DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH LABORATORY
Western Washington University
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SAN FRANCISCO'S HAIGHT-ASHBURY DISTRICT
- a locator legend follows this map -
some personal locations follow that
The Haight in relation to San Francisco
|\ Clayton Masonic Lyon Broderick
|N\ Shrader Cole ASHBURY | Central | Baker | Divis-
Stanyan | | | | | | adero
| | USF |F | G | | | | |
_____Fulton|_____|_________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
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G ::::Grove|_____|_____|_____|K____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
O :::::::::| SMH | L| | | | | | | | |
L ::::Hayes|_____|_____|_M___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
D :::::::::| | | | s | | | | | | |
E :::::Fell|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_A___|_____|
N ::::::::::::::::::::PANHANDLE:::::: w :::::::::::::::::: | | |
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P :::Waller|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|:::BUENA:::|____B|_____|
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locations a-E from ROLLING STONE, February 26, 1976, p 48-9
"STATIONS OF THE GODS-EYE: PILGRIMAGE PLACES IN THE HAIGHT"
-- click, then find locator letter near top of view --
- a. Hippie Hill: the public forum, picnicking
spot and primal social setting of the neighborhood.
- b. The Diggers' Free Frame of Reference and Free
Store
- c. The Radha-Krishna Temple
- d. Far-Fetched Foods, also known as Blind Jerry's:
the first health food store in the Haight
- e. Mouse Studios/Pacific Ocean Trading Co.:
poster gallery
- f. The I-Thou coffee shop
- g. Quasar's Ice Cream
- h. The Trip without a Ticket: a later incarnation
of the Free frame of Reference
- i. The Hip Job Co-Op: job referrals
- j. The Straight Theater: a movie theater
converted to dance hall
- k. 42 Belvedere, where Rudolf Nureyev and
Margot Fonteyn were busted
- l. The Shire School: tuition-free
Summerhill-inspired primary school
- m. The Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic
(located at Happening House)
- n. Tracy's Donuts: popular gathering place
because of its late hours
- o. The Pall Mall Cocktail Lounge: started serving
"Love Burgers"
- p. The Print Mint: a poster gallery started after
the tenant, a Berkeley book dealer, was denied a license to sell used
books in the Haight
- q. The Psychedelic Shop: books, records,
paraphernalia, meditation room
- r. Mnasidika: first hip shop on Haight Street
- s. The Blue Unicorn: first
coffee house in the neighborhood, opened 1963
- t. 710 Ashbury, the Grateful Dead house
- u. The Blushing Peony (also, at various times,
Skinnidippin, Middle
- v. All Saints Episcopal Church: lent its
facilities to the Diggers over the objection of parishioners
- w. The Panhandle: scene of free rock concerts and
Diggers' free feeds
- x. The Drogstore Cafe
- y. The Phoenix: paraphernalia shop--pipes,
papers, incense, Indian goods. The offices of the "Oracle" were upstairs
- z. 112 Lyon: Janis Joplin's apartment
- A. 1360 Fell, Allen Ginsberg's sometime residence
- B. Huckleberry's for Runaways: housing and
counseling for runaway minors
- C. The Albin place, 1090 Page: birthplace of Big
Brother and the Holding Company
- D. The Tape Music Center: Charlatans' rehearsal
hall, Bill Ham's light show performances, Anna Halprin Dance Troupe,
electronic music performances, SF studio of Berkeley radio station KPFA-FM
- E. Magic Theater for Madmen Only: primordial
hippie boutique
PLACES I'VE ADDED to the Rolling Stone map
- USF - University of San Francisco (I enrolled
here in Sep 1957; the Jesuits threw me out in Oct 1961. I lived here in
Phelan Hall when I wasn't living in an off-campus apartment. One summer I
lived, undetected, in a faculty office - Fitzgerald's; I avoided the
under-the-door drafts by sleeping a coffin normally used by basketball
cheerleaders as a game prop)
- SMH - St. Mary's Hospital (I worked here as a the only
non-Black janitor; also later in Central Supply)
- F. 28 Hemway Terrace (Hemway is Ashbury,
continued north of Fulton, roomed with Jack DeGovia, 1962; Jack's
girlfriend Sheila McCafferty ran a restaurant at the site which next
became the Blue Unicorn)
- G. Petrini Plaza
shopping center
- H. Fulton Foods ma & pa grocery
which fed me (mostly bourbon and blue cheese) on credit
- J. 1725 Fulton, #10 (my first apartment, Summer
1958, with George Schornick who went off to the Seminary; next year with
Mike Prest who later committed suicide rather than 'come out')
- K. 58 Clayton, #6 (Ed Twigg, Sam Andrew, & me:
Summer 62; when we ran out of money Sam and I lived on nothing but rice
for two months)
- L. 115 Cole (Summer 1963, Dave Ayala); 117 Cole
(several times)
- M. Russian Restaurant (University 'Good Eats'
Cafe) run by George and Ksenya Alexeff; they gave me free dinners at
closing time for about a year
- N. 1849 Page (#1, 2nd floor front, with Sam Andrew
and
Penny and Sue Remolif, 1962 -- the first commune in the Haight; 3rd floor
rear,
with Jack DeGovia, Dan Duggan and Dave Ayala, Fall 1963 till summer 1964)
- O. Safeway, Littleman Markets
- P. Bob's Drive-In on Stanyan, where I spent
many of my post-2am hours drinking free refills poured by a waitress we
called Sweetwater (I think that's a town she came from in Tennessee)
- Q. 610 Cole My friend Lee Vandendale's apartment;
I spent many, many hours there; we celebrated Beethoven's birthday there
with a singing of the 4th mvt of the 9th; Charles Manson lived at 616
Cole
- R. 625 Shrader Apartment of Anne O'Brien & Ginny
Mathis - first San Francisco address of the author of "Interview with the
Vampire"
- S. House on Divisadero where "Inverview with the
Vampire" begins
- T. ?? Buena Vista Jack
DeGovia and I shared what had been the music loft of one of the
Spreckles mansions (former occupants: Ambrose Bierce, Jack London).
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