[San Francisco Hippie Day Tour Part 2] Hippie Base Camp: Haight-Ashbury

After visiting the Summer of Love Experience exhibition at the De Young Museum in the morning, I dragged my luggage and walked east. The Haight-Ashbury district was just across the street to the east of Golden Gate Park. Haight-Ashbury, I think it's the "heart" of San Francisco, the place I've been yearning for for years, I'm finally here!

This area was the home base of hippies fifty years ago, and it still has a strong psychedelic vibe today, although souvenir shops make up the bulk of it. But check out the shop called "Jimi Hendrix Red House"! Check out Janis Joplin, John Lennon and George Harrison's dining room painted on the exterior! Check out Rasputin Records, which specializes in psychedelic music! Check out "Love On Haight" with the Grateful Dead Lightning Hearts emblem and a pun on the store's name! There is also the Amoeba Record Store, which is as vast as a warehouse! And of course the telephone pole where all the pilgrims come to take a photo!

Walking in Haight-Ashbury is a surprise for a rock fan, no surprises. It is a pity that in today's streets half a century later, there are far more products that make tourist money than the number of hippies. It was also too peaceful and serene, with few street performers, which was my sigh at the time. This place should be filled with smoke and gongs and drums! Of course, if you are still doing this now, don't say it's out of date, the residents will definitely report to the police station first, saying that you are disturbing the peace! Maybe the local people don't care about those dazzling pasts at all. We can only recall the grand occasion of 100,000 hippies from the photos, but at least I can be a conscientious tourist, in addition to bringing home some souvenirs and CDs, I also have a few words with the shop owners Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead.