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TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Love Haight

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If Woodstock II made you nostalgic for the ‘60s (whether or not you were around for them), check out Rachel Heller’s Flower Power walking tour of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, birthplace of an era. The two-hour tour progresses down Haight, Page and Waller streets, with stops at the Grateful Dead’s onetime crash pad (now a beautifully restored Victorian), Janis Joplin’s house and the sites of the now-vanished Psychedelic Shop and Straight Theatre, where Bill Graham staged pre-Fillmore shows with the Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane. (The Fillmore Auditorium itself has recently reopened for concerts, but it is not included in the tour.) Heller adds pre-’60s sites as well, including the turn-of-the-century mansion built by San Francisco merchant prince Isaac Magnin. Tours begin Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. and other times by appointment. Fee is $15 for adults and $13 for seniors, with discounts for groups. For reservations and more information, call (415) 221-8442. For Fillmore Auditorium show information, call (415) 346-6000.

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