Through a hippie-induced rabbit hole, SFGATE's Alex Shultz discovered how folklore and internet aggregation spawned San Francisco's 'Jimi Hendrix Red House.'
Ruark has lived in the Haight, half a block away from the Red House, for about 30 years. He came of age in the neighborhood, too, moving there as a kid in 1968 and staying until 1979, when he enlisted in the military at age 19. Back then, he told me, 1524 Haight St. was known as “the water house,” as in, the drugs flowed like water. He dismissed the possibility of any celebrity — burgeoning or otherwise — staying at the property.
I later texted Coon to ask about the “water house” nickname. He didn’t remember it, but confirmed the implication behind it. “I can certainly attest to the fact that during my tenure the drugs did flow like water,” he wrote back. “I can see the [Hendrix Red House] story coming from Pablo, and I can see him thinking it was genuine, or believing it was genuine,” he added. “I don’t think that’s the story he would make up just to try to embellish his own ego. He did that enough in other ways.”Charles Russo/SFGATE
Here’s what I can say: I certainly don’t think Hendrix ever lived at 1524 Haight St.; I’m extremely doubtful he ever visited, and if he did, I’m even more doubtful he slept there. I also don’t think the building owner did something nefarious . They seem to have excitedly taken advantage of a business opportunity that emerged from decades of passive whispers, amplified by internet aggregators run amok.
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