“The biggest bag of blow I ever saw in my life.”
But one 17-bedroom home on the northeastern corner of the park, fronted by four monumental faux-Greek columns, may have the most storied rock ’n’ roll history of any site in the neighborhood. The mansion’s lore includes its time housing an opera singer in an earthquake, a drug-dealing martial arts instructor in the basement and maybe the most drug- and sex-fueled band in the history of the psychedelic San Francisco scene.
It was maybe this classical European excess that attracted Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso. The apocryphal story goes that on the morning of the 1906 earthquake, the world-renowned tenor was staying at the Palace Hotel while performing a series of shows in the city. To escape the destruction, Caruso headed west to stay with his friend Vance at his lavish home. There, he holed up as the quake and subsequent fire destroyed the eastern half of the city, including the Palace Hotel.
In 1968, Jefferson Airplane was as famous as Caruso was in the early 1900s. The pioneering San Franciscan psychedelic rock band, founded by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner and fronted by an icon of the era, Grace Slick, had already scored two top 10 hits with “White Rabbit” and “Somebody To Love.” After living in various apartments across the city, the band decided to invest its newfound cash into what would be the closest thing San Francisco ever had to its own Graceland.
“It was like a culture center for the Haight-Ashbury,” veteran San Francisco music writer Joel Selvin says. “There were some very famous parties. I think the Thanksgiving party of ’68 was one where Owsley had obtained an advance copy of ‘Hey Jude’ and wired the house and played it over and over in every room.”
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