A map of where the Grateful Dead lived, worked and played in San Francisco

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Something to get your mind on better times in San Francisco:

>>In the course of their 30-year career, the Grateful Dead covered an enormous swath of geography, crisscrossing the U.S. dozens of times as well as playing Canada, Europe, and as far away as Egypt. But San Francisco was the place they called home, the city where they performed over 320 concerts at more than two dozen venues. That connection began with their debut album, which bore the phrase “San Francisco’s Grateful Dead” across the back, and they mapped that relationship in songs, recordings and performances throughout their history.

The Dead were masters of microcosm, treating each moment as an opportunity for transformation, both musical and personal, and their reverence for San Francisco was a geographic expression of that. The city honored the band’s affection, flying a tie-dye flag at City Hall to half-mast when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, and more recently, giving a hero’s welcome to offshoot band Dead & Company, who played the final three concerts of their farewell tour at Oracle Park.

Although the band began moving to Marin in the late 1960s, the Dead never forgot their roots. In 1993, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and keyboardist Vince Welnick sang the national anthem to open the Giants’ season at Candlestick Park, but their most moving tribute was “Standing On the Moon,” one of Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter’s last songs. One of the band’s great elegies, the song ends with the narrator in San Francisco, looking up at heaven and saying he’d rather “be with you.” It is a poetic summation of the Dead’s enduring affection for the city.

Ahead of the annual Jerry Day concert taking place Aug. 5 at McLaren Park, this brief list sketches a handful of prominent sites in the Dead’s San Francisco.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/grateful-dead-san-francisco-map-18274802.php