Haight and Ashbury

[Mike]

On the weekend of the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love and The Monterey Festival, I toured both Monterey and San Francisco.

Today, I took a walking tour of Haight and Ashbury and saw dozens of homes where greats from the 60's lived, including Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and more.

Where Hendrix lived and wrote many songs. Interestingly, the place where they got all their drugs was right across the street from Hendrix's place. Convenient I guess. It's now a pizza joint.

Janis Joplin's house.

The Grateful Dead


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[XV-1]

Its really cool there. I hope you stopped off at Amoeba records

 

[baddog]

If you head up North of the Golden Gate Bridge, feel free to drop by and hear all the stuff you got for me....

 

[Mike]

If you head up North of the Golden Gate Bridge, feel free to drop by and hear all the stuff you got for me....

Heading home tomorrow or I would! Maybe it's good that I can't come over. Your turntable might just be finding its way home with me.


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[baddog]

Well, you are always welcome, anytime...

Happy trails, have a safe trip home.

 

[astrotoy]

Thanks for the great photos.

I arrived in the Bay Area in June, 1967 to begin grad school at Cal (UC Berkeley). Went over to the City a few times (no car and no BART at that time) and just saw gllimpses of the Summer of Love. I did get to see Pavarotti in his official American debut, singing in La Boheme at the SF Opera in September, just at the end of summer.

That first year in the Bay Area was tumultuous; the Summer of Love was not a good predictor of the coming events. Vietnam was starting to boil and our graduate school class was the first to lose their deferments, with many of my classmates going to war. The following spring saw the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to be followed 3 months later by Robert Kennedy. Riots and martial law followed in Berkeley, where I was living. I left the Bay Area in August to teach high school physics and chemistry - my draft board exempted public school teachers at that time. Fortunately, I drew a high number in the draft lottery that followed. My younger brother was not so lucky and spent a year in 'Nam as a grunt. He still feels the effects today approaching age 70. I returned to the Bay Area in 1969 and have been here ever since.

Interestingly, after Jimi's time in the Haight, he went over to London, living with his girl friend on Brook Street. Coincidentally, it was adjacent to the house where George Friedrich Handel had lived 200+ years earlier. Hendrick's apartment is now owned by the Handel Museum and is open as part of the Handel House Museum. It is also just a few blocks from our time share which is on the same street. So we regularly walk by Hendricks and Handel's homes on our annual sojourn to London.

Larry

 

[RDSChicago]

If you all want to see an amazing documentary featuring Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead but spending a good deal of its duration in the San Francisco '60's scene, especially around Haight Ashbury, see "The Other Ones." It's on Netflix. Amazing!!

 

[Mike]

Thanks for the great photos.

I arrived in the Bay Area in June, 1967 to begin grad school at Cal (UC Berkeley). Went over to the City a few times (no car and no BART at that time) and just saw gllimpses of the Summer of Love. I did get to see Pavarotti in his official American debut, singing in La Boheme at the SF Opera in September, just at the end of summer.

That first year in the Bay Area was tumultuous; the Summer of Love was not a good predictor of the coming events. Vietnam was starting to boil and our graduate school class was the first to lose their deferments, with many of my classmates going to war. The following spring saw the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to be followed 3 months later by Robert Kennedy. Riots and martial law followed in Berkeley, where I was living. I left the Bay Area in August to teach high school physics and chemistry - my draft board exempted public school teachers at that time. Fortunately, I drew a high number in the draft lottery that followed. My younger brother was not so lucky and spent a year in 'Nam as a grunt. He still feels the effects today approaching age 70. I returned to the Bay Area in 1969 and have been here ever since.

Interestingly, after Jimi's time in the Haight, he went over to London, living with his girl friend on Brook Street. Coincidentally, it was adjacent to the house where George Friedrich Handel had lived 200+ years earlier. Hendrick's apartment is now owned by the Handel Museum and is open as part of the Handel House Museum. It is also just a few blocks from our time share which is on the same street. So we regularly walk by Hendricks and Handel's homes on our annual sojourn to London.

Larry

Larry - that was really interesting to read. Thank you for sharing.


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