Haight-Ashbury Street Fair, 1981
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2008
- The fourth annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair took place on May 31, 1981.
Haight Street was a nice place, home to hippies, punks, gays, straights, families, and, of course, the "orange people". This was just a few weeks before signs went up at 18th and Castro advising gay men to see their doctors if they had purple lesions on their skin, the first wave of what was to become the AIDS epidemic.
This was taken on an 8mm camera. My friend Kyra is manning my tie-dye booth. You can see that other booths had much more professional and beautiful tie-dyes. My booth was not too far from the corner of Haight and Cole, on the north side, where you can see a crater in the ground where the Straight Theatre once stood and is now home to a Goodwill thrift shop. You also see a booth with the words "New Moral Minority", a swat at the newly formed Moral Majority that ushered in the unfortunate presidency of Ronald Reagan.
There's a hippie on stilts with tie-dye pants, Nixon dressed in a ballerina costume, and you can see the backs of a few nuns, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of gay men dressed in nun garb who sold indulgences.
The final shot looks east on Haight Street, a familiar shot to the one on the inside cover of the Grateful Dead album, Live/Dead. And yes, the musical background is Dark Star by the Grateful Dead.
Angels of Light!
loved every single second of it. Columbia hippie in july 2021!
brought tears of joy to my eyes, yes the hippie movement was a moment of communal joy. And yes it was the date of this event and video marks the beginning of the end and the silencing of the free love mantra love as a dark shadow began to cover the rainbow sun and clear the night sky twinkling with same-sex embrace, thank you for the memory.
This is great, thank you!
Excellent footage & sweet soundtrack. DarkStar, baby :)
Great video Steven!
i lived at 1465 Oak st from 1980-91
Dark star was recorded live at Fillmore west on 2/27/1969.
The Dark Star is from Live/Dead recorded in San Francisco in 1969. I used it because the album opens up to a photo if the Dead playing in Haight Street on March 3, 1968, so I liked that both of these were on Haight street though years apart.
nice! i lived at fell and steiner in1966
+Mary Jane Miller: How would you like to be interviewed about your time in the Haight. If so, please contact me at hashburysp@yahoo.com
This vid is awesome
I love it
What song/guitar solo is playing?
I am glad you liked the footage. It was a really fine day in the Haight. I moved back to New York about 2 months later. It's all a distant memory now. But still, this footage brings lots of it back for me.
You live in the Haight? Where?
What date was this Dark Star played (month/day/year)? Thank you!
I was there. I was 9. LOL