710 Ashbury - The Grateful Dead House
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A stop on San Francisco, District by District, a free self-guided tour.
Halfway up the block south of Haight Street, the Victorian at 710 Ashbury is the most famous house in the neighborhood. From 1966 to 1968, members of the Grateful Dead lived here with friends and managers, and the house became a gathering place where the band met, worked and fed a stream of visitors.
On October 2, 1967, police raided the house and arrested several people, including two band members, on marijuana charges, and the band answered with a press conference that became part of the story of the era. Within a year the Dead had moved on, like many of the musicians who had made the Haight famous.
This is a private home. Stand across the street, take your photo and keep your voice down; people live here.
More on Wikipedia: Grateful Dead
Stops on this tour
- Ferry Building and the Embarcadero - Where the City Met the World
- Financial District and Jackson Square - Gold Rush on the Old Shoreline
- Chinatown - The Neighborhood That Refused to Move
- North Beach and Telegraph Hill - Little Italy and the Beats
- Fisherman's Wharf - Italian Boats and Old Ships
- Nob Hill and Russian Hill - Cable Cars, Mansions and the Great Fire
- The Presidio - Two Centuries Guarding the Golden Gate
- Japantown and the Fillmore - Two Communities, One Neighborhood
- Haight-Ashbury - From Victorian Suburb to Summer of Love
- Golden Gate Park - Sand Dunes Turned Into a Park
- The Castro - A Neighborhood That Became a Movement
- The Mission - Where San Francisco Began
- Civic Center - Domes, Charters and Protest
- South of Market - From Rincon Hill to the Tech Boom