Posts Tagged ‘hippies’
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Golden Gate Park be getting all crowded these days on annual 420 Day, so why not head on down to Noe Valley and light up at 4:20 PM at 420 Day Street instead?
The neighbors will welcome you interloping potheads with open arms. I’m sure!
Actually, Noe Valley is the locus of NIMBY – it’s filled with asshole millionaire homeowners and concomitant neighbor feuding.
Here it is, 420 Day, or close enough. Check out the comically large Planning Commission NOTICE OF HEARING notice on the front gate and the comically small recycling bin out front. (No black garbage can? A point of pride, I’m sure)
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Oh, here we go, here’s real 420 Day, not too far from the Haight Street McDonalds on Stanyan.
That’s not fog, that’s a cloud of exhaled Mary Jane:
An excellent capture from world-famous Broke-Ass Stuart.
All right, Happy 420 Day 2013!
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
Here’s your Lowell High School timeline:
- 1913 – School moved to new, larger campus on Hayes Street between Masonic Avenue and Ashbury
- 1962 – School moved to current campus to make room for future expansion and add a library, gymnasium and larger auditorium
So this is where Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer actually went to high school, on the #21 Hayes line, back in the 50′s. Now it’s the John Adams Campus of troubled City College of San Francisco.
There are fewer drug dealers hanging about these days, but they’ve been replaced by bike thieves…
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Speaking of which, I think this ride has been abandoned for months now. Oh well:
Oh, here’s what Lowell High School looked like in 1917:
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And here’s the same place today:
See if you can match up the bricks with the shot at the top.
(Not much difference excepting for the Toyotas out front and the bright white racing stripe up high. That’s an ADA-complaint elevator shaft hanging off the side these days, one would think. Probably should have been standing about ten feet to the left – that telephone pole in front of the main entrance on Hayes probably is in the same place today as 1917 so it’d be a good tool for alignment. A tilt-shift lens and/or Photoshop would produce an almost identical image as the 1917 shot.)
Campus Information
Built in 1911 as Lowell High School, the John Adams building consists of 64 classrooms and labs, an auditorium, a state-of-the-art child care center, and offices for counseling and administrative services. At this campus, we offer a variety of credit and noncredit courses and programs. John Adams Campus also houses the Dean’s Office of the School of Health and Physical Education. Our mission here is to assist students in accomplishing their educational goal and to ensure student success.
John Adams Campus
1860 Hayes Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 ► Google Map
- #43 Masonic to Hayes/Masonic
- #21 Hayes to Hayes/Masonic
- #5 Fulton to Fulton/Masonic
Tags: 1917, 2010, 2012, avenue, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, campus, ccsf, city college, drugs, hayes, High, hippie, hippies, intersection, johan adams, justuce, lowell, masonic, photo, Photograph, pic, police, San Francisco, school, SFPD, steal, Stephen Breye, Stephen Breyer, stolen, street, thieves, thuief
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
[UPDATE: Oh, Andy Wright was on the scene today.]
Here’s what you need to know about Hair right here, FYI.
Now today, the cast just went on a City tour via The TeacherBus.
See? At Haight and Ashbury:
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It Takes a Village to Park a Bus in the Upper Haight:
Oh, look it’s a hippie cast member taking photos of a recently do-ragged passersby:
And handing out “Your Hippie Name” ID stickers:
And giving away free theatre tickets on Haight:
All right, time for a group photo in front of the Ben & Jerry’s:
Via SHNSF
And all the while, bubbles, bubbles everywhere:
Break a leg, Hair!
Tags: 2011, 6th, aa, ashbury, audience, b&b, bay area, bubbles, bus, california, dancing, e party, eparty, free, golden gate, golden gate theatre, haight, hair, hippies, magic, magic bus, magicbus, market, musical, Opening Night, Orchestra, pit, Pit Seats, row, rows, San Francisco, shn, shnsf, stage, street, taylor, TeacherBus, theatre, tickets, tour, upper
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
There’s A New Dawn for Hair don’t you know, and this is exactly what its ending looks like at our SHN Golden Gate Theatre.
Yesterday’s official Opening Night for Hair got a standing ovation so you can’t beat that. And Julia Walsh says you’ll LOL. Get in on the fun before November 20th.
And because the band is on the stage, SHN can plank over the orchestra pit to put in more seats. These $40 rush tickets for Rows AA and BB just might be the best ones in the house for this particular show. Check it:
“$40 Rush Seats - A limited number of $40 PIT SEATS will be available for all performances of HAIR 2-Hours prior to show time at the Golden Gate Theatre Box Office only. Cash Only. Limit 2 tickets per person. Tickets Subject to Availability.”
All the deets. See you there!
“JOIN THE MOVEMENT AT EPARTY.SHNSF.COM
SHN is launching the Hair eParty- a unique interactive experiece for theater-goers attending the revival of Hair at the Golden Gate Theatre playing through November 20.
During the show’s famous finale, audience members are invited onstage to dance alongside the cast of Hair.
You read that right.
You. On Stage. Dancing. With the Cast.
And that’s not all.
At every performance, the communal dance party will be recorded live and posted online at SHN’s official eParty page: eparty.shnsf.com(where you can view a special message from the Hair Tribe).
The following day, you can visit eparty.shnsf.com to watch the video, find and tag yourself and share your experience via email, Facebook and Twitter.
Join the movement. Dance on stage and share online with HAIR.”
Tags: 2011, 6th, aa, audience, b&b, bay area, california, dancing, e party, eparty, golden gate, golden gate theatre, hair, hippies, market, musical, Opening Night, Orchestra, pit, Pit Seats, row, rows, San Francisco, shn, shnsf, stage, street, taylor, theatre, tickets
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Well, maybe not a tree, but how about a big old branch of a eucalyptus [See Comments] cypress(?) tree what’s stood in the Golden Gate Park for a century or so?
The branch comes down and hits this van, straight outta Indiana. So out pop two hippies, who just happened to be inside smoking weed.
The clear-headed one is all, “We gotta get out of here, man,” but the other one just couldn’t understand the urgency, he didn’t appreciate the danger.
See?
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So they worked together to move the branch as much as they could and then sped away with a quickness. The SFPD showed up five minutes later to fix things so that the branch no longer blocked a lane of Fell during the evening drive.
(Later on, another nondescript white van took over the same space, which, as you can see, is just behind yet another nondescript white van. It’s like people from all over the country just decide to Go West, and then they end up in the 415…)
Actually, something in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle is probably falling next to some pot-smoking hippie pretty much all the time.
So let’s be careful out there.
And now, let’s remember the time when Gaia struck back at a forester, a Subaru Forester:
Ben Davis-wearing members of Laborer’s local 261 + giant Swedish buzz saws = problem quickly solved.
Excepting for Caroline’s Subie, that is.
The City crew failed to leave a note, but I think the driver will figure things out for herself after seeing the flat tires and all the sawdust.
Just another foggy day in Paradise…
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
An entire hippie drum circle was riveted on this scene in the Golden Gate park Panhandle a while back.
Note love seat on the roof of the minivan – it was there for about a week.
Note bowling ball imprint on windshield.
Note how many cops it took to get this man and his friend on their way:
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Appeared to be a lot of drama going on.
Anyway, there’s a lot of material here, so just make up your own story…
Tags: 2011, ball, bay area, bowling, california, coach, cops, damage, department, dept., drum circle, golden gate park, hippie, hippies, love seat, man, Men, minivan, panhandle, police, San Francisco, SFPD, sofa, windshiled
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Sunday, June 12th, 2011
[UPDATE: And here's a late entry, from Bluoz: Upper Haight is for Lovers:
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Things really didn’t get hopping until the fog went away in the afternoon, but the 2011 Haight Ashbury Street Fair went off without a hitch, with nary a peep from the notorious NIMBYs of the Western Addition.
(And oh, honorable mention goes to photographers Bob Horowitz (nice) and Dropatan (also nice).)
Let your freak flag fly, baby. From the Eastern Stage:
And here are some great shots.
First, from famous David Yu:
And here are a couple from Brian Brooks:
And here’s one from Chris Witte:
And more from past HASFs, after the jump
See you next year!
(more…)
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
Remember back in the day, back last year in 2010 when the Hippie Hill McDonalds at the West End of Haight Ashbury on Stanyan got rid of its Dollar Menu, per Will “Big Daddy” Kane and Eric Thomas of KGO-TV?*
Well, the Tea Partiers nationwide had a field day with that one. And the “homeless veterans” and runaway teens, well they didn’t appreciate that price increase one bit.
But it’s all different now.
I first noticed when I was acting as a lookout for my friends who were shoplifting at the new Whole Foods Upper Haight – I could see a sign on the Micky D’s across the street that’s all “4 MEALS UNDER $3.**” See?
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And I thought, well, that’s sounds like a pretty good deal, wonder if they brought back the Dollar Menu. Well, check it:
So, as of June 2011 anyway, you can enjoy the Great Recession Dollar Menu at McDonalds.
That means that they’ll add a patty to your $1.09 Cheeseburger and then lower the price to boot – that’s the Miracle of the McDouble.
Hurray!
Let’s hope they’ll still have the Dollar Menu running at the next Haight Ashbury Street Fair:
Sunday, June 12, 2011, from 11 am until 5:30 pm
*Per KGO, this store is located at Haight and “Canyon.”
**Apparently, that sign has been up there for the duration, since last year at least, To me, a $2.99 meal deal and the Dollar Menu go hand-in-hand, but I guess I was mistaken about that. (Your McDonald’s manager/ownerfeels that s/he should get about $7 per customer on average so can you imagine how offensive your order for three McDoubles to go is? It’s highly, highly offensive…)
Tags: 2010, 2011, asbury, ashbury, banned, bay area, california, cancelled, cheeseburgers, deal, dollar, dollar menu, extra value, haight, hamburgers, hippie, hippie hill, hippies, homeless, McDonalds, mcdouble, meal, offer, San Francisco, upper, veterans, whole foods
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
A communal smoke cloud is just what the millionaire NIMBYs of the NoPA and SoPA don’t want to see every AM in the Panhandle, but this is the scene these days.
To get revenge for this kind of thing, the NIMBYs complain to their fellow millionaire RPD Boardmembers and that’s how we lost the harmless Panhandle Bandshell.
Oh well.
Hippie Jam Fest 2005 II:
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And BTW, The Nevius, Supermarket Does Not Signal a New Day in the Haight.
Tags: 2011, bake, bay area, california, cloud, golden gate park, hippies, marijuana, panhandle, San Francisco, smoke, smoking, wake, wake and bake, whole foods
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
I’m not sure what it looked like at 420 Day Street in Noe Valley today, but I do know what it looked like on and around Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. It was packed for 4/20 Day celebrations.
Thousands turned out to consume marijuana, causing traffic gridlock* in the east end of the park.** (Hippies have lots of cars – did not know that.)
Broke Ass Stuart has a nice shot of the communal cloud, which could be smelled in the Panhandle.
Here’s part of the action, at around 4:20 PM:
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See you next year.
*Perhaps MUNI could operate a special “420 service” from Civic Center BART every April 20th, maybe charge $4.20 one-way?
**A traffic light at the foot of eastbound JFK Drive at Kezar Drive certainly is called for, but doctrine mandates just having a stop sign.
Tags: 4-20, 420, 420 day, ashbury, california, cars, department, dept., golden gate park, gridlock, haight, hill, hippie hill, hippies, hippy, legal, legalize, maruijuana, mj, panhandlem, park, parking, police, pot, San Francisco, SF, SFPD, smoke, smoking, stanyan, street, sutro tower, teens, upper, weed
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