Stand on the corner of Haight & Ashbury

but we drove past.

We did have THE coolest hippy taxi driver.He had a card that said something about being in group therapy on his dash board. I gave him one of the fortunes from my cookie in my fannie pack that said you are the center of attention in a group or something like that.
I asked if he wanted one of my two “You will be happy with your wife” ones but he said he would pass. He said he used to hang with Janis Joplin & pointed out where Jerry Garcia( my hubby is a Dead Head) used to live and play concerts in the pan handle of the Golden Gate park. He said he wanted to go to live in Oregon. I said unless he he has kids or grandkids, to go for it. He said he his kids are my age. I like Hippy Taxi Drivers in San Francisco :D

did this in 2001, maybe 35 years earlier it would have been something to write home about.

I saw a band of Hare Krsnas playing tambourines at the Haight Street Festival. Does it get any more Haight-Ashbury than this?

I drove on Haight past Ashbury last Saturday, on the way to pick up a friend who also went to BayCon. So this goal is not yet achieved, but it’s been, uh, cased.

While stopped at the red light, I noticed two things. (1) A woman standing on the northwest corner took a photo of the street sign, which is on the southeast corner. (2) There is a Ben & Jerry’s on the northeast corner.

One time that I was in the Haight, my father-in-law was visiting and told us, as we were walking through the Golden Gate Park panhandle that he remembers walking the area and talking with Janis Joplin (he was a musician in the area at the time). He also pointed out where a few notable musicians he knew lived, where he saw Jimi Hendrix early one morning after he was apparently up all night playing or recording or something, and told us how from their house facing the panhandle, they wired the first electric concert given in the GGP panhandle. He’s such a nice mellow guy. I’m lucky to have the former SF hippie in-laws that I do. Both very smart and down to earth (now very normal looking middle class ~60 year old) people.