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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A section of central San Francisco. In the 1960s it was a famous gathering place for hippies and followers of the drug culture.
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Examples
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(Soundbite of music) RICHARD GONZALES: It's been more than 40 years since the Summer of Love, but the San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district is still the home of the hip with its cafes, boutiques and head shops.
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In many ways, it still is today: Think Haight-Ashbury, if the 60s had never ended.
St. Pauli on the Other Side of 'Otherness' Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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"We do phoned-in deliveries, so they don't bother us," said Alexandra DeFaria , manager of a North Beach Pizza outlet in the Haight-Ashbury, which sits across the street from a weekly gathering of food trucks called Off the Grid.
Restaurants, Food Trucks in Turf War Jim Carlton 2011
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GONZALES: San Francisco supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who represents the Haight-Ashbury district, says police already have the authority to deal with transients and aggressive panhandling.
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GONZALES: San Francisco supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who represents the Haight-Ashbury district, says police already have the authority to deal with transients and aggressive panhandling.
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Watching the show made me feel like I had been transported back to the Haight, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco to be exact.
Mary Hall: NYFW: Nicole Miller Fall 2012 From the Haight to the Runway Mary Hall 2012
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Watching the show made me feel like I had been transported back to the Haight, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco to be exact.
Mary Hall: NYFW: Nicole Miller Fall 2012 From the Haight to the Runway Mary Hall 2012
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Watching the show made me feel like I had been transported back to the Haight, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco to be exact.
Mary Hall: NYFW: Nicole Miller Fall 2012 From the Haight to the Runway Mary Hall 2012
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Watching the show made me feel like I had been transported back to the Haight, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco to be exact.
Mary Hall: NYFW: Nicole Miller Fall 2012 From the Haight to the Runway Mary Hall 2012
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(Soundbite of music) RICHARD GONZALES: It's been more than 40 years since the Summer of Love, but the San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district is still the home of the hip with its cafes, boutiques and head shops.
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