I saw this listing about a month ago on some San Francisco site. The house at 719 Ashbury St, in the Haight/Ashbury is for sale. It doesn't mention this in the realitor listing, but the other site said it used to be a "Hells Angels hangout..." during the Summer of Love. I do know that it's right down the street from the old Grateful Dead house, at 710 Ashbury.
I don't think this was the house Pete Knell (then President of the Frisco Charter) lived in, I think that was over on Geary, with Pete in the bottom half, and Billy Batman & the Bat Family collective on the top half - but, I could be wrong. If I am, please somebody correct me.
I see that the original asking price has been lowered from $2,395,000.00 to $2,285,000.00 . Wow! I'm gonna wait and see if it goes any lower before I put in a counter offer.......but hey, it isn't every day you get a chance to buy a house with such an extensive Frisco/biker/hippie pedegree! I wonder if it still smells like 60w, reefer, DMT, and patchouli oil???
The Angels kept it in really nice shape compared to what their scooters looked like.
ReplyDeleteWould the floor of the garage be the same gradient as the hill?
ReplyDeleteCos that would get on my tits.
Please play some sort of lottery and get this place!!!
ReplyDeletewho the fuck is billy batman and the bat family collective? that sounds interesting...
ReplyDeleteI lived here as a roommate from 1978 to 1979. It had been the Hell's Angels house and it was owned by the same landlady who rented to the Grateful Dead across the street. The couple who rented it were there for about 2 years before I moved in. They had cleaned it up - every square inch of the floors were covered with cigarette burns, and there had been mattresses laid end to end in every room. The cockroaches were fierce - they even tented the whole building & they still came back every 6 months. When you turned on the light in the kitchen, the floor moved. I am sure they STILL come back, 2.3 Million be damned. There was a makeshift stage in the basement, as the landlady, Dottie Ivory was a singer & had had a club in the Fillmore. Rumor was that Jimi Hendrix & Janis Joplin had jammed there (at different times). Before the Hippie era, it and the Dead house, had been Board & Care homes - we found old brochures in a closet - I still have some. Before I moved there, the roommates were part of the Order of Templis Orientalis - Aleister Crowley's bunch & they had made it the OTO house. There was still a pentagram painted on the door to the room Grady used to stay in.
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