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 Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:50 pm
I'm going to be visiting San Francisco this spring break, and I was wondering if the hippie guild could recommend any essential, or just interesting or fun, places to visit! Or, you can just discuss that beautiful, diverse, glorious city amongst yourselves. That's cool too!
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:05 pm
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair xd
I've never been so I can't recommend any places besides the obvious Haight/Ashbury, but I hope you have a great time and come back with awesome stories for us!
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:42 pm
OH!! How bout that place with the big buildings near the ater with all the stuff? That place is awesome.
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:59 am
GOTTA go to Haight/Ashbury... Just try not to be totally sad that there's a damn GAP there now... gonk
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:11 am
KrauseMouse GOTTA go to Haight/Ashbury... Just try not to be totally sad that there's a damn GAP there now... gonk WHAT! I can't believe that!
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:27 am
If you're a really diehard Beatlemaniac...make sure you cross the street at the corner of Haight-Ashbury. George Harrison walked in those exact steps smile
Despite only living about an hour away from SF, I've only been there once sad Once I get a car and start driving though..I'll practically be living there wink
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:24 pm
Well, I just flew down today (got into San Jose International, because it is cheaper than flying into San Francisco, and my great-aunt lives in San Carlos). We spent most of today driving and walking around various colleges and universities around San Francisco, and we got to drive through the Haight-Ashbury intersection, but not to stop and walk around! Augh . . such a tease . . but I'll get to peruse the neighborhood more thoroughly tomorrow! Yay! It looks really awesome, though admittedly somewhat darker than I imagined . . . sad But! There are some very interesting looking little shops . . 'Love of Ganesha,' for example. Isn't that a Hindu elephant god? Even though the kids hanging around the Haight-Ashbury do look quite a bit different than they must have looked in the late 60's, the attitude is still palpable . . it's exciting . . I can't wait to go back tomorrow . . and I'll definitely post again!
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:49 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:16 pm
I agree with everyone who said Haight/Ashbury. I went there for the first time last week (spring break), and it was very very fun. Chinatown and Japantown are also nice -- Japantown has a great bookstore if you like manga. (I went crazy in there, haha! heart _ heart <--- Grey, in love)
Have tons of fun!!
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:38 pm
We got to explore the Haight-Ashbury today! Sadly, I had to sacrifice seeing some things, such as the Grateful Dead House (710 Ashbury) and the Interview with the Vampire House (on Paige and Divisidero) but it was still amazingly awesome . . . there's quite a few little boutiques catering to the crowd that comes to try and find the old Haight-Ashbury . . and the second-hand clothes shops are a lot of fun! Outside of this shop on the corner of Haight and Ashbury selling tie-dye t-shirts and Grateful Dead merchandise was a box by a garbage can containing an old Grateful Dead poster! It was old and ratty and they obviously didn't want it anymore, so I scored a free poster! Yes! I also had fun laughing to myself at how hippies are supposed to thwart the capatalist war machine, and yet there's tons of stuff selling the very things that you can make yourself, or get at a Renaissance Fair for beans.
I noticed that the place where history seems to be recorded the most is in the concrete on the street . . it's very interesting to read the things carved into the wet concrete so long ago . . . then we went downtown to try and find the Hard Rock Cafe, but it seemed that it had moved, which was a bit of a bummer.
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:27 pm
Aetheling We got to explore the Haight-Ashbury today! Sadly, I had to sacrifice seeing some things, such as the Grateful Dead House (710 Ashbury) and the Interview with the Vampire House (on Paige and Divisidero) but it was still amazingly awesome . . . there's quite a few little boutiques catering to the crowd that comes to try and find the old Haight-Ashbury . . and the second-hand clothes shops are a lot of fun! Outside of this shop on the corner of Haight and Ashbury selling tie-dye t-shirts and Grateful Dead merchandise was a box by a garbage can containing an old Grateful Dead poster! It was old and ratty and they obviously didn't want it anymore, so I scored a free poster! Yes! Ooh, I went there! ^-^ I bought a Haight/Ashbury Street Fair tanktop. (Hurrah for random information, lol!) Sounds like you had an awesome time! It's really fun to just walk around that part of town (or city) an explore.
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