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January Meeting Recap
HANC’s January meeting was in three parts. The first two segments were part of our 60th anniversary celebration. We started with a video from 1972, “A report from the Neighborhood.” The neighborhood was, of course, the Haight-Ashbury, and the video included a HANC meeting, and some recognizable individuals. It can be seen at https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/218071.
The video was followed with a presentation by David Wills, former Haight Ashbury resident and local artist. David first visited the Haight-Ashbury in 1969, where he bought a sketchbook at Mendel’s and overalls at Cal Surplus. He moved to the Haight-Ashbury in 1975 and lived on Ashbury Street from 1976 until 2008, and in the neighborhood until 2013. David provided tables full of his art, which he showed at the meeting. Examples included the first poster for the Haight Ashbury Street Fair, 1978 “Shop the Haight” bus ads (very few of the stores advertised still exist), and a 1982 poster showing the Haight-Ashbury surrounded by rising waters due to climate change (David gave away copies of this poster at the meeting). There was barely time to mention David’s work with Rolling Stone, the Whole Earth Catalog, the Hookers’ Ball, Shady Grove, and Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver.