Haight Ashbury

description: district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets

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Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood
Published 2 Jan 2009

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.…159 Oakland............................. 290 Palo Alto............................ 329 prices................................ 152 Richmond and the Sunset . ..................................... 164 Russian River Valley.......... 385 San Jose........................... 333 SoMa, the Tenderloin, and Civic Center................... 160 Sonoma Valley.................. 379 African Diaspora, Museum of................................ 106 African-American Museum & Library..................... 291 AirBART......................... 287 Alameda........................ 294 Alameda Business District (San Jose)................... 336 Alamere Falls................. 356 Albany Mud Flats ......... 315 Alcatraz......................16, 85 Alice Marble Park............ 78 Alioto-Lazio..................... 85 Alta Plaza Park................ 94 Altamont Speedway...... 321 Alviso............................. 338 Ambrose Bierce House ................................... 374 Angel Island................... 358 Ano Nuevo State Reserve .............................13, 344 Apple Computers.......... 330 Aquarium of the Bay....... 84 Aquatic Park.................... 87 Arch Rock...................... 360 Ark Row......................... 358 Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve....................... 387 Asian Art Museum......... 113 AT&T Park...................... 107 ATMs................................ 41 Ayala Cove.................... 358 B Baker Beach.................. 140 ballet.............................. 227 Balmy Alley murals........ 123 Bancroft Library............. 306 Bank of America Center... 56 banks............................... 41 Barbary Coast................. 62 bars Berkeley............................ 314 Castro, the........................ 216 Downtown and Chinatown . ..................................... 210 gay bars.................... 214, 239 Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center................... 218 Marin County.................... 364 microbreweries.................. 212 Mission and south............ 216 Napa Valley....................... 377 North Beach and the hills . ..................................... 212 northern waterfront and Pacific Heights.............. 213 Oakland............................. 301 Palo Alto............................ 332 Richmond and the Sunset . ..................................... 219 rooftop bars...................... 210 Russian River Valley.......... 388 San Jose........................... 339 SoMa................................. 214 Sonoma Valley.................. 384 Tenderloin and Civic Center, the.................................. 216 BART............................... 28 baseball........................... 13 basketball...................... 274 Bass Lake...................... 356 Battery Wallace............. 351 Bay Area Discovery Museum...................... 354 Bay Bridge..................... 286 Bay cruises...................... 83 Bay Model Visitor Center ................................... 354 Bay to Breakers Race . ................................. 266 Beach Chalet................. 147 Bean Hollow State Beach ................................... 344 Bear Flag Revolt............ 382 Beat generation............... 70 beers of San Francisco ................................... 212 bed and breakfast, see "accommodation" Belvedere Island............ 358 Benicia........................... 316 Benicia Arsenal.............. 317 Benicia Historical Museum ................................... 317 Berkeley........................ 301 Berkeley................ 302–303 Berkeley bookstores..... 308 Berkeley Marina............ 311 Berkeley Rose Garden ................................... 310 Berkeley Steamworks ................................... 311 Bernal Heights............... 123 Bernal Park.................... 124 Big Four, the.................... 80 Black Panthers.............. 296 Blackhawk Automotive Museum...................... 320 boating.......................... 270 Bohemian Club................ 56 Bohemian Grove........... 387 Bolinas........................... 355 books.................... 406–411 Botanical Garden, UC Berkeley...................... 306 Boudin Museum.............. 84 bowling.......................... 271 Brannan, Sam................ 395 Bridgeway Avenue........ 353 Broadway........................ 71 Brown, Jerry “Moonbeam” ...........................290, 404 Brown, Willie.................. 404 Buddha’s Universal Church ..................................... 65 Buddhist Church of San Francisco.................... 136 Buena Vista Park........... 130 Buffalo Paddock............ 147 Burlingame.................... 326 bus routes....................... 27 Butano Redwood Forest ................................... 344 Butano State Park......... 344 C Crockett......................... 316 Crystal Springs Reservoir ................................... 328 cycling.....................30, 266 D | Danville.......................... 319 de Saisset Museum....... 338 Defenestration............... 108 Dellums, Ron................. 404 Devil’s Slide................... 340 Diego Rivera Gallery........ 78 Diggers, the................... 131 Dipsea Race.................. 266 disabilities, travelers with ..................................... 48 Doda, Carol..................... 72 Dolores Park.................. 120 Downtown San Francisco ............................... 49–67 Downtown San Francisco. ............................... 50–51 Drake, Sir Francis.......... 391 Drake’s Bay Oyster Farm ................................... 361 Drake’s Beach............... 361 Drawbridge.................... 338 drinking, see “bars” Duboce Park................. 132 Dunes Beach................. 341 Dutch Windmill.............. 147 Duxbury Reef Nature Reserve....................... 355 i n de x Ca’Toga......................... 375 Cable Car Museum and Powerhouse.................. 67 cable car routes.............. 27 cable cars..................12, 59 Café, see "eating" Caffe Trieste.................... 72 California Academy of Sciences..................... 145 California cuisine........... 165 California Historical Society ................................... 106 Calistoga....................... 374 CalTrain............................ 28 Camel Barn................... 317 Camera Obscura........... 142 Campanile, UC Berkeley ................................... 306 Camron-Stanford House ................................... 293 Candlestick Park........... 127 canoeing........................ 268 car rental......................... 28 Carquinez Strait, the..... 316 Carran Theater................ 56 Cartoon Art Museum ................................... 106 Castro, the........... 124–126 Castro and the Mission . ................................... 121 Castro, the Mission, and south.................. 118–119 Castro Theatre............... 125 Cathedral Basilica of St Joseph........................ 335 Cathedral Building ....... 293 Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption................ 136 Cazadero Highway........ 387 cell phones...................... 43 Center for Sex & Culture ................................... 111 Cesar Chavez Park........ 311 Chabot Space & Science Center......................... 297 Chapel of the Chimes ................................... 298 children’s activities.......... 36 Children’s Discovery Museum...................... 336 Children’s Fairyland....... 294 Chimney Rock............... 361 China Basin................... 108 China Beach.................. 140 China Camp State Park ................................... 362 Chinatown.......... 13, 63–67 Chinatown Gate.............. 65 Chinatown (Oakland) ................................... 292 Chinese Cultural Center ..................................... 65 Chinese Historical Society of America.................... 67 Christian Science Church ................................... 309 Church of St Peter and Paul............................... 73 City College................... 127 City Hall (Oakland)......... 292 City Hall (San Francisco) ................................... 114 city transportation........... 26 Civic Center......... 111–115 Civic Center, SoMA, and the Tenderloin.... 100–101 Claremont Hotel............ 309 classical music.............. 227 Clement Street.............. 139 Cliff House..................... 141 climate............................. 10 climbing......................... 266 Coastal Trail................... 353 Codornices Park........... 310 coffee, indie-style.......... 179 Coit Tower.................15, 74 Cole Valley..................... 134 Colma............................ 328 Columbus Avenue........... 71 Columbus Tower............. 60 comedy.......................... 231 concerts, free................ 228 Concord......................... 318 Condor Club.................... 71 Conservatory of Flowers ................................... 143 consulates....................... 38 Contemporary Jewish Museum...................... 105 COPIA............................ 371 costs................................ 37 Cow Hollow..................... 91 Coyote Point Museum ................................... 327 credit cards..................... 41 Creek Park..................... 360 crime and personal safety ..................................... 34 Crissy Field...................... 95 E earthquakes...........398, 403 East Bay............... 285–325 East Bay........................ 286 East Oakland................. 297 East Palo Alto................ 329 East Span project.......... 285 eating Berkeley............................ 311 cuisine choices................. 166 Downtown and Chinatown . ..................................... 165 Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center................... 198 super burritos.................... 196 Marin County.................... 362 Mission, the Castro, and south ............................ 189 Napa Valley....................... 376 North Beach and the hills . ..................................... 174 433 northern waterfront and Pacific Heights.............. 180 Oakland............................. 299 Palo Alto............................ 332 Richmond and the Sunset ..................................... 204 Russian River Valley.......... 388 San Jose........................... 338 SoMa, the Tenderloin, and Civic Center................... 184 Sonoma Valley.................. 383 Ebony Museum of Art ................................... 292 El Cerrito....................... 315 Embarcadero, the............ 60 Embarcadero, Financial District and Jackson Square.......................... 57 emergency services........ 35 Emeryville...................... 296 Euclid Avenue................ 310 exchange rates................ 41 Exploratorium.................. 91 i n de x | 434 F Fairfax............................ 360 Fairmont Hotel................. 79 Fallon House................. 335 Farmers’ Market............ 112 Feinstein, Dianne........... 402 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence..... 70 ferries............................... 28 Ferry Building, the.....15, 61 Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market.......................... 62 Festival at the Lake....... 294 festivals and events ........................... 277–283 Filbert Steps.................... 76 Fillmore Auditorium....... 135 Fillmore Street................. 92 Fillmore.......................... 135 film festivals................... 234 films...... 232–234, 412–420 Filoli Estate.................... 328 Financial District.............. 56 Financial District, Jackson Square and Embarcadero............... 57 Fish Alley......................... 85 Fisherman’s Wharf 81–85 fishing............................ 271 fitness centers............... 271 Fitzgerald Marine Reserve ................................... 341 flights............................... 19 Flood Mansion................. 79 Floral Depot................... 293 Folsom Street................ 108 Forrest, Lee de.............. 330 Fort Baker...................... 354 Fort Barry...................... 352 Fort Funston.................. 148 Fort Mason...................... 88 Fort Point......................... 96 fortune cookies.............. 146 Fourth Street (Berkeley) ................................... 311 Frank Ogawa Plaza....... 292 Fremont......................... 298 Frisbie-Walsh House..... 317 Fugazi Hall....................... 73 G gay and lesbian San Francisco................... 235 Gay Pride......................... 12 Geary Boulevard............ 139 General Vallejo Home.... 380 Geyserville..................... 387 Ghirardelli Square............ 88 Giants baseball park..... 107 Ginsberg, Allen................ 70 Glen Ellen...................... 381 Glide Memorial Methodist Church........................ 109 Gold Rush, the.............. 394 Golden Gate Beach....... 141 Golden Gate Bridge........ 94 Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory............. 67 Golden Gate National Recreation Area............ 89 Golden Gate Park......... 16, 142–147 Golden Gate Park. ........................... 144–145 Golden Gate Park, Richmond, and the Sunset....................... 138 golf................................. 269 Grace Cathedral.............. 79 Graham, Bill................... 133 Grand Lake Movie Theater ................................... 294 Grant Avenue.................. 65 Grateful Dead house..... 131 Gray Whale Cove State Beach......................... 341 gray whales................... 361 Great American Music Hall ................................... 110 Greek Theatre........306, 322 Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center......................... 355 Greenwich Steps............. 75 Greenwood Cove.......... 358 Guerneville..................... 385 H Haas-Lilienthal House..... 91 Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic ................................... 131 Haight-Ashbury ........................... 130–134 Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center........... 129 Half Moon Bay.............. 342 Hall, William................... 143 Hallidie Plaza................... 54 hang-gliding.................. 271 Haring, Keith.................... 80 Harvey Milk Plaza.......... 124 Hayes Valley.................. 134 Healdsburg.................... 387 health............................... 39 Hearst Mining Building ................................... 306 Hearst Museum of Anthropology.............. 307 Hearst, Patty................. 290 Heart’s Desire Beach..... 361 Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon........... 295 Hell’s Angels.................. 131 hiking............................. 265 hills, the and North Beach. ..................................... 69 hippies........................... 133 Historic Railroad Square ................................... 382 history................... 391–405 History Park................... 337 holidays........................... 43 homelessness................ 112 Hoover Tower, Stanford ................................... 330 horse-racing.................. 275 horse-riding................... 271 hostels, see “accommodation” hot-air balloon rides...... 369 hotels, see “accommodation” House of Happy Walls, the ................................... 382 Hudson’s Bay Company ................................... 394 Huntington Park.............. 79 Hyde Street Pier Historic Ships............................. 88 I ice hockey..................... 275 ice skating..................... 270 Ina Coolbrith Park........... 78 Indian Rock................... 309 inline skating................. 270 Institute of Contemporary Art............................... 336 insurance......................... 39 Intel Museum................. 338 internet............................ 43 Inverness....................... 361 Iris and B.

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Castro-Mission Health Center, 3850 17th St at Prosper, Mission (t415/487-7500), offers a drop-in medical service with charges on a sliding scale depending on income, plus free contraception and pregnancy testing. California Pacific (formerly Davies) Medical Center, Castro and Duboce streets, Lower Haight (t415/565-6060), has 24-hour emergency care and a doctors’ referral service. Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, 558 Clayton St at Haight, Haight-Ashbury, provides a general health-care service with special services for women and detoxification, by appointment only (t415/487-5632, phones answered Mon–Wed 9am–9pm, Thurs 1–9pm, Fri 1–5pm except from 12.30–1pm & 5.30–6pm). BASICS Foreign travelers should be comforted to learn that if you have a serious accident while in San Francisco, emergency services will get to you sooner and charge you later.

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
Published 1 Jan 1968

—are easing into The Life, and some move up the beach from the Pump House, away from the everlasting sets of goodsurfing waves they used to wait for like Phrygian sacristans, up from the Pump House to the Parking Lot, where they sit in cars with special amethyst-tinted windows and grok in fullness the Pacific sun as it comes through the weird glass and the cops wonder what in hell they're doing in cars all day instead of being on the beach, and they roust them and search the cars and find nothing, but warn— We know you kids are drinking beer out here... Beer! . .. One of the Pump House Gang leaders, Artie, pulls into Haight-Ashbury, because this is the underground word in The Life in all the high schools in California already, even though Haight-Ashbury has never been mentioned in the newspapers ... Haight-Ashbury! they know the whole new legend, right down to Owsley, now known as The White Rabbit, the paranoid acid genius . . . Artie pulls into Haight-Ashbury, walking along amid those endless staggers of bay windows, slums with a view, and who is sitting out on a curbing on Haight Street but J——— of Pump House days gone by, just sitting there with an Emporium shopping bag beside him.

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the word is now out among the heads of Haight-Ashbury. Kesey is back, the Man, the Castro who won them what they have today in the first place. The seeds we ... . . . HAVE SOWN . . . DOWN IN RAT LAND RED TIDE MANZANILLO, Kesey and the Pranksters had been so cut off they got almost no news from San Francisco. It was all perfect Devil's Island down there. They had only a dim idea of what was going on among the heads in Haight-Ashbury. But now, like, you don't even have to look for it. It hits you in the face. It's a whole carnival... All you have to do is walk up into the Haight-Ashbury—and Kesey chances a run through ...

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J———just barely glances at him and says, "Oh, hi, Artie," as if naturally they're both in Haight-Ashbury and have been for years, and then he says, "Here, have a lid," and he reaches in the shopping bag and just offers him a whole lid of grass, free, out in the open .. . Artie looks up Anchovy's communal pad. Anchovy, who was little known in La Jolla in the old surfing days, he wasn't a surfer, is now a beautiful person and the good shepherd in Haight-Ashbury for all the La Jolla kids up here. Artie makes the rounds in Haight-Ashbury and it's ... a carnival!—everybody working for the Management in wondrous ways, popping Owsley LSD up from out of Pez candy dispensers, smoking grass, taking methedrine and fucking and carrying on wherever and whenever they feel like it, on the streets practically ...

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San Francisco Like a Local
by DK Eyewitness
Published 4 Oct 2021

It’s San Francisco as it used to be: disheveled literary types kicking against the system with novels and poems, ideas, and debate. There’s also a little movie theater that shows Beat-era films. g City History g Contents Google Map HAIGHT-ASHBURY CLOCK Map 2; 1500 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///lime.slate.first At the corner where Haight and Ashbury streets meet, pilgrimaging hippies pay their respects by raising their eyes to this clock. It’s permanently stuck at 4:20, the international sign for “time to smoke marijuana” – apt, given that Haight-Ashbury was the epicenter of the Summer of Love in 1967. Nearby trinket stores cash in, selling tie-dye and incense sticks, but you can still find some real hippies settled into the sofas at next-door’s Coffee to the People, drinking fair-trade blends like “Global Karma” and “Bohemian Decaf.” » Don’t leave without seeing the “Grateful Dead House,” a block away at 710 Ashbury Street.

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Weekends are spent traipsing around the neighborhood’s uber-cool art galleries and lusting after its warehouse loft apartments. {map 3} The Embarcadero Visitors flock to the waterfront Embarcadero to explore Pier 39 and Fisherman’s Wharf. San Franciscans prefer to exercise along the boulevard before picking up treats from the Ferry Building. {map 1} Haight-Ashbury When young people met here to make love (not war) in 1967, Haight-Ashbury was anointed a hippie mecca. Years after the Summer of Love, laid-back locals still dig this groovy area for its casual brewpubs. {map 2} Hayes Valley Ditching its super-seedy rep, Hayes Valley is on the up. Its aspirational mix of Victorian townhouses and influx of top-notch dining spots and posh shopping options has tempted young monied professionals to put down roots here.

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This is Barebottle Brewing, a social hub where beer lovers meet to sip creative brews, named things like Honey Boo Boo. g Breweries and Beer Bars g Contents Google Map MAGNOLIA BREWING Map 2; 1398 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///sample.lobby.ruled; www.magnoliabrewing.com Magnolia Brewing has been making craft beer since the 1990s, when stout was still something your dad drank and no one had even heard of IPA. Forgo today’s tropes of drinking from designer cans in industrial warehouses and take your friends to this quintessential San Franciscan Victorian, in the heart of hippie Haight-Ashbury, for traditional English-style beers brewed using California-farmed hops. g Breweries and Beer Bars g Contents Google Map 21ST AMENDMENT BREWERY & RESTAURANT Map 3; 563 2nd Street, South Beach; ///really.bottle.agents; www.21st-amendment.com Both floors at this warehouse-style brewery are pretty consistently packed.

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San Francisco Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
by Dk Eyewitness
Published 5 Apr 2023

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Weekends are spent traipsing around the neighborhood’s uber-cool art galleries and lusting after its warehouse loft apartments. {map 3} The Embarcadero Visitors flock to the waterfront Embarcadero to explore Pier 39 and Fisherman’s Wharf. San Franciscans prefer to exercise along the boulevard before picking up treats from the Ferry Building. {map 1} Haight-Ashbury When young people met here to make love (not war) in 1967, Haight-Ashbury was anointed a hippie center. Years after the Summer of Love, laid-back locals still dig this groovy area for its casual brewpubs. {map 2} Hayes Valley Ditching its super-seedy rep, Hayes Valley is on the up. Its aspirational mix of Victorian townhouses and influx of top-notch dining spots and posh shopping options has tempted young monied professionals to put down roots here.

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This is Barebottle Brewing, a social hub where beer lovers meet to sip creative brews with names like Honey Boo Boo. g Breweries and Beer Bars g Contents Google Map MAGNOLIA BREWING Map 2; 1398 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///sample.lobby.ruled; www.magnoliabrewing.com Magnolia Brewing has been making craft beer since the 1990s, when stout was still something your dad drank and no one had even heard of IPA. Forgo today’s tropes of drinking from designer cans in industrial warehouses and take your friends to this quintessential San Franciscan Victorian, in the heart of hippie Haight-Ashbury, for traditional English-style beers brewed using California-farmed hops. g Breweries and Beer Bars g Contents Google Map 21ST AMENDMENT BREWERY & RESTAURANT Map 3; 563 2nd Street, South Beach; ///really.bottle.agents; www.21st-amendment.com Both floors at this warehouse-style brewery are pretty consistently packed.

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Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco
by Erika Lenkert
Published 15 Mar 2003

Manufactured in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Maps iv Introducing San Francisco 1 The Walking Tours 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Union Square Past & Present The Culture & Cuisine of Chinatown Noshing Through North Beach The Storied Steps of Telegraph Hill The Haughty Hotels of Nob Hill The Ghosts of Russian Hill The Majestic Homes of Pacific Heights South of Market: A Civilized Afternoon of Arts & Leisure The Culture & Color of the Mission District A Historical Flashback Through Haight-Ashbury Golden Gate Park: Museums, Blooms & Trees from Dunes The Golden Gate 7 21 36 54 68 83 94 106 115 127 136 146 Essentials 158 Guided Walking Tours of San Francisco 169 Index 174 LIST OF MAPS The Tours at a Glance 4 The Walking Tours Union Square Chinatown North Beach Telegraph Hill Nob Hill Russian Hill Pacific Heights South of Market Mission District Haight-Ashbury Golden Gate Park Northern San Francisco 11 23 37 55 69 85 95 109 117 129 139 149 About the Author A native San Franciscan, Erika Lenkert writes food, travel, and lifestyle articles for San Francisco Magazine, Wine Country Living, and Four Seasons.

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Army St. 0 0 0.5 mi 0.5 km N 5 6 • Memorable Walks in San Francisco Walk 9: The Culture & Color of the Mission District A trip south of the border without catching a flight? You betcha. Just follow me on this tour, where brightly painted murals, Latin music, food, culture, and the oldest building in the city await. Walk 10: A Historical Flashback Through Haight-Ashbury Sure, there’s still plenty of tie-dye and lost youth to commemorate the past in the renowned and colorful Haight-Ashbury district. But the remnants of this neighborhood’s ’60s counterculture movement are easy to miss if you don’t know where to look. This walk takes you to the house where The Grateful Dead lived and played in the ’60s, pauses for a historical flashback or two, leads you to some great cheap-food noshes, and shows you where to buy retro paraphernalia.

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Here, too, you can catch the no. 26 bus heading south, which will let you off on 24th a few blocks west of Mission Street. • Walking Tour 10 • A Historical Flashback Through Haight-Ashbury Start: Haight Street at Stanyan Street. Public Transportation: Bus: 7, 33, 37, or 43. Finish: Corner of Haight and Shrader streets. Time: 1 to 3 hours. Best Times: Between 11am and 6pm. Worst Times: After dark. Hills That Could Kill: None (though Buena Vista Park is a bit of a climb). A lthough San Francisco already had a reputation as a liberal and colorful city, the goings-on in Haight-Ashbury (once known as the “Hashbury”) 127 128 • Memorable Walks in San Francisco during the late 1960s secured the city’s status as the world’s headquarters for counterculture.

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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco
by Matthew Richard Poole
Published 17 Mar 2006

There is one sure- fire perfect way to spend your first afternoon in San Francisco—take $5 out of your pocket, walk a few blocks up Powell from Market Street (away from the turnaround), DIVERSIONS When it comes to maps, you need two kinds—an overall view of the neighborhoods in relation to each other, and a comprehensive street map. A neighborhood map will show clearly, for example, that Haight-Ashbury is right next to Golden Gate Park, which stretches from the middle of the city all the way to the Pacific Ocean (at Ocean Beach, near the Cliff House). You’ll see that the Castro and the Mission District—right next to each other, and not too far east of Haight-Ashbury—are both south of Market Street, but the neighborhood officially known as South of Market is quite a distance farther east, in the downtown area. You’ll also see that San Francisco—a city and county unto itself—is at the northern tip of a peninsula flanked by the San Francisco Bay on the east and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

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The ride takes about a half-hour. Fare is $6.45 each way for adults, $4.85 for children, and $3.80 for seniors. Call for schedule.... Tel 415/923-2000. www.goldengateferry. org. Embarcadero BART/MUNI Metro stop. See Map 7 on p. 94. See Map 7 on p. 94. Haight-Ashbury Flower Power Walking Tour (p. 115) UPPER HAIGHT Take a walking tour through Haight-Ashbury, and check out the crash pads, concert halls, and psychedelic shops that gave birth to the hippie era.... Tel 415/863-1621. www.hippy gourmet.com. $15 per person. Reservations required. Hard Rock Cafe (p. 115) FISHERMAN’S WHARF Teenagers love the super-loud rock music, juicy hamburgers, and T-shirts that prove they’ve been there....

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See also Restaurants; and Restaurants Index Caffe Trieste, 51 The California Gentleman by Astanboos, 153, 164 California Street line, 223 Canton Bazaar, 102 Carnaval, 226 Carol Doda’s Champagne and Lace Lingerie Boutique, 157, 164 Car rentals, 223 Cartier, 164 Cartoon Art Museum, 108, 117 Car travel, 225 Casanova Lounge, 184, 193 Cass Marina, 136 The Castro, 52, 179 accommodations, 20 Castro Theatre, 211 Celebrity sightings, restaurants for, 55 Cherry Blossom Festival, 226 Children, families with accommodations, 27–28 babysitters, 222 restaurants, 70 toys, 158 China Beach, 134 Chinatown, 100–102, 149 accommodations, 19 parking, 228 restaurants, 60 Chinatown Kite Shop, 101 Chinese New Year, 226 Cinco de Mayo, 226 Citizen, 153, 164 City Guides, 115, 118 City Lights Bookstore, 158–159, 164 City Nights, 184, 193 Civic Center, parking near, 229 Civic Center area, 19–20 Claremont Resort & Spa, 142 Classical music, 209–210 A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books, 158, 164 Cliff House, 134 Climate, 6–7, 224 Clothes Contact, 154, 164 Club Line, 183 Club Malibu, 184, 193 Coit Tower, 98–99, 113, 118 Comedy clubs, 212 Comics, 156 Community Thrift Store, 154, 164 Concierges, 224 Conservatory of Flowers, 105 Coppola, Francis Ford, 74, 141 Courtoué, 153, 164 Cow Hollow, 20 Crafts, 154 Crime, 8–9, 229 Crissy Field, 129 234 Exit Theater, 208, 215 Exploratorium, 106, 118 SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL INDEX Factory 525, 184, 194 Families with children accommodations, 27–28 babysitters, 222 restaurants, 70 toys, 158 Fashions (clothing), 152–154, 158 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 74 Ferry Building farmer’s market, 129–130 Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, 64 Festivals and special events, 225–227 Filbert Street, 4 Filbert Street Steps, 6, 99 Fillmore Auditorium, 181, 194 Fillmore Street, 52, 149 Financial District, 52 First Step, 166 Fisherman’s Wharf, 104, 118, 130 Fishing, 137 Fleet Week, 227 Football, 213 Ford, Gerald, 104 Forever After Books, 159, 166 Forgotten Works, 129 Fort Point, 130 Fourth of July Celebration and Fireworks, 227 Gargoyle Beads, 155, 166 Gay and lesbian travelers, 2, 9–10, 226 accommodations, 24–25 bars, 190 beach, 134 bookstore, 159 resources, 227 General Bead, 155, 166 Gimme Shoes, 152, 166 Gino & Carlo, 112, 118, 187, 194 Ginsberg, Allen, 1–2, 51, 110, 123 Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, 103, 118 Global Exchange, 154, 166 GoCar, 134 Golden Gate Bridge, 98 Golden Gate Ferry, 104–105, 119 Golden Gate Fields, 213, 215 Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, 100 Golden Gate Golf Course, 138 Golden Gate Park, 105, 128, 130, 132, 140 Golden Gate Park Fly Casting Pools, 137 Golden Gate Promenade, 130 Golden Gate Theater, 215 Golden State Warriors, 215 The Golden State Warriors, 213 Golf, 137–138 Good Vibrations, 108–109, 119, 156, 166 Goodwill Stores, 154, 167 Gordon Biersch, 187–188, 194 Grant and Green, 183, 195 The Grateful Dead, 111, 115, 180 Great American Music Hall, 181, 188, 195 Great China Herb Co., 101–102 Great Highway, 132 Grills, 52–53 Grizzly Peak (Berkeley Hills), 102, 119 Groove Yard, 159, 167 Gump’s, 167 Guys and Dolls, 154, 167 Gyms, 133 Haight-Ashbury (the Haight), 2, 179 coffee joints, 52 nightlife, 185–186 Haight-Ashbury Flower Power Walking Tour, 115, 119 Haight Street, 150 Hard Rock Cafe, 115, 119 Harrington’s Bar & Grill, 112, 119 Harry Denton’s Starlight Room, 188–189, 195 Harvey’s, 190, 195 Hayes Valley, 52, 149 parking, 229 Hemlock Tavern, 187, 195 Hess Collection (Napa), 141 Hoteldiscounts.com, 18 HotelLocators.com, 18 Hotels, 14–43.

From Satori to Silicon Valley: San Francisco and the American Counterculture
by Theodore Roszak
Published 31 Aug 1986

Certainly in recent years, the only flesh and blood examples of the countercultural image I have come across have been the barely ving casualties of the era that still survi- haunt downtown Berkeley, panhandling for spare change. Their sad squalor is evidence of nothing braver or more inspir- ing than being bummed Yet, with a remember little out and overaged. effort and some candor, the happier originals I can faded of these caricatures as they once enlivened the streets of the Haight-Ashbury and Telegraph Avenue. In its time, persona of ragged independence - or some reasonable facsimile thereof - was a proud and their prominent emblem of cultural disaffiliation blos- soming major in the streets of every city, campus of every minor college and high was a stance that claimed to The "organic", a style purported principled to rejection that be ruled in favor of a return to folk origins and lost traditions.

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In these quarters, one sensed that organic foods were a sort of talisman, sufficiently potent in their very presence to repeal the germ theory of disease. Also 4 there were the signs many animals once resident or still haunting the premises - unleashed, unhousebroken, very likely of unfed. In the Haight-Ashbury and the East Bay, there less there was a cult of the "organic dog" - the washed and tamed, the were neighborhoods better. in larger, the For a period, Berkeley and San Francisco that took on the look and the fragrance of barnyards or hunting camps. ORGANIC COMMONWEALTH AND BUDDHIST ANARCHY Perhaps the high water mark of effort to rusticate symbolic western civilization was the brief and turbulent episode "People's Park".

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this in What Berkeley remembered as the Human Be-In in San Franciso of 1967 had been for one day, what the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York in early 1969 had been for a weekend, People's Park was meant to be for keeps. The event might be seen as the culmination of the direct action social philosophy proclaimed by the Haight-Ashbury Diggers. After issuing a series of broadsides in late 1966 that called for an urban anarchist order of begun a daily life, the Diggers had come-one, come-all free food project under the slogan "it's free 6 because it's yours." The food was either stolen or scrounged from merchants around the city (most of it days-old and unsaleable and served up edible) still if growing popula- for the But history's tion of young, underfed street people.

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner
Published 31 Aug 2006

Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist with the Dead, recalled the feeling that characterized the early Acid Tests and the Trips Festival: “Thousands of people, man, all helplessly stoned, all ﬁnding themselves in a room of thousands of people, none of whom any of them were afraid of. It was magic, far-out beautiful magic.”50 According to Tom Wolfe, it was also the start of the Haight-Ashbury era. The festival grossed $12,500 within three days and had spent very little in the way of overhead. Two weeks later, Bill Graham could be found staging a trips festival every weekend at the Fillmore. Within a year, teenagers from across America would be streaming into Haight-Ashbury, looking for the sort of bohemian utopia Graham was marketing. Reporters for Time and Life were not far behind. Almost immediately, San Francisco became Oz to a S t e w a r t B ran d M e e t s t h e C y b e r n e t i c C o u n t e r c u l t u r e [ 67 ] generation that had feared it would grow up into a black-and-white Kansas of a world—if it lived long enough in the face of nuclear weapons and the draft to grow up at all.

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America Needs Indians was one of several multimedia pieces Brand pulled together in the mid-1960s. During this period, multimedia art served as the primary forum within which he sought to “comprehensively design” collaborative, immersive social experiences. Brand and the visitor quoted in Perry, Haight-Ashbury, 19, 47. 50. Kesey and Garcia quoted in Lee and Shlain, Acid Dreams, 143, 144. For more on the Trips Festival and the Haight, see Perry, Haight-Ashbury, 41– 44. Chapter 3 1. Brand, interview, July 17, 2001. 2. Roszak, From Satori to Silicon Valley, 8. 3. For a fascinating account of the intermingling of countercultural and technological communities in this area at the time, see Markoff, What the Dormouse Said. 4.

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For many in the counterculture, though by no means all, the work of expanding consciousness and increasing interpersonal intimacy was not an end in itself; it was a means by which to build alternative, egalitarian communities. Although historians and pundits alike remain fascinated with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the era, few today recall that in 1967 many of the hippies who made San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood the epicenter of the famed “Summer of Love” left the city early that fall and, together with thousands of others, helped launch the largest wave of communalization in American history. In the two centuries before 1965, historians and sociologists have estimated that Americans established between ﬁve hundred and seven hundred communes.70 Between 1965 and 1972, they have estimated that somewhere between several thousand and several tens of thousands of communes were created, with most appearing between 1967 and 1970.71 Judson Jerome, perhaps the most rigorous surveyor of the movement, has estimated that in the early 1970s, some 750,000 people lived in a total of more than ten thousand communes nationwide.72 T h e S h i ft i n g P o l i t i c s o f t h e C o m p u t at i o n a l M e t a p h o r [ 33 ] Many of these new communities sprang up on hillsides and wooded lots far from America’s urban capitals.

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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time
by Hunter S. Thompson
Published 6 Nov 2003

"There has been a deterioration [of sanitation] in the Haight-Ashbury, but the hippies did not contribute much more to it than other members of the neighborhood." Dr. Sox went on to deny that his mass inspection was part of a general campaign against weirdos, but nobody seemed to believe him. The Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council, a nonhippy group of permanent residents, denounced Dr. Sox for his "gratuitous criticism of our community." The council accused city officials of "creating an artificial problem" and harassing the hippies out of "personal and official" prejudice. As recently as 1962, the Haight-Ashbury was a drab, working-class district, slowly filling with Negroes and so plagued by crime and violence that residents formed vigilante patrols.

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Their bad action causes publicity and -- for some perverse reason -- an influx of bored, upward mobile types who dig the menace of "white ghetto" life and whose expense-account tastes drive local rents and street prices out of reach of the original settlers. . . who are forced, once again, to move on. One of the most hopeful developments of the failed Haight/Ashbury scene was the exodus to rural communes. Most of the communes failed -- for reasons that everybody can see now, in retrospect (like that scene in Easy Rider where all those poor freaks were trying to grow their crops in dry sand) -- but the few that succeeded, like the Hog Farm in New Mexico, kept a whole generation of heads believing that the future lay somewhere outside the cities. In Aspen, hundreds of Haight-Ashbury refugees tried to settle in the wake of that ill-fated "Summer of Love" in 1967. The summer was a wild and incredible dope orgy here, but when winter came the crest of that wave broke and drifted on the shoals of local problems such as jobs, housing and deep snow on the roads to shacks that, a few months earlier, had been easily accessible.

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They also reject politics, which is "just another game." They don't like money, either, or any kind of aggressiveness. A serious problem in writing about the Haight-Ashbury is that most of the people you have to talk to are involved, one way or another, in the drug traffic. They have good reason to be leery of strangers who ask questions. A 22-year-old student was recently sentenced to two years in prison for telling an undercover narcotics agent where to buy some marijuana. "Love" is the password in the Haight-Ashbury, but paranoia is the style. Nobody wants to go to jail. At the same time, marijuana is everywhere. People smoke it on the sidewalks, in doughnut shops, sitting in parked cars or lounging on the grass in Golden Gate Park.

Frommer's San Francisco 2012
by Matthew Poole , Erika Lenkert and Kristin Luna
Published 4 Oct 2011

Frommer's San Francisco 2012® Table of Contents The Best of San Francisco The best Only-in-San Francisco Experiences The best splurge Hotels The best Moderately Priced Hotels The best Dining Experiences The best Things to Do for Free (or Almost) 10 More free & dirt-cheap secrets The best Outdoor Activities The best Offbeat Travel Experiences 10 Places to spot locals in their natural habitats San Francisco in Depth San Francisco Today Looking Back at San Francisco San Francisco in Popular Culture: Books, Films & Music When to Go San Francisco Neighborhoods & Suggested Itineraries Where to Stay What You’ll Really Pay The Best Hotel Bets Union Square Nob Hill SoMa Accommodations with free parking The best Family-Friendly Hotels The Financial District Sleeping seaside North Beach/Fisherman’s Wharf The Marina/Pacific Heights/Cow Hollow Japantown & Environs Civic Center The Castro Haight-Ashbury Near San Francisco International Airport Practical Information Where to Eat The Best Restaurant Bets Union Square Financial District The sun on your face at Belden Place SoMa Nob Hill/Russian Hill Chinatown North Beach/Telegraph Hill Fisherman’s Wharf The Marina/Pacific Heights/Cow Hollow sweet Nothings Japantown Civic Center/Hayes Valley Hidden treasures Mission District i scream for artisanal ice cream! The Castro & Noe Valley Top Chef’s Yigit Pura Picks Your Next dessert Haight-Ashbury Richmond/Sunset Districts Practical Information Exploring San Francisco Famous San Francisco Sights Funky Favorites at fisherman’s wharf Museums San Francisco’s Old-Fashioned arcade museum free Culture Neighborhoods Worth a Visit fortune cookie Factory The Presidio & Golden Gate National Recreation Area Golden Gate Park Religious Buildings Worth Checking Out Architectural Highlights Especially for kids Self-Guided & Organized Tours Getting Outside A whale of a Tale Spectator Sports City Strolls Shopping The Shopping Scene Shopping A to Z amazing Grazing San Francisco After Dark The Performing Arts Comedy & Cabaret The Club & Music Scene Drinking & smoking laws underground Entertainment The Bar Scene Eugenio Picks Your Next wine bar Gay & Lesbian Bars & Clubs heklina reviews Every Gay Bar in the Castro Film Side Trips from San Francisco Berkeley Oakland The USS Potomac: FDR’s floating white house Angel Island & Tiburon Sausalito A Picnic Lunch, sausalito style Marin, Muir Woods & Mount Tamalpais The Wine Country Napa Valley The Ins & Outs of shipping wine home Price Categories Enjoying art & nature What You’ll Really Pay Where to Stock Up for a gourmet picnic Sonoma Valley wannabe winemakers Pack Up for Sonoma’s “Grape Camp” Touring the sonoma valley by bike Planning Your Trip to San Francisco Getting There Getting Around Finding local gay events San Francisco 2012 by Matthew Poole & Erika Lenkert with Kristin Luna Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River St.

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This outdoor fair celebrates San Francisco with themes, gourmet food booths, music, entertainment, and a juried art show featuring works by more than 250 artists. It’s a great time and a chance to see the city’s young well-to-dos partying it up. Call the Union Street Association ( 415/441-7055) for more information or see www.unionstreetfestival.com. First weekend of June. Haight-Ashbury Street Fair, Haight-Ashbury. A far cry from the froufrou Union Street Fair, this grittier fair features alternative crafts, ethnic foods, rock bands, and a healthy number of hippies and street kids whooping it up and slamming beers in front of the blaring rock-’n’-roll stage. The fair usually extends along Haight Street between Stanyan and Ashbury streets.

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The Japan Center ( 415/922-7765) is open daily from 10am to midnight, although most shops close much earlier. To get there, take bus no. 2, 3, or 4 (exit at Buchanan and Sutter sts.) or no. 22 or 38 (exit at the northeast corner of Geary Blvd. and Fillmore St.). The Sokoji–Soto Zen Buddhist Temple. Haight-Ashbury Few of San Francisco’s neighborhoods are as varied—or as famous—as Haight-Ashbury. Walk along Haight Street, and you’ll encounter everything from drug-dazed drifters begging for change to an armada of the city’s funky-trendy shops, clubs, and cafes. Turn anywhere off Haight, and instantly you’re among the clean-cut, young urban professionals who can afford the steep rents in this hip ’hood.

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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
by Nicholas Schou
Published 16 Mar 2010

Hodgson, who had finished college and was now eligible to be drafted for service in Vietnam, fled to Canada, where he remains forty years later. He soon heard that Griggs and his friends in Modjeska Canyon had moved to Laguna Beach and helped usher in a flowering hippie scene that established the city as a Southern California version of Haight-Ashbury, luring countless flower children to overrun the resort town and fill its beaches, coves, and canyons with the scent of marijuana and hashhish and the wild sounds of the latest psychedelic rock albums. Griggs would eventually lure Leary himself to Laguna Beach. Within days of his arrival Leary was telling anyone who asked that Griggs was not only his good friend but also his “spiritual guru” and “the holiest man who has ever lived in this country.”

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Accompanied by his future bride, Melinda Merryweather, daughter of an Arizona state senator and god-daughter of Barry Goldwater, the godfather of America’s conservative movement at the time, Hynson dropped his first acid with Griggs and several other Brotherhood members at Black’s Beach near La Jolla before reguarly showing up for meetings at the Modjeska church. “Those guys turned me on,” he says. “Things were happening. I remember Johnny and I walking down Haight-Ashbury [in San Francisco], and he got some acid from somebody, and the whole street was loaded with people doing their own hippie thing. It was really going on.” Griggs already had a name for his church. He pointed out the window of his house to Orange County’s largest peak, Saddleback Mountain, which loomed on the horizon.

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In San Francisco, Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters were still recovering from their whirlwind bus tour across America, captured in vivid, surreal detail in Tom Wolfe’s book Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. In June, groups like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and the Who headlined at the Monterey Pop Festival. Haight-Ashbury had become the center of the hippie culture. Just down the street from the Grateful Dead’s Victorian-era house, Brotherhood members Robert Ackerly and Tommy Tunnell, Griggs’s childhood friend from Oklahoma, lived in a house they called the Aquarian Temple. After being arrested together for riding a freight train, Ackerly and Tunnell had both jumped bail and were now on the run.

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
Published 1 Jan 1968

The widening gyre, the falcon which does not hear the falconer, the gaze blank and pitiless as the sun; those have been my points of reference, the only images against which much of what I was seeing and hearing and thinking seemed to make any pattern. “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” is also the title of one piece in the book, and that piece, which derived from some time spent in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, was for me both the most imperative of all these pieces to write and the only one that made me despondent after it was printed. It was the first time I had dealt directly and flatly with the evidence of atomization, the proof that things fall apart: I went to San Francisco because I had not been able to work in some months, had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed.

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And after it was printed I saw that, however directly and flatly I thought I had said it, I had failed to get through to many of the people who read and even liked the piece, failed to suggest that I was talking about something more general than a handful of children wearing mandalas on their foreheads. Disc jockeys telephoned my house and wanted to discuss (on the air) the incidence of “filth” in the Haight-Ashbury, and acquaintances congratulated me on having finished the piece “just in time,” because “the whole fad’s dead now, fini, kaput.” I suppose almost everyone who writes is afflicted some of the time by the suspicion that nobody out there is listening, but it seemed to me then (perhaps because the piece was important to me) that I had never gotten a feedback so universally beside the point.

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Otto is pitching some electronics engineers. The engineers view our arrival with some interest, maybe, I think, because Max is wearing bells and an Indian headband. Max has a low tolerance for straight engineers and their Freudian hang-ups. “Look at ‘em,” he says. “They’re always yelling ‘queer’ and then they come sneaking down to the Haight-Ashbury trying to get the hippie chick because she fucks.” We do not get around to asking Otto about Malakoff Diggings because he wants to tell me about a fourteen-year-old he knows who got busted in the Park the other day. She was just walking through the Park, he says, minding her own, carrying her schoolbooks, when the cops took her in and booked her and gave her a pelvic.”Fourteen years old” Otto says.”A pelvic!”

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City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
by Chester W. Hartman and Sarah Carnochan
Published 15 Feb 2002

See environmental impact statement Elberling, John, 70n, 215n, 216, 222, 223, 225, 279, 389, 394 Elevator Construction Workers Union, 30 Ellis Act, 285, 358, 359, 360 El Teatro de la Esperanza, 332 Embarcadero Center, 10, 160, 203, 207, 241, 301, 313 Embarcadero City, 26 Embarcadero Freeway, 293 eminent domain, 8, 15, 16, 105, 168, 175n, 183, 186, 337, 338 employment, 3, 5, 20, 29, 32 – 34, 38, 58, 59, 61, 65, 99, 121 – 23, 125, 135, 145, 169, 17, 182, 188, 190, 199 – 203, 228, 289, 293, 296, 300, 305; and afﬁrmative action, 122, 124, 136, 139, 159, 188, 201; development of, 175, 179, 319, 334n, 390, 393, 399; displacement of, 32, 33, 202, 289, 300, 305, 375, 394, 395 Employment Law Center, 202n Emporium, 17, 44, 202, 230, 273, 324 Energy Foundation, 386 Engmann, Douglas, 138, 139, 141, 145, 417n27 environmental impact report (EIR), 148, 161, 165, 187, 197, 199–201, 281, 291 – 93, 296, 298, 312, 322 – 24, 355, 412n24 environmental impact statement (EIS), 117, 148, 199, 200 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 181 Environmental Simulation Laboratory, 291 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 202n Ethics Commission, 273 Eureka Valley Promotion Association, 417n27 Evans, Arthur, 124, 131, 137, 276, 286 Evenson, Morris, 138, 139 evictions, 66, 79, 82, 84, 272, 328, 329, 339, 345, 346, 352, 356–58, 366, 375, 399 Eviction Defense Network, 332 Excelsior, 235 Facilities Management, Inc., 193 Fairmont Hotel, 11, 12, 24, 26, 27, 31, 44, 159, 204 “fairness doctrine,” 351 Fair Oaks Neighbors, 418n27 Fair Political Practices Commission (California), 281n, 363 Falwell, Jerry, 260n Family Service Agency, 97 Faneuil Hall, 160 Fang family, 40, 41, 42 Fannie Mae Foundation, 221, 401 Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump Site, 181 Fargo, North Dakota, 381 Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours, 161, 286 Fay, William, 285 Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 351 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 221, 379 Federal Housing Administration, 51, 349 Federal Reserve Building, 312 Federated Stores, 324 Feinstein, Dianne, 24, 39, 118, 119, 124, 132, 134, 135, 137–39, 142, 147, 157, 160–62, 166, 167, 169, Index / 473 171 – 73, 183 – 85, 192, 193, 195, 197, 207, 210n, 211, 212, 233, 238 – 41, 243 – 56, 257, 267, 268, 275, 277, 279, 281 – 83, 286, 288, 295, 301 – 3, 310, 313 – 15, 317, 323, 328, 338, 344, 346 – 49, 362, 363, 366, 369, 377, 379, 380, 416n11, 426n64 Feldman, Waldman, and Kline, 285 feminism, 254, 255, 332 Ferndon, John, 130 Ferraro, Geraldine, 212 Ferry Building, 26, 140 Fifth and Mission Garage Corporation, 45 Filipino-American Development Foundation, 222 Filipino-American Employment and Training Center, 332 Filipino Organizing Committee, 138 Filipinos, 59, 139, 218, 219, 221–23, 337 Filipino Veterans of World War II Equity Center, 222 Fillmore Center, 286, 413n2 Fillmore district, 25, 63, 337, 413n2 ﬁnancial district, 9, 14, 20, 61, 155, 168, 297, 301, 302, 305, 306, 311, 337 ﬁnancing lawsuits, x, 117 –29 ﬁnancing plan, 106, 108 –12, 117–19, 128, 142, 143, 146, 149, 150, 201, 294, 301 Fire Department/Commission, 31, 191, 265 Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, 390 First AME Zion Church, 277 First Interstate Bank of California, 245 First Republic Bank, 5 Fisherman’s Wharf, 26, 28, 202n, 300 Fitzhugh ofﬁce building, 309 Flack, Jim, 128, 129, 417n27 Flanagan, Sarge, 367 Florida, 175 Flynn, Russell, 344, 348, 351, 353n Folger, James, 19 Folger Coffee Company, 19 Follis, Ralph Gwin, 405n35 Fonda, Henry, 351 Food Conspiracy, 244 Food Not Bombs, 379, 381 Foremost-McKesson, 5, 6, 245, 295 Forest City Development Corp., 160, 273, 324 Fort Mason, 214 Foundation for San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage, 309–11 409 House, 418n27 Four Seas Development Corporation, 337, 338 Four Seasons Hotel, 171 France, Anatole, 378 Francois, Terry, 47, 230, 240, 287 Freedom Summer, 353n Fresno, 263n, 351 Friends of YBC Park, 417n27 Friends of Yerba Buena, 116 Fulton, David, 136, 418n27 Furth, Alan, 184 Gaillardia, John, 168 Gantz, Holger, 378 Gap, 5, 273 Gardner, Dan, 140 Garrett, Duane, 212 Gast, David, 136 gays/lesbians, 134, 135, 179, 226, 232, 235–37, 240, 244, 248, 253, 259, 260, 261, 265, 269, 271, 304, 328, 337, 341, 343, 352, 377 Geary Boulevard, 25 General Assistance, 221, 380 General Atlantic, 301 General Fund, 111, 129, 132, 144, 172, 280, 389 General Motors, 181 General Services Administration, 166–70, 385 General Strike of 1934, 69, 70n Genstar, 5 gentriﬁcation, 268, 270, 277n, 327, 328, 330, 331, 382, 390, 397, 398 Georgia, 167 474 / Index Gephardt, Richard, 315n Ghiradelli Square, 300 Gift Mart, 285 Gilbert, Anthony, 417n27 Gilmore, David, 372 Giraudo, Lou, 288 Giuliani, Rudolph, 383 Gladding-McBean and Company, 405n35 Glenburn Hotel, 367 Glickman, Rubin, 162, 286 Global Communications, 386 Golden Gate Bridge, 293, 384 Golden Gate Hotel Association, 369 Golden Gate International Exposition, 388 Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), 384, 385, 462n204 Golden Gate Park, 33, 244, 264, 293, 378, 379, 382 – 84 Golden Gate Restaurant Association, 269 Golden Gateway, 8, 10, 17, 19, 33, 54, 55, 63, 107, 123, 207, 241, 280, 349 Golden Seals, 130, 132, 133 Golden State Bancorp, 5 Golden State Mobilehome Owners League, 351 Golden State Warriors, 132 Goldman, Emma, 194 Goldman, Richard, 417n27 Goldstrom, Foster, 196 Gonzales, Robert, 119, 233 Gonzalez, James, 240, 364 Gonzalez, Matt, 274 Goodman Building, x, 127, 128, 132, 136, 137, 334, 337, 339 Goodman 2 Artists’ Live/Work Studio Building and Art Center, 339 Gorbachev Foundation USA, 386 Gore, Albert, Jr., 315n Grace Cathedral, 267n Graﬁlo, Tony, 138, 139 Grand Hyatt, 24 Grand Southern Hotel, 221 Grant Building, 382 Graves, Cliff, 215n Gray Panthers, 312, 368 Greater San Francisco Association of Realtors, 359 Green Bay Packers, 424n44 Green Party, 255, 274 Gresham, Zane, 301 Grifﬁn, Everett, 17, 19, 25 Grifﬁth, Alice, 374 Grosvenor Properties, 286 Gryziec, Richard, 140, 141, 156–58, 213, 399, 417n27 Guam, 168 Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, 181 Guyana, 238 Hagan, Frank, 79 Haight-Ashbury district, 121, 140, 228, 233, 243, 244, 293, 337, 340, 364, 376, 379, 433n1 Haight-Ashbury Improvement Association, 377 Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council, 248 Hall, Tony, 274 Hallinan, Terence, 241, 242n, 353, 381 Hallinan, Vincent, 241 Halprin, Lawrence, 51 Hamilton, Wilbur, 30, 159, 165, 167, 193, 276, 277, 278 Handlery Union Square, 23 Harborplace, Baltimore, 160 Hard Hat Magazine, 332 Harney, Charles, 171, 172 Harris, George, 81, 82 Hartford, 162 Harvey Milk Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Democratic Club, 242, 248, 270 Hawes, Amanda, 77, 91, 95 Hayes Valley, 272, 374 Health Department, 366 Hearst Corporation, 39–42, 45, 268 Heider, Eddie, 78 Helfeld, Edward, 278, 279 Hellmuth, Obata & Kassebaum, 207 Helms, Jesse, 260n, 262 Index / 475 Herman, M.

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The mayor’s 140 / Chapter 7 charge to his Select Committee stipulated that the plan it was to produce had to meet three tests: (1) It must be developed quickly in order to get a project under way—the committee would have ﬁve months to complete its work; (2) it “must result from genuine reconsideration of what is best for San Francisco”; and (3) it must have public support. The hard-working committee and its small staff (headed by Dan Gardner and Greg Oliver of the mayor’s economic development staff, with Haight-Ashbury activist Calvin Welch hired to do community outreach as a concession to the neighborhood organizations that had backed Moscone) held a series of neighborhood public hearings and formed subcommittees (on such issues as housing, economic development, and transportation). Following these hearings, the committee produced a set of six alternative plans, each stressing a speciﬁc type of land use or combination of uses: housing, light industry, open space, and others.

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Creating districts and allowing the residents of each to elect a candidate who lived in the same district would increase the probability of being represented by supervisors with 227 228 / Chapter 11 closer ties to the neighborhoods and their problems, reducing as well the dominance of downtown power and money. The key movers of this plan organized as Citizens for Representative Government (CRG), a small, hard-working group of activists with strong roots in the Haight-Ashbury district. In 1970 and 1971, they held community meetings around the city to discuss their ideas and created an elevendistrict city map. In August 1972, they presented their plan to the supervisors, who responded by placing on the November ballot a complex, unwieldy advisory measure that presented voters with ﬁve alternative plans for restructuring the board election.

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The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency
by Ian Demartino
Published 2 Feb 2016

There are many theories as to why the hippie movement originating in Haight-Ashbury didn’t survive, and I am not in a position to judge. What was clear to just about everyone who wrote about the movement, however, was that the massive influx of people put a stress on the community. It is safe to say that by 1969, someone trying to find a hippie in Haight-Ashbury was at least as likely to find someone masquerading as one with the intention of profiting off the movement’s reputation. There are a lot of parallels to be drawn between Bitcoin and Haight-Ashbury. When the price of Bitcoin exploded in 2011 and again in late 2013–early 2014, the currency attracted the attention of mainstream media outlets and through them, hundreds of thousands of semi- and wannabe technonerds desperate to catch the next wave of digital wealth.

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In 1967, several mainstream media outlets covered the growing acid wave in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco; popular music of the time—such as Scott McKenzie’s San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)—advertised the lifestyle that was developing there. This public attention caused streams of disenfranchised youth to descend on the city looking for free lodging, free food, free drugs, and free love. But the economics of thousands of people wanting stuff for free and increasingly fewer people willing to give it to them simply didn’t work out in the long run. Eventually, some of the older, more experienced residents of Haight-Ashbury began to prey on tourists visiting the district as well as new arrivals.

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But there already were thousands of people in the Bitcoin economy and they had years of experience in a realm where experience was exceedingly rare. Unlike the hippie movement of the late 1960s, which was based on rejection of money and material goods, the Bitcoin movement is all about money. Bitcoin is a currency, after all. Although the behavior of the Haight-Ashbury scammers was in opposition to the hippies’ philosophy, the Bitcoin “movement” revolves around money, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that it has attracted those whom Hunter S. Thompson would call “the Greedheads.” Many of us were attracted—some might say lured—to Bitcoin by the eloquent words of people such as Andreas Antonopoulos and Roger Ver, two well-spoken Bitcoin evangelists, each of whom was at one point or another labeled a “Bitcoin Jesus.”

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Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff
Published 22 Mar 2022

With a sweeping view of the city from their window facing north, the Kings held regular dinner parties that might include four people or twenty. Brand’s apartment at 570B Vallejo Street was just around the corner from the Kings and a half block up the hill from Grant Avenue, which was the true heart of North Beach in the same way Haight Street would become the center of the Haight-Ashbury district just a few years later. The apartment was within walking distance of the San Francisco Art Institute. Jacques Overhoff, a sculptor Brand had met through the Kings and Jean Varda, lived nearby, and a year after Brand moved in, Gary Snyder came to live close by in North Beach. To be at the corner of Grant and Vallejo just steps from Caffe Trieste and just up the hill from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books was to be at the center of the cool part of San Francisco—even if the prime of the Beat era was past.

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Pierre Delattre’s Bread and Wine Mission was now gone, as was the Co-Existence Bagel Shop (which had never actually sold bagels), but there were beatniks, bums, businessmen, Chinese, Italians, WASPs, grocery stores with vegetables out front, old buildings, a hill, good weather, and a park. For Brand, best of all it was an affordable neighborhood that was deeply multicultural. Returning to North Beach in the fall of 1962 proved to be remarkable timing. The Beats were fading, and it would be four years before the emergence of Haight-Ashbury and the hippies and five years before the Summer of Love, which broadcast the arrival of the counterculture to the world. Brand had placed himself at the center of one of the most creative places in the country just at the moment when a great rupture from mainstream culture was about to occur.

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The three-day party opened a cultural fault line in America that defined the 1960s, which in many ways still resonates in the political, cultural, and environmental battles taking place in America today. The Trips Festival became a catalyst, igniting the counterculture that would soon take root in San Francisco. Indeed, there is a straight line from the Trips Festival to the creation of the Haight-Ashbury scene and the Summer of Love. The weekend also led directly to the establishment of the Fillmore Auditorium as the catalyst for the San Francisco music scene, etching a path that led to Woodstock. It was a spark that helped ignite a global youth movement that reached a peak just two years later in 1968

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This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by Ryan Grim
Published 7 Jul 2009

As the Angels’ product crossed from the criminal underworld to the hippie counterculture, the New York Times wrote of speed freaks hanging out at Tracy’s doughnut shop in Haight-Ashbury and strung-out “meth monsters” haunting the East Village. Some turned-on kids, much to the alarm of speed-eschewing psychonauts, were doing their parents’ drug. During the Summer of Love, “Speed Kills” buttons were distributed by a Haight-Ashbury free clinic as the counterculture tried to correct itself with a self-devised antimeth campaign. By the fall, the buttons had made an ironic cameo in a lurid Time magazine rape-and-murder story informing readers that “[d]rug-induced violence is nothing new to the neighborhoods where hippies live.”

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For the most part, the new crop of speed freaks eschewed inhalers and pills; they injected liquid amphetamines obtained through the black market or cooked up in secret labs. A 1970 feature in the Times described the new image of meth in now-familiar terms: “The speed epidemic blossomed about three years ago in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and quickly popped up in the nation’s other hippie drug haven, New York’s East Village. Quiet flower children became ravaged scarecrows. The cannibalism of speed was easy to spot: emaciated bodies cocked in twisted postures; caved-in jaws, grinding and grinding; pockmarked skin, torn and scratched and white, and a constant talking, talking, talking.”

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Raich Gonzalez, Henry Gore, Al Gore, Tipper Gorman, Tom Government Executive GQ Graham, Katharine Grateful Dead Green Earth Pharmacy Greenfield, Robert Greenland, Colin Griffee, Vanessa Marie Grinspoon, Lester Grob, Charles grunge bands Guevara, Che Guillermoprieto, Alma Guzmán, Joaquín Hague Opium Convention Haight-Ashbury Haislip, Gene hallucinogens. See Ecstasy; LSD (acid) Halpern, John Hamilton, Alexander Hanna, Jon Harborside Health Center Harding, Warren G. Harmelin, Allen Harris, Oren Harrison Narcotics Tax Act Hauser, Stuart T. Hawaii Hazelden Foundation Healing the Child Within (Whitfield) Hell’s Angels hemp Herbert, Kevin Herer, Jack Herlands, William heroin “heroin chic,” international drug trade and Mafia and “High on Cocaine” (Time) High Times Hightower, Dorie “high,” use of term Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment hip-hop Hitler, Adolf Hitz, Frederick R.

Hollow City
by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg
Published 1 Jan 2001

down in we moved in, about six or seven houses east of us on Artists lived much more modestly then than now, he added. months three moved and didn't have from the northern any there. So [their son] real I "^^ problems —the building to Oak Alamo They had moved Western Addition, near as the Haight-Ashbury. Meanwhile, the 2322 Fillmore Building became Bateau Lavoir over to 1205 Tosh moved over to the southern edge of the what would become known moved in a sort of latter-day which Picasso and many of his peers lived during their starving-in-Montmartre phase. McClure and his family, gallerist James Newman, painter Sonia Gechtoff, and Brown and Bill Brown later the painters lived at 2322 Fillmore as neighbors Joan and friends of — A REAL ESTATE HISTORY OF THE AVANT-GARDE DeFeo and Wally Hedrick.

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Generation ary spirit X The overwhelming majority of bounty it, that —and this sixties spilled over confirmed what I, born on the baby -boom/ was made possible by an economy so expansive that onto the middle-class kids who didn t participate in freedom was, so to speak, more affordable then, the margins 1977, everything economy; wages had like hippies lived off Dozens of Haight-Ashbury households wider and more inviting than ever before or By that cusp had always suspected: that the widespread revolution- of the its all economy of selling dope communes doing pornography, but welfare or checks from home."^'* paid no rent at cash was different. since. There had been a huge change the fat of the land had been pretty failures in the started to flatten out as inflation skyrocketed, places San Francisco had undergone huge increases between the far of much eaten up.

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is this history, the differences more or less middle literally gets work condos gleaming amid which of the city can only press up against important to discuss another factor in The civility abil- have written about the relations between those in the cafe of redevelopment and those it's more than that a lot of people have recently arrived in is wealthy; their cumulative effect of between Some of but we have artists as well as developers to thank for the nouveaux riches of San Francisco refuse to cohabit SKID MARKS ON THE SOCIAL CONTRACT with the poor, the needy, the recent arrival from Seattle borhood complains "invites these where I pay clientele trial and even with blue-collar work. (A festive, who bought a loft condo in an industrial neigh- that the Maritime Hall, a longtime nightclub nearby, people not just to the Maritime but to a hell of a lot of become more 121 money to live.")^ my neighborhood, As the Haight-Ashbury has affluent, tolerance has declined for social services and their of drug users, homeless people and runaway kids. In the indus- neighborhoods, the buyers of live /work spaces are notorious for pro- and sometimes successfully shutting down the actual industries testing and cultural activities of the neighborhood.

San Francisco
by Lonely Planet

Get head-dressed to impress, shake your tail feathers in the Mission and conga through the inevitable fog during Carnaval (www.carnavalsf.com); last weekend of May. June Since 1971, Pride has grown into a month-long extravaganza, with movie premieres and street parties culminating in the million-strong Pride Parade. In sun or fog, the Summer of Love returns to the Haight. Haight Ashbury St Fair Free music on two stages, plus macramé, tie-dye and herbal brownies surreptitiously for sale: all that’s missing is the free love. Held every mid-June since 1978, when Harvey Milk helped make the first Haight fair (www.haightashburystreetfair.org) happen. San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Here, queer and ready for a premiere for three decades, the oldest, biggest gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (GLBT) film fest (www.frameline.org) anywhere screens 250 films from 25 countries over two weeks in the second half of June.

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Only a very mysterious, very local illness could explain the number of neighborhood medical marijuana clubs, and tie-dyes and ideals have never entirely gone out of fashion here – hence the highly prized vintage psychedelic rock tees on the wall at Wasteland ( Click here ) and Bound Together Anarchist Book Collective ( Click here ). Some ’60s memories are better left behind: habits were kicked in the neighborhood’s many rehabs, and many an intimate itch has been mercifully treated gratis at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic ( Click here ). To relive the highlights of the era, a short walking tour ( Click here ) passes the former flophouses of the Haight’s most famous and infamous residents. Don’t Miss… » Haight Flashback walking tour » Mysterious 4:20 clock at Haight & Ashbury Sts » Anarchists of the Americas mural at Bound Together Anarchist Book Collective » Lower Haight bars Practicalities » Haight St btwn Fillmore & Stanyan Sts » Haight St Lower & Upper Haight Since the ’60s, Haight St has divided into two major splinter factions, divided by a Divisadero St strip of indie boutiques, trendy bars and restaurants.

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Radicals worldwide called for revolution, and separatist groups like Oakland’s Black Panther Party for Self-Defense took up arms. Meanwhile, recreational drug-taking was turning into a thankless career for many, a distinct itch in the nether regions was making the rounds, and still more busloads of teenage runaways were arriving in the ill-equipped, wigged-out Haight. The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic ( Click here ) helped with the rehabbing and the itching, but the disillusionment seemed incurable when Hell’s Angels beat protestors in Berkeley and turned on the crowd at a free Rolling Stones concert at Altamont. Many idealists headed ‘back to the land’ in the bucolic North Bay, jumpstarting California’s organic farm movement.

San Francisco
by Lonely Planet

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The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America
by Jon C. Teaford
Published 1 Jan 2006

During the 1970s, however, its avant-garde reputation, together with its supply of affordable housing convenient to downtown, attracted a new population of venturesome young white professionals. By 1978, the Wall Street Journal was able to report that the former hippie magnet was turning “into a bastion of the middle class.” In 1970 the average price of houses in Haight-Ashbury was $33,000, 8 percent above the citywide median; ten years later, it was more than $150,000, 44 percent over San Francisco’s median. In 1970 the district was 33 percent black; in 1980 blacks constituted only 20 percent of Haight-Ashbury’s population. One resident reminisced: “When I bought my house in Upper Ashbury from a black family in 1970, there was a hippie commune living in the other unit of the building….

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in which he claimed that the district offered “too much in the way of ‘fun boutiques,’ ‘interesting restaurants,’ and ‘unusual nightspots” to raise any questions about value in art.”28 America’s West Coast provided the best example of the shift from hippie domain to gentrified enclave. In the late 1960s, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district was the capital of the hippie world, its “Summer of Love” in 1967 attracting tens of thousands of young people seeking a psychedelic high. Although still a counterculture icon, the area deteriorated into a heroin ghetto by the early 1970s. During the 1970s, however, its avant-garde reputation, together with its supply of affordable housing convenient to downtown, attracted a new population of venturesome young white professionals.

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“My street has been bought mainly by young white professionals.”29 Such marked changes did not appeal to everyone, and during the late 1970s and the 1980s many felt threatened by the white Yuppie invaders. The newcomers ushered in a wave of redevelopment that seemed destined to erase the indigenous lifestyles of the counterculture devotees or the working-class residents who had formerly claimed the neighborhood as their own. In 1978 a McDonald’s opened on the main street of Haight-Ashbury, and in 1986 a Gap clothing store joined it, marking the triumph of the mainstream middle class over those who had rejected the homogeneous, conformist culture of chain stores.30 Similarly, Yuppie bars supplanted working-class taverns in neighborhoods that had traditionally provided comfortable refuges for blue-collar families.

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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein
Published 1 Jan 2008

Joan Didion published an essay in the Saturday Evening Post about what she saw when she looked in on Time magazine’s Man of the Year in Haight-Ashbury: catatonics who left toddler children alone to start electrical fires and scolded them only for ruining the hashish. She called her piece “Slouching toward Bethlehem,” after a poem by Yeats: “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned.” She didn’t even note the charismatic outlaw in Haight-Ashbury that summer luring young girls into his orbit the way Clyde lured Bonnie: a songwriter by the name of Charles Manson. The NYPD maintained a twenty-man undercover detail to help terrified parents find runaways.

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“We are thinkers, cool guys, picketers, workers, fighters, but most of all we are the future of America—and that doesn’t scare us.” Pundits spoke of the 26 million new citizens who would come of voting age by the time the 1972 presidential election rolled around, politics’ new X-factor. In “paisley ghettos” such as Haight-Ashbury and New York’s East Village and Old Town in Chicago, teenagers chartered brave new worlds. The manifesto of the first gathering of publishers of the new “underground” press proclaimed as their purpose, “To warn the ‘civilized world’ of its impending collapse,” through “communications among aware communities outside the establishment.”

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His national audience swooned. CHAPTER NINE Summer of Love WHILE SOME AMERICANS SWOONED ABOUT REAGAN, AN ENTIRELY noncontiguous group, which included portions of the national commentariat, were swooning about something called the Summer of Love—in which, a Washington Post reporter sent to its epicenter in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco wrote in his book We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against, “youth drew attention to itself by clustering in large numbers in most major American cities, where they broke the narcotics laws proudly, publicly, and defiantly. At the same time, they enunciated a different social philosophy and a new politics, and perhaps even mothered into life a subculture that was new to America.”

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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith
Published 3 Apr 2006

He offers me a cup of coffee in his bright Texan drawl and gently cautions against hanging my leather jacket on the coat rack, because that’s Lhasa Apso territory and my incursion upon it would play havoc with the house social order, from whence it would be but a small step to anarchy. So I sling the jacket on a chair as Alan introduces the dogs by names which would make Tinky Winky blush. APOLLO 12, the second mission to the Moon, flew in November 1969, at the end of what had been a strange couple of years. The hippies of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco had failed to pacify 1967 by declaring a “Summer of Love,” but 1968 was terrifying to most people. Thanks to the new satellite TV technology, the world now watched in real time as student protesters were beaten all over the U.S. and in Tokyo, Nairobi, Dacca and Prague, where Soviet tanks crushed Alexander Dubcek’s experiment in liberalization.

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But then, working late two nights before I left the UK for Florida and Ed Mitchell’s grown-up flower children, a tune came on the radio which set what appeared to be a recording of Ed White’s ecstatic first American spacewalk to a lolloping techno backing. That stroll in space happened in 1965, as hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco; racial tensions prepared to erupt across LA; Time magazine declared “Swinging London” the locus of world hip and predicted that one million doses of acid would be taken in the next year. The tune turned out to be “Space Walk,” by a group called Lemon Jelly, and it went on to establish them as a major act in Europe.

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In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet/ American Space Art Book . New York: Workman Publishing, 1990. Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress . New York: Orb, 1997. Hobsbawm, Eric. Age of Extremes: The Short History of the Twentieth Century 1914–1991 . London: Abacus, 1995. Hoskyns, Barney. Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965–1970 . London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Hughes, Ted. Moon-Whales and Other Poems . New York: Viking Press, 1976. Kauffman, James L. Selling Outer Space: Kennedy, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961–1963 . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. Kelly, Thomas J. Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module .

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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
by Corey Seymour , Johnny Depp and Jann S. Wenner
Published 31 Oct 2007

CHAPTER THREE San Francisco, Hells Angels, and Merry Pranksters I saw him two days after they beat him up. Both of his eyes were filled with blood. His ribs were taped. He could hardly stand up. SANDY THOMPSON We moved to San Francisco and got a place at the top of Golden Gate Park, right at the edge of the Haight. The Haight-Ashbury scene was just beginning—this was in ’65. We had very little money. Every once in a while there would be an article and a little more money, and one of these was the piece for The Nation on the Hells Angels. So that’s where it all began. Ian Ballantine, who would become Hunter’s book editor, came out from New York and offered Hunter a contract.

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I had just graduated from law school and was sitting in my office when some guys from the physics institute in town walked in and said, “Are you aware of what’s going on in municipal court?” I wasn’t, really, but they said, “Well, it’s really appalling. The city police are harassing these hippies. . . .” Haight-Ashbury was breaking out, and hippies were drifting across the country. They were coming to Aspen and hanging out. There had been a petition from the businesspeople to the city council to get rid of undesirable transients, and there were six kids that had been thrown in jail for hitchhiking—and everyone got sentenced to three months.

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ANN OWLSLEY was a Woody Creek neighbor of Hunter’s. PAUL PASCARELLA, an artist, moved to Aspen in 1968. He helped create the “gonzo fist” logo. SEAN PENN, the actor, was in talks with Hunter regarding a film of The Rum Diary. CHARLES PERRY was Rolling Stone’s first copy chief. He is the author of The Haight-Ashbury: A History. TOBIAS PERSE was an editorial assistant at Rolling Stone in 1994. PETE PETERS was a friend of Hunter’s younger brother Jim. Roxanne Pulitzer met Hunter while he was covering her 1983 divorce trial in Palm Beach. SALLY QUINN, formerly a reporter for the Washington Post, is an author and hostess in Washington, D.C.

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Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
by Mike Power
Published 1 May 2013

(These descriptions deliberately and necessarily simplify the interaction between drugs and the brain, since each category of drugs actually acts on both systems at once, and each system is far too complicated for any non-scientist to describe – or read about.) As the social taboos and moral panics around psychedelics started to build, Dow found itself the uneasy holder of patents for powerful psychedelics such as DOM – a designer drug created by Shulgin and popularized following the outlawing of LSD. This potent drug flooded the streets of Haight-Ashbury in 1967 and is said to have caused many traumatic episodes as tablets containing guaranteed overdoses of the chemical circulated in their thousands. Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd is said to have been profoundly affected by the drug in the years preceding his nervous breakdown and withdrawal from society.4 Shulgin left Dow in 1965 and set up his home laboratory in Lafayette, where he continued engineering new drugs from the basic mescaline phenethylamine structure.

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mpx Index 2C-B, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 2C-B-FLY, 1, 2 2C-D, 1, 2, 3 2C-E, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 2C-I, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 2C-P, 1, 2, 3, 4 2C-T-2, 1, 2, 3 2C-T-7, 1, 2, 3, 4 2-DPMP (desoxypipradol), 1, 2, 3 3-MA, 1 3-MeO-2-Oxo-PCE, see methoxetamine 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine 4-AcO-DMT, 1, 2, 3, 4 4-HO-MET, 1, 2 4-MeO-PCP, 1 4-MTA, 1, 2 4-PO-DMT, 1 5-APB, 1 5-IT, 1 5-MeO-DALT, 1 5-MeO-DIPT, 1, 2 5-MeO-DMT, 1, 2, 3 6-APB (Benzo Fury), 1, 2, 3, 4 6-APDB, 1 25C-NBOME, 1 25I-NBOME, 1, 2 Abama, 1, 2 acetic anhydride, 1 acetylproionylmorphine, 1 Acid House, 1 Acid Tests, 1 Addams Family, The, 1 Adelaide Forensics, 1 Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Afghanistan, 1 Alabama, contaminated drugs in, 1, 2 alcohol, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and decriminalization debate, 1, 2, 3 interaction with cocaine, 1 and overdosing, 1 and Prohibition, 1 Alder Wright, Charles Romley, 1 AlertPay, 1, 2 Alexandra Palace, 1 All the President’s Men, 1 Alpert, Richard, 1 alpha-ethyl tryptamine (A-ET), 1 alpha-methyl tryptamine (AMT), 1, 2, 3, 4 alprazolam, 1 alt.drugs, 1, 2, 3, 4 AM-2201, 1, 2, 3 AM-2203, 1 Amara, Roy, 1 Amazon, 1, 2 American Analog Act, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 American Association of Poison Control Centers, 1 American Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 Ames, Dean, 1 amphetamines, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Amsterdam, 1, 2, 3 analeptics, 1 angel dust (PCP), 1, 2 Angelus Foundation, 1 anti-retrovirals, 1 aphrodisiacs, 1 Apple Macintosh, 1, 2 Arab Spring, 1 Armory, 1 ARPANET, 1, 2 arylcyclohexylamine, 1 Atha, Matthew, 1 Australia, 1, 2 ayahuasca, 1 Babcock, Judge Lewis T., 1 Baker, Richard, 1 Baran, Paul, 1 Barbarao, Pasquale, 1 Barcelona, 1 Barrett, Syd, 1 Barroso, José Manuel, 1 bath salts, 1, 2, 3 BBC Radio Five Live, 1 Beatles, the, 1, 2 Bejerot, Nils, 1 Benny, 1 Benzo Fury, see 6-APB benzocaine, 1 benzodiazepines, 1 benzofurans, 1 Bercow, Sally, 1 Berners Lee, Tim, 1 Bernstein, Leonard, 1 beta-nitroisosafrole, 1 Betts, Leah, 1 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 1 binge-drinking, 1 Biorepublik, 1, 2, 3, 4 Bishton, Michael, 1 bitcoin, 1, 2, 3 BK-MDMA (methylone), 1, 2, 3 Black Mamba, 1 Black Market Reloaded, 1 Blaine, Minneapolis, 1 blood-brain barrier, 1 Blue Mystic Powder, 1 Bluelight, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Boire, Richard Glen, 1 Bonsai fertilizer, 1 Bragg, Malcolm, 1 Brand, Stewart, 1, 2 Breadmore, Ian, 1 brephedrone, 1, 2 Brignac, Jarod, 1 British Crime Survey, 1, 2 British Medical Journal, 1, 2 Brokenshire, James, 1 bromo-dragonFLY, 1, 2, 3 bromo-STP, 1, 2 Brown, John B., III, 1 Bunk Police, 1 buphedrone, 1, 2, 3 Burroughs, William, 1, 2, 3 Burt, Kelly, 1 Bush, George, 1 butylone, 1, 2 cacti, 1 caffeine, 1, 2, 3 Calea zacatechichi, 1 Callas, John, 1 Cambodia, 1, 2 Cambridge News, 1 camfetamine, 1 cannabinoids, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 cannabis, see marijuana Cardamom Mountains, 1 Carlin, Eric, 1 Caroff, Gaelle, 1 cathinones, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and legislation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 relation to khat, 1 CERN, 1 Champlegals, 1, 2 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), 1 chilling out, 1 China bilateral agreement with EU, 1 drug laws, 1, 2, 3 legitimate exports, 1 and marijuana replacements, 1, 2, 3 mephedrone production, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and mephedrone replacements, 1 Christin, Nicholas, 1 CIA, 1 Clapham Boy, 1, 2 Clegg, Michael, 1 Clinton, Bill, 1 Club Drugs Clinic, 1 cocaethylene, 1 cocaine, 1 analogues, 1, 2 and black working class, 1 compared with mephedrone, 1, 2, 3 crack, 1, 2, 3 decline in quality, 1 and decriminalization debate, 1, 2 intravenous use, 1 and Mexican drugs war, 1 online sales, 1, 2, 3 popularity, 1 prices, 1, 2, 3 UK consumption, 1, 2 Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees, 1 Collin, Matthew, 1 Colombia, 1 Conklin, Phillip, 1 consumer protection laws, 1 Contemporary Review, 1 Cooke, Andrew, 1 CP-47,497, 1 Crick, Francis, 1 crystal meth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Cultura magazine, 1 curanderas, 1 currency exchange rates, 1 Daigle, David, 1 Daily Mail, 1 Daily Telegraph, 1, 2, 3 D’Andrea, Anthony, 1 Darling, Alistair, 1 Darwin, Charles, 1 Datura stramonium, 1 Davies, Donald, 1 desoxypipradol, see 2-DPMP Detheridge, Jeremy, 1 diacetylmorphine (diamorphine), 1 diazepam, 1, 2 dibenzoylmorphine, 1 Dingledine, Roger, 1 DiPT, 1, 2 Dirty Pictures, 1 DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 online sales, 1, 2, 3 DNA, 1 DOM, 1, 2 domperidone, 1 dopamine, 1, 2, 3, 4 DPT, 1, 2 Dread Pirate Roberts, 1, 2 drug classification, 1, 2, 3 drug helplines, 1 drug legislation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 analogue laws, 1 decriminalization/legalization debate, 1 ease of circumvention, 1, 2 and legal highs, 1, 2, 3 and magic mushrooms, 1 and marijuana replacements, 1 and mephedrone, 1, 2 and mephedrone replacements, 1 and policing, 1 Sweden, 1 targeting of users, 1 USA, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 drug paraphernalia, 1, 2 drug testing, 1 drug use intravenous, 1 levels of, 1 Druglink, 1 Dunn, Mark, 1 Dunne, Peter, 1 Duroy, Jacob Daniel, 1 Ecstasy, see MDMA Ecstasydata.org, 1 Egypt, 1 Electronic Freedom Foundation, 1 Ellis, Havelock, 1 empathogens, 1, 2, 3 encryption, 1 Engelbart, Doug, 1, 2 Entheogen Law Reporter, 1 entheogens, 1 ephedrine, 1 ergot, 1 Erowid.org, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Escobar, Pablo, 1 essential oils, 1, 2 ethnobotanicals, 1 ethylphenidate, 1 etizolam, 1 Eugene, Rudy, 1 Euphoric Knowledge, 1 European Journal of Pharmacology, 1 European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addiction (EMCDDA), 1, 2, 3 European Union ban on new drugs, 1, 2, 3 bilateral agreement with China, 1 Europol, 1 Evron, Michael, 1 Explosion, 1 Face, The, 1, 2, 3 Facebook, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Fältskog, Agnetha, 1, 2, 3 fencamfamine, 1 Fiorito, Alfredo, 1 First World War, 1 flatliners, 1 flephedrone, 1, 2, 3 Florida, drug testing in, 1 see also Miami zombie cannibal case Forbes, Damon S., 1 Forensic Science Service, 1 Forsyth, Alasdair, 1 frog and toad venoms, 1 Fuller, Buckminster, 1 Gamble, Jim, 1 Garrett, Sheryl, 1 GBL, 1 General Store, 1 Georgia, drug testing in, 1 Gilmore, John, 1, 2, 3 Ginsberg, Allen, 1 Glastonbury, 1 Global Drug Survey, 1 Goldman, William, 1 Google, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Gorman, Chester F., 1 Götz, Wolfgang, 1 Goulão, João, 1 Granquist, Lamont, 1 Grateful Dead, 1 Grey, Briane, 1 Guardian, 1, 2 Guatemala, 1 Gungell, Kathy, 1 hagigat, 1 Haight-Ashbury, 1 Hancyez, Laszlo, 1 harm reduction, 1, 2, 3, 4 Harrigan, Martin, 1 Hartelius, Jonas, 1 hashish, see marijuana Haupt Hansen, Dannie, 1, 2, 3 Hawaiian Baby Woodrose, 1 headshops, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 health supplements, 1 Heffter, Arthur, 1 Herbal Ecstasy, 1 heroin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 analogues, 1, 2 and decriminalization debate, 1, 2, 3 intravenous use, 1, 2 and Mexican drugs war, 1 online sales, 1, 2 Hitchens, Peter, 1 HIV, 1, 2 Hive, the, 1, 2, 3, 4 Hofmann, Albert, 1 Holder, Eric, 1 Holland, see Netherlands Hollis, Tim, 1 Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), 1 Hong Kong, 1, 2, 3 House of Commons, 1, 2 House of Lords, 1, 2, 3 HTML, 1, 2, 3 Huffington Post, 1 Huffman, John William, 1, 2, 3 hushmail, 1, 2 Huson, Hobart, 1 Huxley, Aldous, 1, 2, 3 Hyperreal Drug Archives, 1 Ibiza, 1, 2 Independent Drug Monitoring Unit, 1 Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, 1 India, 1, 2, 3 Indopan, 1 Institute of Drugs and Drug Addiction, 1 International Foundation for Advanced Study, 1 International Opium Convention, 1, 2 internet arrival of world wide web, 1 the Backbone Cabal, 1 and cloud computing, 1 Dark Web, 1, 2, 3 domain name system, 1 early development, 1 growth of drug sales, 1 speeds, 1 user numbers, 1 value of ecommerce, 1 Web 2.0 era, 1 Invisible Touch, 1 iPhone, 1 Iran, 1 Ireland, closure of headshops, 1 isosafrole, 1 Israel, 1, 2 iTunes, 1 Iversen, Les, 1 Ivory Wave, 1, 2 Japan, 1 Jefferson Airplane, 1 Jenkins, Floridian Jeffrey (Eleusis/Zwitterion), 1 JLF Poisonous Non-Consumables, 1, 2 Jobs, Steve, 1 Johnson, Alan, 1 Jones, Grace, 1 Jones, Lloyd, 1 Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 1 JWH-018, 1, 2, 3 JWH-073, 1, 2 JWH-200, 1 K2, 1 Kelly, Kevin, 1 Kentish Gazette, 1 Kesey, Ken, 1, 2 ketamine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 online sales, 1, 2 khat, 1 Kinetic, 1, 2 King, Les, 1 Kleinrock, Leonard, 1 kratom, 1 krebbe, 1 Kushlick, Danny, 1 Laing, R.

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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans
Published 6 Mar 2018

They made it their mission to get the counterculture connected. In a sense, it already was. The Bay Area was overrun with underground newspapers and houses with bulletin boards and free boxes in their front yards. The Berkeley Barb ran back-page ads for resistance organizations, and a group called the Haight-Ashbury Switchboard had even built a sophisticated phone tree in the late 1960s, linking human “switchboards” to one another to help distraught families track down their wandering hippie kids. This grew into an informal network of interest-specific Switchboards in the Bay Area, one of which, the San Francisco Switchboard, had offices at Project One.

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Presper “Pres,” 40–42, 45–46, 49, 51, 55, 57, 79 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), 55–63, 73 e-commerce, 216–17 commercialization of Web, 204–5, 217, 241 see also advertising Ecos, 104 Edison, Thomas, 35 Einstein, Albert, 36 Eisenberg, Rebecca, 234 Eisenhower, Dwight, 60 Electronic Hollywood (company), 195–99, 201 Electronic Hollywood (magazine), 183–86 electronic publishing, 184, 186, 188, 201–3 Cyber Rag, 182–85, 183, 188, 195 Electronic Hollywood, 183–86 Suck.com, 194, 201–2 Women’s WIRE and, 211–13 Word, 188–95, 201–3, 205, 214, 215 e-mail, 110, 116, 121, 130, 137, 170, 179 Embraceable Ewe, 142, 144 EMCC (Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation), 55–63, 73 Engelbart, Douglas, 111–12, 115, 154, 210 engineering, 77, 124 software, use of term, 77–78, 93 ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), 38–52, 45, 54–56, 66, 79 programming of, 44–52, 79 toy, 223–24 unveiling of, 47–51 ENIAC Six, 39–52, 54, 55 Ensmenger, Nathan, 78 Esquire, 184 Ethernet, 126, 128 Evans, Nancy, 219 Facebook, 139, 141, 148, 149, 151, 210 Faraday, Michael, 16 Farm, The, 132–33 Farnsworth, Philo, 41 Feinler, Elizabeth “Jake,” 111–24, 114, 129, 154, 166, 210, 242 Felsenstein, Lee, 99, 101–4 feminism, 205, 217, 221, 233, 235, 239 cyberfeminism, 237–42 Women’s WIRE and, 207–8 FidoNet, 131 First Cyberfeminist International, 240 FitzNeal, Richard, 155–56 Fleming, Williamina, 23 Flint Ridge, 84–85 FLOW-MATIC, 69, 70 FORTRAN, 70, 88, 89, 93 404 Errors, 170, 171 FreeNets, 131 FuckedCompany.com, 218–19 games, see computer games Gandhi, Mahatma, 160 garbage in, garbage out, 100 Garmisch, 77 Garrubbo, Gina, 213–15, 217 Glazer, Avram, 194 Glenn, John, 24 Goldstine, Adele, 47–48, 51 Goldstine, Herman, 41, 44, 47–48, 51 Google, 115, 154, 215 Gore, Al, 136, 146 Gorn, Saul, 69 Grateful Dead, 102, 133, 134, 140, 180 Grier, David Alan, 24 hackers, 98, 101, 102, 106, 108, 116, 118, 124, 185 Hacker’s Dictionary, The (Steele, ed.), 72 Haight-Ashbury Switchboard, 97 Hall, Wendy, 155–61, 160, 165, 167, 168, 169–174 Hanson, Pete, 85 Hardt-English, Pam, 96–101, 103–4 hardware, 33, 38–39, 44–45, 51–52, 64, 66, 69, 71, 73, 74, 76–77, 79, 80, 177 Harrenstein, Ken, 114–15 Harris, Josh, 187, 199 Harvard Computers, 23 Harvard University, 10, 54, 153 Computation Laboratory, 34–36, 54, 57–58 Hopper at, 31–37, 54, 56, 58, 63, 117 Mark I computer, 18, 31–39, 46, 59, 79 Mark II computer, 34, 38, 54, 79 Hawes, Mary, 69, 70 Haystack Radio Observatory, 93 Hearst Communications, 217, 220 Her Interactive, 233 Hewlett-Packard, 167 High Performance Computing Act, 136–37 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 171, 174 Hofstadter, Douglas, 67 Holberton, Elizabeth “Betty” (née Snyder), 39, 43, 44, 47–49, 51, 53, 56–62, 68, 70, 73, 98, 108, 125 Honeywell, 73, 86, 93, 96 Hopper, Grace, 27–40, 30, 44, 46, 52, 53–55, 56, 57–60, 63, 64–74, 75–76, 78, 80, 93, 98, 101, 108, 119, 242 at EMCC, 56–59 at Harvard, 31–37, 54, 56, 58, 63, 117 in navy, 29–31, 75 Hopper, Vincent, 27–29, 54 Horn, Stacy, 134–42, 144–52, 147, 180–81, 202–3, 209, 242 hosts, 113, 118 addresses of, 120–21 ARPANET Host Table, 113, 114, 120 domains and, 120–21 HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), 154, 196 HyperCard, 165, 168, 169, 183, 184 hypertext, 153–74, 177, 186, 203, 222 conferences on, 165, 167–69 HyperCard and, 165, 168, 169, 183, 184 Microcosm and, 159–61, 160, 164, 167, 168, 170–74 NoteCards and, 164–66, 168, 170 World Wide Web and, 168–70, 201 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), 154, 196 IBM, 64, 65, 69, 73, 75, 79, 161, 186, 197 EMCC and, 60 ENIAC and, 43, 44 Mark I and, 32–34 OS/360 and, 76 Icon CMT, 188, 189, 193 identity and, 143–44 Idol, Billy, 185–86, 188 Industrial Revolution, 12 information, 25, 121, 122, 161 packets of, 110, 126, 202 information superhighway, 136–37, 146, 151 Instagram, 139, 149 Intel, 124 Interface Message Processor (IMP), 86–87 Intermedia, 162, 170 Internet, 93, 96, 99, 100, 109–10, 115–18, 121, 122, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 139, 145, 151, 153–54, 177, 189, 190, 202, 204, 222 addresses, 113–14, 120–21 ARPANET and, see ARPANET browsers, see browsers cyberfeminism and, 238–42 domains, 120–21 dot-com bubble and, see dot-com bubble egalitarian vision of, 119, 212 e-mail, 110, 116, 130, 170 High Performance Computing Act and, 136–37 identity and, 143–44 misogyny and violence on, 240–41 see also World Wide Web Internet Explorer, 172 Internet Hall of Fame, 118 Interval Research, 227–29, 231, 235 iVillage, 214, 216–21 Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 12 Jacquard loom, 12–13, 20 Janowitz, Mary, 104–7 Jargon File, 71–72 Jennings, Betty Jean, 39, 40, 43–52, 45, 53, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62 Johnson, Katherine, 24–25 Joyce, James, 154 Karp, Peggy, 114 Kay, Alan, 226 Kennedy, John F., Jr., 137 Kidd, Alison, 166–67 Kilmer, Joyce, 127 kilogirls, 11, 24, 70, 80 Klein, Renate, 240 Knapp, Sue, 73 Koss, Adele Mildred, 73 Kretchmar, Laurie, 213, 217 LambdaMOO, 143 Langley Research Center, 24–25 Laurel, Brenda, 223–36 Laybourne, Geraldine, 216 Learning Company, The, 233, 235 Leary, Timothy, 226 Lefkowitz, Joan, 105–7 Leopold’s, 101, 130 Levi’s, 214, 215 Levy, Jaime, 181–93, 183, 185, 195–203, 242 Levy, Steven, 91 Lichterman, Ruth, 39, 40, 43, 48, 49 Liebowitz, Annie, 99 Life on the Screen (Turkle), 229 Light, Jennifer S., 50 links, 161, 168 anchor, 162 dead, 170–72, 174, 201 metadata and, 159, 174 Microcosm and, 159–61, 160, 164, 167, 168, 170–74 on World Wide Web, 168–70 Lipkin, Ephrem, 98, 101, 102 Longest Cave, The (Brucker and Watson), 88 looms, 11–13, 20 Los Angeles, Calif., 129–30 Lost Illusions (Balzac), 200 Lovelace, Ada, 13–24, 15, 42, 52, 74, 80, 238, 242 Ludd, Ned, 12 Luddites, 12 Macie, Chris, 96–98, 104, 105 magazines, online, see electronic publishing magnetic tape, 60–62, 79, 110 Malloy, Judy, 164 Mammoth Cave, 83–88, 90–92 Manhattan Project, 10, 36 Margolis, Jane, 222 Mariner I, 76 Mark I computer, 18, 31–39, 46, 59, 79 Mark II computer, 34, 38, 54, 79 Marshall, Cathy, 162–70, 173 mathematics, mathematicians, 9–14, 16–18, 20–22, 24, 25, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 66, 67, 157 MATH-MATIC, 69 Mattel, 230, 233–35 Mauchly, John, 40–43, 45–46, 48, 49, 51, 55–57, 79 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), 55–63, 73 Maupassant, Guy de, 200 McDaniel, Marleen, 210–14, 216, 217, 219–20 McNulty, Kathleen “Kay,” 39, 42, 43, 49, 56 Media Metrix, 217, 220 Menabrea, L.

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Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation
by Yossi Klein Halevi
Published 13 Nov 1995

They smoked marijuana and banana peels at be-ins and love-ins, laughing as they described how the seeming solidity of the world dissolved into colored patterns, a miracle landscape accessible to anyone who only knew how to look. Like the Jews after the Six-Day War, the hippies were celebrating simple existence. The “Summer of Love,” they called it. In the San Francisco neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury, barefoot hippies with long hair and embroidered robes danced with bells and tambourines, as though the return of the biblical lands to the Jews had inspired a biblical resurrection. I listened to FM radio, where they played songs coming out of San Francisco. The incessant music pulled me into its strangeness.

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Shlomo was the poet of the lost Jews. He traveled the world, inspiring miracles of Jewish renewal. In communist Prague he danced all night with young Jews surrounded by secret police and then in exhausted ecstasy wrote the SSSJ theme song, “Am Yisrael Chai,” the people of Israel live. He danced in the streets of Haight-Ashbury with the hippies, whom he called by his own Yiddish endearment, “holy hippalach.” Shlomo taught that Jewish redemption would come not from the self-satisfied Orthodox with their three-piece Shabbos suits and kosher Chinese restaurants but from the periphery—the hippies looking for God in material America, the Soviet Jews and the SSSJ kids throwing themselves against either side of the Iron Curtain, all those trying to tear down walls and staking their lives on a miracle.

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
Published 25 May 2020

I told her I felt perfectly fine. Then she said something about the body’s heat, and how each inhaled breath provides us with new energy and each exhale releases old, stale energy. I tried to take it in but was having trouble focusing. I was preoccupied with how I was going to ride my bike three miles home from the Haight-Ashbury in sweat-soaked clothes. The next day I felt even better. As advertised, there was a feeling of calm and quiet that I hadn’t experienced in a long time. I slept well. The little things in life didn’t bother me as much. The tension was gone from my shoulders and neck. This lasted a few days before the feeling faded out.

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It’s a function our distant ancestors practiced since they crawled out of the sludge two and a half billion years ago, a technology our own species has been perfecting with only our lips, noses, and lungs for hundreds of thousands of years. Most days, I treat it like a stretch, something I do after a long time sitting or stressing to bring myself back to normal. When I need an extra boost, I come here, to this old Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury, and sit beside this rattling window with the other Sudarshan Kriya breathers I first met ten years ago. * * * • • • The room is packed now, 20 of us sitting in a circle unkinking our necks and pulling fleece blankets onto our laps. The instructor hits the switch on the wall, the lights dim, and long shadows from the street cast across the floor.

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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
by James Lovelock
Published 27 Aug 2019

The world of the future will be determined by the need to ensure Gaia's survival, not by the selfish needs of humans or other intelligent species. 20 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace In 1967 Richard Brautigan, a thirty-two-year-old American poet, strolled through the streets of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, birthplace of the hippy movement, handing out papers on which were printed his poem ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’. It is a fantasy of a future in which there is a ‘cybernetic meadow/where mammals and computers/live together in mutually/programming harmony’ and humans are ‘free of our labors/and joined back to nature,/returned to our mammal/brothers and sisters,/and all watched over/by machines of loving grace’.

Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole , Harry Basch , Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert
Published 2 Jan 2009

The P owell–Mason line star ts at the same intersection and climbs N ob H ill befor e descending to B ay Street, just 3 blocks fr om Fisherman’s Wharf. The least scenic is the California Street line, which begins at the foot of Market Street and runs a straight course S A N F R A N C I S CO Haight-Ashbury Part trendy, part nostalgic, par t funky , the H aight, as it ’s most commonly known, was the soul of the psy chedelic, fr ee-loving 1960s and the center of the counter culture movement. Today the gritty neighborhood straddling upper H aight Street, on the eastern border of G olden Gate Park, is more gentrified, but the commer cial area still harbors all walks of life.

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THE CASTRO 3 2 St. . et ark M . Hermann St. Duboce Ave. Guerrero St 14th St. Duboce Park MISSION DISTRICT 4 Missio n St Page St. Church St. Carl St. Fell St. Haight St. Noe St. Frederick St. HAYES Hayes St. VALLEY Waller St. Buena Vista Park Castro St. 1 Haight St. Grove St. Pierce St. HAIGHT-ASHBURY Scott St. Page St. Alamo Square Divisadero St. Broderick St. Baker St. Lyon St. ADDITION THE PANHANDLE Waller St. Pierce St. Scott St. Divisadero St. Pierce St. Central Ave. Cole St. Hayes St. Ashbury St. GOLDEN GATE PARK Kezar Stadium Pavilion Broderick St. Lyon St. Masonic Ave.

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R ates include c ontinental br eakfast on w eekday mornings , local fr ee limousine ser vice (weekday mornings), af ternoon tea and sherr y, and morning new spaper. AE, DC, DISC, MC, V. Parking $14. Bus: 2, 3, or 4. Amenities: Access to nearby health club f or $10; 24-hr. concierge; business c enter; same-day dry cleaning; front desk safe. In room: TV, free high-speed Internet access in some rooms, Wi-Fi throughout, hair dryer, iron. HAIGHT ASHBURY & THE CASTRO The Parker Guest House This is the best B&B option in the Castro, and one of the best in the entir e city. In fact, even some of the better hotels could learn a thing or two fr om this fashionable, gay-friendly, 5,000-square-foot, 1909 beautifully r estored Edwardian home and adjacent annex a fe w blocks from the heart of the Castro’s action.

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The Quants
by Scott Patterson
Published 2 Feb 2010

As the go-go sixties bull market roared to life, other rock star hedge fund managers, such as the Hungarian savant George Soros, appeared on the scene. By 1968, there were 140 hedge funds in operation in the United States, according to a survey by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ed Thorp was about to add to that growing list. His chance came in August the following year, 1969. Hippies partied in Haight-Ashbury. The war in Vietnam raged. The New York Jets, led by “Broadway” Joe Namath, beat the Baltimore Colts to win the Super Bowl. But Ed Thorp focused like a laser on a single goal: making money. That’s when he happened to meet Jay Regan, a Dartmouth philosophy major working for a Philadelphia brokerage firm, Butcher & Sherrerd.

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The relaxing, sun-splashed atmosphere of BARRA was something of a revelation to Muller after the do-nothing burbs of Jersey and the cloistered corridors of Princeton. It was the mid-1980s. Nostalgia for the sixties was on the rise. And there were few better places to catch that wave than Berkeley, a short hop to the surfer hangouts at Half Moon Bay and the hippie haven of Haight-Ashbury. Of course, working for a financial research outfit didn’t exactly fit the classic hippie mold, but Muller was fine with that. He’d had enough of scrounging for money, playing music for peanuts. The $33,000-a-year salary he was making at BARRA was a boon, and there was certainly more to come.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
Published 20 Nov 2007

I had romanticized San Francisco as an exotic destination, away from friends and family and toward mystery and adventure, so I often drove my twenty-year-old self up from Los Angeles to audition my fledgling comedy act at a club or to play banjo on the street for tips. I would either sleep in my VW van, camp out in Golden Gate Park, pay for a cheap hotel, or snag a free room in a Haight-Ashbury Victorian crash pad by making an instant friend. At this point, my act was a catchall, cobbled together from the disparate universes of juggling, comedy, banjo playing, weird bits I’d written in college, and magic tricks. I was strictly Monday-night quality, the night when, traditionally, anyone could get up to perform.

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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
by Michael Shellenberger
Published 11 Oct 2021

“Clients deemed too difficult for other agencies or who had done poorly in structured settings were offered independence and a surprising freedom,” he wrote, “to engage in ostensibly problematic behaviors.”30 Psychiatrists have long warned against giving money to the mentally ill homeless addicted to drugs, and yet that is what San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other progressive cities do. “It is not only clinically incorrect,” said the director of psychiatric services at San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, “but almost sadistic to give money on a regular basis to people who have a demonstrated inability to handle cash funds.”31 Gong found that leniency toward drug and alcohol abuse could result in death by overdose. “One day [social worker] Carlos confided in me that they had wanted to schedule [a longtime street drinker in her fifties] for more visits, to try and connect with her and encourage her to drink less,” wrote Gong.

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Dupont, “The Origins of the Minnesota Model of Addiction Treatment—A First Person Account,” Journal of Addictive Diseases 18, no. 1 (1999): 107–14, doi:10.1300/J069v18n01_10. 103. “History of Drug Treatment,” Desert Hope Treatment Center, August 21, 2020, www.deserthopetreatment.com. 104. Charles Perry, The Haight-Ashbury (New York: Random House, 1984), 125–26, cited in Henry Miller, On the Fringe: The Dispossessed in America (New York: Lexington Books, 1991), 95. 105. David Talbot, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love (New York: Free Press, 2012), 59. 106. Ibid.; Miller, On the Fringe, 104. 107.

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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend
Published 29 Sep 2013

The closest analogue is probably 1967, when tens of thousands of young people descended on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. In a hothouse of social experimentation that became known as the “Summer of Love,” they shared everything—housing, food, drugs, and sex. The enormous cultural impact of that psychedelic freak-out on American society can be felt today, and it still casts a long shadow over San Francisco. There, Hirshberg has been a driving force behind a new creative space just down the hill from Haight-Ashbury, the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Both physically and spiritually, it sits at the intersection of that 1960s counterculture and a new techno-utopianism.

The Unicorn's Secret
by Steven Levy
Published 6 Oct 2016

The so-called Hippie Movement in California was propelled by a trippy anagram of factors, among them Berkeley protest, Beatles and acid-rock music, baby-boom anomie, Eastern religions, hedonism, good drugs, and an intoxicating hit of idealism intensified by the previous factors. It did not have the rigor of academic thought, and one was unlikely to meet people in Haight-Ashbury crash pads with the scope of Ira’s readings, but Einhorn would have been quick to sense that literary values were not as important in this rebellion as they were in the Beat Movement that had so captivated him as a youngster. This was a sensual revolution, as seen in the pages of Ira’s favorite San Francisco newspaper, the Oracle, which ran little text but plenty of stunningly detailed graphics that glowed simmeringly under ultra-violet blacklight.

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FEBRUARY 1968: The Unicorn tells a YMCA luncheon forum that “What the country needs is two months of silence.” Ira Einhorn spread his message not only by lectures but by the printed word as well. In August 1967, he had returned from the disastrous California “Summer of Love” appalled at the exploitation and ruin of the hippie dreams in Haight-Ashbury, burning with rage over the state of the country, convinced that violence seemed inevitable. An indicator of this decline was the proliferation of Methedrine—the destructive drug called “speed”—which was popular at the expense of constructively cerebral chemicals like acid or pot. Ira himself, upon his first taste of intravenous speed, judged the substance as “a ticket to nights of dark paranoia,” and a symbol of the fire to come.

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Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen
Published 5 Sep 2022

Eleven of the biggest YouTubers crowded into the four-minute video, which they shot on a lot in North Hollywood, recruiting fans to don makeup as undead extras. Maker’s primary channel, called The Station, became a YouTube hit machine. Maker headquarters at 419 Grand Boulevard became YouTube’s cultural epicenter, where celebrities and hangers-on came through to shoot videos or just be seen. The Hollywood Reporter called it the digital era’s Haight-Ashbury, though more hard liquor was consumed than LSD. One web executive recalled Zappin producing a celebratory bottle of tequila during a 2:00 p.m. meeting. Later, when he sold off the headquarters’ apartment, the hustler who defined YouTube’s Hollywood scene blamed it on the liability of “too many parties.”

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GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Chapter 8: The Diamond Factory network brass boasted: Melissa Greggo, “Latenight Laffers,” Variety, November 16, 2000, https://variety.com/2000/tv/news/latenight-laffers-1117789313/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Danny Diamond Gay Bar”: Zappin’s original YouTube footage has all since been removed. The account Sleight0fHand uploaded some of Zappin’s material as a montage. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT the digital era’s Haight-Ashbury: Eriq Gardner, “Maker Studios Lawsuit: Inside the War for YouTube’s Top Studio,” The Hollywood Reporter, October 24, 2013, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/maker-studios-lawsuit-inside-war-650541/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Chapter 9: Nerdfighters Epic Pictures: They made movies like Bear, a campy tale of two couples forced to fend off a clever grizzly, shot with a live beast.

Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco
by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing
Published 31 Aug 2012

Area Codes in the Bay Area East Bay 510 Marin County 415 Peninsula 650 San Jose 408 Santa Cruz 831 Wine Country 707 Cell Phones Most US cell phones – aside from iPhones – operate on CDMA, not the European standard GSM. Be sure to double check compatibility with your phone service provider. Operator Services International operator 00 Local directory 411 Long-distance directory information 1 + area code + 555-1212 Operator 0 Toll-free number information 800-555-1212 Toilets Top Tip Haight-Ashbury and the Mission District have a woeful lack of public toilets; you may have to buy coffee to access locked customer-only bathrooms. › Citywide Self-cleaning, coin-operated outdoor kiosk commodes cost 25¢; there are 25 citywide, mostly located in North Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf and downtown. Toilet paper not always available. › Downtown Clean toilets and baby-changing tables can be found in Westfield San Francisco Centre ( Click here ). › Civic Center San Francisco Main Library (Click here ) has restrooms, as do public library branches and parks throughout the city.

The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite
by Michael Lind
Published 20 Feb 2020

In the words of Skocpol, Cobb, and Klofstad, “American elites . . . went from joining membership associations along with fellow citizens from many walks of life, toward joining boards and coordinating committees that left them in the position of doing public-spirited things for or to ordinary citizens (emphasis in the original).”31 * * * — IN 2006 THE billionaire Warren Buffett told the commentator Ben Stein, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”32 The triumph of technocratic neoliberalism over democratic pluralism is not the work of a conspiracy or a cabal. The libertarian economist James Buchanan did not meet with the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg halfway between Mont-Pèlerin and Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s to plot a transfer of power in all three realms of politics, economics, and culture from working-class majorities to the university-credentialed overclass in the US and other Western nations. But the effect of many simultaneous campaigns, each led, staffed, and bankrolled by college-educated overclass reformers, each trying to demolish one wing of the building, was to bring down the whole structure of the post-1945 cross-class settlement in the US and similar Western democracies.

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Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
by Darcey Steinke
Published 17 Jun 2019

Frey told me, “that the midlife transition might be associated with a shift toward greater top-down regulation with subsequent more cognitive control and less emotional reactivity.” In other words, menopausal women, counter to cultural stereotypes, react with fewer emotional highs and lows than younger women, and they pause to contemplate before they answer. * * * The Sisters of Perpetual Adoration are a Carmelite order of eleven menopausal nuns who live in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. The order, originally established in Guadalajara, Mexico, moved because of religious persecution to California in 1928. The nuns wear white tunics, red scapulars, and black habits. Their main occupation is prayer, and they pray throughout the day both separately and together.

California
by Sara Benson
Published 15 Oct 2010

Emergency & Medical Services Ambulance 911 American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (off Map; 415-282-9603; 450 Connecticut St; 8:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 9am-5:30pm Fri & Sat) Acupuncture, herbal remedies and other traditional Chinese medical treatments. Haight Ashbury Free Clinic (Map; 415-746-1950; www.hafci.org; 558 Clayton St; 1-9pm Mon, 9am-9pm Tue-Thu, 1-5pm Fri) Since 1967 the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic has set national standards for considerate, free medical care. Advance appointments are required for a doctor or nurse-practitioner to treat whatever ails you, from a minor flu to chronic substance abuse. Pharmaca (Map; 415-661-1216; www.pharmaca.com; 925 Cole St; Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat & Sun 9am-8pm) Pharmacy plus holistic and naturopathic remedies.

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Return to beginning of chapter DANGERS & ANNOYANCES Keep your city smarts and wits about you, especially in the sketchier stretches of the Tenderloin, Mission, Western Addition, 6th and 7th Sts in SoMa, and Bayview-Hunters Point. Parks at night can get seedy, and if you should ever wind up somewhere you’d rather not be, head to the nearest store and call a taxi. Expect to be asked for spare change often, but don’t feel obliged – donations stretch further at nonprofit Haight Ashbury Food Program (Click here). A nod of acknowledgement and a simple ‘I’m sorry’ is considered polite. Return to beginning of chapter SIGHTS The Bay & the Embarcadero Twelve miles across, 60 miles long and at points only 6 feet deep at low tide, the silvery bay makes a grander entrance to San Francisco than any red carpet.

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But since then, the hedonist Haight has also built a serious rep for leftist politics, skateboarding, drug rehabs, potent coffee and retail therapy for rebels. The Upper Haight west of Divisadero waxes nostalgic for its hippie days with head shops and vintage boutiques, and you can prove the Summer of Love isn’t over yet by serving a meal or donating to job training programs at the historic Haight Ashbury Food Program (Map; 415-566-0366; www.thefoodprogram.org; 1525 Waller St). Dedicated Deadheads may dimly recognize candy-colored 710 Ashbury St (Map), which back in the ’60s was the free-form flophouse where the Grateful Dead blew minds, amps and brain cells. Skaters and hipsters cruise downhill to the Lower Haight between Divis and Webster for regulation local-designer hoodies and edgy bars.

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Frommer's California 2007
by Harry Basch , Mark Hiss , Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole
Published 6 Dec 2006

Civic Center Millions have been spent here on brick sidewalks, lampposts, and street plantings, but the southwestern section of Market Street remains dilapidated. The Civic Center, at the “bottom” of Market, is an exception. This complex includes the domed City Hall, the Opera House, Davies Symphony Hall, the Asian Art Museum, and the main public library. The plaza connecting the buildings has been the site of many a political demonstration. Haight-Ashbury Part trendy, part nostalgic, part funky-gritty, the Haight, as it’s known, was the soul of the psychedelic ’60s and the center of the counterculture movement. Today the neighborhood straddling upper Haight Street, on the eastern border of Golden Gate Park, is more gentrified, but the commercial area still harbors all walks of life.

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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
Published 30 Apr 2018

It didn’t help that Leary liked to say things like “LSD is more frightening than the bomb” or “The kids who take LSD aren’t going to fight your wars. They’re not going to join your corporations.” These were no empty words: beginning in the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of American children actually did drop out, washing up on the streets of Haight-Ashbury and the East Village.* And young men were refusing to go to Vietnam. The will to fight and the authority of Authority had been undermined. These strange new drugs, which seemed to change the people who took them, surely had something to do with it. Timothy Leary had said so. But this upheaval would almost certainly have happened without Timothy Leary.

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(It should be noted that any traumatic experience can serve as such a trigger, including the divorce of one’s parents or graduate school.) But in many other cases, doctors with little experience of psychedelics mistook a panic reaction for a full-blown psychosis. Which usually made things worse. Andrew Weil, who as a young doctor volunteered in the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic in 1968, saw a lot of bad trips and eventually developed an effective way to “treat” them. “I would examine the patient, determine it was a panic reaction, and then tell him or her, ‘Will you excuse me for a moment? There’s someone in the next room who has a serious problem.’ They would immediately begin to feel much better.”

Western USA
by Lonely Planet

Cafe Flore CAFE ( 415-621-8579; http://cafeflore.com; 2298 Market St; mains $8-11; 7am-2am; ) Coffee, wi-fi and hot beefy dishes – and the burgers aren’t bad either. THE HAIGHT Better known as the hazy hot spot of the Summer of Love, the Haight has hung onto its tie-dyes, ideals and certain habits – hence the Bound Together Anarchist Book Collective, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic and high density of medical marijuana dispensaries (sorry, dude: prescription required). Fanciful ‘Painted Lady’ Victorian houses surround Alamo Square Park (Hayes & Scott Sts) and the corner of Haight and Ashbury Sts, where Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead crashed during the Haight’s hippie heyday.

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Green Apple BOOKS ( 415-387-2272; www.greenapplebooks.com; 506 Clement St; 10am-10:30pm Sun-Thu, to 11:30pm Fri & Sat) Three stories of new releases, remaindered titles and used nonfiction; mags, music and used novels two doors down. Information Emergency & Medical Services American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine ( 415-282-9603; www.actcm.edu; 450 Connecticut St; 8:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 9am-5:30pm Fri & Sat) Acupuncture and herbal remedies. Haight Ashbury Free Clinic ( 415-746-1950; www.hafci.org; 558 Clayton St) Free doctor visits by appointment; substance abuse and mental health services. Pharmaca ( 415-661-1216; www.pharmaca.com; 925 Cole St; 8am-8pm Mon-Fri, from 9am Sat & Sun) Pharmacy and naturopathic remedies. Police, fire & ambulance ( 911) San Francisco General Hospital ( emergency room 415-206-8111, main 415-206-8000; www.sfdph.org; 1001 Potrero Ave) Open 24 hours.

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Based in San Francisco, the scene revolved around Jack Kerouac (On the Road), Allen Ginsberg (Howl) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Beats’ patron and publisher. Joan Didion nailed contemporary California culture in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of essays that takes a caustic look at 1960s flower power and the Haight-Ashbury district. Tom Wolfe also put ’60s San Francisco in perspective with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which follows Ken Kesey’s band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1970s, Charles Bukowski’s semi-autobiographical novel Post Office captured down-and-out downtown LA, while Richard Vasquez’s Chicano took a dramatic look at LA’s Latino barrio.

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Having and Being Had
by Eula Biss
Published 15 Jan 2020

The Diggers, who also appeared in that essay, were more-principled economic dropouts. Didion wanted to talk with them, but they didn’t want to talk with her. They wrote and published for themselves, printing broadsides that critiqued the hippies. They were the counterculture to the counterculture. The Diggers would go on to provide free health care in the Haight-Ashbury and run a free bakery and stock free stores with things that had been discarded but were still good. Didion didn’t mention, and perhaps didn’t know, that they took their name from the Diggers of 1649, another small band of economic dissidents who wanted to build an egalitarian society. She found them somewhat ridiculous.

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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff
Published 7 Sep 2022

Psychedelic heroes of the 1960s, including LSD guru Timothy Leary, former Merry Prankster Stewart Brand, and Grateful Dead lyricist John Barlow, reassured the California counterculture that the computer revolution would be characterized less by the postwar military bureaucracy or even high-tech corporations than by the “new communalists ” of Haight-Ashbury, the Whole Earth Catalog, and the hot tubs of Esalen. By the early 1990s, psychedelic and computer culture had grown indistinguishable. Software developers who wrote code for Apple during the day came home to scrape peyote buds off cactuses and trip all night. My friends at SUN Microsystems used their high-powered computers to generate fractal imagery that was projected at Dead shows.

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Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath
by Thomas Sheridan
Published 1 Mar 2011

There were good relationships between the police and the original pacifist hippies. ‘Sweet kids’ was the term he used to describe them. However, as soon as the hippie culture became mainstream he told me the city was literally invaded with all kinds of ‘psychos’ who simply put on a headband and stitched peace signs onto their jackets and moved into the Haight-Ashbury district of the city. Before long, murders, rapes, robberies, suicides and other negative elements invaded the idealistic and peaceful hippie scene. This was due to the psychopaths moving into the scene who became ‘hippies’ in order to get the ‘free love’ and other personal gratification the counterculture offered.

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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer
Published 31 Aug 2017

child of an advertising executive: For biographical details about Brand, I leaned heavily on three excellent books: Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (University of Chicago Press, 2006); John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said (Viking Penguin, 2005); Walter Isaacson, The Innovators (Simon & Schuster, 2014). “cosmic consciousness”: Turner, 59. “tend to be extra-planetary”: Sherry L. Smith, Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power (Oxford University Press, 2012), 52. “a peyote meeting without peyote”: Charles Perry, The Haight-Ashbury (Random House, 1984), 19. messing around with acid: Markoff, 61. he represented the “restrained, reflective wing”: Wolfe, 12. “scorned computers as the embodiment of centralized control”: Isaacson, 268. “operation of the machine becomes so odious”: Turner, 11. “Please do not fold, bend, spindle or mutilate me”: Turner, 2.

Girl Walks Into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
by Rachel Dratch
Published 29 Mar 2012

I’d come to the middle of the desert expecting a spiritual experience, only to feel the kind of physical inadequacy usually reserved for seeing a Victoria’s Secret ad. Fantastic. Although I saw plenty of these hot chicks with impossibly high boobs and long legs, the men who seemed inclined to disrobe, much fewer in number, were all Haight-Ashbury throwbacks over the age of seventy with long beards and leathery skin. Where was the equity? Through all the desert madness at Burning Man, I did meet this character Henry. Though he is a Stanford businessman in real life, at the time I met him at our “camp” in Black Rock City, Nevada, he was wearing black nail polish and a man-skirt.

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Comedy Sex God
by Pete Holmes
Published 13 May 2019

Thankfully, Ram Dass couldn’t help himself. He began touring, giving the lectures I gracefully stumbled upon in the airplane that day, trading his suit and tie for beads and a white dress, telling love-and-lighters that he had uncovered a clue as to what so many in the ’60s were glimpsing in the grassy parks of Haight-Ashbury. With so many experiencing the Great White Light, it was of great interest to hear about a man who had found a way to remain one with the universe. Telling the story of Maharaj-ji being unaffected by an ungodly dose of LSD, Ram Dass said, “When you’re in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to Detroit.”

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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Published 12 Sep 2016

She came up with three very different plans for her future, each a little more risky and innovative, but all involving some kind of community building. Her three plans were: doing her first Silicon Valley–style start-up, becoming the CEO of a nonprofit working with at-risk kids, and opening a fun and friendly neighborhood bar in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where she lived. Note that each example has a six-word headline describing the plan, a four-gauge dashboard (we really like dashboards), and the three questions that this particular alternative plan is asking. Example 1 Title: “All In—The Silicon Valley Story” Questions 1.

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Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire: My Unlikely Escape From Corporate America
by Dan Conway
Published 8 Sep 2019

He thought I might have a blood clot from my flight, which led to an emergency room visit, multiple tests, a big hospital bill and the diagnosis that I was experiencing severe anxiety. Was anything making me anxious? As Sonny said in The Godfather, the world was realizing there was a lot of money in that powder. Crypto culture was changing like Haight-Ashbury did after the Summer of Love. Like everything in crypto, the change was happening at an unprecedented, breakneck pace, over a period of months rather than years. There was suddenly less interest in changing the world and more interest in acquiring crypto by any means necessary, legal or not. I was having lunch on Burlingame Avenue one day that spring when I received an email from a family friend.

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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
by Judith Grisel
Published 15 Feb 2019

Some of the most provocative studies have been those treating patients diagnosed with terminal illnesses.5 These typically involve dose-controlled ingestion of a psychedelic compound in an enhanced clinical setting, often looking like a nice hotel room supplied with a good sound system through which facilitative music is played. (If this sounds like the “acid tests” of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, I can understand why, but the major difference is tight control over the dosing and the presence of trained clinical personnel.) Participants usually have two several-hour sessions of guided tripping, separated by a few weeks to a month. The clinical guides help patients process the experience safely during the several hours of deep introspection.

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In Patagonia:
by Bruce Chatwin
Published 5 Jun 2019

He held back his smile to hide a set of discoloured teeth. He was a miner, he said. He was looking for work in a mine. He had torn a page from an old copy of the National Encyclopaedia. The page had a map showing various mines in Argentina. There was a gold mine at Rio Pico. He had been one of the original Flower Children in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Once, when he was hungry, he had picked up a half-eaten Hershey bar off the sidewalk on Haight Street. This incident had printed itself on his memory and he mentioned it a number of times. In San Francisco he had signed up on methadone, but managed to get detoxicated when he first found work in a mine.

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
by Steven Levy
Published 18 May 2010

In the Berkeley Barb a week after the experiment began, Lee wrote that during the Model 33 teletype terminal’s first five days at Leopold’s, it was in use 1,434 minutes, accepting 151 new items, and printing out 188 sessions, thirty-two percent of which represented successful searches. And the violence level was nonexistent: Lee reported “one hundred percent smiles.” Word spread, and soon people came seeking important connections. If you typed in FIND HEALTH CLINICS, for instance, you would get information on any of eight, from the Haight-Ashbury Medical Research Clinic to the George Jackson People’s Free Clinic. A request for BAGELS—someone asking where in the Bay Area one could find good New York-style bagels—got four responses: three of them naming retail outlets, another one from a person named Michael who gave his phone number and offered to show the inquirer how to make his or her own bagels.

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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Published 4 Sep 2017

Your Loving Son, John SHUT IT DOWN AS RAIN AND ENEMY SHELLS continued to fall among Con Thien’s filthy, exhausted defenders, the men still somehow found time to pass around a copy of the October issue of Playboy. It was “obviously very important to us,” Musgrave remembered. “There was an article on Haight-Ashbury with pictures of girls running around without their tops, you know, free love. They were ‘hippies,’ it said—and we thought it was pronounced ‘hip-peye’ because it had two ps. Hey, I’m going home and these hippy girls don’t wear no clothes. And they’ll go to bed with anybody. Even I could score!” During that summer, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco had been the center of what became known as the “Summer of Love.” Thousands of young people from all over the country had congregated there, eager to join the new and growing California counterculture—its music, its ubiquitous drugs, and the bright promise of promiscuity.

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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You
by Eli Pariser
Published 11 May 2011

Brand’s impact on the culture of Silicon Valley and geekdom is hard to overestimate—though he wasn’t a programmer himself, his vision shaped the Silicon Valley worldview. As Fred Turner details in the fascinating From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Brand and his cadre of do-it-yourself futurists were disaffected hippies—social revolutionaries who were uncomfortable with the communes sprouting up in Haight-Ashbury. Rather than seeking to build a new world through political change, which required wading through the messiness of compromise and group decision making, they set out to build a world on their own. In Hackers, his groundbreaking history of the rise of engineering culture, Steve Levy points out that this ideal spread from the programmers themselves to the users “each time some user flicked the machine on, and the screen came alive with words, thoughts, pictures, and sometimes elaborate worlds built out of air—those computer programs which could make any man (or woman) a god.”

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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs
by John Doerr
Published 23 Apr 2018

When he saw a manager failing, he would try to find another role—perhaps at a lower level—where the person might succeed and regain some standing and respect. Andy was a problem solver at heart. As one Intel historian observed, he “seemed to know exactly what he wanted and how he was going to achieve it.” * He was sort of a walking OKR. Intel was born in the era of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and the flower children of Haight-Ashbury. Punctuality was out of fashion among the young, even young engineers, and the company found it challenging to get new hires into work on time. Grove’s solution was to post a sign-in sheet at the front desk, to log anyone dragging in after 8:05—we called it Andy’s Late List. Grove collected the sheet each morning at 9:00 sharp.

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The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century
by Robert D. Kaplan
Published 6 Mar 2018

“That way I could have enlisted at eighteen and fought in World War II and Korea, and still be young enough to have seen action in Vietnam.” Yet my favorite story in Bury Us Upside Down is about a different sort of serviceman: Air Force flight surgeon Dean Echenberg of San Francisco—a former hippie who helped start a free clinic in Haight-Ashbury, did drugs, went to the great rock concerts, and then volunteered for service in Vietnam, more or less out of sheer adventure. He ended up with the Mistys, billeted among men whom Bud Day had trained. If anyone lived the American experience of the 1960s in its totality, it was Echenberg. One day in 1968, his medical unit was near Phu Cat, just as it was attacked by Viet Cong.

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The Life and Loves of a He Devil: A Memoir
by Graham Norton
Published 22 Oct 2014

It appeared to the casual viewer that I was little better than a serial killer. An early lesson in the importance of the edit. I remember the excitement on my birthday when I was going to be able to have my first legal drink in California. I took my passport (it was to be many years before I got a driving licence) and headed with my friend, James, to a gay bar in the Haight-Ashbury area of the city. I walked up to the counter, ordered vodka tonics and braced myself for the inevitable interrogation about my age – this time, I was ready for him. The barman looked at me and started to fill two glasses with ice. Nothing! This was so unfair – first their laws had taken away my right to drink, and now they were robbing me of the satisfaction of finally being legal!

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Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin
Published 21 Jun 2023

To understand why, we need to first step back in time to the counterculture phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s that reverberated out from the US to most of the rich world. With its celebration of personal expression and experimental lifestyles, the movement resoundingly rejected the conformity of the post-war era. Urban centres emerged as the focal point for the counterculture, with neighbourhoods like Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and SoHo in New York serving as focal points. The low cost of living in these urban areas made them well suited to an artistic lifestyle. Perhaps more importantly, they felt alive and authentic, in contrast to the stifling sameness of suburbia. In fact, conformity was in many cases a deliberate choice in suburban life.

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The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson
Published 6 Oct 2014

The hulking mainframes with whirring tapes and blinking lights were seen as depersonalizing and Orwellian, tools of Corporate America, the Pentagon, and the Power Structure. In The Myth of the Machine, the sociologist Lewis Mumford warned that the rise of computers could mean that “man will become a passive, purposeless, machine-conditioned animal.”7 At peace protests and hippie communes, from Sproul Plaza at Berkeley to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, the injunction printed on punch cards, “Do not fold, spindle or mutilate,” became an ironic catchphrase. But by the early 1970s, when the possibility of personal computers arose, attitudes began to change. “Computing went from being dismissed as a tool of bureaucratic control to being embraced as a symbol of individual expression and liberation,” John Markoff wrote in his history of the period, What the Dormouse Said.8 In The Greening of America, which served as a manifesto for the new era, a Yale professor, Charles Reich, denounced the old corporate and social hierarchies and called for new structures that encouraged collaboration and personal empowerment.

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But it turned out to be, significantly, a quintessential display of the fusion that shaped the personal computer era: technology, counterculture, entrepreneurship, gadgets, music, art, and engineering. From Stewart Brand to Steve Jobs, those ingredients fashioned a wave of Bay Area innovators who were comfortable at the interface of Silicon Valley and Haight-Ashbury. “The Trips Festival marked Stewart Brand’s emergence as a countercultural entrepreneur—but in a deeply technocratic mold,” wrote the cultural historian Fred Turner.17 A month after the Trips Festival, in February 1966, Brand was sitting on his gravelly rooftop in San Francisco’s North Beach enjoying the effects of 100 micrograms of LSD.

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Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
by Eric Kaufmann
Published 24 Oct 2018

They were necessarily disconnected from older multi-generational communities of ethnic group and nation.27 As the hippies grew up, they developed new group narratives around occupation and lifestyle. Often, members of countercultural lifestyle enclaves lived in identifiable sections of large cities such as Greenwich Village, the original home of the Young Intellectuals, or Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. One index of rising bohemianism was the explosion in the number of artists in New York, from a few thousand in the 1960s to 100,000 by the early 1970s.28 Meanwhile, the share of single households in Manhattan had surged to a third of the city’s population by 1980. In the 1980s, upwardly mobile professionals, or ‘yuppies’, came to adopt aspects of bohemianism, combining economic self-interest with social liberalism.

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Trump voters derive a sense of Americanism from a cluster of ‘redneck’ national symbols including country and western music, Nascar, cowboys and pickup trucks. These reference a rural symbol complex towards which white Clinton voters are significantly less receptive. On the other hand, white Clinton voters identify their Americanness more with the country’s ethnic diversity and bohemian neighbourhoods like San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. Partisans on both sides feel strongly American when contemplating icons like the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore, but both also possess distinctly partisan-inflected national symbols. A similar exercise in figure 6.7 shows Anglo-Canadians are also somewhat divided over their conception of the nation.

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Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
by David Weinberger
Published 14 Jul 2011

Founded in 1975 by the generational icon Stewart Brand, with Larry Brilliant, The WELL has been one of the longest-running conversations on the Net. Its origins are in the hippie culture of which Brand is an avatar—the name stands for The Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link, a reference to Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog—but the 4,000 current members seem to reflect more of an earnest coffee-shop culture than the shirtless non-linearity of Haight-Ashbury. Jon Lebkowsky, who has been on The WELL since 1987, says that the site’s success was not accidental. “They were successful in building the community by seeding it originally with people who were great conversationalists,” waiving the fees for the people they wanted involved. Lebkowsky adds, “They also invited the Grateful Dead crowd, and a lot of journalists.”12 After the seeding comes the gardening.

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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Douthat
Published 25 Feb 2020

You could understand the future of Germany better in 1930 by watching Brownshirts and Reds fight in the streets than by hanging out with middle-class shopkeepers; you could see the American future more clearly in the abolitionist John Brown’s wild career than anywhere else in the 1850s. Joan Didion’s famous essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” was published “in the cold late spring of 1967,” and she argued that even though the economy was strong and the country seemed superficially stable, you could tell that America’s “center was not holding” by visiting Haight-Ashbury and pondering the hippies. A year later, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were dead, the Democratic National Convention was in chaos, and the terrorist wave mentioned earlier had begun. But our terrorists and radicals don’t necessarily feel like prophets or forerunners; they often just feel more like marks.

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Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling
by Carlton Reid
Published 14 Jun 2017

“Glutted roadways, ecological concern, the quest for healthful recreation, and the sophistication of geared machines have all contributed to a flood of cycling activity,” explained Grove, adding that “legislators are beginning to think bikeway as well as highway.” His twelve-page feature concluded that “with bikeway construction and ecological concern marching hand in hand, America’s bicycling boom could harbinger a whole new era in transportation.” Ecological concern was one of the drivers of the boom. During 1967’s “Summer of Love,” the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco reeked of patchouli oil, weed, and incense. With flowers in their hair and buzzed with “acid,” some of the area’s self-styled “freaks” protested against not just war but also waste. This concern deepened for many, and for those “hippies” who became environmental protestors the automobile became a potent symbol of everything that was wrong with the “military-industrial complex.”

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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn
Published 3 Jun 2019

Though it earned its own fame, Jefferson Airplane also served as an adjunct of the Grateful Dead, the center of the era’s counterculture in the Bay Area and by extension America. Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia personally approved Dryden’s joining Airplane, and members of both bands and their mutual friends lived together in Haight-Ashbury and other San Francisco neighborhoods. Along with shared creative efforts and antiestablishment attitude, that deep alliance meant experimental social structure, early technological adoption, and, as Mann put it, “better living through chemistry.” Even before the Dead had their name, they were a part of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, the eclectic and idealistic group that drove through America to have fun messing with people and to spread the good news about LSD.

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Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan
Published 1 May 2007

And I couldn’t see any of us rising out of that decaying school (that’d be shut down within a few years) and attaining any lofty goals. Sure I wanted encouragement—I didn’t exactly want the nuns to tell us we were losers and would always be losers. But I wanted realistic encouragement. Growing up in a family of seven in what was built as a onebedroom apartment in the pre-yuppified Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1970s, I figured I was destined for a life of drudgery. My father had grown up in an impoverished family of eight living in a two-room tenement apartment in Glasgow, Scotland. He was still living in those two rooms when, at nearly forty, he married and emigrated to San Francisco in pursuit of a more prosperous life.

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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen; Mark Ridley
Published 1 Jan 2006

A misprint perhaps, but it certainly conveyed the impression of a certain style! Richard has spent most of his career at Oxford, but for two years in the late 1960s he was at Berkeley, during the time of hippies, student riots, and revolution. On his return he recounted how one day, while he was walking down Haight Ashbury, no doubt on his way to a bookstore and wearing empire-building shorts and well-trimmed hair, a car full of gawping tourists drove slowly past him, and a child inside was heard exclaiming ‘Hey Maw, it’s one of the weirdos!’ ENDNOTES 1 R. Dawkins and J. R. Krebs, ‘Animal Signals: Information or manipulation’, in J.

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The Descent of Woman
by Elaine Morgan
Published 1 Feb 2001

The difficulty in comparing human society with any other animal’s is that the cultural components in it are so powerful that they tend to blur any inherited instincts that may exist. If you are examining an English public school, or a Nazi S.S. troop, each of them in its different style would convince you that our instincts are those of the baboon. If you consider the aggregations of human beings at Woodstock or the hippie colony at Haight Ashbury, or the reactions of people in an earthquake, you would feel tolerably certain that our instincts are those of a comparatively amorphous troop, like the patas. Fortunately, however, it is quite easy to find social groups of human beings which behave in exactly the same way all over the world and in every type of culture.

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Stealth
by Peter Westwick
Published 22 Nov 2019

Norman Mailer saw it that way; after the moon landing, he mocked the hippies: “You’ve been drunk all summer… and they have taken the moon.”12 But the realms of the hippie and the engineer were not completely opposed. Some of the “Sixties” infiltrated aerospace—and the Stealth program.13 Now, no one would ever mistake Kelly Johnson for Timothy Leary, or aerospace industry offices for Haight-Ashbury. Aerospace engineers were not antigovernment, they still trusted people over thirty, and security clearances deterred drug use. Still, these engineers were most decidedly freethinkers, who would readily question authority if they thought the engineering facts were on their side. Consider the words of a former military test pilot who came to the Skunk Works to fly the first Stealth prototypes: I must admit I was kind of surprised when I got to the Skunk Works. … I was surprised at the level of patriotism and how hard those people worked for the airplane.

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So Me
by Graham Norton
Published 2 Jan 2005

Trying not to panic I dialled the last number and waited. A woman called Gail answered the phone. I calmly explained who I was and who had given me her number. She began to tell me why she couldn’t help (yeah, yeah) but – What was that? Did she say ‘But’? – but she did have a number for a place called Stardance. It was a hippy commune near the Haight-Ashbury district of town and they had a hostel room they rented out by the night. This didn’t help me very much, but at least it was cheaper than the youth hostel. After further phone calls I went to dinner at Stardance so that they could vet me. I felt like such a fraud as I sat cross-legged eating grilled tofu listening to the commune members tell me about their vision of utopian housing.

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Beyond: Our Future in Space
by Chris Impey
Published 12 Apr 2015

The soaring architecture was inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, but there was also a darker backstory associated with founder John Allen, who ran a commune in New Mexico that had the trappings of a cult. Allen was a metallurgist and Harvard MBA who experimented with peyote and spent the late 1960s lecturing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. In 1974, when young Yale dropout Ed Bass arrived at Allen’s Synergia Ranch, the two men instantly hit it off, based on their shared interest in the environment. Allen had big ideas and Bass was heir to an oil fortune, so they built an 82-foot sailboat and traveled around the world studying ecosystems and sustainable development.

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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty
Published 18 Feb 2020

The weird part was that they were joined by The Council of Community Housing Organizations, a politically influential group that was known locally as “Choo Choo” and had branded itself as “the voice of San Francisco’s affordable housing movement.” Choo Choo’s founder, Calvin Welch, was a gray-ponytail-wearing don of the city nonprofit world and a descendant of the freeway revolts. According to local legend, he’d begun his escalation from Haight-Ashbury commune member to feared political power broker after agreeing, over a joint, to support future Mayor George Moscone during the 1975 election. Since then Welch had become an architect of the local progressive faction and had his fingerprints on virtually every important development battle since the 1980s.

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USA's Best Trips
by Sara Benson
Published 23 May 2010

Another choice is the aptly named Hotel Floyd, which is also brand new and advertises an “eco-friendly” ethos. Flatscreeen TVs with satellite hookups make it easy being green. In the morning, stop into the old two-story cedar building that houses noteBooks and Black Water Loft. This combination book, art, and music store has a Haight Ashbury–style coffeehouse on the 2nd floor. Browse books by local artists or relax with a vanilla latte on one of the fraying couches as sun streams through the windows. Once you’re on the road again, you’ll want to head south toward Hwy 58, which makes up a large portion of the Crooked Road. These roads take you past real working farms, some of which have quite the hardscrabble aesthetic – very different from the estate farms and stables of northern Virginia and much of the Shenandoah Valley.

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People who have visited San Francisco might have a déjà vu moment: Bisbee’s Victorian buildings are set on rolling hills and the mile-high city is surprisingly cool. “The parallels between those two cities have always fascinated me,” Reed says. “It’s fitting that a lot of the people who kept this place from turning into a ghost town were part of the whole Haight-Ashbury scene and came here when that broke up. Now Bisbee is a pretty, artsy place and there is no shortage of characters.” Besides hipness, Bisbee is all about copper. The Copper Queen Hotel was built in 1902 to give visiting fat cats a place to spend the night. Cut right to the crux of the matter – literally – with Queen Mine Tours and delve a quarter-mile straight into the cold earth on a small rail car.

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The Hacker Crackdown
by Bruce Sterling
Published 15 Mar 1992

Before we tackle the vexing question as to why a rock lyricist should be interviewed by the FBI in a computer-crime case, it might be well to say a word or two about the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most successful and long-lasting of the numerous cultural emanations from the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, in the glory days of Movement politics and lysergic transcendance. The Grateful Dead are a nexus, a veritable whirlwind, of applique decals, psychedelic vans, tie-dyed T-shirts, earth-color denim, frenzied dancing and open and unashamed drug use. The symbols, and the realities, of Californian freak power surround the Grateful Dead like knotted macrame.

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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
Published 19 Apr 2021

But no one stayed longer, or became more associated with Tangier, than the novelist and composer Paul Bowles. In works like The Sheltering Sky, he created a romantic vision of Tangier that persists even today, a dream that has become almost inseparable, in the minds of many, from reality.” Like Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco or the Times Square of New York’s seedier, darker era, Tangier’s time as a freewheeling playground for artistic deviants has long passed. The reigning king, Mohammed VI, has poured about US$1.1 billion into developing the port, which is now the largest in the Mediterranean. However, the fact remains: “There is no place like it in the world.

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Published 14 Apr 2001

In a decade that was justly fa- mous for turmoil, the years that brought the ARPA network into being-1966 through 1969-were enough to make one wonder what shreds of the social fabric could possibly survive. The summer of 1967, when Larry Roberts was drafting his preliminary plan for the network, was the Summer of Love for the hippies in San Francisco's drug-soaked Haight-Ashbury district. But it was also a Long, Hot Summer of rioting in the black ghettos of Newark, Detroit, and more than a hundred other cities; the National Guard was called out for the first time since World War II. October 1967, the month when Roberts announced his network plan in Gatlinburg, was also a month that saw some fifty thousand antiwar demonstrators rally at the Pentagon, where protesters in psychedelic face paint THE INTERGALACTIC NETWORK 281 stuck flowers in the gun barrels of guardsmen sent to control them.

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The obsessive techno-weenies who haunted the terminal rooms of Project MAC and the other ARPA sites were children of the sixties, all right. But the worlds they were creat- ing for themselves had less in common with the angry antiwar movement out on the streets than with the psychedelic, peace-and-love communes of Haight- Ashbury. Their passion for a newly popular epic fantasy called The Lord of the Rings was equaled only by their obsession with science fiction-and with the ubiquitous computer game Spacewar, which sprang into existence wherever there was a PDP machine to run it on. For most of them, "ARPA" didn't mean "Pentagon."

Coastal California
by Lonely Planet

Book five days ahead or pay double for Saturday walk-ins; cash only. Tour meeting points vary. Public Library City Guides WALKING (www.sfcityguides.org) Volunteer local historians lead tours by neighborhood and theme: Art Deco Marina, Gold Rush Downtown, Pacific Heights Victorians, North Beach by Night and more. See website for upcoming tours. Haight-Ashbury Flower Power Walking Tour WALKING ( 415-863-1621; www.haightashburytour.com; adult/under 9yr $20/free; 9:30am Tue & Sat, 2pm Thu, 11am Fri) Take a long, strange trip through 12 blocks of hippie history, following in the steps of Jimi, Jerry and Janis – if you have to ask for last names, you really need this tour, man.

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You’ve probably already read books by Californians without knowing it, for example, Ray Bradbury’s 1950s dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451; Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Color Purple ; Ken Kesey’s quintessential ’60s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo ’ s Nest ; UC Berkeley professor Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior ; Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ; or Dave Eggers, the Bay area hipster behind McSweeney’s quarterly literary journal. Few writers nail California culture as well as Joan Didion. She’s best known for her collection of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, which takes a caustic look at 1960s flower power and Haight-Ashbury. Tom Wolfe also put ’60s San Francisco in perspective with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which follows Ken Kesey’s band of Merry Pranksters, who began their acid-laced ‘magic bus’ journey near Santa Cruz. By that time, the Beat generation of writers had already fired up San Francisco’s North Beach literary scene beginning in the 1950s, including with Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem Howl and Jack Kerouac’s iconic novel On the Road.

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion ofSafety
by Eric Schlosser
Published 16 Sep 2013

One of them had been charged with pointing a loaded rifle at the head of a sergeant. Although illegal drugs were not involved in the case, the three men were allowed to guard the missiles, despite a history of psychiatric problems. The squadron was understaffed, and its commander feared that hippies—“people from the Haight-Ashbury”—were trying to steal nuclear weapons. More than one fourth of the crew on the USS Nathan Hale, a Polaris submarine with sixteen ballistic missiles, were investigated for illegal drug use. Eighteen of the thirty-eight seamen were cleared; the rest were discharged or removed from submarine duty.

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Nineteen members of an Army detachment were arrested on pot charges: See “GI’s at Nuclear Base Face Pot Charges,” Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1972. Three enlisted men at a Nike Hercules base in San Rafael: See “3 Atom Guards Called Unstable; Major Suspended,” New York Times, August 18, 1969; and “Unstable Atom Guards Probed,” Boston Globe, August 18, 1969. “people from the Haight-Ashbury”: Quoted in “Unstable Atom Guards.” More than one fourth of the crew on the USS Nathan Hale: Cited in “Men Who Handle Nuclear Weapons.” A former crew member of the Nathan Hale told a reporter: See ibid. The crew member of another ballistic missile submarine thought that smoking marijuana while at sea was too risky, because of the strong aroma.

Discover Great Britain
by Lonely Planet
Published 22 Aug 2012

Glastonbury pop 8429 If you suddenly feel the need to get your third eye cleansed or your chakras realigned, then there’s really only one place in England that fits the bill: good old Glastonbury, a bohemian haven and centre for New Age culture since the days of the Summer of Love, and still a favourite hangout for hippies, mystics and counter-cultural types of all descriptions. The main street is more Haight Ashbury than Somerset hamlet, with a bewildering assortment of crystal sellers, veggie cafes, mystical bookshops and bong emporiums, but Glastonbury has been a spiritual centre since long before the weekend Buddhists and white witches arrived. It’s supposedly the birthplace of Christianity in England, and several of Britain’s most important ley lines are said to converge on nearby Glastonbury Tor.

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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
by Ken Adelman
Published 5 May 2014

Reagan’s new style of diplomacy was adopted and expanded years later, especially by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. HAVING SEEN THE TRANSFORMING effect of Gorbachev’s foray on Connecticut Avenue, the Reagans set out on their first afternoon in Moscow for Arbat Street. Arbat was quickly becoming the Haight-Ashbury of Moscow, where artists and entrepreneurs converged to strum their guitars and peddle their wares. The centuries-old street was getting filled with souvenir stalls, cafes, boutiques, and modish restaurants, including Moscow’s own Hard Rock Café. Although the tony Arbat was the pedestrian embodiment of glasnost, it still resided in a Communist land.

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Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia
by Adrian Shirk
Published 15 Mar 2022

It’s creepy—it gives me the creeps, and is the kind of thing that frequently leaves a slimy taste in the mouth regarding the hippies. So many of those communes reinstated the already prescribed hegemony and gender roles existing out in the world. It’s what Joan Didion, as early as 1967, is already jaded about in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” when she encounters a woman named Barbara in the Haight-Ashbury scene baking a macrobiotic apple pie for her kids and boyfriend, while talking about finding a renewed happiness in “the woman’s thing,” and realizing that “that’s where the trip was,” the woman trip of baking, cleaning, caring, tending. Didion’s depiction is an eye roll in itself. “Whenever I hear about the woman’s trip, which is often, I think a lot about nothin’-says-lovin’-like-something-from-the-oven and the Feminine Mystique and how it is possible for people to be the unconscious instruments of values they would strenuously reject on a conscious level, but I do not mention this to Barbara.”

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In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
by Pete Jordan
Published 20 Aug 2012

But even if that photographed street nowadays had only a fraction of the cyclists in the picture, I figured Amsterdam would still be a far greater bike town than anywhere in America. As an urban planning student, I needed to get there, to be there, to learn from the best how to build a city for bikes. AS KIDS GROWING up in the post-hippie/pre-yuppie Haight-Ashbury district of 1970s San Francisco, none of my older brothers or sisters owned bikes. My parents simply couldn’t afford such luxuries. Other kids on our block had their own wheels, though, and anytime I could cadge a spin on one of those, no matter how briefly, the moment was special. In fact, it was so special that when I was eight years old, I began delivering newspapers in order to earn the money to buy a bike of my own.

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Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
by Sharon Zukin
Published 1 Dec 2009

Some ex-hippies became entrepreneurs, selling drugs, psychedelic posters, and used clothing, and gradually the consumer products and spaces that went along with the hippies’ looser lifestyle became visible symbols not just of a more interesting way to live, but of a more interesting place to live. Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and the East Village in New York marked spaces of social diversity and cultural experimentation; they also indicated how the counterculture’s conflict with modernization could create excitement around a city’s old neighborhoods. In a curious and unexpected way, the counterculture’s pursuit of origins—by loosening the authentic self and bonding with the poor and underprivileged—opened a new beginning for urban redevelopment in the 1970s, alongside gentrification and gay and lesbian communities.19 The allure of newly hip neighborhoods spread through the power of alternative media.

On the Road: Adventures From Nixon to Trump
by James Naughtie
Published 1 Apr 2020

For some reason, this particular incident – undramatic, common-place across the South, involving nothing that would be remarked upon by a local – stayed with me, stubbornly. We had many adventures on that trip, listening to jazz in the French Quarter in New Orleans, hiking into the Grand Canyon, experiencing the drive up the California coast on Highway 1 to San Francisco, where Haight-Ashbury was still pretending it was 1967, ‘the summer of love’. Breathing the exhilarating air of the Pacific north-west. Traversing the moonscape of the Badlands in the Dakotas. But the South had the greatest effect, and for a reason that I understood. I was tormented by the feeling that it was a familiar place, despite its troubles, peopled by characters whom I knew.

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Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
by Beth Macy
Published 15 Aug 2022

“Every day I feel like I climb down into the cracks of the broken world, work away, then climb back out and go back to my life,” Wright said. “We’re a Band-Aid.” I turned for advice to Dr. David E. Smith, an elder in the American harm-reduction movement. He was the San Francisco physician who battled NIMBYs to open the nation’s first free clinic in Haight-Ashbury in 1967. The police didn’t want him to do it—many practitioners ran the risk of being arrested for aiding and abetting a felony crime. A local drug dealer put out a contract on his life. “Our early days were dangerous, wild, and wooly, and we were getting grief from all sides,” Smith said. “But our goal was free, nonjudgmental health care, and we had overdose teams roaming the neighborhood resuscitating people.”

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The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
by Marc Weingarten
Published 12 Dec 2006

VULGARIAN AT THE GATE The ideological breakdowns of the sixties were a bitter disappointment to Thompson, Mailer, and all of those journalists who truly believed that they just might bear witness to a great American political awakening. But Nixon was reelected, the New Left splintered and faded, and Haight-Ashbury became a seedy countercultural Disneyland. There was a new revolution afoot, but it was directed inward, toward the cultivation of one’s own personality, mental health, and physical well-being. It was the era of encounter sessions, EST, group therapy. Tom Wolfe called it the third great American awakening, a natural evolution arising from the drug experimentation and communal living of the previous decade.

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Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
Published 29 Apr 2008

Mom took me in her arms, the way she used to when I was a little boy, and she stroked my hair, and she murmured in my ear, and rocked me, and gradually, slowly, the sobs dissipated. I took a deep breath and Mom got me a glass of water. I sat on the edge of my bed and she sat in my desk chair and I told her everything. Everything. Well, most of it. &&& Chapter 16 [[This chapter is dedicated to San Francisco's Booksmith, ensconced in the storied Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, just a few doors down from the Ben and Jerry's at the exact corner of Haight and Ashbury. The Booksmith folks really know how to run an author event -- when I lived in San Francisco, I used to go down all the time to hear incredible writers speak (William Gibson was unforgettable).

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In-N-Out Burger
by Stacy Perman
Published 11 May 2009

It began in 1965 as a congregation of about twenty-five parishioners who met in a mobile home after its founder, Pastor Chuck Smith, broke away from the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Santa Ana. Smith was a leading figure in the grassroots “Jesus Movement.” Known to some as the “Jesus Freaks,” members belonged to a religious revival born out of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s. The movement got its start in a storefront in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district called the “Living Room” and spread quickly. Down in Orange County, Smith’s early outreach to hippies spurred thousands to flock to his church. As it turned out, the Jesus Movement became a spawning ground for what was to become another Christian phenomenon: the evangelical mega-church.

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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by Charles Murray
Published 1 Jan 2012

In the 1960s and 1970s, two groups of Americans at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum notoriously defied the traditional American expectations of respectable behavior. One consisted of white youths who came of age in the 1960s, mostly from middle-class and upper-middle-class families, who formed the counterculture that blossomed in Haight-Ashbury in the mid-1960s, gathered strength nationally during the years of the Vietnam War, and died away during the 1970s. The other was black and urban, a small minority of the black population that became so socially disorganized that by the early 1980s it had acquired the label of underclass. The counterculture got most of the nation’s attention during the 1970s and the underclass got most of the attention during the 1980s.

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The Rough Guide to Toronto
by Helen Lovekin and Phil Lee
Published 29 Apr 2006

Jam-packed with chichi cafés, restaurants and shops, Yorkville makes for a pleasant stroll (especially if you’ve got some spare cash), one of its 83 UPTOWN TORON TO most agreeable features being the old timber-terrace houses that are still much in evidence. These same houses have actually seen much grimmer days: in the late 1950s, Yorkville was run down and impoverished, but then the hippies arrived and soon turned the area into a countercultural enclave – a diminutive version of Haight-Ashbury, with Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot in attendance. Things are much less inventive today – big cars and big jewellery – but the Village Gardens, at the corner of Cumberland and Bellair streets, is a particularly appealing and cleverly designed little park. The centrepiece is a hunk of granite brought from northern Ontario, and around it are arranged a variety of neat little gardens, displaying every native Ontario habitat from forest to wetlands

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Who Owns the Future?
by Jaron Lanier
Published 6 May 2013

“Social networks” like Facebook were brought into existence in part to recapture those kinds of connections that were jettisoned when they need not have been, when the Web was born. Why Isn’t Ted Better Known? Xanadu wasn’t merely a technical project; it was a social experiment of its time. The most hip thing in the Bay Area from the 1960s to sometime in the 1980s was to form a commune or even a cult. I remember one, for instance, in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where hippie culture hatched, that fashioned itself the “Free Print Shop.” They’d print lovely posters for “movement” events in the spectral, inebriated, neo-Victorian visual style of the time. (How bizarre it was to hear someone recommended as being “part of the movement.” This honorary title meant nothing beyond aesthetic sympathy, but there was infantile gravity in the intonation of the word movement, as though our conspiracies were consequential.

Northern California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

San Francisco General Hopsital (Zuckerberg San Franciso General Hospital and Trauma Center; GOOGLE MAP ; %emergency 415-206-8111, main hospital 415-206-8000; www.sfdph.org; 1001 Potrero Ave; h24hr; g9, 10, 33, 48) Best for serious trauma. Provides care to uninsured patients, including psychiatric care; no documentation required beyond ID. University of California San Francisco Medical Center ( GOOGLE MAP ; %415-476-1000; www.ucsfhealth.org; 505 Parnassus Ave; h24hr; g6, 7, 43, mN) ER at leading university hospital. Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic (HealthRIGHT 360; GOOGLE MAP ; %415-746-1950; www.healthright360.org; 558 Clayton St; hby appointment 8:45am-noon & 1-5pm; g6, 7, 33, 37, 43, mN) Provides substance abuse and mental health services by appointment. San Francisco City Clinic ( GOOGLE MAP ; %415-487-5500; www.sfcityclinic.org; 356 7th St; h8am-4pm Mon, Wed & Fri, 1-6pm Tue, 1-4pm Thu) Low-cost treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including emergency contraception and post-exposure prevention (PEP) for HIV.

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A seething, psychedelic mess of musical exploration, sexual liberation and mind-altering expression, it was a sound presented in vivid Technicolor by groups such as Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Santana. This movement was cranked up to 11 during 1967, when the Summer of Love brought 10,000 pilgrims to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Golden Gate Park’s ‘Human Be-In’ in January of that year kicked things off with a free-form festival of good vibes, LSD and live music. At the end of the '60s, Sly and the Family Stone – a funky, interracial group lead by the so-called ‘Black Prince of Woodstock’, Sly Stone – perfectly captured the all-embracing, edgy, revolutionary spirit of the times with their hit ‘I Want to Take You Higher.’

The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking
by Laurel Robertson , Carol Flinders and Bronwen Godfrey
Published 2 Jan 1984

Knead it well, let the dough rise in any convenient container, grease the coffee can, put in the dough, and let it rise again. Bake, of course, in the can. Coffee-can bread had become famous two summers before, when Walter and others turned out hundreds of loaves a week from the basement of a church in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, using donated flour to provide what was sometimes the only sustenance for many of the ‘flower children’ that received it. A few years later, during the Poor People’s March on Washington, the coffee cans reappeared in Resurrection City, where the bread came off the back of Walter’s pickup truck, hot from a gas oven converted to propane.

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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
by Thomas Rid
Published 27 Jun 2016

At academic crypto conferences, rumors were making the rounds that the NSA had already raided the New York Public Library and reclassified documents that used to be public, and that in 1983 they had already removed Friedman’s personal correspondence from public access. An early court case seemed to affirm the government’s right to snatch any given document. “If they could do a black-bag job on everyone who had it,” Gilmore recalled in a café in Haight-Ashbury, “then they could classify anything.”48 By now the anarchists were beginning to understand what the NSA feared. The c-punks had seen that the spooks at Fort Meade could tweak the law and play politics. But the activists also knew the secret agency hated publicity. So Gilmore started calling some of the technology reporters he knew through the cypherpunks list.

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In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India
by Edward Luce
Published 23 Aug 2006

Bathed in primary colors and adorned by retro-posters of early Bollywood films, the cheerful walls of Alok’s company offices radiate the signature décor of India’s new economy. Situated in midtown Mumbai in a district that was formerly dominated by textile mills, most of which went bankrupt in the 1980s, Alok’s surroundings reminded me of Clerkenwell in London, or Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. The décor is what some people call postmodern. I spent a lot of time talking to Alok and some of his sixty employees at C2W.com—contest-to-win.com—an outfit that markets brands through the Internet, mobile phones, interactive TV shows, and other new technology. Alok’s principal clients are global multinationals that are desperate for converts among India’s rising class of spenders.

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Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
by Satyajit Das
Published 15 Nov 2006

At a personal level, Citron behaved oddly. He loved the colour turquoise: he dressed in turquoise, favouring paisley ties in the same colour. He had turquoise jewellery and a turquoise convertible Chrysler. The behaviour was perhaps not remarkable in California, at least from any survivor of the Haight-Ashbury period of the 1960s. The subsequent court proceedings revealed the details of Citron’s investment process. It transpired that he relied on the advice of a psychic and a mail order astrologer for financial guidance. Citron admitted to using a $4.50 star chart prepared by an Indianapolis astrologer to help him manage Orange County’s money.

Canary Islands Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

These are but a sample of more than 250 different varieties quietly maturing in Tonique’s cellars. The food is very good and worth the wait for a table (it’s popular for lunch) and a plate of pimientos del piquillo rellenos de merluza (small peppers stuffed with hake). La Folie CAFE € (Calle Santo Domingo 10; snacks €2.50-6) This fabulous place has a real ’60s Haight-Ashbury feel with its cavernous interior, leopard-skin upholstery, murals and idiosyncratic clutter. It’s a good place to seek out whether for breakfast, savoury crêpes or mojitos. BEST BEACHES »Playa de las Teresitas (San Andres) The beach escape of choice for residents of Santa Cruz. Offers soft Saharan sand, safe bathing, good seafood restaurants nearby and a totally Spanish vibe. »Porís de Abona Our favourite east-coast beach; pretty, pocket-sized black-sand beach in a working fishing village.

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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy
Published 10 Nov 2009

Even when our capacity for love moves us to make sacrifices for others, we each do so in our own way and for our own reasons. If we pretend otherwise, we have no hope of ever getting to grips with the Tragedy of the Commons. 12. HIDDEN INFORMATION AND THE MARKET FOR LEMONS In the late summer of 1966, significant things were happening in California’s Bay Area. In Haight-Ashbury, a run-down neighborhood of cheap apartments and vacant buildings just east of Golden Gate State Park, a vibrant subculture was developing around marijuana, LSD, and the psychedelic music of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, two local bands; in Candlestick Park, out near the airport, which was then home to the San Francisco Giants football team, the Beatles played what turned out to be their final concert before paying fans; across the water in Oakland, Bobby Seale and Huey P.

Howard Rheingold
by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993)
Published 26 Apr 2012

A bunch of intelligent misfits have found each other, and now 26-04-2012 21:42 howard rheingold's | the virtual community 3 de 27 http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/2.html you're having a high old time." The shock of recognition that came with that statement seemed to resolve the matter between us. The WELL is rooted in the San Francisco Bay area and in two separate cultural revolutions that took place there in past decades. The Whole Earth Catalog originally emerged from the Haight-Ashbury counterculture as Stewart Brand's way of providing access to tools and ideas to all the communards who were exploring alternate ways of life in the forests of Mendocino or the high deserts outside Santa Fe. The Whole Earth Catalogs and the magazines they spawned--Co-Evolution Quarterly and its successor, Whole Earth Review--seem to have outlived the counterculture itself, since the magazine and catalogs still exist after twenty-five years.

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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin
Published 14 Sep 2021

There were a handful of prominent Silicon Valley leaders interested in politics at the time, but most of them had been affiliated with Bush’s opponent, Al Gore, and his centrist, technocratic vision of Democratic Party politics. The rest of Silicon Valley had tended to evince a brand of libertarianism that, at least publicly, expressed no politics at all. This was the techno-futurism of Wired magazine—a fusion of the personal freedom of Summer of Love‒era Haight-Ashbury and the don’t-tread-on-me spirit that had defined Californian politics since the days of David Starr Jordan. Thiel, then, was an outlier, in both his renewed vigor for politics and his separation from the squishy “Atari Democrats” like Gore. He’d been immersing himself in neoconservative thinking, reading Carl Schmitt, the conservative philosopher (and Nazi legal scholar) who is sometimes credited with inspiring the expansion of executive powers under George W.

Stacy Mitchell
by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)

Before, said neighborhood activist Ed Bedard, who proposed the policy, the chains would go to elaborate lengths to set up without people knowing. “The scaƒolding comes down and suddenly there’s a Walgreens,” he explained. The law applies only to neighborhood districts; the downtown and touristy Fisherman’s Wharf are exempt.45 At the request of some neighborhoods, including North Beach and Haight-Ashbury, the city has banned formula businesses entirely from their commercial areas. “Everybody from the merchants organizations to the residents associations loved the individual character of North Beach and wanted to preserve it,” said supervisor Aaron Peskin, who represents the district. “It helps sustain local businesses and keeps the money in the community.”

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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet
Published 13 Feb 2018

A Time to Live opens with images of rosy-cheeked Bulgarian children hunkered down on the pavement, chalking a suspiciously accomplished picture of a Vietnamese mother breast-feeding her baby. We then cut to an immense montage of the world’s anti-imperialist youth, marching through the streets of Sofia and looking optimistically into a headwind. (All except the U.S. delegation, who look like they’ve come for a potluck picnic in Haight-Ashbury.) Fighters from Hanoi parade with bouquets of red roses to chants of “Viet-nam! Viet-nam!” Crowds make way for a fleet of miniature tractors donated to North Vietnam from the citizens of the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. Delegates from Mozambique and Algeria parade in national costume. After the pageant, the film takes us to a meeting hall draped with a red banner declaring “Vietnam must win” in six languages.

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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Published 19 Jan 2021

Eigg’s demographic mix changed profoundly too, from an originally Gaelic-speaking, Hebridean near monoculture to an omnium-gatherum of newcomers from well beyond, including a small number of progressively minded incomers from—quelle horreur!—the English Midlands. There was expected to be a consequent clash between Gael and Sassenach, between progressivism and conservatism, between youth and retiree. The press waited, hoping for news. A German magazine was among the first, writing an unkind essay on the theme of Haight-Ashbury meets the Hebrides. The incoming community members—dismissively caricatured as Green Party–supporting, bearded, ponytailed, unwashed, sandal-wearing, bohemian, and decidedly noncorporate types, people who fled the cities and its competitiveness for a more sustainable and cooperative life—were to the German readers members of a tribe of classically disaffected misfits, the kind of people who had once probably lived in Tibet—as if—and had crude signs hand-painted on their rusting minivans.

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Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
Published 1 Jun 1984

The most passionate LSD advocates of yesterday began to admit that "acid was a bad scene" and various underground newspapers began warning followers against getting too involved with "tripsters." A mock funeral was held in San Francisco to "bury" the hippie subcult, and its favored locations, Haight-Ashbury and the East Village turned into tourist meccas as the original movement writhed and disintegrated, forming new and odder, but smaller and weaker subcults and minitribes. Then, as though to start the process all over again, yet another subcult, the "skinheads," surfaced. Skinheads had their own characteristic outfits—suspenders, boots, short haircuts—and an unsettling predilection for violence.

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Track Changes
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Published 1 May 2016

“One was computers and the other was HIV.”57 The fullest account of Bad Sector’s activities comes to us from the journalist Ben Fong-Torres, also a member, who often wrote for Rolling Stone. In 1985 he contributed an article about the group to Profiles, a handsome, well-appointed organ published by Kaypro itself.58 In some detail Fong-Torres recounts the goings-on at a typical monthly meeting, held in this instance in the living room of Ray Barnes’s Haight-Ashbury apartment and attended by some eighteen people; three of them, he notes, were women, including Tan. “People had questions; invariably, others had answers,” Fong-Torres wrote. “Or at least clues.”59 The origin of the group’s colorful name also soon became manifest: “One person got a ‘bad sector’ message when he formatted a disk.

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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle
Published 14 Oct 2022

IBM, fancying itself the most modern and most innovative of American corporations, now stood accused of undermining individuality through regimentation of the most tyrannical sort.59 As with those who were leading the insurgency in the Republican Party, much of the earliest noise surrounding the New Left came out of the West, and especially California, the Bay Area in particular. Berkeley, of course, was an institution critical to the incubation of the New Left; so was Haight-Ashbury, the district of San Francisco in which hippie culture was born and flourished. California, for the left as well as for the right, was a place for dreaming, for shedding past identities, and for reinvention.60 Given that similar sentiments were percolating in districts both of GOP rebellion, soon to be styled the New Right, and of New Left insurgency, it is fair to ask: Was there any cross-pollination or coordination between the two groups?

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Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Published 9 Mar 2000

From the standpoint of the tradi- tional ‘‘political’’ segments ofthe U.S. movements ofthe 1960s, the various forms of cultural experimentation that blossomed with a vengeance during that period all appeared as a kind ofdistraction from the ‘‘real’’ political and economic struggles, but what they failed to see was that the ‘‘merely cultural’’ experimentation had very profound political and economic effects. ‘‘Dropping out’’ was really a poor conception ofwhat was going on in Haight-Ashbury and across the United States in the 1960s. The two essential operations were the refusal of the disciplin- ary regime and the experimentation with new forms of productivity. The refusal appeared in a wide variety of guises and proliferated in thousands ofdaily practices. It was the college student who experimented with LSD instead oflooking for a job; it was the young woman who refused to get married and make a family; it was the ‘‘shiftless’’ African-American worker who moved on ‘‘CP’’ (colored people’s) time, refusing work in every way possible.23 The youth who refused the deadening repetition of the factory-society invented new forms ofmobility and flexibility, new styles ofliving.

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The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug
by Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer
Published 5 Dec 2000

When speaking of drugs, of those expressing a preference, the largest number, 27 percent, cited exercise [sic], and the next largest, 25 percent, cited caffeine as their drug of choice.5 Why should caffeine have topped the long list of recreational drugs once popular with this group? For those of the “flower power” generation, now at the height of maturity, whose tastes were jaded by enveloping euphorics and timber-rattling stimulants, common caffeine has reemerged as the drug of choice. No doubt it was forgotten in the wild drug party that started in Haight-Ashbury in the mid- 1960s and eventually made its way around the world and back. To those who binged on methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, LSD, Quaaludes, or any of a long list of agents used for excitement in the wake of Timothy Leary and acid rock, caffeine did not even rise to the level of notice as a psychoactive substance.

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A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney
Published 7 Mar 2017

By the end, there was no doubt America had helped to create a tremendous mess, so given all the moral outrage and the expressions of solidarity, a sustained movement for reconciliation and rebuilding would have been only natural. It never really came, nor did the once-activist Boomers dust off their protest gear and agitate for such. The closest thing Vietnam got to conciliation came from the Nixon White House, not the Haight-Ashbury, and those negotiations stalled before being rendered moot by the war between Vietnam and Cambodia. The point is not to blame the Boomers for the failure to make amends—older generations bear responsibility—but to use Boomer passivity after the war to illuminate the generation’s true motivations during the protest era.* As the threat of the draft abated, so did the Boomers’ furious energy.

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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky
Published 30 Dec 2003

The East Village, a dilapidated section of the Lower East Side, had only recently acquired its name because the once beat Greenwich Village, now the West Village, had become too expensive. The enormously successful Bob Dylan still lived in the West Village. The same thing had happened in San Francisco, where Ferlinghetti remained in the North Beach section that the beats had made too fashionable, while the hippies moved out to the poorer, less central Fillmore and Haight-Ashbury sections. The East Village became so famous for its “hippie” lifestyle that tour buses would stop by the busy shops of St. Mark’s Place—or St. Marx Place, as Abbie Hoffman liked to call it—for tourists to view the hippies. In September 1968, East Village denizens rebelled, organizing their own bus tour to a staid section of Queens, where they questioned people mowing lawns and took photos of people taking photos of them.

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Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
by Leslie Berlin
Published 7 Nov 2017

Herb Boyer, a biochemist at the University of California, San Francisco, was a year younger than Cohen and as ebullient as Cohen was deliberate. “Stan doesn’t tell a lot of jokes,” Boyer once said of his coinventor. “On the other hand, I tell a lot of jokes, and some of them you don’t want to hear about.”19 Boyer had been a regular participant in the antiwar protests in the Haight-Ashbury district just a few blocks from his lab. When he first peered through his microscope and saw evidence that the recombinant DNA process was working, he started to cry.20 Two years earlier, in 1972, Boyer’s lab had isolated an enzyme that could clip apart a strand of DNA.II Once clipped, DNA from another source could be inserted.21 At the time, Boyer had not known if a molecule with its new “recombined” DNA was a lab curiosity, or if, inside a cell, the molecule (or gene(s) in the recombined DNA) would be reproduced intact as the cells divided.

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Fodor's California 2014
by Fodor's
Published 5 Nov 2013

Previous Chapter | Beginning of Chapter | Next Chapter | Table of Contents Previous Chapter | Next Chapter | Table of Contents The People California is as much a state of mind as a state in the union—a kind of perpetual promised land that has represented many things to many people. In the 18th century, Spanish missionaries came seeking converts and gold. In the 19th, miners rushed here to search for gold. And, in the years since, a long line of Dust Bowl farmers, land speculators, Haight-Ashbury hippies, migrant workers, dot-commers, real estate speculators, and would-be actors has come chasing their own dreams. The result is a population that leans toward idealism—without necessarily being as liberal as you might think. (Remember, this is Ronald Reagan’s old stomping ground.) And despite the stereotype of the blue-eyed, blond surfer, California’s population is not homogeneous either.

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Like a slide show of San Franciscan history, you can move from the Haight’s residue of 1960s counterculture to the Castro’s connection to 1970s and ’80s gay life to 1990s gentrification in Noe Valley. Although historic events thrust the Haight and the Castro onto the international stage, both are anything but stagnant—they’re still dynamic areas well worth exploring. Previous Map | Next Map | California Maps Exploring the Haight Haight-Ashbury Intersection. On October 6, 1967, hippies took over the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets to proclaim the “Death of Hip.” If they thought hip was dead then, they’d find absolute confirmation of it today, what with the only tie-dye in sight on the famed corner being Ben & Jerry’s storefront.

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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
by Joshua Foer , Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
Published 19 Sep 2016

California Academy of Sciences Herpetology Department Golden Gate Park · The academy’s 300,000-strong collection of jarred reptile specimens was amassed over 160 years. Viewing is by appointment only. Drawn Stone Golden Gate Park · A huge crack in the ground outside the de Young Museum was put there on purpose by the wry English artist Andy Goldsworthy. Buena Vista Park Tombstones Haight-Ashbury · Broken Gold Rush–era gravestones line the gutters of this park’s paths. Secret Tiled Staircase Inner Sunset · The 163 colorful steps in this staircase form a vibrant mosaic that leads you to a smashing view of the city. Sutro Egyptian Collection Lakeshore · The antiquities housed here include two intact mummies, three mummified heads, and a mummified hand.

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Published 1 Sep 2008

Susie often took Billy to watch Calvin Keys, a local jazz guitar player—so that Billy could learn technique from him, but also to try to straighten Billy out.3 She faced a daunting task in an era when the drug culture of pot and LSD was ubiquitous and Timothy Leary invited America to “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” The youth-led counterculture was rebelling against all forms of authority, everything for which the prior decades had stood. “This ain’t Eisenhower’s America no more,” said one of the hundred thousand hippies milling about San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury that summer, as if that were explanation enough.4 Warren still lived in Eisenhower’s America. He had never suffered from Beatlemania. He wasn’t singing “Kumbaya” or putting up posters saying that war was unhealthy for children and other living things. His state of consciousness remained unaltered.

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Bauer’s “The Convictions of a Long-Distance Investor,” Channels, November 1986, was, “One time we had a dog on the roof, and my son called to him and he jumped. It was so awful—the dog that loves you so much that he jumps off the roof…”—leaving the reader to wonder how the dog got on the roof. 3. Interview with Hallie Smith. 4. “Haight-Ashbury: The Birth of Hip,” CBC Television, March 24, 1968. 5. In 1967, over 2.5 billion shares traded, topping the previous 1966 record by one third. Thomas Mullaney, “Week in Finance: Washington Bullish,” New York Times, December 31, 1967. 6. But insurers looked undervalued and he thought they would get taken over.

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Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
by Iain Gately
Published 30 Jun 2008

Marijuana, it is implied, stimulates the brain in places that alcohol seldom reaches. 68 Easy Rider also features an acid trip. LSD was no longer just a drug for schizophrenics and chronic alcoholics—it had been adopted by hippies as the key to the doors of perception. The headquarters of recreational tripping was San Francisco, the western capital of the Beat empire. Its epicenter, where the hippies gathered, was Haight-Ashbury. Their curious dress and strange behavior drew a host of journalists, including Hunter S. Thompson, who noted their indifference to alcohol: “There are no hippy bars, for instance, and only one restaurant above the level of a diner or lunch counter. This is a reflection of the drug culture, which has no use for booze and regards food as a necessity to be acquired at the least possible expense.”

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
Published 24 Aug 2015

Felsenstein was also fascinated by social critic Ivan Illich’s notion of promoting the use of tools that would facilitate “conviviality”—one of many aspects of social interaction that Felsenstein had always found difficult and confusing. With two fellow programmers named Efrem Lipkin and Mark Szpakowski, he began exploring ways of augmenting the community switchboards that had sprung up in subcultural hot spots like Berkeley and the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. The biggest practical obstacle to this noble undertaking was finding an affordable computer that was sufficiently powerful to do the job. That problem was solved when a programmer at a bustling commune in San Francisco called Project One wangled the long-term lease of an SDS 940 (retail cost: $300,000) from the Transamerica Corporation.

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Frommer's Los Angeles 2010
by Matthew Richard Poole
Published 28 Sep 2009

You pay a little extra for the pristine condition of hard-to-find garments like unusual embroidered sweaters from the 1940s and 1950s, Joan Crawford–style suits from the 1940s, and vintage lingerie, but it ’s worth every penny. 136 S. La Br ea Ave., Los Angeles. & 323/931-1339. Hollywood Wasteland An enormous steel-sculpted facade fr onts this L.A. branch of the B erkeley/Haight-Ashbury hipster hangout, which sells vintage and contemporar y clothes for men and women. You’ll find leathers and denim as well as some classic vintage but mostly funky 1970s garb . This trendy store is packed with color ful polyester halters and bellbottoms from the decade I’d rather forget. 7248 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. & 323/653-3028. www.thewasteland.com. 9 S H O P P I N G A TO Z Los Angeles Fashion District Reminiscent of the New York garment district, but not quite as frenetic, L.A.’s 90-block Fashion District, bordered by 7th, Spring, and San Pedro streets and the S anta Monica Freeway, has doz ens of small shops selling designer and name-brand apparel at heavily discounted prices.

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Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan
Published 25 Sep 2017

Fortune declared him “the fastest richest Texan ever.” Within two years, his paper net worth would top $1.5 billion, making him technology’s first billionaire. The financial enthusiasm of 1968 Wall Street was felt far from Texas and lower Manhattan. Just fifty miles south of both the flower children of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury and the hippies of Berkeley, a valley was being transformed. Here too the people would adopt the language of revolution and disruption, of overthrowing the establishment, but for quite different purposes. The evolution from punch cards to mainframe computers had seen the replacement of mechanical processes with electrons moving through vacuum tubes.

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Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More
by Jason Cochran
Published 5 Feb 2007

Camden Best for: Alternative music, massive street markets and food markets, punks, pubs What you won’t find: Refined company, hotels, upscale restaurants Name a British tune that got under your skin, and chances are it received its first airing in the beer-soaked concert halls of Camden Town. London’s analogue to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District, it was big in the countercultured ’60s and ’70s, but is now powered mostly by its old reputation. The area’s marginpushing markets, which hawk touristy hokum in the former warehouses and stables serving Regent’s Canal, are so thronged with weekend sightseers that the inadequate Tube station only serves one-way traffic on Sunday afternoons.

Americana
by Bhu Srinivasan

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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver
Published 12 Aug 2024

The Traitorous Eight had also helped to establish another Silicon Valley tradition: lack of loyalty to incumbent players. California, from the Gold Rush onward, has always been a place for people who seek their own way. No, the Traitorous Eight were not countercultural figures, even as hippie culture was taking root in other parts of the Bay Area like Berkeley and Haight-Ashbury. But the notion that they were disruptive is not entirely bullshit, and it’s an attitude that holds true today. “Why would someone from Facebook go and create the thing that’s gonna, like—presumably in theory, you’d never know—blow up Google or Facebook?” said Antonio García Martínez, who founded a VC-backed company called AdGrok and later worked at Facebook before writing about it in the book Chaos Monkeys.

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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
Published 1 Jan 2004

Female bonobos pair off to practise so-called GG (genital-genital) rubbing. One female facing another clings with arms and legs to a partner that, standing on both hands and feet, lifts her off the ground. The two females then rub their genital swellings laterally together, emitting grins and squeals that probably reflect orgasmic experiences. The 'Haight-Ashbury' image of free-loving bonobos has led to a piece of wishful thinking among nice people, who perhaps came of age in the 1960s -- or maybe they are of the 'medieval bestiary' school of thought, in which animals exist only to point moral lessons to us. The wishful thinking is that we are more closely related to bonobos than to common chimpanzees.

Coastal California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet

Cafe Flore CAFE Offline map Google map ( 415-621-8579; http://cafeflore.com; 2298 Market St; mains $8-11; 7am-2am; ) Coffee, wi-fi and hot beefy dishes – and the burgers aren’t bad either. THE HAIGHT Better known as the hazy hot spot of the Summer of Love, the Haight has hung onto its tie-dyes, ideals and certain habits – hence the Bound Together Anarchist Book Collective, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic and high density of medical marijuana dispensaries (sorry, dude: prescription required). Fanciful ‘Painted Lady’ Victorian houses surround Alamo Square Park Offline map Google map (Hayes & Scott Sts) and the corner of Haight and Ashbury Sts, where Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead crashed during the Haight’s hippie heyday.

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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by Patricia Schultz
Published 13 May 2007

The spacious guest rooms and suites follow the same aesthetic, with a quiet, restrained elegance. Some rooms offer views of the city skyline, with its 1,815-foot Canadian National (CN) Tower, the world’s tallest freestanding structure. The Four Seasons is in the Yorkville neighborhood, northwest of the city’s modern business district. Once an independent village and later the Haight-Ashbury of the North, Yorkville is now the gentrified home of all things Toronto-chic. The Four Seasons’ main restaurant, Studio Cafe, is a dining institution. Overseen by chef Claudio Rossi, the menu focuses on Italian and Mediterranean dishes made from top-shelf ingredients. The hotel’s La Serre Lounge is Toronto’s number one power bar, where high-end business schmoozing goes well with the Cuban cigars and single-malt scotch.