« Being a Public Character | Main | Vacation in Sunny Tierra Amarilla » Brand New Speedway BoogieAt Facebook, Bill Braasch has posted a great set of photos from the Summer of Love Reunion at New Speedway Meadows. I have my own interesting memories of a couple of failed attempts, in '67 and '68, to drive from Texas to SF and join the fun. In '67 I set out with $20, a gasoline credit card, and an old Mercury Comet and drove to Denver, then across the Rockies, deciding in Utah that twenty bucks wasn't going to do it (though I'd only spent $3 at that point). I drove back to Texas, and tried again the next year with my friend and literal fellow-traveler, Pinky Arnold. We made it to Flagstaff where we joined some old friends who were (barely) attending classes at Northern Arizona State, and had a great couple of weeks drinking beer and exploring Oak Creek Canyon before my brother talked me back to Texas for his wedding in Austin. I didn't make it all the way to SF until '72, and by then, the summer of love was more or less over. I recall standing in line for a big show at the Fillmore (the late Sylvester, Dan Hicks, and one of my favorites at the time, Stoneground) and being accosted by a few drug-addled street crawlers. Alas. jon posted this at 8:17 AM |
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