Haight- Ashbury
Street
By: Caroline Christy
For my blog
this month I wanted to get more research and learn more about Haight- Ashbury
street, from watching the movie “Sex in 69” it really got me interested in the
1960’s as well as this famous street.
Haight-Ashbury
Street is deemed as the birthplace of the hippie movement. [1]
People from all over the world knew about this famous street, which was the
gathering ground for most hippies, tie-dye, and drugs. This street was full of
dreamers, lovers, and of course hippies. One thing that was essential to hippie
life was LSD, which you could buy along with marijuana on Height-Ashbury Street.
[2]
One thing that was said to unite this famous street was drugs, because this was
the place to get drugs and a place where everyone did drugs with no judgment.
Not only did this street house hippies but it also housed some of the best rock
bands. So many people, such as, college students, teenagers, family vacationers
and even military personal on leave visited this cultural utopia.
In 1967
Haight-Ashbury Street started dwindling down due to cops coming in and taking
action with the drug use. Shortly after homeless people took the streets and
the street become somewhat of a bad street.[3]
Still today it has a certain charm to it I just wish I could have seen it in
its golden days.
To me
Haight-Ashbury Street and for that matter all of the 1960’s were very important
to history and the change over from conservative views to more liberal. The people
living on Haight-Ashbury Street were an example of people who didn’t care about
the norms of society anymore, they are the start of a sexual revolution so to
speak. If it were not for the hippies and the home of Haight-Ashbury street
then I cant even begin to think about what the world would be like today. The
people living on Haight-Ashbury street showed the world that it was okay to
live like they do, and they showed how happy and free they were. I think some
people thought the world would crash and burn if the world was like
Haight-Ashbury street but it didn’t it survived and prospered. I remember learning
in class that sex for women was strictly for procreation and that was not for pleasure
and that even women weren’t supposed to enjoy it. But thanks to the 1960’s,
Haight-Ashbury street and sexual liberalism now the world knows.
[1] Schwartz,
Carly. "Haight Ashbury In The 1960s: A Vibrant Hippie History
(PHOTOS)." The Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/haight-ashbury-in-the-1960s_n_1967664.html
(accessed April 29, 2014).
[2] Wikimedia
Foundation. "Haight-Ashbury." Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury (accessed April 29, 2014).
[3]
Sex in 69, movie
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