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Hippie area made famous by the 1960's... now with incredible people watching. Great shopping, especially thrift stores & used CD's/records. Good nightclub scene at night, primarily with hardcore live music and a pseudo-20's club... See more » Hippie area made famous by the 1960's... now with incredible people watching. Great shopping, especially thrift stores & used CD's/records. Good nightclub scene at night, primarily with hardcore live music and a pseudo-20's club (The Deluxe). Go to Haight Street @ Ashbury where you'll find a Ben & Jerry's ice cream parlor. The strip ends at Haight and Stanyan where you might see illicit drug dealing occurring, as it does all over Haight Street at night. As J.L. puts it, "It's... a neighborhood with a beat unlike any other in this city..." This is an interesting place to stop by, just to see it for maybe a couple of hours. You could also combine visiting Haight Streeet with continuing west past the end of the street into Golden Gate Park. Skates on Haight also rents rollerblades you can use to enjoy the park. Watch out (rollerblading) for the steep hill entering the park (near McDonalds). There are quite a few good breakfast restaurants here too-- very cheap. Downside-- a relatively scummy area with a lot of panhandling and high-on teens... Reader P.Z. puts it best as, "Haight St. is full of panhandlers, and it's quite scummy, but it's friendly nontheless." Haight Street-- a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live in this very dirty place. Even steam cleaning nightly doesn't seem to fix the grime... Panhandling is incessant, and more of the people than usual appear to be "homeless by choice" (Newt Gingrich aside). The Haight is popular for teenage runaways and "squat" apartments of 5-10 teens or gen-x true slackers living in a small apartment. Drug dealing is opposed by a neighborhood group but is now only more discrete. There are great ethnic restaurants on the street, and everything here is pretty cheap. There are also some great art stores including a Frank Kozik rock art store. Many esoteric bookstores are fun to browse also. But the Haight is not for the faint of art, as you are sure to be aggressively encouraged to contribute to the charity of others throughout your "trip". Needless to say, you will hear the Grateful Dead frequently in this area. A San Francisco local writes about the Haights improvement, "An update to your description of the Haight. I think it may be cleaned up a bit since your last visit. Though you still see kids panhandling and can still buy pot easily, gone is some of the edginess there was even a few years ago. Now instead of seeing 3 or 4 people sleeping in doorways on my way to work I see about 1 or 2 a week. This is due in part to the number of new shops that have moved in to what were vacant stores. Unfortunately the recent rent increases caused us to lose a bakery, a dry cleaner and some other business that were convenient for locals. However, these have been replaced by vintage clothing stores and shoe shops. In fact a recent headline in a local paper said "Haight street achieves shoe nirvana" referring to the 20+ establishments where shoes can be purchased. So now the street is full most days with shoppers and tourists and can be outright crowded on weekends. It's still a great place to people watch (out of town visitors often sit in my living room window to watch the people below). Also beneath all of this, it is a neighborhood, my friends live there, I know the shopkeepers at the little stores I patronize, we keep an eye out for the area and each other. Yeah, it's a little scruffy around the edges but certainly not "scummy" and I have never felt in danger at all. Have a great time on your next trip here, it's a great city." See less »

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From the list : ˚ places to visit around the... by ellynet

Interesting area in San Fran...

From the list : San Francisco! by kmama

good ole Haight street

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