HAIGHT-ASHBURY FOR ALL PEOPLES Squares Love, too

Pinback button from the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury district, San Francisco, 1967. 1 1/4" cello in excellent condition with a Star Engraving Co. S.F. inscription around the curl. This odd pinback was issued by merchants to stimulate business by attracting "squares" to the Haight. This pinback was mentioned in an article in the September, 1967 issue of Atlantic magazine, which described businesses in Haight-Ashbury: "The shops of the hip merchants were colorful and cordial. The straight merchants of Haight Street sold necessities, but the hip shops smelled of incense, the walls were hung with posters and paintings, and the counters were laden with thousands of items of nonutilitarian nonsense - metal jewelry, glass beads, underground magazines, photographs of old-time movie stars, colored chalk, kazoos, Halloween masks, odd bits of stained glass, and single shoes."