The fourth stop on my photographic tour of San Francisco: Haight-Ashbury. This is where the hippie movement started back in the day. The houses are decorated like nothing I’ve ever seen before, giving the area the strange mix of super beautiful and fancy houses and leftover hippies playing guitar on the street corners. There are small mini gardens like small altars, with flowers and pictures of different music legends, like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Beatles. The heart of this neighbourhood is at the junction of Haight street and Ashbury street. Along this part of Haight street, you can also find some of the best shopping in San Francisco, second hand stores and small boutiques, something that
One of all those shops on Haight street. This one happens to be a perfect place to find masquerade outfits.
The painted houses on Leland’s street.
Oh, I would love to have a blue lion to guard my door.
Or how about a pair of gargoyles?
The painted ladies of Alamo Square.
Hill on the edge of Haight-Ashbury.
Katja Malmborg 