Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif)

Peggy Caserta, Who Wrote a Tell-All About Janis Joplin, Dies at 84

Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture. But she was best known for a tawdry book — which she later disavowed — published after Ms. Joplin’s death.

By Penelope Green

Actors and Actresses Cockettes Deaths (Obituaries) Divine (1945-88) Drag (Performance) Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif) James, Sylvester Jr LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) Rumi Missabu (1947-2024)

Rumi Missabu, Avant-Garde Drag Performer Who Glittered, Dies at 76

He was one of the stars of the Cockettes, a psychedelic collective formed at the turn of the 1970s in San Francisco, that was short-lived but inspired generations.

By Penelope Green

Deaths (Obituaries) Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif) Its a Beautiful Day (Music Group) LaFlamme, David Nineteen Hundred Sixties Pop and Rock Music San Francisco (Calif) White Bird (Song)

David LaFlamme, Whose ‘White Bird’ Captured a 1960s Dream, Dies at 82

As a founder of the San Francisco band It’s a Beautiful Day, he was at the center, if not in the forefront, of the Haight-Ashbury acid-rock explosion.

By Alex Williams

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