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Haight Street (/ ˈ h eɪ t-/) is the principal street in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, also known as the Upper Haight due to its elevation. The street stretches from Market Street, through the Lower Haight neighborhood, to Stanyan Street in the Upper Haight, at Golden Gate Park. In most blocks it is residential, but in the Upper and ...
Haight-Ashbury (/ ˌ h eɪ t ˈ æ ʃ b ɛr i,-b ər i /) is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called the Haight and the Upper Haight. [5] The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s. [6]
Split into 71 Haight-Noriega (now 7 Haight-Noriega) and 72 Haight-Sunset (now part of 29 Sunset) 1947: 1951 20 Columbus Midday hours only. Beale Street & Howard Street: Van Ness Avenue & North Point Street: Low ridership; replaced by 41 Union; there was an earlier 20 Columbus, shown on rollsigns. [2]
Yun Li, 37, was inside the dice joint on Haight Street near 41st Avenue around 9:20 p.m. Dec. 19 when he was shot in the head during the botched drug heist, authorities said.
After the departure of Al Rinker, Ken Englander and others took up the Switchboard concept. They moved to a storefront office at 1797 Haight St]. It went through a number of moves and forum changes through the 1990s. Before he left, Rinker transferred the Haight Ashbury Switchboard's 501 (c)(3) (non profit tax status) to Pam Hardt and Jed Riffe.
The I-Beam was a former popular nightclub and live music venue active from 1977 to 1994, and located in the Park Masonic Hall building on the second floor at 1748 Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. [1] The I-Beam served as one of San Francisco's earliest disco clubs, as well as serving as a "gay refuge". [1] [2]
Following the closure of the Haight Street Chutes, the amusement moved to Fulton Street in the Inner Richmond District, [5] [5] opening in May. [6] In 1909 the Fulton Chutes were closed, the property was sold to a developer. [7] Irving Ackerman, the son of the original owner relocated the operation to Fillmore Street. [8] [7] [9] [10]
The building, constructed in 1928 as St. Joseph's Hospital, has been converted to condominiums. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places . 611 Buena Vista West, on the west side of the park near Frederick Street, was a particularly noteworthy example of the modern-architecture work of Cass Calder Smith , as featured in many ...