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Originally Posted by Mezzaluna  See why I love this place??!!
Shel, I had come across the Cafe at Chez Panisse. It might be a great highlight for a day in Berkeley.
I'm with Doc: I won't miss the chance to visit Haight-Ashbury! I was a hippie wannabe rather than there real thing (how can you really be a hippie and go to a university in a town called "Normal"?  ) |
It ain't nuthin' like it was ...I lived there summer of '66 through early '68. The place turned to sh!t sometime in 67. I do remember a couple of good cafes - there was Magnolia Thunderpussy's, a truly great, and as far as I could tell, authentic fish n chips place (served the food on newspaper), a neat little Russan hole-in-the-wall that served fantastic borscht and nicely done perogies.
Last time I was there the place had been nicely Yuppie-ized. There's nothing there that even smacks of the "old days." We used to distribute free food, the Black Panthers had a place across the street from my flat and put out free food for the neighborhood every now and then (Bobby Seale was frequently the 'que meister - he made good 'que - wrote a barbecue cookbook, FWIW), Janis and the Dead were neighbors, Quicksilver Messenger Service lived downstairs at one point, The Airplane never locked their door and we'd drift in and out, shooting pool on the table in the dining room, there were free concerts in GG park (Speedway Meadows) - Oh well, I guess if you want to have your picture taken underneath the street sign, y' gotta go there.
Shel (sometimes missing the old days)