Distractions, a 40-plus-year-old San Francisco mainstay founded by Jim Siegel, will close by the end of the month.
Distractions, a 41-year-old clothing store and Haight-Ashbury mainstay, will close by the end of this month. The store's founder, Jim Siegel, announced plans to retire at the end of October via a sign on the window late this summer, but had also been trying to find a buyer for the business so that it could remain open without him. That search is over, according to the San Francisco Standard, which reported that a total closure will officially happen this month.
'I moved to the Haight as a teenager in the early 1970's at a time the Haight was a boarded up street with mostly liquor stores and about 70% vacant,' the sign reads. A few years later, Siegel decided to open a counterculture store in order to 'keep the hippie spirit alive in the Haight-Ashbury.' He opened his first store on Haight Street, The White Rabbit, with two friends in 1976 using money from a government stipend.
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