If you have been staying at a great hotel like this and you have been to all the crowded attractions like a whole day just to visit Alcatraz and spend time on the Fisherman’s Wharf. Maybe you caught a comedy show and now you want a day to stroll one of San Franciscos unique neighborhoods how about Haight Ashbury district. It is named after the famous intersection it resides on and its nickname is The haight. The Streets were originally named after Henry Haight at pioneer, exchange broker as well as tenth governor of California and Munroe Ashbury who was an early politician of San Francisco who was on the S.F. Board of Supervisors between 1964 and 1870. Munroe Ashbury was Henry Haight’s nephew and they both helped develop the neighborhood.

There are two parts to the neighborhood the upper Haight and lower Haight because of there height on the hill. The lower section was originally an area of African American and Japanese residents. The upper Haight district is the one that is famous for its part in the hippie movement in the sixties. It all started when students and artists couldn’t find affordable housing in most parts of the city so they took over Haight street where there was cheap rent. The neighborhood was actually quiet before they came along.

Today there are many shops and restaurants to visit and thing are a little more main stream than it was back in the sixties but it still holds much of its charm and has many great old buildings to see. Come and see some of the vibe that contributed to another name is  was called by Journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, which was Hashbury because it was. Come see the trail left behind by bands like the Greatful Dead, Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company and Jefferson Airplane.

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