(He was reportedly hiding out in the Hell's Angels house across the street, see below.) 2, 1967, when 11 residents, including Bob Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, were arrested by the San Francisco Police Department for drug use. San Francisco native Jerry Garcia and his bandmates lived here during the Summer of Love at the peak of their powers. The Grateful Dead house is maybe the most famous residence of the '60s.

The house is notable for its strange, ornate gate in the entranceway, though it's not clear if it was installed by either of its famous residents.ħ31 Buena Vista West, San Francisco. Graham Nash, of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, lived at 731 Buena Vista West before selling the place to 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' singer Bobby McFerrin. Two doors up the hill from that house is another Haight home once owned by two famous figures. Ford and Glover starred together in the 1985 crime drama, 'Witness.') 731 Buena Vista West - Graham Nash and Bobby McFerrin (You actually only need two degrees of Bacon: Jack London wrote 'Call of the Wild,' recently made into a movie starring Harrison Ford. In the 1960s, the ballroom on the top floor of the home was converted into “Buena Vista Studios,” a space where the Grateful Dead recorded their first demos.Īctor and San Francisco native Danny Glover bought the home in 1990, though records show the mansion was granted to Glover’s ex-wife in 2003. London wrote 'White Fang' at the old Spreckels Mansion on Buena Vista West in 1906, before moving to his doomed castle on Sonoma Mountain after the earthquake. There aren't many ways to get from Jack London to Danny Glover in the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but they did both live at the same address. 737 Buena Vista West - Jack London and Danny Glover We mapped the most iconic, celebrated spots alongside the troubled corners of the street. These famous Haight-Ashbury addresses from that era are where well-known figures - counterculture heroes and criminals alike - called home.

The Farm by Richard Haigh