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Haight-Ashbury in 1976
Detailed map of Haight-Ashbury, which was issued with the February 26, 1976 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine.
The map celebrates decade following the summer of Summer of Love, where the Haight has already become a place of "pilgrimage". Complimenting an article that follows up on the characters of the area, this double page map shows the key spots from the Diggers store, to Janis Joplin's apartment (112 Lyon St. #27) and the Grateful Dead House (710 Ashland St.).
A number of interesting photographs illustrate points on the map. Places shown include:
- Hippie Hill: the public forum, picnicking spot and primal social setting of the neighborhood.
- The Diggers' Free Frame of Reference and Free Store
- The Radha-Krishna Temple
- Far-Fetched Foods, also known as Blind Jerry's: the first health food store in the Haight
- Mouse Studios/Pacific Ocean Trading Co.: poster gallery
- The I-Thou coffee shop
- Quasar's Ice Cream
- The Trip without a Ticket: a later incarnation of the Free frame of Reference
- The Hip Job Co-Op: job referrals
- The Straight Theater: a movie theater converted to dance hall
- 42 Belvedere, where Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn were busted
- The Shire School: tuition-free Summerhill-inspired primary school
- The Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic (located at Happening House)
- Tracy's Donuts: popular gathering place because of its late hours
- The Pall Mall Cocktail Lounge: started serving "Love Burgers"
- The Print Mint: a poster gallery started after the tenant, a Berkeley book dealer, was denied a license to sell used books in the Haight
- The Psychedelic Shop: books, records, paraphernalia, meditation room
- Mnasidika: first hip shop on Haight Street
- The Blue Unicorn: first coffee house in the neighborhood, opened 1963
- 710 Ashbury, the Grateful Dead house
- The Blushing Peony (also, at various times, Skinnidippin, Middle
- All Saints Episcopal Church: lent its facilities to the Diggers over the objection of parishioners
- The Panhandle: scene of free rock concerts and Diggers' free feeds
- The Drogstore Cafe
- The Phoenix: paraphernalia shop--pipes, papers, incense, Indian goods. The offices of the "Oracle" were upstairs
- 112 Lyon: Janis Joplin's apartment
- 1360 Fell, Allen Ginsberg's sometime residence
- Huckleberry's for Runaways: housing and counseling for runaway minors
- The Albin place, 1090 Page: birthplace of Big Brother and the Holding Company
- The Tape Music Center: Charlatans' rehearsal hall, Bill Ham's light show performances, Anna Halprin Dance Troupe, electronic music performances, SF studio of Berkeley radio station KPFA-FM
- Magic Theater for Madmen Only: primordial hippie boutique