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Grateful Dead House
Category: Landmarks & Historical Buildings [Edit]
Neighborhood: Haight-Ashbury710 Ashbury Street
(between Frederick St & Waller St)
San Francisco, CA 94117
4 reviews for Grateful Dead House
Want to know what was worse than exploring the Haight? Do you really? Well I'm going to tell you...looking for that damn Grateful Dead House. My un-trusty tour book had it listed as one of the must sees while visiting the Haight so GBF#1 and I made a point in looking for it. Well we found it and what a huge disappointment because it's nothing more than just another Victorian house in San Francisco. It was pretty and well kept but it showed no signs of ever having any deadheads living there. The funniest part is I'm not even a fan of the Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia or even Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia Ice Cream, the only reason we looked for it because the book made it sound like a wonderful thing. It's not a wonderful thing it's just another pretty house.
The place the Grateful Dead famously resided during the Summer of Love, 1967. It isn't a business. People live there. But fans of the band visit almost daily, just to stand outside the gate, look at the large, inscrutable, purple Victorian, and snap a few photos. Hands down the best place to see hippies at heart. But the house won't tell you any of its stories. You'll have to look those up elsewhere, or ask someone you bump into out front. They will know them all.
It pity anyone who lives in this rather lovely Haight house. I used to live across the street and would see all the idiot hippies and wanna bes out in front! I could if the wind was blowing in the right directions smell their patouli. GERRY IS DEAD! Leave those poor people alone!
I used to live around the block and i'd love watching all of the old hippe yuppies with fanny packs snapping their digitals all day at this pretty little purple pill of a vic.