Haight-Ashbury
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Haight-Ash·bury | \ ˈhāt-ˈash-ˌber-ē 
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\Definition of Haight-Ashbury
neighborhood in central San Francisco abutting Golden Gate Park
Note: Named for two intersecting streets, Haight-Ashbury became famous as a center of the hippie counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s.
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