The Ramones were a park for the proto-punk scene in San Francisco. The local detonator was a punk rock burlesque cabaret "Mary Monday and her Bitches" at the Mabuhay Gardens.

Deborah Paulino has an interesting range of interests and interesting life. Author of over 9 books. From working in entertainment to weird art history to tiny house villages. Contributing writer for Haight Ashbury Festival and GigsList And documentary maker.

Haight Ashbury’s own social media platform and online festival. Heaps of exposure for everybody.

Fun costumes and party fashion and sequins. Fabulous boutique on Haight Street, Haight Ashbury, San Francisco.

The real thing ... The Grateful Dead in Haight Ashbury

Haight Ashbury Street Fair is a nonprofit with a pulse, a purpose, and a punk-rock soul. We exist to honor Haight-Ashbury’s legacy of activism, artistry, and individuality—and to keep throwing the kind of party that reminds the world why San Francisco will always be weird, wild, and wonderful.

Walking tour and virtual street surf tour. Symbols on Victorian houses of the Holy Grail bloodline and ancient . Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ, Egypt and Cleopatra, Gods and Goddesses and more. The real Da Vinci Code!

635 Ashbury Street or 122 Lyon or both? Do you know? According to tourist maps her place was 635 Ashbury. But on her driver's license it's 122 Lyon. What's the story? What are your thoughts? The famous apartment building...

The Rainbow Family means different things to different people. Different versions of the Native America Prophecies that talk about the...

Before Woodstock Was A Cultural Phenomenon, It Was A Financial Fiasco. Organizers behind the legendary music festival in upstate New...

The 13 points of the Grateful Dead’s Owsley skull lightning bolt also has a few interpretations and stories, some ancient and some more modern.  And some connected to the Bible and secret societies. And that's only part of it...

An obscure piece of pre hippie history about Haight Ashbury is that it is full of old Masonic lodges, Knights Templar churches and abbeys, and La Belle Epoque houses and apartment blocks with ancient symbols disguised as beaux arts architecture.   Today the houses and apartments are called ‘Painted Ladies.' But there's more...

.. Princess Missy Moo... Haight Ashbury Festival office feline... Testing Haight Ashbury Festival's 24 hour streaming thingy for shows....

Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist who discovered the psychedelic LSD in 1938. Hofmann’s initial discovery was set aside for five years until April 1943....

The Summer Of Love wasn't just hippies. Black San Francisco in the 1960s tells its own story.  While “The Summer of Love” in 1967 is a celebration of the counter-culture of the times, the undercurrents, radical social change

The Godfather of the Summer of Love and the concert producer who discovered Janis Joplin. The tall Texas Gentleman. I first met Chet on the backstairs of a huge warehouse party in Downtown San Francisco, through a photographer girlfriend, Victoria. Chet was from Texas, a gentleman bent geek kind of Texas. We sat and chatted and smoked. He smoked joints, I smoked cigarettes. And afterwards kept running into each other backstage at various events and backstairs of other partie

San Francisco's coolest mayor, Daniel Lurie’s groove inauguration celebration with ZHU and DJ Ruckus, Chinatown.

A theoretical observation of cultural mashups.

“The ‘60s were a portal to an inner-dimensional multi universe, and possibly a door to parallel worlds. We were explorers of inner space.” --Stanley Mouse 

Video Zara Festival Movement and nonverbal and verbal communication to manage psychological and behavior glitches. Where words alone...

Haight Ashbury is an ever evolving outdoor art gallery of murals. Representing all kinds of culture.