14th Street and Sanchez apartment, SF 1976

The Fourteenth Street apartment, at Sanchez, is situated mid-point between Lower Haight and the Castro. It is an ideal location for me; I lived in this apartment building at least twice in those early San Francisco years. A block over and I am on Market and then a block from Cafe Flore, where I dj-ed in late seventies. A block up north and east, skirting Duboce Park, and I am at Fillmore and Haight.
Gentrification was already taking place--I recall being advised against getting off a Haight bus, that is from Market Street heading out to the Haight-Ashbury district, advised against trying to transfer at the corner of Haight and Fillmore. "Wasn't safe for a little white boy from Texas." My first two apartments were on Nob Hill with Bill J. But I moved to Fell Street by the winter of 1976, a year that saw me living in faded hippie Haight-Ashbury a block away on Clayton, and 14th Street, in two different apartments.