Maxima

(pounding fist on desk….again and again)

I tied repeatedly to find the address of Janis Joplin in San Francisco.  I just wanted to stand there and feel her going in and out of her house, hear her laugh, smash a beer bottle or two, see the wind mess up her hair………

It was a difficult location to find.  Every time I tried, all I got was the address and reviews of a new broadway musical called… Love, Janis.  All about her life and times, I guess.  But, thousands of reviews and locations all over the US.  NOT where she lived in real life.  Just the locations now of the play.

HOWEVER, last night I finally found it on a site of San Francisco trivia.  AND….pounds fist again,…..the picture I took of the house I imagined her in…….well, that is TWO blocks from the real address!  The pic I took is on (100 block) Masonic Street and her house is just two blocks over.  Two stinkin blocks.  AND we drove by it as we left Haight-Ashbury.  pounds fist again.  So, I saw it but I did not know it.  jeeeezzzz louise I am bummed out.

I also found that the Grateful Dead lived at 710 Ashbury and that is 4 blocks from Janis’ house. We parked half way inbetween them, just two blocks from each one.

The other piece of trivia that I found was that Patty Hearst was held for most of her captivity at 1827 Golden Gate #6, between Baker and Broderick.  That is in the same neighborhood.  She was also kept at 1235 Masonic Street for a year and was arrested at 625 Morse Street.

When I go back, the first place I visit will be 112 Lyon Street.  Maybe I’ll leave a bottle of Southern Comfort on the steps.  Then again, maybe I won’t.  Some things should just stay a dream, I guess.  Did I tell you her house is beige now.  Beige. 

That’s just wrong