The most famous (and infamous) houses of Haight-Ashbury FacebookTwitterEmail Catherine Madden / @catmule Haight-Ashbury in the late '60s wasn't all love, flowers and tambourines. Almost as soon as the fabled Summer of Love began in 1967, dark forces crept into the bright Victorians and steep side streets around the Haight. While the world was celebrating the counterculture movement in San Francisco, violent crime, sex work, a sexual health epidemic and countless drug deaths riddled the neighborhood. This tumultuous side of the hippie dream was maybe exemplified best in the violence of the H...