If you LOVE the Haight Ashbury Community as much as we do, you will Love this Quick Video Tour of a few blocks by our owner, Sunshine "Sunny" Powers.
If you want the addresses and names of these shops, sites & more ~ see below the video, We listed them all out and added some extras!
Important Address & Awesome Shops here in the Haight Ashbury:
Historical Sites:
Sunshine calls these free blocks "Rockstar Alley"
710 Ashbury Street: Grateful Dead House (This is the house where the Grateful Dead became the Grateful Dead...they moved in as the "Warlocks" and rest is history...most only resided for about a year here with the longest being Bob Weir for 22 months...check out the hidden Bertha to the left of the gate before the driveway.)
712 Ashbury Street: Grateful Dead's Accountant (When the cops would raid the Grateful Dead house, Everyone would jump from the balcony to the attic and hide...because who is going to search the square Accountant's house. The song Bertha was said to have been written in this attic.)
720 Ashbury Street: One of Sunshine's Old Apartments (in the back...when Sunshine FINALLY moved out of the Tenderloin she resided here and truly became a member of this amazing community. She has since moved a few times since then, but will never leave the Haight Ashbury.)
719 Ashbury Street: Hells Angels (Chocolate George ~ the President of the Hells Angels at the time ~ 19767 ~lived here when the Grateful Dead moved in across the street. This is where the friendship with the Grateful Dead & the Hells Angels began...as neighbors.)
715 Ashbury Street: Stanley Mouse & Owsley Stanley
635 Ashbury Street: Janis Joplin
619 Ashbury Street: Country Joe & the Fish
1524 Haight Street: The Red House from Jimi Hendrix Song
Epic Shops:
1400 Haight Street: Love on Haight
1399 Haight Street: Psychedelic SF
1452 Haight Street: Piedmont
1500 Haight Street: Welcome Haight Ashbury
1556 Haight Street: Mendels
1543 Haight Street: Held Over
1573 Haight Street: The Love of Ganesha
Restaurants:
1418 Haight Street: Hippie Thai
1725 Haight Street: Alembic (EPIC DRINKS and a Scotch Egg!)
1398 Haight Street: Magnolia (classic and great beer!)
941 Cole Street: Zazie (I personally believe the best Pork Chop in town)
900 Cole Street: Cole Tavern (Solid with good Cocktails)