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Article: The Haight Has Changed, But Some of Its Old Flavor Remains the Same.
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- National Mortgage News
- Article date:
- October 23, 2000
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Haight-Ashbury isn't what it once was, but it still is a neighborhood that, despite commercialization, has a flavor all its own.
During the 1960s, the Haight gained fame as the home of such musical luminaries as the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin and was the epicenter of the Summer of Love in 1967.
As San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin wrote in his book Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock and Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild West, "What happened in a small neighborhood in San Francisco among a relatively small circle of people was never fully understood even by the people involved. Events, once set in motion, overtook ...