The Hippie Temptation - CBS News Report (1967)

Harry Reasoner visits The Haight Ashbury District and presents to us the truth about the "Hippie Movement." If you were, are, or would like to be a Hippie, this video is must viewing. Learn the scientific truth about LSD, the hazards of LSD Flashbacks, scientific conclusions such as chromosome damage and destruction caused by "trips." An interview with the Grateful Dead. Canned Heat plays a ballroom. The Dead plays a concert in the park "Dancing In The Street." Our country in degeneration. CBS News 1967, reddish and white color. 50 min.

Link to full broadcast: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BWAAKEBB

KFRC Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Festival (6-10-67)

On June 10th and 11th in 1967 radio station KFRC put on the "Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Festival" on Mount Tamalpais just north of San Francisco. The Festival was held at the 4,000 seat Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre high on the South face of Mount Tamalpais. According to Wikipedia, over 15,000 people attended. This was the first of several cultural events that came to be known as "The Summer of Love." Admission to the festival was $2 and all proceeds were donated to nearby Hunter's Point Child Care Center in San Francisco. The Festival was originally scheduled for June 3rd and 4th but was rescheduled due to inclement weather. After enjoying a scenic ride up the mountain from points such as the Marin Civic Center and Mill Valley, a giant Buddha balloon greeted attendees when they arrived. Transportation was provided by "Trans Love Bus Lines."

Official Program:

http://mildequator.com/performancehistory/memorabilia/tamalpaisinside1.html

The copy reads: ...A Benefit for the Hunters Point Child Care Centers ....A gathering of beautiful things, created and collected by the artisians and craftsmen of Northern California, and represented by the exhibitors listed on the Fantasy Fair Map...a variety of "happenings." When you arrive at the Fantasy Fair, you will immediately surrounded by color and motion, the good vibrations of thousands of people flowing with the natural beauty of Mt. Tamalpais. The major happening is you, your feeling of good will, and your knowledge that the Fair and the Mountain are a part of you, therefore yours to enjoy. The woods and meadows are an open invitation to wander and enjoy yourself to the limits of your imagination. And because they are yours to enjoy, we hope that you will grove with the surroundings, doing everything you can to keep them in their natural state.... For your enjoyment, The Fantasy Fair staff has prepared the Geodesic Dome Light Chamber. The Dome can accomadate 150 people per 8 minute show. We invite your participation in the wonders of the Dome, and ask that at the end of each show, you move out to make room for others waiting on line. You are also invited to enloy the giant slide, the tree swings (on the way to the valley of dancing), the vast assortment of strolling or sitting musicians (find many of them under trees or rocks), and other suprises prepared by Fantasy Fair volunteers for your pleasure and participation.... Music will be performed hourly in the Amphitheatre from 8am until 6pm. We ask that after each performance the seats be cleared to make way for people that may be waiting for the next performance... The Fantasy Fair wishes to express extreme gratitude to the artists in the performing groups, who have graciously donated their valuable time and exceptional talents, and all the bands performing in the Valley of Dancing.

Performers at the show were:
P.F.Sloan
The Grass Roots
Moby Grape
The 13th Floor Elevator
Spanky and Our Gang
Rodger Collins
Blackburn and Snow
Every Mother's Son
The Sons of Champlain
Jefferson Airplane
The Mojo Men
The Merry Go Round

The Performers for Sunday were:
The Byrds
The Loading Zone
Tim Buckley
The Doors
Every Mother's Son
Wilson Pickett
Hugh Maskela
The Steve Miller Blues Band
The Seeds
Country Joe and the Fish
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

The Doors - Video Mount Tamalpais Outdoor Theater 6-10-1967:

Photos from the show:
http://www.bcx.org/photos/events/concerts/ffair/?file=KFRCFantasyFair19670603_7587SBCX.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbove/sets/72157603860560629/
http://www.radioismoaning.com/Photographs/main.php?g2_itemId=1935
http://www.sanfranciscoaudio.com/MtTamalpaisMagicMountain.html

The San Francisco Trips Festival (1966)

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The Trips Festival was held at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco over three days in January of 1966. The festival was the brainchild of Stewart Brand, a Prankster and later publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Brand and Ramon Sender did most of the early organizing. The festival roughly followed the format of the earlier Acid Tests and, by all accounts, it was equally chaotic and off the wall (despite the best efforts of Bill Graham and his clipboard).
The Pranksters were involved early on, and on Saturday night they provided their usual homemade inter-active technology and wacked-out craziness. The Dead played -- well, sort of -- as did Big Brother and the Holding Company, along with lots of other musicians and artists. Kesey offered the crowds a running commentary of the craziness on an overhead projector. The audience were encouraged to be more than just spectators and many wore "Ecstatic Dress" and danced the night away as the fliers had requested. A bag of LSD circulated around the hall courtesy of Owsley himself.

Ben Van Meter - S.F. Trips Festival, An Opening (1966):

Rockin' at the Red Dog Saloon (1965)

Opening in June 1965, the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, was the prototype for the hippie dance halls of San Francisco, the proving ground for new groups like the Grateful Dead and the Great Society, and the outlaw enclave where Bill Ham invented the psychedelic light show. Melding raucous vintage footage with recent interviews, this brilliant documentary is essential for anyone interested in
the kinetic rise of Sixties rock.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Dino's Song (1968)

Must be one of the earliest ever music videos. The scene is the houseboat docks in Sausalito, home to generations of Bay Area bohemians including Alan Watts and the Whole Earth Catalog editors. The subject, Dino Valente, composer of the hippie anthem "Let's Get Together."

Keep on Truckin' - R. Crumb (1967)

From Zap Comix #1 - 1967

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Acid Test - Muir Beach (1965)

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Dec 17, 1965 Acid Test.

The third Acid Test took place at Muir Beach Lodge near Mt. Tamalpais (after being advertized for Stinson Beach). This was the largest one to date in terms of attendence. The Warlocks aka Grateful Dead perform.

Joel Selvin: Third public Acid Test. Last minute it was moved to lodge near Muir Beach. Augustus Owsley Stanley III arrived and tripped out on LSD. Screeched chair across the floor, left log cabin screaming and crashed his car on the side of the road.

Human Be-In (1967)

The 'Human Be-In' was a happening in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a household word as the center of an American counterculture and introduced the word 'psychedelic' to suburbia.

Berkeley Barb (1969)

Berkeley Barb 3-21-69 (front page)

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The Berkeley Rebels (1965)

The Berkeley Rebels (1965)

Narrator: Harry Reasoner (CBS). Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, Sallie Learey, Ron Anastasi, Kate Coleman, Michael Rossman. A unique documentary film presenting the 1964 Free Speech Movement demonstrations and sit-in at the University of California, Berkeley through first person accounts by four students involved in the protests. Includes debates between students withdiffering viewpoints of the movement, debates between faculty and students and an overview of the impersonalacademic experience at the University which fueled the unrest.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BJ292LO7

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)

A police captain (Aldo Ray) is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter (Mimsy Farmer) gets involved with an unruly bunch, his attitude starts to change.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0DYG1JWL

Alice In Acidland (1968)

Alice in Acidland (1968)

Cute and perky college student Alice and her cute and perky friend Kathy are invited to a "pool party" by Freida, a female teacher who is actually a lesbian and has designs on Alice. At the party Alice gets drunk, takes acid and immediately becomes a lesbian, taking a bath with Freida. Later Alice gets mixed up with LSD-addicted hippies, rape, more lesbians, more LSD, orgies, suicide, and having sex with guys who keep their boxer shorts on while doing it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S6MS2YG0