"Booksmith Founded in October 1976, The Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. When first opened, the store was located at 1746 Haight Street, below the former I-Beam nightclub. In 1985, the store moved to its current location at 1644 Haight Street at Belvedere, about a block and a half from the intersection of Haight and Ashbury. Other neighborhood businesses include the Persian Aub Zam-Zam, Recycled Records, Amoeba Music, and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Also located nearby is the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic. The Booksmith caters to neighborhood residents as well as"
"the Haight Ashbury neighbourhood in San Francisco, where he had lived since 1960. During the 1960s and 1970s, his verse became increasingly bold in its exploration of drugs, homosexuality, and poetic form. He enjoyed the bohemian lifestyle in San Francisco so much that Edmund White described him as ""the last of the commune dwellers [...] serious and intellectual by day and druggy and sexual by night"". While he continued to sharpen his use of the metrical forms that characterised his early career, he became more and more interested in syllabics and free verse. ""He's possibly the only poet to have"
"of Darryl S.Inaba, PharmD, and a host of volunteer medical staff, founded and opened the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, CA on Haight Street as a response to the medical needs of thousands of young people who descended upon San Francisco for the Summer of Love. The Clinic still operates today in San Francisco and continues to serve those without adequate health insurance. Smith served as Medical Director of the clinic for 39 years, since its inception. He resigned from the clinic in February 2006 amid legal, medical, and business disputes with the Clinics' administration. The Clinic"
"Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, and Jane and Finch in Toronto. Streets can be divided into various types, each with its own general style of construction and purpose. However, the difference between streets, roads, avenues and the like is often blurred and is not a good indicator of the size, design, or content of the area. Many transportation facilities have a suffix which designates it a ""street"", ""road"", ""court"", etc., and these designations may or may not have any meaning or pattern in the particular jurisdiction. In the United Kingdom many towns will refer to their main thoroughfare as the High"
"Koshland parks, and the Haight Street Art Center. Lower Haight differs from Upper Haight by having a more diverse population and a smaller number of retail businesses. The Victorian and Edwardian houses tend to be less ornately painted and maintained in the Lower Haight than in the Haight/Ashbury neighborhood, and rent can be lower. The neighborhood has been referred to as having a ""grungey, post-punk bohemian"" atmosphere. It can be at times a dangerous place, but the efforts of local residents, a public nuisance lawsuit in the 1990s against the crime-ridden Hayes Valley housing project, a Federal RICO case against"
"population after World War II. The Western Addition is usually divided into smaller neighborhoods including Hayes Valley, the Fillmore, and Japantown, which was once the largest Japantown in North America but suffered when its Japanese American residents were forcibly removed and interned during World War II. The Western Addition survived the 1906 earthquake with its Victorians largely intact, including the famous ""Painted Ladies"", standing alongside Alamo Square. To the south, near the geographic center of the city is Haight-Ashbury, famously associated with 1960s hippie culture. The Haight is now home to some expensive boutiques and a few controversial chain stores,"
"the availability of cheap rooms and vacant properties for rent or sale in the district; property values had dropped in part because of the proposed freeway. The bohemian subculture that subsequently flourished there took root, and to a great extent, has remained to this day. The mainstream media's coverage of hippie life in the Haight-Ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over America. Hunter S. Thompson labeled the district ""Hashbury"" in ""The New York Times Magazine"", and the activities in the area were reported almost daily. The Haight-Ashbury district was sought out by hippies to constitute a community based"
"in decline. Many buildings were left vacant after the war. Deferred maintenance also took its toll, and the exodus of middle class residents to newer suburbs continued to leave many units for rent. In the 1950s, a freeway was proposed that would have run through the Panhandle, but due to a citizen freeway revolt, it was cancelled in a series of battles that lasted until 1966. The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) was formed at the time of the 1959 revolt. The Haight-Ashbury's elaborately detailed, 19th century, multi-story, wooden houses became a haven for hippies during the 1960s, due to"
"Hanwood Hanwood is a large village in Shropshire, England. It is located SW of Shrewsbury town centre, on the A488 road. The A5 is only a mile away. The Cambrian Line runs through the village but there is no longer a station here. It was closed in 1964, as a result of the Beeching Axe. The Rea Brook flows through the village and the village is laid along the floor of a small valley. Hanwood Bank is a smaller village adjoining Hanwood, further north on the A488 towards Shrewsbury. Both villages form the main of the civil parish of Great"
"in 2017. Emma Watson, Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter films, lives in Headington. She also attended Headington School. Joan Clarke Murray, one of the Enigma code breakers, lived at 7 Larkfields from 1986 until her death in 1996. Headington Headington is a suburb of Oxford, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames Valley below. The life of the large residential area is centred upon London Road, the main road between London and Oxford. The site of Headington shows evidence of continued occupation from the Stone Age, as the 2001 field excavations"
"hippie capital of Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco. Writing in 2001, Peter Doggett said that the Beatles' performance on ""Our World"" ""remains one of the strongest visual impressions of the summer of love""; Womack describes it as ""flower power's finest moment"". ""Rolling Stone"" ranks ""All You Need Is Love"" 370th on its list of the ""500 Greatest Songs of All Time"" and 21st on its ""100 Greatest Beatles Songs"" list. ""Mojo"" placed it at number 28 on a similar list of the best Beatles songs. In his commentary for the magazine, producer and musician Dave Stewart admired the track's ""jumbled-up mix"
"when Dr. David Smith founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in 1967. From there free clinics spread to other California cities and then across the United States. Each one offered a unique set of services, reflecting the particular needs and resources of the local community. Some were established to provide medical services in the inner cities while others opened in the suburbs and many student-run free clinics have emerged that serve the underserved as well as provide a medical training site for students in the health professions. What they share in common is that care is made possible through the"
"opened in 2001. Newbury Park, London Newbury Park is a district of Ilford in east London, situated in the London Borough of Redbridge east of Gants Hill. The main road is the Eastern Avenue (A12), which until the 1920s was a country lane called ""Hatch Lane"". The main landmark in this district is the tube station whose post-war bus shelter received a Festival of Britain award in 1951. The shelter was designed by architect Oliver Hill in 1937. The name ""Newbury"" was first recorded in 1348. The area, along with the rest of Ilford, was part of the county of"
"Ashbury, New South Wales Ashbury is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It lies in the local government area of Canterbury-Bankstown Council with some areas in the Inner West Council and is about 10 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district. The postcode is 2193, the same as neighbouring Canterbury. Ashbury is mostly residential and has no commercial centre, although there are a few shops on King Street. Its major landmark is Peace Park, the highest point in the Canterbury local government area. Ashbury derived its name from the"
"their college studies. On October 6, 1967, those remaining in the Haight staged a mock funeral, Digger happening, ""The Death of the Hippie"" ceremony. Mary Kasper explained the message of the mock funeral as: After 1968, the area went into decline due to ""an influx of hard drugs and a lack of police presence,"" but was improved and renewed in the late 1970s. The Haight Ashbury was the origin of several communities and movements, including The Farm and the Rainbow Family. The Haight was at one point the home to hundreds of intentional communities, although few lasted and many moved"
"Straight Theatre, The Diggers, The San Francisco Oracle, and approximately twenty-five other people, who sought to alleviate some of the problems anticipated from the influx of people expected during the summer. The Council also assisted the Free Clinic and organized housing, food, sanitation, music and arts, along with maintaining coordination with local churches and other social groups. The increasing numbers of youth traveling to the Haight-Ashbury district alarmed the San Francisco authorities, whose public warning was that they would keep hippies away. Adam Kneeman, a long-time resident of the Haight-Ashbury, recalls that the police did little to help the hordes"
"Hasbury Hasbury is a suburb of Halesowen in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in West Midlands, England. Its main focal point is the small shopping centre at the Wassell Road/Hagley Road junction, surrounded to the north by municipal housing development (Albrighton Road and Philip Road) and with owner-occupier housing estates located to the south (the Huntlands) and west (Rosemary Road). The local primary school is St Margaret's at Hasbury Church of England Primary School, which is located on Hagley Road adjacent to St. Margaret of Antioch church. It is served by bus routes 142, 192, 244 and 417. The nearest"
"Haighton Haighton is a civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. It is a rural area north east of the urban city of Preston, beyond Fulwood and Brookfield. Haighton also contains the hamlets of Haighton Green and Haighton Top. It is separated from the city by the M6 motorway, with junction 31A on the boundary with Brookfield. The area was intended to become a residential suburb as part of the Central Lancashire New Town, with population increasing to 29,100 by 2001 however it never occurred and the area has remained rural. It has a population of 197, increasing"
"promoters Timothy Leary and Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Poet Allen Ginsberg led the singing of the Hare Krishna mantra onstage along with the founder acarya of the Krishna Consciousness movement, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Strobe lights and a psychedelic liquid light show along with pictures of Krishna and the words of the Hare Krishna mantra were projected onto the walls of the venue. Later Ginsberg called the Mantra-Rock Dance ""the height of Haight-Ashbury spiritual enthusiasm ..."" Diggers Hippie action in the Haight centered on the Diggers, a guerrilla street theatre group that combined spontaneous street theatre, anarchistic action, and art"
"the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, had become a focal point for psychedelic rock music. Musicians and bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin all lived a short distance from the famous intersection. During the 1967 Summer of Love, thousands of hippies gathered there, popularized by hit songs such as ""San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"". A July 7, 1967, ""Time"" magazine cover story on ""The Hippies: Philosophy of a Subculture"" and an August CBS News television report on ""The Hippie Temptation"", as well as other major media interest, exposed the hippie"
"Newbury Park, London Newbury Park is a district of Ilford in east London, situated in the London Borough of Redbridge east of Gants Hill. The main road is the Eastern Avenue (A12), which until the 1920s was a country lane called ""Hatch Lane"". The main landmark in this district is the tube station whose post-war bus shelter received a Festival of Britain award in 1951. The shelter was designed by architect Oliver Hill in 1937. The name ""Newbury"" was first recorded in 1348. The area, along with the rest of Ilford, was part of the county of Essex until 1965,"
"to 202 at the 2011 Census. The parish was part of Preston Rural District throughout its existence from 1894 to 1974. In 1974 the parish became part of the Borough of Preston, which became a city in 2002. Haighton Haighton is a civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. It is a rural area north east of the urban city of Preston, beyond Fulwood and Brookfield. Haighton also contains the hamlets of Haighton Green and Haighton Top. It is separated from the city by the M6 motorway, with junction 31A on the boundary with Brookfield. The area was"
"in New Zealand and the third-largest urban area in the Canterbury Region, after Christchurch and Timaru. Ashburton was named by the surveyor Captain Joseph Thomas of the New Zealand Land Association, after Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, who was a member of the Canterbury Association. The town is laid out around two central squares either side of the railway line and main highway, Baring Square East and Baring Square West. ""Ashvegas"", Ashburton's common nickname, is an ironic allusion to Las Vegas. Ashburton is on State Highway 1 south of Christchurch. The Main South Line railway line runs through the centre"
"concerned more with art (music, painting, poetry in particular) or spiritual and meditative practices. Inspired by the Beat Generation of authors of the 1950s, who had flourished in the North Beach area of San Francisco, those who gathered in Haight-Ashbury during 1967 allegedly rejected the conformist and materialist values of modern life; there was an emphasis on sharing and community. The Diggers established a Free Store, and a Free Clinic where medical treatment was provided. The prelude to the Summer of Love was a celebration known as the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, which was"
"Ashburton, New Zealand Ashburton or Hakatere (Māori) is a large town in the Canterbury Region, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The town is the seat of the Ashburton District, a territorial authority encompassing the town and a number of small settlements within its surrounding rural area, roughly coterminous with the subregion of Mid Canterbury. It is south west of Christchurch and is sometimes regarded as a satellite town of Christchurch. Ashburton township has a population of , with an additional 12,400 living in the wider district. The town is the 23rd largest urban area"
"America's counterculture. Beat Generation writers fueled the San Francisco Renaissance and centered on the North Beach neighborhood in the 1950s. Hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, reaching a peak with the 1967 Summer of Love. In 1974, the Zebra murders left at least 16 people dead. In the 1970s, the city became a center of the gay rights movement, with the emergence of The Castro as an urban gay village, the election of Harvey Milk to the Board of Supervisors, and his assassination, along with that of Mayor George Moscone, in 1978. Bank of America completed 555 California Street"
"Esther and Trevor Hayter. The garden designs were by Oi Choong. Hazelhurst is an initiative of the Sutherland Shire Council and was created by the bequest of Ben and Hazel Broadhurst. The land that became Hazelhurst was secured in 1945, where a two-storey cottage, designed with the help of local architect Harry Smith, was built. The cottage is now used as Hazelhurst's artist-in-residence and digital media studio. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre The Hazelhurst Arts Centre is an arts complex located on The Kingsway in the suburb of Gymea, in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the"
"Aldbury in Kent at the last minute because of costs and lack of space for filming. Kirkby-in-Ashfield Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 25,265 (according to the 2001 National Census), falling to 20,672 for the total of the 3 Ashfield Wards taken at the 2011 census. It is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area. The Head Offices of Ashfield District Council are located on Urban Road in the town centre. Kirkby-in-Ashfield lies on the eastern edge of the Erewash Valley which separates Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Kirkby, as it is locally known, was originally"
"rural northern section of the city and then crosses into South Hampton, New Hampshire. The highway becomes New Hampshire Route 150 upon crossing the state line. Massachusetts Route 150 Route 150 is a short south–north highway entirely in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The highway is the main south-north thoroughfare in Amesbury, and serves as a southward continuation of New Hampshire Route 150, connecting Amesbury to the New Hampshire town of Kensington and ultimately, Exeter. Route 150 begins at an intersection with Beacon Street, an unusual instance that a numbered route does not have its terminus with another numbered route. Less than a"
"in downtown Los Angeles. Haight's family name, by this time (1927), was already well-known in the state - Henry Huntly Haight, 10th Governor of California (from 1867-1871), was his grandfather's cousin & relation Henry Haight's (1820-1869) influence in San Francisco led to Haight Street being named in his honor. With the addition of James Sheppard (Mathes' law school roommate) in 1928, the firm was renamed to Haight, Mathes & Sheppard. The same year, the firm relocated down Spring Street to the Rowan Building. From 1932-1963, the firm saw several key leadership changes - in 1932 Haight left the firm, and"
"Matty Askin (born in Barnsley), RP Davies and Scott Cardle, as well as the late Neville Rowe. MMA fighters Leeroy Barnes and Karl Etherington, the son of former Judo National Champion Bill Etherington, as well as professional wrestler Shak Khan, are also from Blackpool. Blackpool Cricket Club are Blackpool's major cricketing team; they won the League Cup in 2013 and were National Champions in 1990. They won the Lancashire Cup on eight occasions between 1973 and 1996 and were League Champions fourteen times. Their home is in the grounds of Stanley Park, which also hosts Lancashire County Cricket Club. The"
"one-way system, and runs through a council ward also named as Knight's Hill. It ends in the south at a junction with the A214 at Crown Lane and Crown Dale. Knights Hill becomes Beulah Hill here at Crown Point. To the north, south of Knight's Hill is the part of the Crystal Palace area with no name home to a large parade of competing large super markets along the A215 Norwood Road including Tesco, Cooperative, Iceland and (by Summer 2009) Sainsbury (ex Woolworth's site). West Norwood railway station is on this road. Knights Hill contains the Knights Hill Nature Reserve,"
"the former ""Punch magazine"" printworks) and the architecturally distinctive Ziggurat Building. The street also is known to be visited by many rappers from the UK especially when they are filming music videos as they are buying jewelery. The Hatton Garden area between Leather Lane in the west and Saffron Hill in the east, and from Holborn in the south to Hatton Wall in the north, was developed as a new residential district in the Restoration period, between 1659 and 1694. It arose soon after the residential developments in Covent Garden and was contemporary with those of Bloomsbury Square. It was"