashbury (/ ˌ h eɪ t ˈ æ ʃ b ɛr i,-b ər i /) is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called the Haight and the Upper Haight . [ 5 ]

  3. Huckleberry House - Wikipedia

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    Huckleberry House is a shelter for runaway and homeless youth located in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California. [3] Huckleberry House was the first runaway shelter for youth in the US, [4] founded during the Summer of Love on June 18, 1967, by several churches and the San Francisco Foundation.

  4. Love Pageant Rally - Wikipedia

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    The Love Pageant Rally took place on October 6, 1966 [1] —the day LSD became illegal—in the 'panhandle' of Golden Gate Park, a narrower section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The 'Haight' was a neighborhood of run-down turn-of-the-20th-century housing that was the center of San Francisco's counterculture in the ...

  5. Haight Ashbury Free Clinics - Wikipedia

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    The Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc. was a free health care service in Northern California which remained in service from June 7, 1967 until July 2019. [1] Overview

  6. Stephen Gaskin - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Gaskin (February 16, 1935 – July 1, 2014) was an American counterculture Hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding "The Farm", a spiritual commune in 1970.

  7. Free clinic - Wikipedia

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    However, the first documented free clinic is considered to be the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in California which was started by Dr. David Smith in 1967. [12] These clinics coined the phrase, "health care is a right not a privilege" and they served vulnerable veteran populations after the Vietnam war, many of whom struggled with drug ...

  8. Human Be-In - Wikipedia

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    The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.

  9. LSD - Wikipedia

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    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.