After a year or so on the sidelines, I finally got around to making my first thread (I started getting into photography about a year ago b/c of this site - I'd just like to say thanks to everyone here for all the great threads and for keeping an update on the world's cities just a fingertip away).
Anyway, I traveled to the great city by the Bay, San Francisco in early April for Spring Break, a final jumbo-vacation before college. Here is Part 1 of 9: A "Trip" to Haight Ashbury. After finally getting back to San Francisco after a two-day sojourn back in '05 on a Vegas-LA-Frisco trip, I had over a week to soak it all in. Haight Ashbury became my personal Mecca immediately. The Victorian architecture is top notch and well kept. While the Summer of Love and hippy movement were some 40 years ago, the easy-going, accepting and laid back atmosphere of the love generation is still omnipresent. From smoke shops to vegan restaurants, Ben and Jerry's to the massive Amoeba Records, burnouts to freethinkers, Joplin to Garcia, VWs to Volvos, Haight isn't just a neighborhood - it's a way of life. If the world was more like Haight Ashbury it would probably be for the better...
More from the San Francisco Series...
-Part 2 (Downtown) -
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130785
-Part 3 (Chinatown) -
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130802
-Part 4 (Alcatraz, the Wharf & Skyline Shots) -
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130829
-Part 5 (Berkeley & Wine Country) –
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...43#post2818243
-Part 6 (Coit Tower & Telegraph Hill) -
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130846
-Part 7 (Night Shots) -
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130908
-Part 8 (Golden Gate Bridge & Vicinity) –
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130986
-Part 9 (Miscellaneous & Shots From The Plane) -
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=135626
San Francisco HQ of the Hell's Angels back in the day...
Once the house of the Grateful Dead...
I spot John Lennon
Janis Joplin...
Bob Marley...
That's it for Haight. Up next Part 2 of 9: Downtown.