Haight Ashbury is known for the "Summer of Love". In 1967, 40 years ago, the hippies of the time envisioned a world of peace, and imagined a way to get there was by spreading love - freely and unconditionally. It wasn't meant to be necessarily free sex, even tho there was certainly a lot of that. It was more meant to be the spreading of the connection and emotion of love. To be genuinely concerned and nurturing to everyone you come in contact with. The idea is that sending out love would cause others to send out love and so on and so on. Food was given without asking for payment. Poets gathered. Concerts were given freely. One famous musical group from this era and this area is the Grateful Dead. They lived in this house at 710 Ashbury.
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