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Levka @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 15:46 UTC

#neoNazis #history #SanFrancisco #HaightStreet #BoundTogether

"It happened here: When the American Front marched on Haight Street

(. . .)

On May 1, 1988, the traditional socialist holiday of May Day, skinheads held a White Workers March on Haight Street. Rather than being an invasion of outside agitators, this gathering was homegrown: The American Front, the group that organized the march, was formed in San Francisco as an explicitly white supremacist outgrowth of a violent but not outwardly racist skinhead group called SF Skins.

Bob 'Blitz' Heick (also known as Nazi Bob), was the founder of American Front. He favored a high-and-tight military-style ‘do to match his skinny ties, epauletted shortsleeve workshirts, and black boots with white laces, his affiliations right in your face.

In 1988, Heick was a 20-year-old SF native who’d attended Herbert Hoover Middle School. He lived in an Arts and Crafts-style house at 312 Parnassus St. on the border of Cole Valley, and had already made a name for himself as a violent street punk. In 1985, he and his affiliates kicked in the window of Bound Together, the anarchist bookstore at 1369 Haight St., taking credit for it with a flyer signed 'American Front.'

Three years later, the American Front was stomping its way down Haight Street with about fifty Nazi skinheads, a mix of provocation and performance art. According to reports in the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee newsletter, they were heckled, one person wearing a 'homemade ‘Fuck White Power’ T-shirt.'

(. . .)

In 1989, Heick tried to organize an 'Aryan Woodstock' event in Napa County that barely got off the ground. He left the Bay Area around 1990 and has mostly laid low, occasionally releasing music under the name Robert X. Patriot. If he has thoughts on the world he helped create, he hasn’t put them on record."

https://sf.gazetteer.co/it-happened-here-when-the-american-front-marched-on-haight-street

#neonazis #history #sanfrancisco #haightstreet #boundtogether

Levka @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 15:46 UTC

#neoNazis #history #SanFrancisco #HaightStreet #BoundTogether

"It happened here: When the American Front marched on Haight Street

(. . .)

On May 1, 1988, the traditional socialist holiday of May Day, skinheads held a White Workers March on Haight Street. Rather than being an invasion of outside agitators, this gathering was homegrown: The American Front, the group that organized the march, was formed in San Francisco as an explicitly white supremacist outgrowth of a violent but not outwardly racist skinhead group called SF Skins.

Bob 'Blitz' Heick (also known as Nazi Bob), was the founder of American Front. He favored a high-and-tight military-style ‘do to match his skinny ties, epauletted shortsleeve workshirts, and black boots with white laces, his affiliations right in your face.

In 1988, Heick was a 20-year-old SF native who’d attended Herbert Hoover Middle School. He lived in an Arts and Crafts-style house at 312 Parnassus St. on the border of Cole Valley, and had already made a name for himself as a violent street punk. In 1985, he and his affiliates kicked in the window of Bound Together, the anarchist bookstore at 1369 Haight St., taking credit for it with a flyer signed 'American Front.'

Three years later, the American Front was stomping its way down Haight Street with about fifty Nazi skinheads, a mix of provocation and performance art. According to reports in the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee newsletter, they were heckled, one person wearing a 'homemade ‘Fuck White Power’ T-shirt.'

(. . .)

In 1989, Heick tried to organize an 'Aryan Woodstock' event in Napa County that barely got off the ground. He left the Bay Area around 1990 and has mostly laid low, occasionally releasing music under the name Robert X. Patriot. If he has thoughts on the world he helped create, he hasn’t put them on record."

https://sf.gazetteer.co/it-happened-here-when-the-american-front-marched-on-haight-street

#neonazis #history #sanfrancisco #haightstreet #boundtogether

Levka @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 15:46 UTC

#neoNazis #history #SanFrancisco #HaightStreet #BoundTogether

"It happened here: When the American Front marched on Haight Street

(. . .)

On May 1, 1988, the traditional socialist holiday of May Day, skinheads held a White Workers March on Haight Street. Rather than being an invasion of outside agitators, this gathering was homegrown: The American Front, the group that organized the march, was formed in San Francisco as an explicitly white supremacist outgrowth of a violent but not outwardly racist skinhead group called SF Skins.

Bob 'Blitz' Heick (also known as Nazi Bob), was the founder of American Front. He favored a high-and-tight military-style ‘do to match his skinny ties, epauletted shortsleeve workshirts, and black boots with white laces, his affiliations right in your face.

In 1988, Heick was a 20-year-old SF native who’d attended Herbert Hoover Middle School. He lived in an Arts and Crafts-style house at 312 Parnassus St. on the border of Cole Valley, and had already made a name for himself as a violent street punk. In 1985, he and his affiliates kicked in the window of Bound Together, the anarchist bookstore at 1369 Haight St., taking credit for it with a flyer signed 'American Front.'

Three years later, the American Front was stomping its way down Haight Street with about fifty Nazi skinheads, a mix of provocation and performance art. According to reports in the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee newsletter, they were heckled, one person wearing a 'homemade ‘Fuck White Power’ T-shirt.'

(. . .)

In 1989, Heick tried to organize an 'Aryan Woodstock' event in Napa County that barely got off the ground. He left the Bay Area around 1990 and has mostly laid low, occasionally releasing music under the name Robert X. Patriot. If he has thoughts on the world he helped create, he hasn’t put them on record."

https://sf.gazetteer.co/it-happened-here-when-the-american-front-marched-on-haight-street

#neonazis #history #sanfrancisco #haightstreet #boundtogether

Tantek Çelik @[email protected] · 2026-05-05 · 06:59 UTC

Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(

I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.

A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine eating place”.

Looks like it was sold sometime in the past two weeks.

New name: Grind and Unwind https://grindunwindsf.com/

#CitrusClubSF is no more.

I have been eating here and getting take out for a long time. Lots of memories with so many friends. Citrus Club was my favorite neighborhood noodle place. They had numerous vegan and vegetarian dishes. My favorite dishes were the BBQ tofu spring rolls, and marmalade coconut shrimp without the shrimp, substituting both fresh and fried tofu. From the menu: “sweet peas, onions & lemomngrass. Tossed in our coconut sauce w/Jade(spinach)noodles.”

When I walked by on the return home, the front door was open, the inside was lit but looked emptied, and there was music playing.

🎶 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone 🎶

#CitrusClub #Haight #HaightStreet #HaightAshbury #SanFrancisco #smallBusiness #closed

#citrusclubsf #citrusclub #haight #haightstreet #haightashbury #sanfrancisco

Tantek Çelik @[email protected] · 2026-05-05 · 06:59 UTC

Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(

I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.

A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine eating place”.

Looks like it was sold sometime in the past two weeks.

New name: Grind and Unwind https://grindunwindsf.com/

#CitrusClubSF is no more.

I have been eating here and getting take out for a long time. Lots of memories with so many friends. Citrus Club was my favorite neighborhood noodle place. They had numerous vegan and vegetarian dishes. My favorite dishes were the BBQ tofu spring rolls, and marmalade coconut shrimp without the shrimp, substituting both fresh and fried tofu. From the menu: “sweet peas, onions & lemomngrass. Tossed in our coconut sauce w/Jade(spinach)noodles.”

When I walked by on the return home, the front door was open, the inside was lit but looked emptied, and there was music playing.

🎶 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone 🎶

#CitrusClub #Haight #HaightStreet #HaightAshbury #SanFrancisco #smallBusiness #closed

#citrusclubsf #citrusclub #haight #haightstreet #haightashbury #sanfrancisco

Tantek Çelik @[email protected] · 2026-05-05 · 06:59 UTC

Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(

I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.

A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine eating place”.

Looks like it was sold sometime in the past two weeks.

New name: Grind and Unwind https://grindunwindsf.com/

#CitrusClubSF is no more.

I have been eating here and getting take out for a long time. Lots of memories with so many friends. Citrus Club was my favorite neighborhood noodle place. They had numerous vegan and vegetarian dishes. My favorite dishes were the BBQ tofu spring rolls, and marmalade coconut shrimp without the shrimp, substituting both fresh and fried tofu. From the menu: “sweet peas, onions & lemomngrass. Tossed in our coconut sauce w/Jade(spinach)noodles.”

When I walked by on the return home, the front door was open, the inside was lit but looked emptied, and there was music playing.

🎶 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone 🎶

#CitrusClub #Haight #HaightStreet #HaightAshbury #SanFrancisco #smallBusiness #closed

#closed #smallbusiness #sanfrancisco #haightashbury #haightstreet #haight

Tantek Çelik @[email protected] · 2026-05-05 · 06:59 UTC

Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(

I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.

A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine eating place”.

Looks like it was sold sometime in the past two weeks.

New name: Grind and Unwind https://grindunwindsf.com/

#CitrusClubSF is no more.

I have been eating here and getting take out for a long time. Lots of memories with so many friends. Citrus Club was my favorite neighborhood noodle place. They had numerous vegan and vegetarian dishes. My favorite dishes were the BBQ tofu spring rolls, and marmalade coconut shrimp without the shrimp, substituting both fresh and fried tofu. From the menu: “sweet peas, onions & lemomngrass. Tossed in our coconut sauce w/Jade(spinach)noodles.”

When I walked by on the return home, the front door was open, the inside was lit but looked emptied, and there was music playing.

🎶 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone 🎶

#CitrusClub #Haight #HaightStreet #HaightAshbury #SanFrancisco #smallBusiness #closed

#citrusclubsf #citrusclub #haight #haightstreet #haightashbury #sanfrancisco

And How! @[email protected] · 2025-09-23 · 22:27 UTC

Remembered an anecdote about a (clerk? cashier?) employee at a Haight Street record shop who walked with a cane (which I first took to be an affectation). Thin, pale skin, shoulder-length ginger hair, predilection for paisley prints. I later heard he had been caught in explosion while camping (?) with friends when a stove / still / butane tank caught fire, was thrown dozens of feet through the air, and landed in the bottom of a well. Hence, cane. He later produced a painting of his view upwards: a black canvas with a fiery orange circle dead center. Where is he now, and what became of the painting? Or was I lied to? #Explosions #HaightStreet #SanFrancisco

#explosions #haightstreet #sanfrancisco