We actually had very few of these street fairs when I lived here. But in a strange way this is the Haight that I’d always fantasized. Nothing but us kids getting as much as we wanted—with no price to pay. Now it all feels like a caricature or commerce.
Ralph Arlyck from the docudrama Following Sean, 2006 on his mid-1990s revisit to the Haight-Cole neighbourhood he lived on in the late 1960s.
