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Place #1
Distance: 0.10mi , Attraction : Fulton and Stanyan
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Fulton St & Stanyan St, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
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You’ve Arrived!
To begin our tour, make your way to the intersection of Fulton & Stanyan. This intersection is accessible by mass transit and is located at the extreme northeast corner of Golden Gate Park Position yourself on the left-hand sidewalk as you walk down Fulton street, keeping Golden Gate Park on your left. We’re going to walk two blocks down and stop at the corner of Willard & Fulton; the first attraction on our journey. As you walk, let’s talk about an important word that will keep popping up on our tour today: Counterculture. In the United States, the counterculture movement of the 1960s & 70s was a wide-ranging, anti-establishment platform born primarily out of opposition to the war in Vietnam. As it grew, it would encompass and embrace Civil Rights activism, women’s liberation, pacifism, environmentalism, and anti-government protests of all sorts. It was populated heavily by young people and typified by a deep antipathy toward traditional authority. It encouraged bohemian attitudes toward sex, artistic expression, & psychoactive drug use. Speaking of drugs - here's another word for you: Psychedelic. The dictionary tells us that the word psychedelic, “relates to or denotes drugs that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.” I’ll tell you that there was a lot of psychedelic drug use during the counterculture, so much so that the word psychedelic also came to describe an entire genre of rock music whose sound sought to replicate the sensory experience of a drug-induced high. Why am I telling you all this? Well, let’s just say that you’ll need to know a little bit about sex, drugs & rock n’ roll in order to appreciate our first stop.

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury
Place #2
Distance: 0.02mi , Attraction : Jefferson Airplane House
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2416 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
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Down the Rabbit Hole
As you approach the corner of Willard & Fulton, on the right-hand side you’ll notice a large, white building with four columns. This is the first official stop on our tour. During the 1960s, this grandiose, 8,000 square foot, 17 room mansion facing Golden Gate Park was home to the psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane. Jefferson Airplane was formed in San Francisco in 1965. Their eclectic mix of rock, folk, and jazz came to define the “San Francisco” sound. The band achieved commercial success and legendary status after Grace Slick became the group’s lead vocalist. Slick’s powerful voice and riveting stage presence helped define the band. We have her to thank for the anthem of the Summer of Love - the aptly titled song “Somebody to Love.” The hit was released just weeks after Jefferson Airplane played the January Human Be-In across the street in Golden Gate Park. “Somebody to Love” is the battle cry of counterculturalism. It rails against the illusions of conformity and instead calls for free love, peace, and equality. While “Somebody to Love” fits the sound of the 1960s fairly well, Jefferson Airplane’s other greatest hit blasted away all the pop music conventions of its time. “White Rabbit” takes the listener on a psychedelic journey through Wonderland. The song has no verses or chorus. It is simply one unbroken march down the rabbit hole - building in intensity. The early lines are delivered gently by Slick, but by the end, she’s screaming. The song is a prime example of psychedelic rock, the sound of the Haight-Ashbury. It seeks to mimic in music the feeling of an acid trip. In addition to its endorsement of psychedelia, “White Rabbit” was a coming of age song for the hippies. Playing on Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, the song tries to show the “flower children” that they are no longer children and rather it is now their turn to take over from the old generation and forge a new world. It is a call to join Alice down the rabbit hole and build a new society. Both these songs and much of the rest of Jefferson Airplane’s music was written and recorded in this mansion. The mansion was built in Colonial Revival style by a lumber magnate in 1904. The grand exterior was mirrored inside by exotic decor from around the world. The bedrooms are all abnormally shaped and adorned with classical frescos. When Jefferson Airplane moved here in the 60s, they had the whole place painted black. According to reliable urban legend, more acid was dropped at 2400 Fulton than in any other place in the Haight-Ashbury. The band regularly hosted lavish banquets featuring roast suckling pig and plenty of marijuana to go around. The price tag for this lavish pad? A mere $70,000. You’d be lucky to rent a shoebox for that money in today’s San Francisco! Alright, let’s climb our way out of this rabbit hole and move along to our next stop. Immediately opposite the Jefferson Airplane house, you’ll see a path that will take you into Golden Gate Park - we’re going to take that path until we hit a road.

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  http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/06/jefferson-airplane-house-2400-fulton.htm
Tour itinerary stops | Additional places you'll see on this self-guided tour

Map Pin Place 1 You’ve Arrived!
Map Pin Place 2 Down the Rabbit Hole
Map Pin Place 3 Through The Park We Go!
Map Pin Place 4 Keep Going
Map Pin Place 5 The Walk to Hippie Hill
Map Pin Place 6 Where It All Began
Map Pin Place 7 Toward the Panhandle
Map Pin Place 8 From Freeway Revolt To Free Concerts
Map Pin Place 9 Into Haight
Map Pin Place 10 Evolutionary Rainbow
Map Pin Place 11 A Glimpse of the Darkside
Map Pin Place 12 A Walk Down Haight
Map Pin Place 13 There’s a red house over yonder
Map Pin Place 14 The Heart of it All
Map Pin Place 15 A Woman Who Dared To Be Different
Map Pin Place 16 House of the Dead
Map Pin Place 17 Left on Frederick
Map Pin Place 18 Down Delmar
Map Pin Place 19 Sid Really is Vicious
Map Pin Place 20 Heiress, Hostage, Robber
Map Pin Place 21 Toward our Final Stop
Map Pin Place 22 None
Map Pin Place 23 Death of Hippie



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