Chronology (in progress)

Until I have a reasonably sensible design for an active server page to output the Sixties Date Machine database, this page will be a temporary place for the different chronologies of the Sixties that comprise the separate threads of looking at that era.

• Diggers
• SF Mime Troupe (Artists Liberation Front)
• SF Beats/Underground Arts
• SF Rock/Underground Music Scene
• Kesey et al. (Pranksters/Trips Festivals/Acid Tests/Grateful Dead)
• SF Haight-Ashbury
• Free Speech Movement/New Left
• Civil Rights Movement
• Peace/Anti-War Movement
• Communes of the Sixties
• International Youth Movement (Provos, etc.)
• Media Coverage of Hippies
• Other Events of the Period

Diggers

A preliminary discussion of the SF Mime Troupe, specifically the events that led up to the formation of the Artists Liberation Front, and continuing through the summer months of 1966 (including the ALF meetings, and also the wider context of the development of the Haight-Ashbury hippie community), is important to understand the soil out of which sprung the Diggers in late September.

09/27/66. Hunter’s Point Riot.

09/29/66. Birth of Diggers. (Or 9/28).

10/31/66. Intersection Game, Halloween at intersection of Haight and Ashbury.

11/11/66. First mention of Diggers in SF Chronicle (Gleason article).

11/29/66. Charges dropped in 10/31 arrest.

11/30/66. First page photo in SF Chronicle of four Diggers in famous pose outside courthouse. (Was this City Hall or Bryant?)

12/17/66. Death of Money Parade along Haight Street. Bust of two Hell’s Angels forges an alliance with Diggers. (See 1/17/67).

01/01/67. New Year’s Wail. (See 12/30 Gleason, see 1/2/67).

01/08/67. Bust of 520 Frederick, second Free Store. Eugene Grogan busted.

01/12/67. Poets’ Thank-you for Diggers. (See 1/11 Gleason, 1/12, 1/20/67 Gleason)

01/14/67. The Be-In. See articles on aftermath, busts, etc.

01/23/67. Articles in SF Chronicle re Diggers.

01/31/67. Diggers sue Police over harassment.

02/24/67. Invisible Circus, Glide Church. (2/24 to 2/26). (See 2/25, 2/27 Chron).

02/27/67. Police raid two Digger crash pads: 848 Clayton and 1775 Haight. The next day, a demonstration takes place at Park Station protesting the raids, and police harassment, especially directed toward Patrolman Arthur Gerrans. Lt. John Curran estimated that 40 people stayed at each apartment on a nightly basis. (Chron, 3/1, p. 1).

03/03/67. Love Circus protest by Diggers.

03/11/67. Berkeley Provos to hold Be-In (cancelled due to rain.) (See 3/20 re free food by Provos).

03/21/67. Lisch, Ballard warn about upcoming invasion of hippies. (See Cahill response 3/23, see Mayor’s reaction 3/24, see Gleason 3/24, see 3/10 re: B. Graham prediction of four million hippies.)

3/24/67. Health Dept announces campaign to “clean up the hippies.” Chron 3/25, p.1. See also 3/26, p.1 re: Cahill and Sox alleging their recent actions don’t have anything to do with the predictions of an influx.

3/26/67. Easter Sunday “Mill-In” at the corner of Haight and Ashbury. Hundreds of hippies blocked traffic for three hours by playing the Intersection Game (repeat of Halloween event.) Twelve people were arrested. Other Easter Be-Ins took place in Los Angeles and New York. (see Chron 3/27/67, p. 1, p. 7. See also editorial, 3/28/67, p. 36 decrying the “tie up”).

3/27/67. Announcement of a 10-year retrospective of David Simpson’s work at SF Museum of Art.

3/27/67. Health Department raids Haight hippie pads, issues 5-day abatement notices to 6 of them, including 848 Clayton St., a Digger crash pad. (See 3/28 Chron, p. 1).

3/27/67. Mayor Shelley’s declaration of unwelcome to the hippies was referred to committee yesterday at the Bd of Supervisors. (Chron, 3/28, p.10)

3/27/67. Seven people arrested at the Easter Sunday Mill-In appeared before Judge Kennedy. One pled guilty. This article says the traffic was blocked for an hour. (Chron, 3/28, p. 10)

3/28/67. Dr. Ellis Sox, head of the Health Department, reveals that the situation in the Haight is not as bad as he had thought. After two days of inspecting 1400 buildings, only 65 were cited, including 16 that were hippie pads. (Chron, 3/29, p.1)

3/29/67. John “Spider” Simon, 28, of the Diggers, arrested for violating game laws after a photo appeared of him butchering a deer in back of 848 Clayton. (This is mentioned in his book, The Sign of the Fool.) (Chron, 3/29, p.1) See also Chron, 3/30, p.1, for followup article that explains how a Humane Officer, Robin Taber, had donated the road-kill carcass to the Diggers. Simon appeared in court 3/30 and charges were dropped by Judge Axelrod. Subsequent article Chron 3/31, p.2, mentions that Taber is considered a maverick in the Bird Guardians League, and that Fish and Game officers want to question Taber.

3/29/67. Ralph Gleason, in an article on new rock groups, mentions The C.I.A, one of whose members plays finger cymbals and reads quotations from The 1649 Diggers’ texts by Gerrard Winstanley to begin their set.

4/2/67. Berkeley Provos hold a happening at the Civic Center park, with various groups performing. (Chron, 3/31, p. 47).

The Haight-Ashbury

09/16/66. Anti-Fascist Rally.

09/26/66. ALF plans announced. (See 10/12, 10/14 Rexroth on ALF)

09/27/66. Hunter's Point Rally.

09/28/66. (9/29) Jacobs and SDS pickets.

09/29/66. (or 9/28). Birth of Diggers.

10/02/66. Memorial for Mathew Johnson. (See 10/3, 10/13, 11/27). 

10/06/66. Love Pageant Rally.

[General] 11/08/66. Reagan elected Governor.

11/15/66. ARDC makes recommendations.

11/15/66. Psychedelic Shop busted. (See 11/23 etc.)

11/22/66. Haight Independent Proprietors (HIP) formed.

12/08/66. UCB article.

12/08/66. Provos. (See 12/11.)

12/11/66. Buttons reported as underground phenomenon.

12/11/66. Sunset Strip riots in L.A.

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02/08/67. Press conference at All Saints Church.

04/14-16/67. Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. See 2/26. 4/15 the big rally. ("Anti-war" used).

03/01/67. Re: First funding for Neighborhood Arts Program.

03/10/67. Bill Graham predicts 4 million hippies to SF in summer. (Note: this precedes Lisch, Ballard warning.)

03/18/67. Announcement of upcoming Easter Be-In by Happening House.

3/19/67. Recreation and Park Dept., in a blatant rip-off of a hippie custom that they earlier helped bust, holds a "Chalk-In" at the Panhandle. (Chron, 3/2, p. 21, 3/20, p. 3)

3/24/67. Health Dept announces campaign to “clean up the hippies.” Chron 3/25, p.1. See also 3/26, p.1 re: Cahill and Sox alleging their recent actions don’t have anything to do with the predictions of an influx.

3/26/67. Easter Sunday “Mill-In” at the corner of Haight and Ashbury. Hundreds of hippies blocked traffic for three hours by playing the Intersection Game (repeat of Halloween event.) Twelve people were arrested. Other Easter Be-Ins took place in Los Angeles and New York. (see Chron 3/27/67, p. 1, p. 7. See also editorial, 3/28/67, p. 36 decrying the “tie up”).

3/27/67. Health Department raids Haight hippie pads, issues 5-day abatement notices to 6 of them, including 848 Clayton St., a Digger crash pad. (See 3/28 Chron, p. 1).

3/27/67. Mayor Shelley’s declaration of unwelcome to the hippies was referred to committee yesterday at the Bd of Supervisors. (Chron, 3/28, p.10)

3/27/67. Seven people arrested at the Easter Sunday Mill-In appeared before Judge Kennedy. One pled guilty. This article says the traffic was blocked for an  hour. (Chron, 3/28, p. 10)

3/28/67. The Muni Railway announces plan to re-route the buses to avoid the “Sodom” that Haight Street has become. Buses will run north and south of Haight Street, although the situation could change if 200,000 hippies appear this summer. (Chron, 3/29, p.1)

3/28/67. Dr. Ellis Sox, head of the Health Department, reveals that the situation in the Haight is not as bad as he had thought. After two days of inspecting 1400 buildings, only 65 were cited, including 16 that were hippie pads. (Chron, 3/29, p.1)

4/1/67. A “Spring Clean-In” takes place in the Haight, organized as a response to the Health Department inspections. Dumpsters will be conveniently located. Posters designed by well-known artists will be distributed. H.A.N.C. spoke out against the crack-down on the hippies. (Chron, 3/31, p. 47, Gleason.)

Artists Liberation Front

05/02/66. SF Mime Troupe crashes the first luncheon meeting of the newly appointed Arts Resources Development Committee.

05/03/66. Ronnie Davis and Kenneth Rexroth appear on the same panel discussing the Arts in San Francisco at the SF State Symposium. ("Culture and the City"?)

05/04/66. SF Mime Troupe cut off from the Hotel Tax funds for cultural groups.

05/10/66. First meeting of the Artists Liberation Front at the Mime Troupe studio on Howard Street.

05/31/66. Third ALF meeting.

06/13/66. ALF meeting.

07/17/66. ALF Benefit at the Fillmore.

07/20/66. ALF press conference.

07/25/66. ALF meeting.

08/28/66. ALF blasts ARDC.

09/26/66. ALF announces Free Fairs.

09/27/66. Hunter's Point Riot.

09/29 (or 28)/66. Birth of Diggers.

10/01/66. First ALF Free Fair.

10/08/66. Second ALF Free Fair.

10/15/66. Third ALF Free Fair.

10/22/66. Fourth (last) ALF Free Fair.

01/23/67. ALF meeting.

02/24/67. Invisible Circus, Glide Church. (2/24 to 2/26). (See 2/25, 2/27 Chron).

3/29/67. Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California, predicted that Ronald Reagan could be elected President of the U.S. because of a movement to the Right, and because of Reagan’s television skills. Chron, 3/30, p. 8.

Virtual Scholar    http://cr.virtualscholar.com/cr10.htm

Seattle Times, Civil Rights Movement pages    http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/  

University of Mississippi Archive pages    http://www.olemiss.edu/news/dm/archives/97/9710/971001/971001SE3legend.HTML

from http://www.uvm.edu/~jmoore/sixties/sixttime.html 

Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements   1948 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ("The Kinsey Report") demonstrates that a large percentage of U.S. males have had non-heterosexual forms of sexual relations at least some time in their lives.   1953

The Second Sex appears in an English translation of the 1949 book by Simone de Beauvoir.

Mattachine Society formed in Los Angeles.

 

1955

Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization, is founded in San Francisco.

 

1960

The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills and the 1st oral contraceptive goes on the market.

 

1960

Illinois becomes 1st state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in private.

 

1961

President Kennedy establishes Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.

 

1963

The Feminine Mystique by U.S. feminist Betty Goldstein Friedan, 42, argues that women as a class suffer various forms of discrimination but are victimized especially by a system of delusions and false values that encourages them to find personal fulfillment through their husbands and children. She calls this "the problem that has no name." Five million copies are sold by 1970, laying the groundwork for the modern feminist movement.

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women issues report documenting discrimination against women in demployment and education.

June 10 - Equal Pay Act. Congress votes to guarantee women equal pay for equal work, but the law will prove difficult to enforce. . .It does not cover domestics, agricultural workers, executives, administrators or professionals. The legislation was first introduced in 1945.

1st Gay Rights demonstration in the U.S. takes place in New York.

 

1964

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bars employment discrimination by private employers, employment agencies, and unions based on race, sex, and other grounds. To investigate complaints and enforce penalties, it establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which receives 50,000 complaints of gender discrimination in its first five years.

White women make up about half the students participating in Freedom Summer but find themselves relegated often to menial jobs in the "Movement".

 

1965

June 7 - Connecticut’s 1879 law prohibiting sale of birth control devices is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court rules 7 to 2 in Griswold v. Connecticut. The case involved a New Haven clinic run by leaders of the state’s Planned Parenthood League.

 

1966

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded to help U.S. women gain equal rights. Founder and president of the new civil rights organization is Betty Friedan. One of the principal reasons for founding the organization is dissatisfaction with the slow implementation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

1st Gay community center opens in San Francisco.

 

1967

California becomes the first state to re-legalize abortion.

Chicago Women's Liberation Group organizes, considered the first to use the term "liberation." New York Radical Women is founded. The following year they begin a process of sharing life stories, which becomes known as "consciousness raising." Groups immediately take root coast-to-coast.

The Advocate begins publication in Los Angeles.

 

1968

New York Radical Women garner media attention to the women's movement when they protest the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City.

The first national women's liberation conference is held in Chicago.

The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) is founded.

The Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement appears in Chicago, edited by Jo Freeman and others. By 1971, over 100 women's movement newsletters and newspapers are being published across the country.

National Welfare Rights organization if formed by activists such as Johnnie Tillmon and Etta Horm. They have 22,000 members by 1969, but are unable to survive as an organization past 1975.

Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) is first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

 

1969

June 27 - New York’s Stonewall Inn riot launches a “gay rights” movement as homosexuals protest police raid on a Greenwich Village dance club and bar on Christopher Street.

1969 The Boston Women's Health Book Collective publishes the self-help manual Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women , incorporating medical information with personal experiences. Nearly 4 million copies sold as of 1997.

California’s supreme court rules in September that the state’s anti-abortion law is unconstitutional. It infringes on a woman’s right to decide whether to risk childbirth and bear children, says the court.

Chicago women set up "Jane," an abortion referral service. During four years of existence, it provides more than 11,000 women with safe and affordable abortions.

 

1970

July 1 - The most liberal abortion law in the United States goes into effect in New York State.

Kate Millett's Sexual Politics

Robin Morgan's Sisterhood is Powerful

The Equal Rights Amendment is reintroduced into Congress.

1st Pride March takes place in New York to celebrate Stonewall.

 

1971

The first battered women's shelter opens in the U.S., in Urbana, Illinois, founded by Cheryl Frank and Jacqueline Flenner. By 1979, more than 250 shelters are operating.

New York Radical Feminists holds a series of speakouts and a conference on rape and women's treatment by the criminal justice system. Susan Brownmiller's book, Against Our Will , is one result. Another: the establishment of rape crisis centers across the country.

The non-partisan National Women's Political Caucus is founded to encourage women to run for public office.

Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex

 

1972

Ms. magazine begins regular publication, reaching a circulation of 350,000 within a year.

The first emergency rape crisis hotline opens in Washington, D.C. By 1976 400 independent rape crisis centers operate nationwide offering counseling, self-defense classes, and support groups.

Title IX of the Education Amendments requires that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

In Eisenstadt v. Baird the Supreme Court rules that the right to privacy encompasses an unmarried person's right to use contraceptives.

After languishing since 1923, the ERA is passed by Congress on March 22 and sent to the states for ratification. Hawaii approves it within the hour. By the end of the week, so have Delaware, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Idaho and Iowa.

 

1973

January 22 - Abortion should be a decision between a woman and her physician, the Supreme Court rules in Roe v. Wade. The court’s 7-to-2 decision upholds a woman’s right to privacy in opting for abortion during the first 6 months of pregnancy. “Right-to-life” groups work to undermine the ruling. effectively canceling the anti-abortion laws of 46 states.

The U.S. military is integrated when the women-only branches are eliminated.

The National Black Feminist Organization is established.

National Gay ("and Lesbian" is added later) Task Force is founded; Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund is founded; Homosexuality removed by APA list of "psychiatric disorder".

 

1974

Hundreds of colleges are offering women's studies courses; there are over 80 full programs in place. Additionally, 230 women's centers on college campuses provide support services for women students.

The Coalition for Labor Union Women is founded, uniting blue-collar women across occupational lines.

 

from http://www.sfu.ca/~scollis/english349.chronology.htm

January 1, 1965
New Year’s Eve costume ball at California Hall to raise funds for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual was harassed by police. It became a turning point in the San Francisco gay rights movement. ACLU took the case, which was dismissed.

April 3, 1965
Students at UC Berkeley circulated a flyer which claimed seismologist Dr. Charles Richter suggested the next big earthquake would be centered in the East Bay. It was a tongue-in-cheek ad for the Johnny Otis Show at Zellerbach Hall which, the flyer said, met all State earthquake requirements.

May 14, 1965
“Boss of the Bay,” KYA presents the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, Beau Brummels, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Vejtables, at Civic Auditorium.

August 13, 1965
The Matrix, San Francisco’s first folk night club, opened at 3138 Fillmore in the Marina District. New band called “The Jefferson Airplane“ performed.

September 2, 1965
Beatles concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City. Pandemonium broke out as fans rushed the stage.

September 21, 1965
The Jefferson Airplane opened for Lightnin’ Hopkins at the Matrix on Fillmore St. Norm Mayell backed Hopkins on drums.

October 15, 1965
The Great Society performed at the opening of the Coffee Gallery. Band members included Darby, Jerry and Grace Slick. San Francisco State College Vietnam Day Committee Teach-In. Country Joe and the Fish entertained.

October 16, 1965
Family Dog collective dance and concert, a tribute to Dr. Strange, at Longshoremen’s Hall with The Jefferson Airplane andthe Charlatans, and the Great Society. Russ “The Moose” Syracuse of KYA was master of ceremonies.

October 24, 1965
Family Dog collective dance and concert at Longshoremen’s Hall with the Lovin’ Spoonful.

November 6, 1965
San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal party at Bill Graham’s Calliope Ballroom, 924 Howard Street. The Jefferson Airplane entertained

December 10, 1965
Warlocks become “The Grateful Dead,” and debut with the new name at the Fillmore Auditorium for the second San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal Party. The Jefferson Airplane, The Great Society, the John Handy Quintet, the Mystery Trend, and Sam Thomas also appeared.

January 8, 1966
KYA Super Harlow A Go-Go dance and show at Longshoremen’s Hall with the Vejtables and the Baytovens. “Super” Harlow Meyers was Russ “The Moose” Syracuse’s radio engineer on KYA’s “All-Night Flight,” and a former disc jockey.

January 21, 1966
Three-day Trips Festival at Longshoremen’s Hall, 400 North Point St. featured the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Loading Zone, Chinese New Years’ Lion Dancers and Drum and Bugle Corps, Stroboscopic Trampoline, and Ken Kesey and His Merry Pranksters.

February 4, 1966
Bill Graham presented The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium, 1805 Geary Street.

February 12, 1966
Rock For Peace at the Fillmore Auditorium with the The Great Society, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Benefit for Democratic congressional candidates and the Viet Nam Study Group.

Lincoln’s Birthday Party with Sopwith Camel at the Firehouse, former quarters of Engine Co. 26 and Truck Co. 10, 3767 Sacramento St. The Charlatans also appeared.

February 19, 1966
Family Dog and Bill Graham presented The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium. Wildflower and Sopwith Camel at the Fire House.

 

March 4, 1966
The Charlatans and the Electric Chamber Orkustra appeared at Soko Hall, 739 Page St.

March 12, 1966
The Alligator Clip, the Charlatans, Sopwith Camel, and Duncan Blue Boy and his Cosmic Yo-Yo, at the Firehouse on Sacramento Street.

March 15, 1966
Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of the State of California, condemned the use of LSD and other drugs in a statement to the State Senate Judiciary Committee in Sacramento.

March 19, 1966
Big Brother and the Holding Company appeared at the Fire House. Sgt. Barry Sadler, who was to entertain, could not attend.

March 22, 1966
Sopwith Camel appears at the Matrix in the Marina District

March 25, 1966
Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Quicksilver Messenger Service opened at Fillmore Auditorium.

April 7, 1966
City Lights Books sponsored the appearance of Russian poet Andri Vozneskensy at the Fillmore. Lawrence Ferlinghetti read translations and The Airplane performed.

April 8, 1966
The Jefferson Airplane opened at California Hall on Polk Street.

April 9, 1966
Week of Angry Arts Vietnam Mobilization fund raiser at Longshoremen’s Hall, 400 North Point St.

April 15, 1966
Fifth-Annual San Francisco State College Folk Festival with Malvina Reynolds, Mark Spoelstra, and Dick and Mimi Fariñia.

April 16, 1966
Charlatans, Mystery Trend, Wanda and Her Birds and the Haight St. Jazz Band appeared at California Hall.

April 30, 1966
Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Fillmore Auditorium.

May 6, 1966
Jefferson Airplane, and the Jaywalkers at the Fillmore Auditorium

May 18, 1966
PH Phactor Jug Band opened at 40 Cedar Street, also known as Cedar Alley, near Polk and Geary.

May 20, 1966
Capt. Beefheart and His Magic Band opened at the Avalon Ballroom, Sutter and Van Ness.

May 27, 1966
Artist Andy Warhol and his Plastic Inevitable, Velvet Underground and Nico, plus the Mothers, at Fillmore Auditorium.

May 30, 1966
Benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization (HALO) at Winterland. The Jefferson Airplane performed.

June 4, 1966
The Jefferson Airplane appear in Exposition Auditorium at Civic Center.

June 6, 1966
The Turtles, and Oxford Circle at the Fillmore Auditorium.

June 22, 1966
The Jefferson Airplane at the Avalon Ballroom.

June 24, 1966
Lenny Bruce and the Mothers of Invention appeared in concert at Fillmore Auditorium.

KFRC Presents the Beach Boys Summer Spectacular at the Cow Palace. Other acts included the Jefferson Airplane, Lovin' Spoonful, Chad and Jeremy, Percy Sledge, The Byrds, and Sir Douglas Quintet,

June 26, 1966
Sopwith Camel opened for the Rolling Stones in performance at the Cow Palace. Jefferson Airplane also performed.

July 1, 1966
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother, and Jaywalkers at the Fillmore Auditorium.

July 2, 1966
Great Society, Sopwith Camel and the Charlatans at the Fillmore Auditorium.

July 3, 1966
Love, Grateful Dead and Group B at the Fillmore Auditorium.

July 10, 1966
United Farm Workers’ benefit at the Fillmore with Quicksilver and the Messenger Service and the San Andreas Fault Finders.

July 17, 1966
Allen Ginsberg read poetry and Sopwith Camel performed in concert at the Fillmore, to benefit A.R.T.S. Gary Goodrow of The Committee emceed.

July 22, 1966
The Association, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sopwith Camel, and Grassroots at the Fillmore Auditorium.

July 26, 1966
The Temptations’ dance and show at the Fillmore Auditorium.

August 6, 1966
Vietnam War peace march up Market Street.

August 7, 1966
Third-Annual South-of-Market and North Beach Children’s Adventure Day Camp benefit with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and The Grateful Dead held at Fillmore Auditorium. Gary Goodrow of The Committee was master of ceremonies.

August 10, 1966
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs at the Fillmore Auditorium.

August 17, 1966
Psychedelic fashion show and tarot reading at the Fillmore. The Airplane and Mimi Fariñia entertained.

August 25, 1966
Yardbirds performed at the Carousel Ballroom. The Carousel was the former El Patio Ballroom on the second floor of the car dealership on the southwest corner of Market and Van Ness.

August 26, 1966
Grace Slick and the Great Society, Country Joe and the Fish, and Sopwith Camel at the Fillmore Auditorium. It is Country Joe and the Fish's first performance at the Fillmore - they filled in for 13th Floor Elevator.

August 29, 1966
Beatlemania swept San Francisco as the “Fab Four” performed in concert at Candlestick Park. It was the Beatle’s last public appearance together. Also appearing were The Cyrkle, The Ronettes, and the Remains. Ticket purchases by mail were available from KYA, No. 1 Nob Hill Circle, San Francisco.

September 5, 1966
Labor Day opening of Martha and The Vandellas at the Fillmore Auditorium.

September 6, 1966
The Blues Project opened at the Matrix.

September 11, 1966
Benefit for BOTH/AND jazz club at the Fillmore with “Big Mama” Thornton, The Airplane, Elvin Jones, Jon Hendricks Trio and the Joe Henderson Quartet.

September 16, 1966
Grateful Dead at the Avalon Ballroom

September 23, 1966
The Jefferson Airplane opened at Winterland.

September 27, 1966
The Four Tops, with Johnny Talbot and De Thanks opened at Fillmore Auditorium.

September 30, 1966
Three-day Acid Test opened at San Francisco State College Commons. The test was to peak on the evening of Oct. 1. The Grateful Dead performed.

October 6, 1966
Love Pagent in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park. Big Brother, Wildflower, The Dead and the Electric Chamber Orkustra entertained. California Legislature outlaws sale and possession of LSD.

October 7, 1966
Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Big Brother, and Electric Train at the Avalon Ballroom.

October 15, 1966
Artists’ Liberation Front Free Fair in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.

The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium.

October 21, 1966
Grateful Dead, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Loading Zone at the Fillmore, with dancing and strobe light show.

October 23, 1966
The Yardbirds, and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore.

October 27, 1966
New “alternative” weekly newspaper, “The Guardian,” debuted. Edited and published by Bruce Brugman. Editors at the Chronicle, Examiner and News Call-Bulletin give it little chance for survival.

October 31, 1966
Bob McKendrick presented “Dance of Death” costume ball at California Hall. The Dead, and Mimi Fariñia entertained.

November 6, 1966
The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium.

November 8, 1966
Movie and TV actor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Gov. Edmund G. Brown by almost one million votes.

November 12, 1966
Hells Angels’ motorcycle gang dance at Sokol Hall, 739 Page St. Grateful Dead performed.

November 13, 1966
The Dead, Quicksilver, and Big Brother and the Holding Company Zenefit at the Avalon Ballroom for the Zen Mountain Center.

November 19, 1966
Righteous Brothers, with April Stevens and Nino Tempo, appeared at the USF Gymnasium. Beau Brummels at the Carousel Ballroom. Grateful Dead and James Cotton at the Fillmore.

November 20, 1966
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fundraiser at the Fillmore with the James Cotton Chicago Blues Band. Stokely Carmichael and his staff were there. Jon Hendricks was master of ceremonies.

November 29, 1966
District Attorney John J. Ferdon dropped charges against members of The Diggers, who staged a Halloween puppet show at Haight and Ashbury streets. Released from custody were Emmett Grogen, Peter Berg, Brooks Bucher, Peter Minnault and Robert Morticello.

December 1, 1966
Print Mint store in the Haight-Ashbury opened at 1542 Haight St.

December 17, 1966
Benefit for Legalization of Marijuana (LEMAR) at California Hall. Country Joe and the Fish entertained.

December 20, 1966
Otis Redding Show opened at the Fillmore Auditorium.

January 5, 1967
Inaugural message of Ronald Reagan, California’s 33rd governor, delivered during ceremonies in the Rotunda of the State Capitol at midnight. Just before the swearing in, the new governor turned to U.S. Senator George Murphy — a former movie song-and-dance man — and said “Well George, here we are on the late show again.” The new governor placed his hand on Father Serra’s bible as he was sworn in by State Supreme Court Justice Marshall F. McComb.

January 6, 1967
Young Rascals, Sopwith Camel, and the Doors at the Fillmore Auditorium.

January 13, 1967
The Dead, Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band, and the Doors at the Fillmore Auditorium.

January 14, 1967
Human Be-In at the Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park. Speakers included Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Timothy Leary. Participants were urged to bring food to share, flowers, beads, costumes, feathers, bells, cymbals and flags. The Jefferson Airplane entertained. The Be-In was produced by Michael Bowen.

Ike and Tina Turner Revue with the Ike-Ettes at California Hall.

January 17, 1967
Big Brother and the Holding Company appeared at the Matrix.

February 3, 1967
Big Brother and the Holding Company entertained at the Hells Angels’ dance at California Hall.

Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Fillmore Auditorium.

February 10, 1967
“Tribute to J. Edgar Hoover” at California Hall. Music by the Jook Savages, Blue Cheer and the Mojo Men.

John H. Myers Blues Project, Jimmy Reed and John Lee Hooker at the Fillmore Auditorium.

February 12, 1967
Benefit at the Fillmore for the Council for Civic Unity. Moby Grape, and Sly and the Family Stone performed.

February 14, 1967
Jim Morrison and The Doors performed at Whisky A-Go-Go, 568 Sacramento St.

February 19, 1967
Port Chicago Vigil Benefit at California Hall.

March 3, 1967
First Love Circus at Winterland, music by Moby Grape and lights by the Commune. Jim Morrison and The Doors at the Avalon Ballroom

 

March 5, 1967
Warren Hinckle III, editor of Ramparts Magazine, hosted a “rockdance-environment happening” benefit in honor of the CIA (Citizens for Interplanetary Activity) at California Hall. Participants included the S.F. League for Sexual Freedom, the Diggers and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

March 7, 1967
Jim Morrison and The Doors performed at the Matrix.

March 21, 1967
Eric Burdon and the Animals appeared at the Civic Auditorium.

March 24, 1967
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