SAN FRANCISCO -- For more than 40 years, Jim Siegel has been doing what he loves on Haight Street in San Francisco. Distractions, a legacy business, is one of the famed neighborhood's oldest shops.

Distractions, a 41-year-old clothing store and Haight-Ashbury mainstay, will close by the end of this month. The store's founder, Jim Siegel, announced plans to retire at the end of October via a sign ...

Editor’s note: This is Neighborhood Explorer, a series in which neighborhoods and culture correspondent James Salazar highlights the people and places that make their pockets of San Francisco unique.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Haight-Ashbury would soon sprawl outwards as a psychedelic playground, with musicians including the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix ...

In Haight-Ashbury, where counterculture echoes through the streets, a new record store is turning up the volume on punk. More than just a shop for vinyl, tapes and CDs, I Hate Records is carving out a ...

Editor’s note: This is Neighborhood Explorer, a series in which neighborhoods and culture correspondent James Salazar highlights the people and places that make their pockets of San Francisco unique.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Haight Ashbury Street Fair will take place this Sunday with street closures in effect throughout the day. The annual event in the city neighborhood that’s most closely ...

"Once upon a heady afternoon on April 30, 1978, the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair burst onto the scene like a psychedelic phoenix rising from the incense-scented ashes of a faded Summer of Love. Born ...

Haight-Ashbury would soon sprawl outwards as a psychedelic playground, with musicians including the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin citing the area’s free-thinking nature and affordable ...

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