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- gbudavid, on 11/05/2009, -0/+19It is certainly Yuppiefied...
- itstodd, on 11/05/2009, -1/+14I was there in 2008. They still stink and the place is still dirty...
- DBLOCK916, on 11/05/2009, -0/+12To this day, Haight-Ashbury has some of the best head shops and sidewalk musicians in the nation. Love that place. It deserves a museum.
- ninjaknowell, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9True, but it's eccentricity and its essence are deeply rooted in its history.
- thetruckert, on 11/06/2009, -0/+8Screw the Upper Haight. It's all about the Lower Haight.
- gbudavid, on 11/05/2009, -1/+6I was there in 1968 It was a dirty, place then and All I saw were the Dope smokers and Free love people. You could smell them before you saw them
- itstodd, on 11/05/2009, -2/+7colorful pictures of drug addicts... how nice.
- SenorCardgage74, on 11/06/2009, -0/+4Only ever really go over there for Amoeba and the (awesome) Askew Grill.
- g0atm0nster, on 11/06/2009, -0/+4Seriously. And the residents want it to be less of a hippie theme-park? It's more of a pilgrimage for some circles.
Maybe some of them remember the winter that followed the summer of love, though. - zoethebitch, on 11/06/2009, -1/+4I grew up there in the 60s. Not a nice place. We had bikers living two floors upstairs. Not oldsters riding Hondas; they were violent, drug-dealing motorcycle gang types.
The reality of "Peace & Love" was a lot of aimless, wasted, panhandlers drifting around the neighborhood when they weren't breaking into my apartment. Golden Gate Park was a dangerous place. Anyone who wasn't in a altered state of consciousness could see there were a lot of problems. - noyurawk, on 11/06/2009, -1/+4Hippies have the right ideas, but humans aren't ready for it yet.
- Mujokan, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2I think there were only a few months when the dream was alive. Then they started getting every dumb teenage runaway, and everyone who wanted to scam them. Gilbert Shelton did a harsh parody of it with Little Orphan Annie as a rich runaway.
- digitalArtform, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2Meanwhile in LA, Santa Monica Blvd has changed a bit since then, too...
http://www.life.com/image/72429983 - myFriendDerrik, on 11/06/2009, -1/+3Agreed, it's like upper haight without all the tourists and dirty stinking hippies
- mandarin, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2It aint cheap anymore.
- SamRMoore, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2One thing the pictures do not capture is the smell.Good thing too, last time I was there in the 90's Haight smelled ripe of BO.
- hammelman, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1I grew up just a few miles outside of SF and would frequent The Haight when i was a teenager. It was a fun and pretty cool place, and then suddenly you had places like the Gap cashing in on it. Once i noticed the change in the neighborhood i lost interest and don't make a point of going there anymore. It's kind of sad, but like every good thing, corporate America finds a way to make it like everywhere else.
- Mujokan, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Kind of a cool documentary about 1967, while people are in the mood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rQ4tIOkuk
- BookaShade, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1Ah hes a doushe bag canadians fag. no one cares.
- hammelman, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Maybe because in the last couple of years its become a Hipster hangout, but the Lower Haight was a ***** hole previously.
- lindsayjc, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Humans like to stereotype.
- quaxon, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Head shops on Venice beach are much better. I live in SF and the head shops on haight are a big rip-off in most cases.
- bman1984, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1There is a pretty good documentary called The Drug Years I saw on IFC which covered the late 60s counterculture. Much of it obviously was in the Haight Ashbury district. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about that point in history.
- betacmag4u, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1In GTA IV it is called "Hashbury" :)
- DBLOCK916, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Venice Beach may have better prices, but to say Haight-Ashbury is a rip off is not accurate in my opinion. Perhaps it is compared to Venice (I wouldn't know, as I've never been there) but compared to the rest of the places in the country, Haight-Ashbury prices are quite the deal. But further, it's not always about the price - Haight-Ashbury has some pretty unique stuff. That's where I get most of my stuff...
- quaxon, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1So what you're saying is that other than the designer stores, nothings changed then...
- JDoms, on 11/06/2009, -3/+3Oh my hair is getting long in the back!
- blindmelon1, on 11/06/2009, -1/+1It's 1963
It's 1964
It's 1957
It's 1962
Put it all behind you - pstroll, on 11/06/2009, -5/+2Humans like to bathe
- santiago1, on 11/06/2009, -8/+2 buncha hippies.....
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