Haight Street in 1944
Selling The Oracle On Haight Street in 1966**Thanks to Coffee Messiah, for reminding me. The Berkeley Barb would more than likely have been sold in the East Bay.
Winterland, San Francisco In 1964
Winterland In 1979, After It Closed (Link=a great article on the infamous closing of Winterland, by Joel Selvin)
The Demolition Of Winterland In 1982
6 comments:
I remember when I moved to SF in 1971. The "era" was ending.
Fantastic photos!
STB
A friend had an old VW that was pretty hard to start. The aura of the Fillmore area was to run and get out as fast as you could. Our heads were always turning as we made a mad dash for the car after the concert.
It didn't take us long to realize it was a ghetto area, at least in the eyes of the public. People were friendly though and taught us not to believe what we were told, unless we saw it with our own eyes!
The Haight looked pretty cool then too!
Thought the girl might've been selling the Oracle! Wish I'd kept mine! ; )
My Dad was in San Francisco in '44; one of his favorite memories in life was getting to see Red Nichols playing in one of the clubs there. Thank you for that photo, and all the others.
alan
I simply must visit SanFran someday. Gorgeous photos.
i still love haight street, even with the homeless punks and drug deals and the cops cruising by and the coldness of the golden gate park
bill? have you no homeless punks in so cal? i know how groovy the cops there are!
(not)
i love my place of birth forever, despite the fact that is far from perfect. it's a mess, in many ways.
ah yes, the 21st century has been grand thus far.
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