The idea of creating a Haight-Ashbury museum dedicated to the 1960s has some hoping the idea finally moves forward, while others would like to see more than counter-culture history included.The Haight-Ashbury Museum organization, a resident-driven initiative, has revived the effort to create a space dedicated to the 1960s and the Summer of Love, which is one of the main draws of the milelong stretch of Haight Street, organizers said.
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It was St. Patrick’s Day 2010 when David Bates noticed a young bartender struggling to keep up with the thirsty customers at Club Deluxe. “Trying not to be a creep,” Bates, 29, a bartender himself back East, approached the young woman and asked if she needed help. Days later, Bates was hired and today the Boston native, who ironically is a self-proclaimed Manhattan cocktail “kind of guy,” commutes about 45 seconds to work as he resides above the establishment.
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Nearly 7,000 customers in San Francisco’s Western Addition and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods were briefly without power this morning and almost 300 customers are still in the dark, a PG&E spokesman said.A power outage started at 5:24 a.m. after an underground equipment failure at Golden Gate Avenue and Fillmore Street. The outage knocked out power to 6,910 customers, spokesman JD Guidi said.
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Thousands of PG&E customers have had their power restored after an outage left nearly 7,000 in the dark in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, Western Addition, and Laurel Heights neighborhoods this afternoon, according to the utility.The outage impacted about 6,900 customers earlier this afternoon. Power was restored to about 5,400 customers as of 4 p.m, according to PG&E’s twitter account.
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A two-alarm fire early Thursday morning damaged a clothing store and cafe that share a building in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, a fire department spokeswoman said.Firefighters responded at 4:59 a.m. and found a blaze burning at True Clothing and the People’s Cafe, located at 1415 and 1419 Haight St., near Masonic Avenue, fire spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said.
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Before the credits roll on San Francisco’s iconic Red Vic Movie House, the theater will host two final sold-out shows this evening.On its 31st and last birthday, the Haight Street independent cinema has chosen to mark its closing with an apropos 1970s black comedy that toys with death.
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The Red Vic Movie House, the landmark theater that helped bring a revival to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the early ’80s, will shut its doors for good July 25, its 31st birthday.
The last showing? “Harold and Maude.”
“It’s kind of the perfect movie. Maude makes the decision there is a time to end,” said Betsy Rix, one of the original founders who owns the building with her husband, Jack. “Harold goes on to do great things ... we think. I’m sure he does.”
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A San Francisco Municipal Railway bus struck a vehicle in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood this morning, a Muni spokesman said.The crash was reported at about 7:45 a.m. near Masonic Avenue and Haight Street and involved a bus on the 37-Corbett line, spokesman Paul Rose said.
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A police lieutenant working in the Haight-Ashbury area said The City’s new sit-lie law has been ineffective, though the claim was disputed by a neighborhood group.
Speaking at the Police Department’s public CompStat meeting, Park station Lt. Belinda Kerr said that despite “a prolific amount” of citations and warnings, “I haven’t seen that it’s done a whole lot.” In addition, she said, police have been seeking stay-away orders for multiple offenders.
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San Francisco will be selling its biggest industry — tourism — to an international audience of tour operators and travel agents at a trade show this week that local officials hope will generate a flood of cash from overseas for The City’s struggling economy.
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