Palace Theater, (Ocean State Theatre, Performing Arts Center), 220 Weybosset Street, Providence, RI

Capacity 3800
Before the theater opened as Loew's State in 1928, a smaller movie house, the Gaiety Theater (later known as Conn's City), had been there and was demolished to make way for the new movie palace and business block.

1918

The Gaiety opened on September 14, 1914. The Providence Journal reported the event:
“A most attractive little house is the Gaiety, simple in its interior design, yet having sufficient character to make it seem cosy and homelike. The walls of both balcony and orchestra floors are tinged a warm cream color and the proscenium opening is in gold and white. Tapestry hangings at either side relieve the bareness of the walls. The entire house is built of brick, steel, and cement. (…) The audience broke out in applause as the pianist took his seat and the first picture was flashed on the screen.”
Roger Brett in his book Temples of Illusion remarked:
“The Gaiety had no real stage, but unlike earlier movie houses which had been converted from existing buildings, it was a true theater. While much smaller than the other theaters erected at this time and having only 700 seats, it did boast of a balcony. Built and owned by Ottenburg and Kahan, managed by Tom Soriero, it exhibited movies pure and simple; no vaudeville acts, not even illustrated songs.”
 The movies shown on opening day, September 14, 1914, were The Wrath of the Gods, “6 Reel Masterpiece Which Broke All Records at the Strand Theatre, New York,” and Weights and Measures, “Two-Reel Universal Feature.” The ad said that programs would change three times a week and would be continuous between 10:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. Sunday showings of movies and performances of plays were banned at the time.
The Gaiety operated from 1914 to 1927, was called Conn's City Theater when it was demolished for the construction of Loew’s State, now Providence Performing Arts Center. The Gaiety occupied the space where the entrance lobby to PPAC is now located.

Grand Lobby and Staircase with original furnishings and artwork

The newly constructed theater opened on October 6, 1928 as Loew's State. On opening day, the feature film attraction was the "Metro Movietone sound picture" Excess Baggage with William Haines. Also on the program were Movietone and Vitaphone offerings, M.G.M. and Fox news, and Joseph Stoves at the "mighty $100,000 Morton organ."The first person to purchase a ticket was a 14-year-old Providence boy by the name of James Riley, who had waited hours for the honor. Over 14,000 people jammed the building to marvel at the eye-popping opulence. The fans were led to their seats by 50 uniformed ushers, past perches in the lobby holding talking parrots.

1941 Special thanks to Paul Fernandes at http://www.rirocks.net/Search/loewspalace.htm

1955 Special thanks to Paul Fernandes at http://www.rirocks.net/Search/loewspalace.htm

Special thanks to Paul Fernandes at http://www.rirocks.net/Search/loewspalace.htm

After it was called Loew's State and before it became Providence Performing Arts Center, it was the Palace, then the Ocean State.

So the complete name sequence was
Loew's State 1928-1950
Lowe's Theater 1950-1972
Palace Concert Theater 1972-1976
Ocean State Theatre 1978-1982
Providence Performing Arts Center or PPAC, commonly pronounced "P-Pack." 1982-present

"Arthur P. Slater was the State Theater's chief projectionist for 40 years. One of the major attractions of Loew's State was always the Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Organ. On opening night, in 1928, the organ rose dramatically out of the orchestra pit, and was played by Joseph Stover, imported all the way from Paris.
The original 1,500 pipe organ was sold in 1963 to one Patsy Fucci of Waltham, Massachusetts. It had been in the theatre for a good 30-plus years. It was a four-manual Robert-Morton organ that had cost about $125,000 when new in 1928. A Providence Evening Bulletin article of March 16 that year reported manager William Trambukis as saying that Mr. Fucci had carted the organ away over a period of weeks, using big trailers. Some of the pipes were taller than a house. The instrument had only been used occasionally after the advent of sound movies. It had also been seriously damaged in the 1954 hurricane which flooded Loew's. Mr. Fucci was a connoisseur of organs and a post office clerk and would set up the organ in his basement. It would be powered by a motor in his garage.
   
The 5/21 Wurlitzer organ from the Marbro Theatre in Chicago, fortunately removed in the early 60's before the movie palace was razed, was installed in the Providence Performing Arts Center in 1982 where it is still used today.

The center does keep movies alive with the Bell Atlantic Big Screen Movie Series that periodically shows classic films on the big screen. One can only expect Ethel Merman to walk out from the side stage entrance......The ornate carvings and red clothed walls with the eye catching gold trimmed woodwork are stunning.

In November of 1969 the film Fanny Hill, Rated X, was running at the at Loew's State (now Providence Performing Arts Center).

1973 Palace Concert Theater Special thanks to Paul Fernandes at http://www.rirocks.net/Search/loewspalace.htm

For a time in the 1970's this theater was known as the Palace and was doing double-bill repertory programs.

1973 

1973

May 10, 1974

Added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1977.

Loew's State Theater *** (added 1977 - Building - #77000027)
220 Weybosset St., Providence
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer: Rapp & Rapp
Architectural Style: No Style Listed
Area of Significance: Social History, Entertainment/Recreation, Architecture
Period of Significance: 1925-1949
Owner: Private

1981-Once the premier picture palace of Rhode Island, the Loew's State Theatre (later Ocean State and Palace) has been reborn as the Providence Performing Arts Center and features live stage shows and concerts.

1/28/72 Howard Wales (Palace Concert Theater)
10/23/75 Jerry Garcia Band (Palace Concert Theater)
2/26/80 Jerry Garcia Band (Ocean State Theater)
2/9/81 Jerry Garcia Band (Ocean State Theater)
11/15/81 Jerry Garcia Band (Performing Arts Center)

The Grateful Dead never performed here.

Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State Street, Columbus, Ohio

Capacity 2770
Originally known as Loew’s Ohio, the Ohio Theater is built atop the site of Columbus’s original city hall, destroyed in a 1921 fire.

The Ohio Theater was designed by the noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb.

It was furnished by New York decorator Anne Dornan, one of the first women to graduate from the Columbia School of Architecture. Dornan traveled around the world to select art and furnishings, even going on a safari to find appropriate decorations for the "Africa Corner" in the lower lounge of the Ohio. Approximately $1,000,000 was spent on art and furnishings -- more than the cost of the building itself!

1928

Built by the Loew's and United Artists movie theater chains, the Spanish Baroque movie palace opened on March 17, 1928. The first film shown there was The Divine Woman, a silent film with Greta Garbo. Unfortunately, Loew did not get to see the grand opening, having died six months before.

It featured its own orchestra and Robert-Morton theater organ (still in use today). In addition to movies, deluxe variety shows graced the stage, with performers that included Milton Berle, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, and Jack Benny.

Regular stage shows were discontinued in 1933 and the orchestra was disbanded. However organist Roger Garrett continued to perform daily at the "Mighty Morton" and occasional live appearances by stars including Judy Garland and Jean Harlow were featured on the stage.

In 1944, when Roger Garrett was inducted into the army, live organ music was discontinued.
In 1966, members of the American Theatre Organ Society began restoring the Robert Morton and playing the organ for shows again.^[3]

The final event, other than "Play Dirty" to be held in the theater was to be this concert by Roger Garrett on the Morton. Roger was the second Resident Organist of the Ohio, holding the position from 1933-1942.

Here is an excerpt from the book "The Ohio Theatre Golden Jubilee" which describes in words better than I can come up with a bit about the event:

"... on Sunday, February 16, the final significant event in the theatre's long life as a Loew's movie palace took place: a farewell concert on the theatre's famed Morton organ. Roger Garrett, for years the regular organist for the Ohio and the last organist to appear regularly at a Downtown Columbus movie theatre, returned for what was to be a nostalgic farewell.
The event was indeed nostalgic, ending as Garrett and the Morton sank into the orchestra pit with the swelling sounds of "Auld Lang Syne" filling the vast spaces of the Ohio..."
 
Loew's closed the theater in 1969 and it was threatened with destruction before being saved and renovated by the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA). The original building was completely restored during the 1970's.

The Ohio Theater was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
There is also an Ohio Theater in Cleveland and Mansfield, Ohio.

10/31/71 New Riders Of The Purple Sage and Grateful Dead
3/14/76 Jerry Garcia Band

1.)^http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/OH01.pdf
2.)^Bishop, Mary; et. al. (1978). The Ohio Theatre: 1928- 1978. Columbus Association of Performing Arts.
3.)^http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html

The Orphanage, 807 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA

Under the name Varni's Roaring Twenties, the club was known for "The Girl On The Swing", where comely young ladies would swing over the stairwell in the center of the room.
Their calling card was a naked girl on a swing who, indeed, swung over the entire building. The club had briefly gone away from Topless in 1966, but had rapidly returned.

Varni's Roaring Twenties, August 16, 1964

San Francisco Chronicle May 6, 1967

From looking at the ad (in the May 6, 1967 San Francisco Chronicle) its clear that they have borrowed the iconography of the Fillmore posters, with the wobbly letters and the promise of a light show.
Their house band at the time was a group called The New Salvation Army Banned, a Haight Street group who had been playing there almost every night since at least March.(1)
Michael Wilhelm of The Charlatans confirmed me that his band played there at Roaring 20s as house band for six weeks during circa March-April 1967, before The New Salvation Army Banned.(2)

On Sunday, May 14, The Roaring 20s had a special event, promoted in that day's Chronicle (above), The Artists And Models Bal Masque. The blurb helpfully points out that tickets will be available to the public. Another listing says that the Jerry Hahn Trio (a jazz group) and Notes From The Underground (a Berkeley Folk-Rock group) would also be playing.

As The Orphanage, however, the club became North Beach's premier rock spot for a hot minute during the early seventies.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards showed up during the wee hours to catch reggae greats Toots and the Maytalls one night in 1975, the same year that friends of deejay Tom Donahue gathered at the club to hold a wake. The Tubes played without costumes or makeup for the first time that night and Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary), of all people, opened the event, which lasted until the early morning hours of the next day.(excerpt from Joel Selvin's book)

Now known as the Arnold Laub Building, it houses The Armstrong Law Firm.
The building is in the heart of the historical Jackson Square district. It has 18' ceilings and lots of light with brick & timber construction.The property includes operable windows.

2/6/73 Merl Saunders
2/7/73 Merl Saunders
4/23/73 Old And In Way[6]
The Rowan Brothers opened.
Jerry plays a RB-250 Gibson Mastertone banjo.[5]

4/30/73 Old And In Way
Jerry plays a RB-250 Gibson Mastertone banjo.[5]

8/30/75 Keith and Donna Band
Knock On Wood, Farewell Jack, I've Got Jesus, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, I Can't Turn You Loose, Sweet Baby, Strange Man, Tough Mama, My Love For You, Showboat, Come See About Me
Jerry's first public use of the TB1000A #51 guitar.
"Garcia started using the Travis Bean in 1975 but not until after the summer. 9/28/75 is the first Dead show with the Bean (TB1000A). He started using it a couple of weeks before that with the Keith and Donna Band on 8/30/75. The Boogie at the time was a cut and dry Mark I 1x12" combo. They came wired with preamp out 1/4 inch jack underneath the chassis. Garcia could take the preamp signal and step it up to the volume he needed with an external power amp such as the McIntosh. Then he ran the speaker outs on the Mac to any number of extension cabinets loaded with his speaker du jour at the time. Between 1975 and 1976 he went through 3 different guitars before settling on the Travis Bean TB500 for the later half of 76."[4]

Orphanage, San Francisco, CA
1.)^Arnold, Corry, 2010-01-18, http://rockarchaeology101.blogspot.com/2010/01/807-montgomery-san-francisco-roaring.html
2.)^Ceriotti, Bruno, 2011-05-02, http://rockarchaeology101.blogspot.com/2010/01/807-montgomery-san-francisco-roaring.html
3.)^T., Stella, History Of Montgomery Street, 2010-11-28, http://goarticles.com/article/History-of-Montgomery-Street/3725928/
4.)^http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/1188
5.)^Schoepf, Frank, 2014-04-16, email to author.
6.)^Scenedrome, Berkeley Barb, 1973-04-20-26, pg. 18, Joseph Jupille Archives.

The Offstage, 970 S. First Street, San Jose, CA

"OK so down we went to the San Jose area where we stayed with Paul and David together in a sort of communal house with Paul Foster in Redwood Estates, a suburb of San Jose. I played one show at the Off Stage, opening for Dino Valenti, and made $10.00, which covered us for a few days. "(Steve Mann)

Paul Kantner attended Santa Clara University from 1959-61, where he first meet Jorma Kaukonen, who would one day become lead guitarist of Jefferson Airplane. "I left Santa Clara after three semesters and moved on to the ever-so-pagan San Jose State," Kantner chuckles. Already a budding singer/guitarist, he gravitated to a downtown San Jose folk club called The Offstage, a place where he and Kaukonen would give guitar lessons.

"A computer guy named Paul Foster-a really good artist and one of the progenitors of the Bay Area's graphics scene-actually put up the money for The Offstage," says Kantner. Everybody played there, he adds, including David Crosby and future Quicksilver Messenger Service (and Jefferson Starship) member David Freiberg, performing with his girlfriend in a duo called David & Michaela. "It was all quite incestuous back then," recalls Kantner of the local music scene and seeing a young Jerry Garcia play a Palo Alto folk club called The Tangent. (1)

The Stanford Daily February 28, 1963

The Stanford Daily March 1, 1963

After the Folk Music Theatre in San Jose was transformed into the Offstage, Kantner and some of the other folkies set up the Folklore Center in a corner of the club, "selling guitar picks, strings and marijuana." Kantner also started booking acts for the club, including Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (with future members of the Grateful Dead) and David Crosby. 
 JFK's assassination in 1963 "proved the linchpin point of our generation," said Kantner, and "almost switched the universe--What R. Crumb calls the Space-Time Motherfucking Continuum -- over 180 degrees. Everything that was before was not after that." Soon Kantner was introduced to LSD by someone who brought it to the Offstage along with a Fender guitar and amplifier, with reverb and vibrato. "Went off into the cosmos," Kantner recalls.(2)

"I came up through the early Folk Music scene, first in the duo "Orpheus' Children" with Eilleen Gammill, playing gigs with Pig Pen McKernen (Grateful Dead) at the Off Stage in San Jose and solo gigs at coffeehouses like Coffee and Confusion and The Coffee Gallery in North Beach; and later playing with "The South Gate Singers". I helped organize the 1964 College of San Mateo Folk Festival where we shared the stage with Jerry Garcia & "The Black Mountain String Band", and "The Liberty Hill Aristocrates," with Peter Albin (pre Big Brother and the Holding Co.); and Jessie "Lone Cat" Fuller, who wrote San Francisco Bay Blues."(3)

Paul Grushkin's "The Art Of Rock" on p 57 has a nice reproduction of "The Folio, a broadsheet for the Offstage Folk Music Theater at 970 S 1st Street, right in the pancreas of San Jose" for September 1964.

Among the performers that month were Paul Kantner, Jerry Kaukonen "best blues, wondrous guitar" and The Liberty Hill Aristocrats. Show times were 9pm, 9:25, 10:20, 11:40 and midnight. There's a tuition list with phone numbers down the left hand side.

Guitar Lessons
Jerry Kaukonen
John Massey
Geoff Lovin
Jerry Garcia
Paul Suso(illegible)

Banjo Lessons
Paul Kantner
Pete Grant
Jerry Garcia

The Jug Band definitely played a few other places, such as The Off Stage in San Jose, but one of their last gigs was at a  "Hootenanny" at the Peninsula YMCA in Redwood City, on January 16, 1965 (there is a chance they played one final gig a few weeks later at College Of San Mateo).

Kantner and Freiberg eventually moved back up north and started a series of folk clubs, where they performed, gave music lessons, and hung out. Crosby occasionally traveled up the coast to play at clubs like The Tangent in Palo Alto, the Offstage in San Jose, and the Cabal in Berkeley.(4)

From Ray Allen's book, Gone To The Country

For a time it was the Thien-Kym Restaurant. In 2012 the address is now the Vinh Hing Bakery‎.

9/64 banjo and guitar lessons (7)
12/64 Sandy Rothman, Scott Hambly
"...a Dec '64 show at the Offstage with Rothman & Hambly again, but then gave it up for years."(1)

"Paul Foster, who for a time ran the Offstage Club in San Jose, says, "I had a problem with him. I didn't book him very often because he was kind of snotty to the audience; he treated them terrible." According to Garcia, "We always had a sort of abuse-the-audience attitude. Once they were in there, they were yours and you could do whatever you wanted to them! That was part of the fun of playing those little clubs."(6)

1.)^Light Into Ashes, comments, 2011-12-18, http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/12/may-1964-noncommissioned-officers-club.html
2.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia:An American Life, pg. 59, http://www.blairjackson.com/chapter_three_additions.htm
1.)^Cost, Jed, Inductee - Paul Kanter, founder of Jefferson Starship, http://www.sanjoserocks.org/i_starship.htm
2.)^Tamarkin, Jeff, Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, 2003
3.)^Ehret, Stephen, http://www.stephenehretmusic.com/about.htm
4.)^Zimmer, Dave, Dilz, Henry, Crosby Stills Nash:The Biography, pg 23
5.)^ Allen, Ray, Gone To The Country, pg 153 
6.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia, An American Life, pg 59 
7.)^Grushkin, Paul, The Art Of Rock, pg. 57.

Open Air Theatre, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA

Capacity 4600
Built in 1934, formerly The Greek Bowl, San Diego State University's Open Air Theatre is one of the city's oldest outdoor venues with state-of-the-art staging and sound.Originally it was used for commencement, daytime speakers, and summertime plays, and in the 1960s housed the San Diego Symphony summer concerts. Today it is still used for graduation events and rallies.

Open Air Theatre contained 4,280 seats and was financed by the Works Progress Administration and the state for $200,000. It was dedicated in 1941.[24]

Despite being a 5000-person-capacity performance venue located smack in the heart of the SDSU campus, it's very easy to miss, mainly because it's located below ground.  However, once you show your ticket and pass through the entrance gate, you can enjoy the view of the expansive amphitheater before you.

Starving students and others ticketless used to be able to hang out on the grassy islands outside the facility and hear the show for free. But school officials and re-development around the theatre have all but put an end to that, though it's still worth a try for a sold-out show.

Main gripe is the hard concrete seats but an amazing view, no matter where you are sitting.

George Lincoln Rockwell, self-proclaimed leader of the American Nazi party, spoke to San Diego State College students on March 8, 1962, at the Open Air Theater.
Sponsored by the Committee for Student Action, Rockwell’s appearance was part of his Southern California tour to spread the word about the National Socialist Party of America. In a March 6 “emergency session,” the Lectures and Concerts Board cautioned the CSA to “take the proper steps to protect against any outbreak of violence.”
Nevertheless, violence did break out when a San Diego State student climbed on stage and “slugged” Rockwell as he was speaking. After the melee, Rockwell was quickly escorted to the offices of The Daily Aztec where he gave a press conference before leaving in his car for another speech at Pomona College.(3)

1964

Legend has it that the performers’ dressing room is called the Madonna Room after it was built specifically at Madonna’s request before she performed here.(2)

11/18/73 Merl Saunders (San Diego Bowl)
5/20/89 JGB

3.)^Ray, Robert, Decades Ago at San Diego State, 2011-04-06, http://sdsuniverse.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news.aspx?v=print&font-size=100&s=72893

Oakland Coliseum Arena and Oakland Coliseum, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1966); HNTB (1996).
Construction: Guy F. Atkinson Company (1966); Tutor-Saliba (1996)
Owner: City of Oakland and Alameda County.
Cost: $25.5 million (1966); $200 million (1996 renovations).

The Oracle Arena is also known by its former names.
It was originally constructed as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in 1966 and remained named that until 1996.
It was renamed the Oakland Arena 2004-2006, then The Arena In Oakland 1997-2004.

It is known locally as Oakland Coliseum Arena.

The arena celebrated its grand opening on November 9, 1966 when the Oakland Seals met the San Diego Gulls for an NHL game. 

Over the years, the arena became increasingly outdated, lacking the luxuries of newer ones. With just over 15,000 seats, it was one of the smallest arenas in the league. Rather than building a new arena in Oakland, the decision was made to proceed with a $121 million renovation that involved tearing down much of the old arena's interior and building new seating within the older confines. The original arena's external walls, roof and foundation remained intact. The renovation began in mid-1996 and was completed in time for the Golden State Warriors to return in the fall of 1997. Included in the renovation was a new LED centerhung scoreboard and 360-degree fascia display from Daktronics out of Brookings, South Dakota.^[4]
The new arena seats 20,000 for concerts, 19,596 for basketball and 17,000 for ice hockey.  Too bad there's no NHL team that uses it!

Oakland Coliseum
Capacity 48219

In 1960, local real estate developer Robert T. Nahas headed this group (which included other prominent East Bay business leaders such as former US Senator William Knowland and Edgar F. Kaiser), which later became the governing board of the Coliseum upon completion. It was Nahas' idea that the Coliseum be privately financed with ownership transferring to the city and county upon retirement of the construction financing.^[6]

Robert T. Nahas

Robert T. Nahas served twenty years as President of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Board. On the death of Nahas. The San Francisco Chronicle's Rick DelVecchio quoted Jack Maltester, a former San Leandro mayor and Coliseum board member, "If not for Bob Nahas, there would be no Coliseum, It's really that simple." Nahas had to be a diplomat dealing with the egos of Al Davis, Charles O. Finley and Franklin Mueli.
Preliminary architectural plans were unveiled in November 1960, and the following month a site was chosen west of the Elmhurst district of East Oakland alongside the then-recently completed Nimitz Freeway. A downtown site adjacent to Lake Merritt and the Oakland Auditorium (which itself, many years later, would be renamed the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center) was also originally considered.^[4] The Port of Oakland played a key role in the East Oakland site selection; The Port swapped 157 acres (64 ha) at the head of San Leandro Bay to the East Bay Regional Park District, in exchange for 105 acres (42 ha) of park land across the freeway, which the Port in turn donated to the City of Oakland as the site for the Coliseum sports complex.^[11]

The first crowd filled the O.co Coliseum (previously known as McAfee Coliseum and Network Associates Coliseum) on September 18, 1966 when the AFL’s Oakland Raiders played the Kansas City Chiefs.

Charlie Finley, owner of the Kansas City A's, unhappy in Kansas City, impressed by Oakland's new stadium and personally convinced to consider Oakland by Nahas,^[8] eventually got permission after several unsuccessful attempts and amid considerable controversy, to relocate his American League franchise to the stadium for the 1968 season. The Athletics' first game was played on April 17, 1968.
When Boog Powell hit the first major league home run in the history of the Coliseum.^[9] On May 8 of that year, Catfish Hunter pitched the ninth perfect game in Major League history at the Coliseum.^[10]

Charlie Finley and his trophies.

Al Davis and his trophies.

In the following 32 years, the Oakland Alameda County Arena and Coliseum Complex has hosted a spectrum of events in both the sporting and entertainment industries including concerts, circus, boxing, rodeos, religious speakers and ice shows. Audiences numbering nearly 100 million have made O.co Coliseum and Oracle Arena the premier entertainment facilities in Northern California.

In October 1995, O.co Coliseum began an extensive renovation. The $120 million project included the addition of 22,000 new seats, 90 luxury suites, two private clubs and two state-of-the-art scoreboards. It has a variable seating capacity of 35,067 for baseball, 63,026 for football, and either 47,416 or 63,026 for soccer, (depending on configuration).

It is currently home to the Oakland Athletics, of MLB, and the Oakland Raiders, of the NFL. As of September 28, 2011, the Coliseum is the last multi-purpose stadium to serve as a full-time home to both an MLB team and an NFL team.

The Coliseum features an underground design where the playing surface is actually below ground level (21 feet / 6 meters below sea level). Consequently fans entering the stadium find themselves walking on to the main concourse of the stadium at the top of the first level of seats. This, combined with the hill that was built around the stadium to create the upper concourse, means that only the third deck is visible from outside the park. This gives the Coliseum the illusion of being a short stadium from the outside.

The newly renovated O.co Coliseum and Oracle Arena sit on 132 acres with an ample 10,000 on-site parking spaces.




Jerry performed at the Arena on
2/17/79 Grateful Dead (Keith and Donna's last show) (Benefit for Economic xxx Task Force)
1/13/80 Grateful Dead (Cambodian Refugee Benefit))
12/30/85 Grateful Dead
12/31/85 Grateful Dead
12/15/86 Grateful Dead
12/16/86 Grateful Dead
12/17/86 Grateful Dead
7/24/87 Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan
12/27/87 Grateful Dead
12/28/87 Grateful Dead
12/30/87 Grateful Dead
12/31/87 Grateful Dead
12/4/88 Bob Weir Rob Wasserman
12/28/88 Grateful Dead
12/29/88 Grateful Dead
12/31/88 Grateful Dead
12/6/89 Grateful Dead
12/27/89 Grateful Dead
12/28/89 Grateful Dead
12/30/89 Grateful Dead
12/31/89 Grateful Dead
2/25/90 Grateful Dead
2/26/90 Grateful Dead
2/27/90 Grateful Dead
6/30/90 Bob Weir Mickey Hart
12/3/90 Grateful Dead
12/4/90 Grateful Dead
12/27/90 Grateful Dead
12/28/90 Grateful Dead
12/30/90 Grateful Dead
12/31/90 Grateful Dead
2/19/91 Grateful Dead
2/20/91 Grateful Dead
2/21/91 Grateful Dead
10/27/91 Grateful Dead
10/28/91 Grateful Dead
10/30/91 Grateful Dead
10/31/91 Grateful Dead
2/22/92 Grateful Dead
2/23/92 Grateful Dead
2/24/92 Grateful Dead
10/31/92 Jerry Garcia Band
12/11/92 Grateful Dead
12/12/92 Grateful Dead
12/13/92 Grateful Dead
12/16/92 Grateful Dead
12/17/92 Grateful Dead
1/24/93 Grateful Dead
1/25/93 Grateful Dead
1/26/93 Grateful Dead
2/21/93 Grateful Dead
2/22/93 Grateful Dead
2/23/93 Grateful Dead and Ornette Coleman and Prime Time
12/17/93 Grateful Dead
12/18/93 Grateful Dead
12/19/93 Grateful Dead
2/25/94 Grateful Dead
2/26/94 Grateful Dead
2/27/94 Grateful Dead
12/8/94 Grateful Dead
12/9/94 Grateful Dead
12/11/94 Grateful Dead
12/12/94 Grateful Dead
2/24/95 Grateful Dead
2/25/95 Grateful Dead
2/26/95 Grateful Dead

Jerry performed at the outdoor Coliseum on
6/8/74 Grateful Dead (Day On The Green)
10/9/76 Grateful Dead (Day On The Green)
10/10/76 Grateful Dead (Day On The Green)
7/24/87 Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan
5/27/89 Fogerty, Weir, Jackson, Jordan





1.)^http://basketball.ballparks.com/NBA/GoldenStateWarriors/index.htm
2.)^http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/CaliforniaSeals/index.htm
3.)^http://www.daktronics.com/ProductsServices/PhotoGallery/Pages/photodetail.aspx?pn=WP-12323_CC05687.jpg
4.)^Oakland Tribune, November 3, 1960, front page
5.)^http://www.waterfrontaction.org/learn/league/ch2.htm
6.)^Oakland Tribune, January 27, 1963, pg. 39E
7.)^Oakland Tribune, April 3, 1964, page E49
8.)^ Robert Nahas obituary, San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 2002.
9.)^Home Run Baptism of New Parks, sabr.org.
10.)^Twins-Athletics box score, 1968-05-08,  Baseball-reference.com
11.)^Matier, Phillip; Ross, Andrew, 2011-05-12, New name in Oakland sports: Overstock.com Coliseum, http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/New-name-in-Oakland-sports-Overstock-com-Coliseum-2373724.php

Oregon State Penitentiary, 2575 Center St. NE, Salem, Oregon

Oregon State Prison 1880

Capacity 2100

The Oregon State Penitentiary is the oldest prison in Oregon and the only maximum security institution currently operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections.

Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), the first state prison in Oregon, United States, was originally located in Portland in 1851.
In 1866 it was moved to a 26-acre (110,000 m2) site in Salem and enclosed by a reinforced concrete wall averaging 25 feet (7.6 m) in height. OSP is operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections as Oregon's only maximum security prison.

This postcard image from the 1920s shows the entrance to the Oregon
State Penitentiary

The penitentiary currently has special housing units for maximum custody inmates; disciplinary segregation; offenders with psychiatric problems; and inmates sentenced to death. Executions, which are performed by lethal injection in Oregon, are conducted at the penitentiary. The 196-bed, self-contained Intensive Management Unit provides housing and control for those death row and male inmates who disrupt or pose a substantial threat to the general population in all department facilities.
Most housing in the penitentiary is in large cell blocks with most inmates housed in single man cells that have been converted to double man cells to increase capacity. The penitentiary also has a full service infirmary and an administrative segregation (protective custody) unit.

Oregon State Penitentiary has a separate minimum security facility located on its grounds.[1] It was first opened in 1964 as Oregon's first women's prison,[2] and was called Oregon Women's Correctional Center.

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Lines formed to get into the Jerry show in 1982.

In 2010, the state closed the minimum security annex.[2][3]




Jerry performed here on
5/5/82  John Kahn (acoustic)





1.)^Oregon State Penitentiary, http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/OPS/PRISON/osp.shtml
2.)^Zaitz, Les. "Oregon to close prison, lay off 63 workers in $2.5 million budget cut." The Oregonian, 2010-09-30.
3.)^ Zaitz, Les, Oregon prison in Salem proposed for closure because of budget cuts, The Oregonian, 2012-02-01.