They wanted to challenge social norms. Perhaps most of all, they wanted to listen to good music that reflected their ideas and sensibility. Haight-Ashbury became the epicenter of this new and exciting counterculture. By the end of , the streets were full of people dressed in brightly colored clothes once deemed outrageous costumes , with long beaded necklaces, velvet vests, and feathered hats. It was a culture created by spirited, freethinking radicals that longed for social activism, peace, and the opportunity to march barefoot in the streets to the beat of love and freedom.
Or, more accurately—to the beat of The Grateful Dead. The Dead, now synonymous with Haight-Ashbury, were then just a small time band with a humble hometown following. They were only interested in scraping together enough money to pay for the rent of their shared Ashbury Street apartment so they could continue to jam.
By , news of the mecca that had been created in the Haight-Ashbury spread across the nation. Bearded men in rose-colored glasses and women with long patterned skirts that twirled when they danced came to take part in the cultural revolution that was coined The Summer of Love. The Grateful Dead posed for band pictures on the front stoop of the house and one of those images is now rather iconic. It helps that the house was just a few short blocks up from the intersection of Haight-Ashbury.
That stretch became hippie central, a phenomenon, a time and place that has since made it into the history books. We really became entrenched in that scene, if not synonymous with it. It was also a brisk walk to Golden Gate Park and its eastward extension, the Panhandle. Stuff like that is probably the real reason that house became so famous. This book details what it was like to be at the house during the late sixties; especially given that the house was financially taken care of by LSD guru, Owsley Stanley, and was frequented by characters such as author Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac muse, Neal Cassady.
Owsley was the first private individual to mass-produce LSD — personally supplying many in this groovy San Franciscan scene. Film fanatic? With the guidance of a local expert, this tour will take you to various filming locations from movies such as Mrs.
Doubtfire, Dirty Harry, Vertigo, and Bullitt. Explore San Francisco is style as you take to the streets in a colorful retro VW hippie bus. Includes info about Owsley and The Grateful Dead. As a tourist, you cannot go inside the Grateful Dead house in San Francisco as it is privately owned. At a different time, Charles Manson also lived in this house before he left to start his family.
I hope this gave you a ton of information on the house, as well as tips on what counterculture-related things to do in San Francisco. Road Trip! Please note this post contains affiliate links.
When you purchase through these links, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. I know that Bob Weir said they left due to the influx of heavier drugs and the commercialization of the area, so it could add up. The Hell's Angels had a love-hate relationship with the hippies and musicians in the Haight in the late '60s.
While they respected the anarchy that Jerry Garcia brought to the culture and they befriended Allen Ginsberg, the relationship soon went south. Hunter S. Thompson, who once worked the door at the notorious O'Farrell Theatre strip club in S. That relationship ended with a violent beatdown of the writer after he confronted a member who he saw abusing women. The final straw came at the Rolling Stones infamous Altamont concert in where an Angel, working "security" for the band, stabbed concertgoer Meredith Hunter to death in front of Mick Jagger, depicted in the brilliant but chilling documentary, "Gimme Shelter.
Before the darkness set in, the Hell's Angels called Ashbury St. The homes mentioned in this story are now all private residences, and are not accessible to the public.
And a resident opera singer. More Haight Month.
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