Haight-Ashbury THE HIPPY HEARTLAND
On Haight Street, where tens of thousands of hippies famously gathered during the Summer of Love, one building stands out amid the colourful clapboard houses: the grandiose vaulted-windowed structure at number 1653.
Today, the former bank is Decades of Fashion, a vast emporium of vintage clothes from the 1880s onwards. Larger-than-life owner Cicely Hansen may have worked with Dolce & Gabbana, Dior and Lanvin, but she’s usually to be found behind the till,
