Haight Ashbury
description: district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
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Frommer's San Francisco 2012
by Matthew Poole, Erika Lenkert and Kristin Luna · 4 Oct 2011
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
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/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
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” at the Jazz Workshop in North Beach. The 1960s: The Haight The torch of freedom had been passed from the Beats and North Beach to Haight-Ashbury and the hippies, but it was a radically different torch. The hippies replaced the Beats’ angst, anarchy, negativism, nihilism, alcohol, and poetry with love, communalism
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-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
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thoroughly entertaining dose of street theater, and while most businesses cater to the gay community, it’s more than welcoming to open-minded straight people. Haight-Ashbury Part trendy, part nostalgic, part funky, the Haight, as it’s most commonly known, was the soul of the psychedelic free-loving 1960s and the
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all tastes. From Haight Street, walk south on Cole Street for a more peaceful and quaint neighborhood experience. The famous legs above Piedmont Boutique in Haight-Ashbury. Richmond & Sunset Districts San Francisco’s suburbs of sorts, these are the city’s largest and most populous neighborhoods, consisting mainly of small homes, shops
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menu and dine family style. Oh, and don’t forget a pitcher of sangria—you’ve earned it. Cha Cha Cha restaurant. 6 Exploring the Haight-Ashbury District ★★★ Ah, the Haight. Birthplace of the Summer of Love and Flower Power, shrine to the Grateful Dead, and the place where America’s nonconformists
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, DC, DISC, MC, V. Bus: 22 or 37. Streetcar: Church St. station (across the street) or F. In room: TV/VCR, fridge, free Wi-Fi. Haight-Ashbury San Francisco’s summers of love are long gone, but open-minded folk who eschew touristy schlock and embrace eccentricity will dig the Haight. Best
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the key ingredients that make Boulevard, 1 Mission St. ( 415/543-6084), the place to celebrate. Or celebrate Latino style with pitchers of sangria at Haight-Ashbury’s Cha Cha Cha, 1801 Haight St. ( 415/386-7670). • Best Decor: Celeb restaurant designer Pat Kuleto spent a week sketching sea life at the
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Market St. (at Sanchez St.). 415/553-6888. www.ilikeikesplace.com. Sandwiches $7–$10. MC, V. Daily 10am–7pm. Metro: F to Sanchez and Market. Haight-Ashbury For a map of restaurants in this section, see the “San Francisco Restaurants” map. Note: The Upper Haight and Lower Haight are two distinct neighborhoods
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. Bus: 6, 7, 66, 71, or 73. Muni Metro: N. Kan Zaman ★ MIDDLE EASTERN An evening dining at Kan Zaman is one of those quintessential Haight-Ashbury experiences that you can’t wait to tell your friends about back in Ohio. As you pass through glass-beaded curtains, you’re led by
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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
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, with lunch, costs $35 per adult, $25 for children 3 to 12. A Harvey Milk Tour is offered Wednesday, at the same cost. On the Haight-Ashbury Flower Power Walking Tour ( 415/863-1621), you explore hippie haunts with Pam and Bruce Brennan (the “Hippy Gourmet”). You’ll revisit the Grateful Dead
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the city: • Marina/Cow Hollow bars attract a yuppie post-collegiate crowd. • The opposite of the Marina/Cow Hollow crowd frequents the Mission District haunts. • Haight-Ashbury caters to eclectic neighborhood cocktailers and beer-lovers. • The Tenderloin, though still dangerous at night (take a taxi), is now a new hot spot for
Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009
3 The northern waterfront and Pacific Heights .................... 81 4 Soma, The Tenderloin, and Civic Center ........................ 99 5 The Mission, The Castro, and south . ........................ 116 6 Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center ...................... 128 7 The Richmond, Golden Gate Park, and The Sunset......... 137 Listings 149 M N O P | C ONTENTS | Contents
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trace gentle crescents through the myriad vineyards. | INTRODUCTION | WHAT TO S E E | W HE N TO GO From the multiple piercings on view in Haight-Ashbury and openly gay atmosphere of the Castro, to the decidedly leftist politics of City Hall, San Francisco exudes an air of liberalism that leads most
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do well to follow their example. Main MUNI & cable-car routes Useful bus routes BASICS | City transportation #5 From the Transbay Terminal, west alongside Haight-Ashbury and Golden Gate Park to the ocean. #7 From the Ferry Terminal (Market St) to the end of Haight Street and to Golden Gate Park
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can find skateboarders doing their thing in front of the Ferry Building around the various open plazas. Skates on Haight, 1818 Haight St at Stanyan, Haight-Ashbury (t 415/752-8375, wwww.skatesonhaight.com), rents both rollerskates and rollerblades for $6/hr and $24/overnight. Aerial tours Bus tours San Francisco
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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
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3 The northern waterfront and Pacific Heights ....................... 81 4 Soma, The Tenderloin, and Civic Center ............................. 99 5 The Mission, The Castro, and south . ................................ 116 6 Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center ......................... 128 7 The Richmond, Golden Gate Park, and The Sunset.......... 137 48 D ense with history and humanity, DOWNTOWN SAN
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Beach was synonymous across America with a wild, subversive lifestyle, an image that soon drove away the original intelligentsia, many of whom ended up in Haight-Ashbury (see box, p.133). Instead, heat-seeking libertines swamped the neighborhood, accompanied by tourists on “Beatnik Tours” that promised sidewalks clogged with goateed, black-
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aight-As hb ury an d w e s t o f C i v i c C e n t e r | Haight-Ashbury The HAIGHT-ASHBURY neighborhood, located just two miles west of Downtown, is synonymous with the hippie movement of the 1960s – which brought the area the notoriety it has
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dunes marked as “Wasteland” on maps. Then came the development of Golden Gate Park, spearheaded by forward-thinking city supervisor Frank McCoppin; what’s now Haight-Ashbury was earmarked to form part of the park extension. In the end, though (thanks to characteristic San Franciscan bureaucracy), only the Panhandle, a small park
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a rebellious, counterculture scene that took lasting root (see box, p.133). The Upper Haight 130 A convenient place to begin exploring the chunk of Haight-Ashbury closest to Golden Gate Park (also known as the Upper Haight) is craggy Buena Vista Park. This heavily wooded greenspace marks the unofficial divide between
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living outside the law, despite their opposing ideals. On the corner of Haight and Clayton streets stands one of the undisputed treasures of the 1960s: Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic. Providing free, noquestions-asked healthcare since drug-related illnesses surfaced in the area almost forty years ago, it has been used as a
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to be true hipsters. The Beats belittled them as junior-grade “hippies,” and the name stuck. The post-Beat bohemia that began to develop in Haight-Ashbury was a small affair at first. Certainly drugs played a role, but the embracing of Eastern religion and philosophy, together with a marked anti-establishment
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busy little intersection had attracted no fewer than 75,000 transitory residents in its short life as the focus of alternative culture. The mood in Haight-Ashbury quickly curdled, however. Some soldiers returning from Vietnam brought with them newly acquired heroin habits and introduced the drug into local hippie culture. In
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com. Friendly B&B close to Alamo Square, housed in an Italianate mansion from 1885. The Grove is chic and | Hotels, motels, and B&Bs Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center understated, if a little flouncy, and all fifteen rooms have private bath, TV, and phone. The knowledgeable owners – big
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, is said to still make periodic, supernatural appearances in room #410. $95. The Red Victorian Bed, Breakfast and Art 1665 Haight St at Cole, Haight-Ashbury t415/8641978, wwww.redvic.com. Quirky B&B and Peace Center, owned by Sami Sunchild and decorated with her ethnic arts. Rooms vary from simple
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so be prepared to chat with your neighbors while you eat. Private bath $149, shared bath $129. Stanyan Park Hotel 750 Stanyan St at Waller, Haight-Ashbury t 415/751-1000, wwww .stanyanpark.com. Overlooking Golden Gate Park, this small hotel has 35 sumptuous rooms that are incongruous in its counterculture neighborhood
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like al pastor (rotisserie-grilled pork) and, for the especially adventurous, lengua (tongue) and sesos (brain). Cash only. 197 South Asian e ati n g | Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center Dosa 995 Valencia St between 20th and 21st, Mission t 415/642-3672. Casually stylish Dosa’s namesake crepe-like
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(including longtime favorites Jardinière and Zuni), as well as one of San Francisco’s top pizza destinations, the Western Addition’s Little Star Pizza. African | Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center American Blue Jay Cafe 919 Divisadero St at McAllister, Western Addition t 415/447-6066. Neighborhood diner serving fairly priced
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role, and the vegetarian choices – including sandwiches built around smoked gouda and brie – are especially creative. There’s also a choice of smoothies. Lunch only. | Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center Pan-Asian served in a variety of broths. The garlic beef and shiitake mushroom dish is also a good bet
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stores. Otherwise, the pick of the local microbrewpubs are: Beach Chalet, Sunset. San Francisco Brewing Company Gordon Biersch, SoMa, see p.215. Magnolia Gastropub & Brewery, Haight-Ashbury, see p.219. San Francisco Brewing Company, North Beach, see p.213. Speakeasy Ales & Lagers, Hunters Point, see p.218. Thirsty Bear, SoMa. shuttered for
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The schedule of local and touring bands (usually Fri at 8pm) is an equally pleasant surprise. $10–15. Club Deluxe 1511 Haight St at Ashbury, Haight-Ashbury t 415/552-6949, wwww .swedishwrench.com/deluxe/club_deluxe.htm. This 1949 Art Deco nightclub hosts popular jazz jam sessions (Sun & Tues) as well
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bookstores tend to open every day, roughly 10am–8pm, though City Lights is open daily until midnight. General The Booksmith 1644 Haight St at Cole, Haight-Ashbury t415/863-8688. Good general bookstore stocking mainstream as well as countercultural titles: notable for its high-profile author events. Call the store for the
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and shoes. Cow Hollow Union Street, between Fillmore and Gough. Sweet, if rather conservative, boutiques (mostly for women), shoe stores, and cute homeware shops. The Haight-Ashbury Haight Street, between Stanyan and Masonic. Clothing, especially vintage and secondhand. Hayes Valley Hayes Street, between Franklin and Laguna. Trendy but upscale, with edgy boutiques
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bookstore. Strong on history and anything Zen, whether religious memoirs or New Agey self-help volumes. Forever After Books 1475 Haight St at Ashbury, Haight-Ashbury t 415/431-8299. The windows of this store are blocked by the piles of paperbacks that have gradually grown up there for lack of
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fiction, TV tie-in books, and graphic novels, plus a few high-end trinkets. Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore 1369 Haight St at Central Ave, Haight-Ashbury t 415/431-8355. Store specializing in radical and progressive publications, as well as anarchist posters and everything left of left-wing. A. Cavalli & Co
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Square t415/781-2323. Stretchy, sexy clothes for the superskinny, as well as pertly tailored suits. Behind the Post Office 1510 Haight St at Ashbury, Haight-Ashbury t415/861-2507. Smallish, low-key boutique, stocking designer basics by Seven, Development, and others: there’s an especially wide range of cool T-shirts
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other outdoors enthusiasts. Prices are fair, and many products have more of a fashion sensibility than other sportswear stores. True 1415 Haight St at Ashbury, Haight-Ashbury t 415/626-2882. Urban clothing from Enyce sits alongside a strong selection of classic sneakers like Nike Dunks, plus watches by Dixon at this
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-minded: great for ironic, irreverent T-shirts and offbeat accessories. Noted, too, for its cheap and kitschy homewares. Villains 1672 Haight St at Cole, Haight-Ashbury t 415/626-5939. Youthful, fun clothing from labels like Ben Sherman, Penguin, and Puma: not cheap, but a few bargains across the road in
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affordable dresses by the likes of Diane von Furstenberg and very feminine separates by lesser-known designers. Kweejibo Clothing Co. 1580 Haight St at Clayton, Haight-Ashbury t 415/552-3555. Laconic, ironic retro shirts for men in two fits (boxy or tailored) and dozens of fabrics. Named after an obscure reference
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and wider renown. The delightful staff will help you find what you need. Vintage and thrift Aardvark’s Odd Ark 1501 Haight St at Ashbury, Haight-Ashbury t415/621-3141. HaightAshbury outpost of this California thrift-store chain: expect plenty of glitz, glam, and dayglo colors, as well as a wide
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. As secondhand clothing stores go, this one is expensive, but has a superior collection of stylish clothing. Buffalo Exchange 1555 Haight St at Clayton, Haight-Ashbury t415/431-7733. Cheap and occasionally tatty, but if you’ve got the patience to search through the piles of clothing, you may turn up
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vintage store stocks high-grade secondhand clothing alongside a few brand-new retro-inspired pieces, mostly by local designers. Wasteland 1660 Haight St at Belvedere, Haight-Ashbury t 415/863-3150. Smart, high-end vintage selection, sorted by style and color. You’ll pay for the ease of browsing, but it
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salsa and Central American sounds in this Mission outlet. | Music Secondhand and specialty s hopp i n g Amoeba Records 1855 Haight St at Stanyan, Haight-Ashbury t415/8311200, w www.amoeba.com. This big sister to Berkeley’s renowned emporium (see p.324) is one of the largest used-music
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vinyl (both new and used, rock and jazz) but the stock is well chosen and not picked over. Recycled Records 1377 Haight St at Masonic, Haight-Ashbury t415/626-4075. Good allaround record store, with a decent selection of music publications, American and imported. Ritmo Latino 2401 Mission St at 20th,
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Taxidermy central. Mordantly arranged insects, cute (dead) furry fauna, and vintage photos, posters, and succulent plants. Revival of the Fittest 1701 Haight St at Cole, Haight-Ashbury t415/751-8857. A smart selection of retro gifts, including sunglasses and wacky greeting cards. The Ribbonerie 191 Potrero Ave at Utah, Potrero Hill t415
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a highly unusal selection of new-age books, Santeria items, tarot cards, oils and other potent potions. Mom’s Bodyshop 1408 Haight St at Masonic, Haight-Ashbury t 415/864-MOMS. Tattoos for those who want to go home with a permanent souvenir. Large selection of Chinese, Celtic, and Tibetan scripts.
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of dance under the sun: bharatanatyam to hula, ballet folklorico to flamenco, Chinese-dragon dance to belly dance, odissi to hip-hop. Tickets $22–44. Haight-Ashbury Street Fair (early June; t 415/863-3489, wwww.haightashburystreet fair.org) Tackily modern, this weekend-long schlockfest offers yet another chance to pick up
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Other, less scientific, research was also being done by a variety of people, many of whom, from around 1965 onward, began to settle in the Haight-Ashbury district west of the city center, living communally in huge low-rent Victorian houses in which they could take acid and “trip” in safe, controlled
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endured in the late 1960s, taking in the mysterious deaths and rattling around her Pacific Heights home. Hokey but great trashy fun. Charles Perry The Haight-Ashbury. Curiously distant but detailed account of the Haight during the Flower Power years, written by an editor of Rolling Stone. Rand Richards Historic San Francisco
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Ken McGoogan Kerouac’s Ghost. Beat homage in which the author raises Kerouac from the dead and sticks him in the 1970s to write about Haight-Ashbury and play mentor to a struggling FrenchCanadian writer. Seth Morgan Homeboy. Novel charting the sleazy San Francisco experiences of the former junkie boyfriend of Janis
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Street..................... 127 49ers football stadium.... 127 A aboriginal peoples......... 391 accommodation i n de x | 432 airport hotels..................... 164 Berkeley............................ 303 Downtown and Chinatown . ..................................... 154 Haight-Ashbury and west of Civic Center............... 163 hostels............................... 153 Marin County.................... 349 Mission and the Castro ... 162 Napa Valley....................... 370 North Beach and the hills................................. 158
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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
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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
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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
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe · 1 Jan 1968 · 224pp · 91,918 words
their breasts enlarged with injections of silicone emulsion. The action—meaning the hip cliques that set the original tone—the action was all over in Haight-Ashbury. Pretty soon all the bellwethers of a successful bohemia would be there, too, the cars going through, bumper to bumper, with everbody rubber-necking, the
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buses going through "and here ... Home of the Hippies... there's one there," and the queers and spade hookers and bookstores and boutiques. Everything was Haight-Ashbury and the acid heads. But it was not just North Beach that was dying. The whole old-style hip life—jazz, coffee houses, civil rights
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give his talk to The Youth—and so much the better. In any case, Kesey was coming out. This script was not very popular in Haight-Ashbury, however. I soon found out that the head life in San Francisco was already such a big thing that Kesey's return and his acid
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. Thousands of kids were moving into San Francisco for a life based on LSD and the psychedelic thing. Thing was the major abstract word in Haight-Ashbury. It could mean anything, isms, life styles, habits, leanings, causes, sexual organs; thing and freak; freak referred to styles and obsessions, as in "Stewart Brand
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of weeks before, the heads had held their first big "be-in" in Golden Gate Park, at the foot of the hill leading up into Haight-Ashbury, in mock observance of the day LSD became illegal in California. This was a gathering of all the tribes, all the communal groups. All the
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... significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings. And the vibrations. There is no end of vibrations. Sometime after that I was up in Haight-Ashbury with some kid, not a Prankster, a kid from another communal group, and the kid was trying to open an old secrétaire, the kind that
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there go along with that, because that's all they know. "When you're running, you're playing their game, too. I was up in Haight-Ashbury and I heard something hit the sidewalk behind me and it was a kid had fallen out the window. A lot of people rushed up
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features and a couple of eyes burning with truth oil. He says his name is Gary Goldhill and he wants to interview Kesey for the Haight-Ashbury newspaper The Oracle, and when could he do that—but right away it is obvious that he has something to get off his chest that
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up long words into syllables, psy-che-delic move-ment—"and they want to know what you mean. A very beautiful thing is happening in Haight-Ashbury, Ken. A lot of people are opening the doors in their minds for the first time, but people like you have to help them. There
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as a sacrament," Kesey says. "You've been away for almost a year, Ken," Goldhill says. "You may not know what's been happening in Haight-Ashbury. It's growing, Ken, and thousands of people have found something very beautiful, and they're very open and loving, but the fear and the
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was lacking. Nevertheless, the age of bullshit was over. They were on the bus for good. The next year Sawyer spent a month living in Haight-Ashbury, to explore the possibilities of a new kind of ministry for the young people; on the bus, as it were. OH, THE VI-BRA-TIONS
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notion that this had been an LSD experience without the LSD. Nobody in the hip world of San Francisco had any such delusion, and the Haight-Ashbury era began that weekend. The Trips Festival changed many things. But as soon as the whirlpool died down, Kesey was right back where he started
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wacked out and he is hardly visible ... in his Prankster suit of flaming Orion paranoia . . . Nevertheless! 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
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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
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have to do is walk up into the Haight-Ashbury—and Kesey chances a run through ... Hell, in Haight-Ashbury a muscular guy in cowboy boots and a cowboy hat—he ... looks healthy. The cops are busy trying to figure out
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by heart, and they knew about LSD, but this thing that was going on . . . The heads could con the cops blind and it was wild. Haight-Ashbury had always been a brave little tenement district up the hill from the Panhandle entrance to Golden Gate Park, with whites and Negroes living next
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door in peace. Rents had been going up in North Beach. A lot of young couples with bohemian enthusiasms had been moving to Haight-Ashbury. Some of the old beats had moved in. They hung around a place called the Blue Unicorn. But the Trips Festival of eight months before
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had taken root and sprung up into people living the Tests like a whole life style. The Grateful Dead had moved into a house in Haight-Ashbury, and it wasn't just the old communal living where everybody piled into some place. They lived in Prankster-style, as a group with a
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thing you do at that stage!—that goofing off the radio thing— You know? And it's beautiful, the kids beginning to pour in to Haight-Ashbury ... for The Life ... It's a carnival! the Garden of Eden! one big urban La Honda scene! right out in the open! with all things
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out of the hip scene, except for a couple of pushers like Superspade and a couple of characters like Gaylord and Heavy. The explanation around Haight-Ashbury is that Negroes don't take to LSD. The big thing with spades on the hip scene has always been the quality known as cool
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don't get much of a kick out of the nostalgia for the mud that all the white middle-class kids who are coming to Haight-Ashbury like, piling into pads and living freaking basic, you understand, on greasy mattresses on the floor that the filthiest spade walkup in Fillmore wouldn't
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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
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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
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Emporium shopping bag beside him. "Hi, J———!" 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
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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
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't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go. Right now there are two ways it can go in Haight-Ashbury. One is the Buddhist direction, the Leary thing. There are good heads like Michael Bowen and Gary Goldhill who want to start the League for
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one becomes nothing... but a vessel of the All... the All-one ... ... as against the Kesey direction, which has become the prevailing life style of Haight-Ashbury . . . beyond catastrophe . . . like, picking up on anything that works and moves, every hot wire, every tube, ray, volt, decibel, beam, floodlight and combustion of American
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Rod, Hagen, Page, Doris Delay, Zonker, Black Maria ... ... and all at once it dawns, the main truth, spreading over the jungle drums all over the Haight-Ashbury: Kesey himself is back, too ::::: The Man :::: SUCH WAS THE BACKGROUND OF THE UNDERGROUND SUMMIT meeting between Kesey and Owsley. It was as crazy a
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ginger-corduroy pants and the Guadalajara red Prankster boots—and he was in a chuckling, giggling mood. Standing around, along with Margot, were various Pranksters, Haight-Ashbury heads, San Francisco State heads, Berkeley heads, and two or three Hell's Angels, including Terry the Tramp. Kesey presents his theory of going "beyond
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a magenta sash across his chest and a coin with the Queen's likeness upon each eyelid. In their heart of hearts, the heads of Haight-Ashbury could never stretch their fantasy as far out as the Hell's Angels. Overtly, publicly, they included them in—suddenly, they were the Raw Vital
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and red Guadalajara boots; tells the students why he wants to move beyond writing to more ... electric forms... then vanishes, that damned Pimpernel. Then the Haight-Ashbury heads held the first big "be-in," the Love Festival on October 7, on the occasion of the California law against LSD going into effect
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was that Grimsby would tape an interview with Kesey in a hideaway in the Portrero section of San Francisco, which was far away from both Haight-Ashbury and North Beach, and then put it on the air a couple of days later, October 20, a Friday. This fantasy came off like a
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other hand, if he just stares back Orientally as the current fantasy of "beyond acid" is put forth, he looks like a cop-out in Haight-Ashbury ... All those good-loving heads... they've been having quite a time for themselves... a summer of euphoria, the millennium, in fact, LSD and hundreds
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mimeograph machines and they're all cranking away like mad and fuming over each other's mistranslations of the Message . . . Not that the heads in Haight-Ashbury are wrangling with each other yet, but what do they do about Kesey? Just sit back and let him and the Pranksters do their thing
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breaks up in a covey of Flag People bobbing off the bus... Never trust a Prankster! ... Shit! ... That shakes them up all over again in Haight-Ashbury, there's no getting around that. A whole new inflammation of paranoia. The lunger heads are slithering up and down the store fronts on Haight
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story. Instead he's going to pull a monster prank that will wreck the psychedelic movement once and for all... Well, the acid heads in Haight-Ashbury are like a tribe in one respect, anyway, I can see that. It's all jungle drums and gossip with them, they love it, they
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was long gone, wailing off somewhere else. Then the big sign Acid Test Graduation went up on the bus, and the bus went wheeling through Haight-Ashbury and downtown San Francisco and North Beach and Berkeley advertising the world's biggest convocation of all the heads. Pranksters flapping from every portal. George
Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco
by Erika Lenkert · 15 Mar 2003 · 188pp · 57,229 words
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
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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
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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
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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
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. 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
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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
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. Oak St. 10 6 7 9 . ve 0 . W Central Ave. 1 Haight and Kezar Stadium Stanyan streets 2 Goodwill Store 3 The Booksmith 4 Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic 5 Ashbury Tobacco Center Golden Gate Park Panhandle 0 0.1 km Buena Vista Park 8 0.1 mi Lyon St. Vi
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s ta A Bu en a Fell St. Haight-Ashbury Masonic Ave. Clayton St. 129 130 • Memorable Walks in San Francisco There are certain other things you can count on during a walk through the
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the: 2. Goodwill Store, at 1700 Haight. When it was initially under construction in the early 1990s, it was slated to A Historical Flashback Through Haight-Ashbury • 131 be a Walgreens. But when the company paid no heed to public protest against the national chain opening on a sacred countercultural street, the
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dead. Continue east on Haight to 1664 Haight St., home of: 3. The Booksmith, the neighborhood’s best bookshop, with a few great reflections on Haight-Ashbury. For a quick overview, if the book is in stock, buy or flip through The Summer of Love, Gene Anthony’s photo and text documentary
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about “Haight-Ashbury at its highest.” This place is definitely a trip, in more ways than one. Follow Haight farther, cross Clayton Street, and at the northeast corner
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, at 558–560 Clayton St., is the: 4. Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, which came into existence in 1967 in response to the community’s obvious need for it. At the beginning, a substantial number
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the private home of romance novelist Danielle Steel), this one was finished in 1887. It was once a B&B, with A Historical Flashback Through Haight-Ashbury • 133 such notable boarders as Jack London and Ambrose Bierce. Today, however, it’s a private home. When you reach Haight again, take a left
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about to come upon two great places to grab a bite. Turn left and follow Haight to the corner of Shrader: A Historical Flashback Through Haight-Ashbury • 135 began headlining in local counterculture strongholds such as the late Bill Graham’s Fillmore Theater. From June 1966 to the end of 1967, the
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and acid. The Grateful Dead played together for nearly 30 years; if you ever caught one of their concerts, you got a small glimpse of Haight-Ashbury in 1967. Today, more than 7 years after Jerry’s death, Dead memorabilia and recordings are still bestsellers in the small shops throughout the neighborhood
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, with lunch, costs $40 for adults, $35 for seniors 62 and over; the cost is flexible for children depending on their age. HAIGHT-ASHBURY Nostalgic for the 1960s? Then the Haight-Ashbury Walking Tour is for you. The 21⁄ 2-hour tour revisits old hippie haunts such as The Grateful Dead’s crash pad
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shops, as well as the latest gossip about this tie-dyed cradle of hippie culture. The walking tour, operated by Pam and Bruce Brennan (longtime Haight-Ashbury residents who also run the Herb’n Inn on Ashbury St.), begins at 9:30am Tuesday and Saturday. The cost is $15 per person, but
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, 64 Guided walking tours, 169–173 Gump brothers, 18 Gump’s, 17 Haas-Lilienthal House Museum, 100 Haight-Ashbury, 6, 127–135, 170–171 history of, 127–128 map of, 129 Walking Tour, 170–171 Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, 131 Haight St. no. 1398, 132 northeast corner of and Stanyan St. and, 130
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco
by Matthew Richard Poole · 17 Mar 2006 · 255pp · 90,456 words
(all of which are still in business). In the 1960s the torch of freedom passed from the Beats and North Beach to the hippies and Haight-Ashbury, but it was a radically different torch. The hippies replaced the Beats’ angst, jazz, and poetry with love, communalism, rock music, and a back-to
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. Duboce Park St. Scott St. 10 Waller St. Noe Divisadero St. 0.25 km Castro St. N 0 Hayes St. Fell St. Oak St. To Haight-Ashbury (see inset at right) Page St. Haight St. 1/4 mi 0 9 HAYES VALLEY Ivy St. h ug Go To the Sunset District Fulton
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. St. Cole 3rd 14 80 Golden Gate Ave. t. McAllister St. St. S South Park ion Fulton St. t iss M CIVIC CENTER arke St. Haight-Ashbury rd S O M A M a w Fulton St. Conserva Ho St. Grove St. m o McLaren ls Hayes St. St. Fo n Lodge
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desserts. The staff is knowledgeable but never stuffy. A feast from the Middle East... An evening dining at Kan Zaman is one of those quintessential Haight-Ashbury experiences that you can’t wait to tell your friends about back home. As you pass through glass-beaded curtains, the hostess leads you to
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. Hippie holdouts... One of the few true hippie cafes left over from the 1960s—it was a crash pad then—is Sacred Grounds Cafe, a Haight-Ashbury classic that will make you want to tie-dye your entire wardrobe. The atmosphere is gentle but not nostalgic. The Mission District’s Cafe La
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bus 33. MC, V. Daily 8am–10pm. $ See Map 5 on p. 76. THE INDEX Kan Zaman (p. 68) UPPER HAIGHT MIDDLE EASTERN A quintessential Haight-Ashbury experience: billowed canopy tents, kneehigh tables, hookah pipe, sensuous belly dancers, and classic Middle Eastern cuisine.... Tel 415/751-9656. 1793 Haight St., at Shrader
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1960s throwback—eclectic furnishings and works by local artists share the room with fine, Victorian-style wood paneling—is still a vital part of the Haight-Ashbury scene.... Tel 415/387-3859. 2095 Hayes St., at Cole St. MUNI bus 21. No credit cards. Daily 7am–10pm. $ See Map 3 on p
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—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
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, 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
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mist-eyed. Williams’s non-dogmatic, fun Sunday Susan Atkins and Squeaky services attract a diverse Fromme—during the peak audience that crosses all of Haight-Ashbury’s peacesocioeconomic boundaries. and-love scene, but he lived Go for an uplifting experience at 636 Cole St. for a few and some hand-clapping
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love to show off their favorite parts of San Francisco organize some of the city’s most unusual tours. Stroll through cosmic history on the Haight-Ashbury Flower Power Walking Tour, with stops at erstwhile crash pads of famous hippies ( Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead) and other lost psychedelic ports of
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. 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
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. of North Beach, Chinablazingsaddles.com). A map pointing out the route to town, the Mission District, Sam’s in Tiburon is free, as is and Haight-Ashbury. For a bike lock and helmet, but more information, visit the be sure to purchase return website. ferry tickets and a bottle of GETTING OUTSIDE
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15th St. District Franklin St. 38 37 Valencia St. HAYES Ivy St. VALLEY Hayes St. Fell St. Oak St. 1 Page St. Haight St. To Haight-Ashbury (see inset at right) Waller St. Gough St. Laguna St. Buchanan St. Webster St. Fulton St. Grove St. Mission St. Alamo Square Octavia Blvd. Steiner
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Pier 33 Pier 31 North Point St. Bay St. Davis St. Drumm St. Davis St. Battery St. Front St. Powell St. Taylor St. Montgomery St. Haight-Ashbury r. n yD a n n e d nn a St Hayes St. Fell St. PANHANDLE Masonic Ave. . Ke Ashbury St. Cole St. nF South
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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
San Francisco Like a Local
by DK Eyewitness · 4 Oct 2021 · 268pp · 35,416 words
. Picnics often turn into late-night BBQs, with friends toasting s’mores under the stars. STREET FAIRS Locals go nuts for street fairs in summer. Haight-Ashbury relives former glories with groovy tunes and tie-dye; North Beach offers up poetry readings; and the Mission’s 20th Street Block Party is all
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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
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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
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’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
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-timers and jazz heads. g Record Stores g Contents Google Map AMOEBA MUSIC Map 2; 1855 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///loving.shares.test; www.amoeba.com This huge store in the heart of Haight-Ashbury was a bowling alley in a previous life. Those born in the naughties might consider it a veritable antique
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interests, such as “Druids, Drugs, and Secret Societies.” g Book Nooks g Contents Google Map BOUND TOGETHER ANARCHIST COLLECTIVE BOOKSTORE Map 2; 1369 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///stud.skirt.divisions; www.boundtogetherbooks.wordpress.com The spirit of counterculture lives on at this volunteer-run, “radical literature” bookstore, in the heart of the
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a new idea or thought.” KATHRYN GRANTHAM, OWNER OF BLACK BIRD BOOKSTORE g Book Nooks g Contents Google Map BOOKSMITH Map 2; 1644 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///cups.shot.mixer; www.booksmith.com This vibrant, roomy independent bookstore stocks both bestsellers and hard-to-find titles. It’s also known for bringing
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ferry ride is just 20 minutes and 100 percent worth it. g Vintage Gems g Contents Google Map THE WASTELAND Map 2; 1660 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///purple.native.gangs; www.shopwasteland.com; In keeping with the neighborhood’s rock ’n’ roll vibe, this large, airy thrift store specializes in vintage motorcyle
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that it’s featured in the likes of Vogue and Nylon. g Vintage Gems g Contents Google Map RELIC VINTAGE Map 2; 1605 Haight Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///again.polite.galaxy; www.relicvintagesf.com One of San Francisco’s most idiosyncratic clothing boutiques, Relic Vintage nods to the eccentric styles of the 1920s
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and indie institutes dedicated to local trailblazers, as well as immigrant and other marginalized communities. g ARTS & CULTURE g Contents City History THE BEAT MUSEUM HAIGHT-ASHBURY CLOCK CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MUSEUM ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION RAINBOW HONOR WALK ST. JOHN COLTRANE CHURCH RINCON CENTER MURALS TENDERLOIN MUSEUM g City
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, 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
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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
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT LA PROMENADE CAFE ASIA SF g Spoken Word g Contents Google Map POETRY AT THE SACRED GROUNDS Map 2; 2095 Hayes Street, Haight-Ashbury; ///homes.salsa.vines; 415-387-3859 This cosy mom-and-pop coffeehouse has been around since the 1970s, and so has its Wednesday open-mic
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Marine Layer Originals Vinyl Relic Vintage Rooky Ricardo’s Records Vinyl Dreams The Wasteland ARTS & CULTURE African American Art & Culture Complex GLBT Historical Society Museum Haight-Ashbury Clock Lorraine Hansberry Theater Rainbow Honor Walk NIGHTLIFE Beaux Boom Boom Room Castro Theatre The Fillmore Hi Tops The Independent Lookout Madrone Art Bar The
San Francisco
by Lonely Planet
, 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
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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
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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
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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
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.edu; 450 Connecticut St; 8:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 9am-5:30pm Fri & Sat; 18th St) Acupuncture, herbal remedies and other traditional Chinese medical treatments. Haight Ashbury Free Clinic ( 415-746-1950; www.hafci.org; 558 Clayton St; by appointment; 6, 71, N) Services are offered by appointment only, but once you
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) and Macy’s ( Click here ). Civic Center San Francisco Main Library (Click here ) has restrooms, as do public library branches and parks throughout the city. Haight-Ashbury & Mission District Woefully lacking in public toilets; you may have to buy coffee, beer or food to gain access to locked customer-only bathrooms. Tourist
San Francisco
by Lonely Planet
, 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
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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
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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
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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
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.edu; 450 Connecticut St; 8:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 9am-5:30pm Fri & Sat; 18th St) Acupuncture, herbal remedies and other traditional Chinese medical treatments. Haight Ashbury Free Clinic ( 415-746-1950; www.hafci.org; 558 Clayton St; by appointment; 6, 71, N) Services are offered by appointment only, but once you
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) and Macy’s ( Click here ). Civic Center San Francisco Main Library (Click here ) has restrooms, as do public library branches and parks throughout the city. Haight-Ashbury & Mission District Woefully lacking in public toilets; you may have to buy coffee, beer or food to gain access to locked customer-only bathrooms. Tourist
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time
by Hunter S. Thompson · 6 Nov 2003 · 893pp · 282,706 words
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
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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
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. Others have even forsaken Berkeley. During 1966, the hot center of revolutionary action on the Coast began moving across the bay to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, a run down Victorian neighborhood of about 40 square blocks between the Negro/Fillmore district and Golden Gate Park. The "Hashbury" is the new
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age is about 20, and most are native Californians. The North Beach types of the late nineteen-fifties were not nearly as provincial as the Haight-Ashbury types are today. The majority of beatniks who flocked into San Francisco 10 years ago were transients from the East and Midwest. The literary-artistic
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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
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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
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now making money off the new scene, incline to the view that hippies are, in fact, second-generation beatniks and that everything genuine in the Haight-Ashbury is about to be swallowed -- like North Beach and the Village -- in a wave of publicity and commercialism. Haight Street, the Great White Way of
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in Golden Gate Park for the benefit of those brethren who can't afford the dances. But beyond an occasional Happening in the park, the Haight-Ashbury scene is almost devoid of anything "to do" -- at least by conventional standards. An at-home entertainment is nude parties at which celebrants paint designs
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greater." The tribal concept makes a lot better sense than simply depending on the Diggers. There are indications, however, that the youthful provincialism of the Haight-Ashbury is due for a forced consciousness-expansion. For the past few months, the scene has been filled up with would-be hippies from other parts
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Diggers will continue to receive the casualties of the love generation." Local officials, from the Mayor down, are beginning to panic. Civic leaders in the Haight-Ashbury have suggested that sleeping facilities be provided in Golden Gate Park or in nearby Kezar Stadium but Police Chief Tom Cahill said no. "Law and
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thing." In March, the city's Health Director, Dr. Ellis Sox, sent a task force of inspectors on a door-to-door sweep of the Haight-Ashbury. Reports of as many as 200 people living in one house or 50 in one apartment had stirred rumors of impending epidemics in the neighborhood
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choice but to back off. "The situation is not as bad as we thought," he said. "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
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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
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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. Housewives were mugged
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of so many people using so much LSD. A doctor at San Francisco General Hospital says there are at least 10,000 hippies in the Haight-Ashbury, and that about four of them a day wind up in a psychiatric ward on bad trips. He estimates that acidheads make up only 1
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½ per cent of the city's population, but that the figure for the Haight-Ashbury is more like 100 per cent. The estimate is absurd; if every hippy in the Hashbury took acid every day, the percentage of users in
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was billed as "the only foreign tour within the continental limits of the United States" and was an immediate hit with tourists who thought the Haight-Ashbury was a human zoo. The only sour note on the tour was struck by the occasional hippy who would run alongside the bus, holding up
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year in Berkeley, hard-core political radicals who had always viewed hippies as spiritual allies began to worry about the long-range implications of the Haight-Ashbury scene. Students who once were angry activists were content to live back in their pads and smile at the world through a fog of marijuana
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repudiate the "right-wing, warmonger" elements in Congress, but instead it was the "liberal" Democrats who got stomped. So it is no coincidence that the Haight-Ashbury scene developed very suddenly in the winter of 1966-1967 from the quiet, neo-Bohemian enclave that it had been for four or five years
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new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move -- either figuratively or literally -- from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope, from the hangups of protest to the peaceful disengagement of love, nature and spontaneity. The credo of
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the Haight-Ashbury was expressed, about as well as it can be, by Joyce Francisco, 23-year-old advertising manager of the new hippy newspaper, The San Francisco
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mentioned them two years ago -- if all this were true, I could write an ominous screed to the effect that the hippy phenomenon in the Haight-Ashbury is little more than a freak show and a soft-sell advertisement for what is happening all around them. . . that drugs, orgies and freak-outs
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they are to the colorful drop-outs of San Francisco's new Bohemia. There is no shortage of documentation for the thesis that the current Haight-Ashbury scene is only the orgiastic tip of a great psychedelic iceberg that is already drifting in the sea lanes of the Great Society. Submerged and
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those with nothing to lose. And these-- for the moment, at least-- are the young lotus-eaters, the barefoot mystics and hairy freaks of the Haight-Ashbury -- all those primitive Christians, peaceful nay-sayers and half-deluded "flower children" who refuse to participate in a society which looks to them like a
Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert · 2 Jan 2009
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
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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
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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
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Park Church St. Carl St. Oak St. Page St. Haight St. Noe St. Frederick St. Fell St. Haight St. Castro St. Waller St. Masonic Ave. HAIGHT-ASHBURY 13 Baker St. Lyon St. Central Ave. Clayton St. THE PANHANDLE Ashbury St. Pavilion Kezar Stadium Broderick St. Lyon St. Masonic Ave. Parker Ave. Cole
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–$8; sandwiches $7–$8.25. AE, DC, DISC, MC, V. M on–Thurs 11am–10pm; F ri–Sat 11am–midnight; Sun 11am–9pm. Bus: 21. HAIGHT-ASHBURY Inexpensive Cha Cha Cha Value CARIBBEAN This is one of my all-time favorite places to get festive, but it ’s not for ev erybody
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–11:30pm. Bus: 6, 7, or 71. Streetcar: N. Finds MIDDLE EASTERN An evening dining at Kan Zaman is one Kan Zaman of those quintessential Haight-Ashbury experiences that you can’t wait to tell your friends about back in Ohio. As you pass through glass-beaded curtains, you’re led by
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accommodations, 85 restaurants, 102–104 Fisherman’s Wharf, 71 accommodations, 89–91 restaurants, 107–108 shopping, 138–139 sightseeing, 122–123 getting around, 73–75 Haight-Ashbury, 73 accommodations, 93–94 restaurants, 112–113 shopping, 139 Hayes Valley shopping, 138 hospitals, 76 Japantown, 72 restaurant, 111 layout of, 67, 70 Marina District
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