{"id":27259,"date":"2020-10-30T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=27259"},"modified":"2020-10-30T07:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:52:52","slug":"haight-ashbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=27259","title":{"rendered":"Haight-Ashbury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the last of my on-site San Francisco reports, I will be driving home next week. It covers part of a neighborhood, Haight-Ashbury, that was synonymous with San Francisco for us European kids in the 60s, home to musicians, hippies, flower power and other cultural aspects that defined some of our youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was the America of our imagination and our dreams, naive as we were, having no clue how diverse a country this is, how diverse even a single city like San Francisco, in its multiple neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More importantly, it is the neighborhood where my local land-lady and overall fairy godmother grew up, a woman who is the definition of grace, social justice- and civic – engagement, as were her parents and her 8 siblings, by all reports. Thank you for all you did for me in these difficult months, Purcell! Your wit, your wise counsel and your cooking sustained me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My walk today never took me to Haight street, a central aspect of the neighborhood, but centered on Waller St, Oak St and over to Steiner St in order to explore the famous Edwardian and Victorian houses, called Painted Ladies. The 1906 earthquake spared this area for some reason, so you have an accumulation of old architecture, some imaginatively renovated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Brief History of Edwardian Homes in San Francisco and How to Spot Them<\/a><\/blockquote>