Coleman Memorial Coliseum (University of Alabama), 323 Paul W. Bryant Drive, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Capacity 15316

The architects were Miller Martin and Lewis and Edwin T. McCowan.[9]

The Coliseum opened its doors for the first time on January 30, 1968, for the traveling Broadway production The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd.[3] Two days later, the Tide's men's basketball team hosted its first game at the arena, against the Samford Bulldogs.

Formally named Memorial Coliseum as a substitute for Foster Auditorium.  In 1988 the facility was re-named to honor Jefferson Jackson Coleman, a prominent University of Alabama alumnus. Jefferson Coleman was the first pledge of Theta Sigma Fraternity which would later become the basis for beginning the current National Delta Chi Fraternity Chapter at The University on February 12, 1927. Jefferson continued to serve the University in many capacities, from Business Manager of the football program to Director of Alumni Affairs, for nearly fifty years. Until his death in 1995, Coleman was the only person to be present at every Alabama bowl game, beginning with the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1926. (2)

The building, comparable to a seven-story structure at its pinnacle, received a bit of a facelift in 2005 adding offices for the coaches and administrators, a new ticket office as well as a Tide Pride office. The large mid-court scoreboard was taken down and replaced by a pair of endline scoreboards equipped with video replay screens. In addition, The Coliseum's parquet floor was repainted to reflect the Crimson Tide's new elephant logo at center court.(1)

Stars who have performed on its stage include Ray Charles, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley, who performed here on August 30, 1976.(1)

President Ronald Reagan was a guest of the Coleman Coliseum during his 1984 presidential re-election campaign.[6]

Because the City of Tuscaloosa does not have a municipal civic center, the demand for events grew briskly and the Coliseum doubled its capacity in the 1970's on account of this.

Jerry performed here on

4/18/77 Grateful Dead

This show was canceled and rescheduled for 5/17/77.

5/17/77 Grateful Dead 

I:New Minglewood Blues;Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>El Paso;They Love Each Other;Jack Straw;Jack-A-Roe;Looks Like Rain;Tennessee Jed;Passenger;High Time;Big River;Sunrise;Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain

II:Samson And Delilah>Bertha>Good Lovin';Brown Eyed Women;Estimated Prophet;Lady With A Fan>Playing In The Band>Drums>Wharf Rat>Playing In The Band

Encore:Sugar Magnolia

https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-17.sbd.weiner.18554.sbeok.shnf

5/17/77 Unknown photographer

Promoter John Scher and Tony Ruffino[7]

Rescheduled from 4/18/77.

Jerry plays a Travis Bean 500 #12 guitar.[5]

"The SGA Events Dept. had money left over and the band was scheduled at the last minute."[3]

"The 'Bama venue was rigged theatre-style..meaning the arena was partitioned so the stage was set mid-court with a curtain behind. There was no barricade down front..a bloke could stand belly-up to the stage."[4]

“I was there in Tuscaloosa that evening and, thankfully, a bit cosmic. I've been to hundreds of concerts and have lived a very full life, but I've not experienced anything like 5/17/77 before or since. I've never been a "church person" though I've often wished those Sunday gatherings could offer me some spiritual food. However, I remember walking out of the venue that evening and telling my girlfriend "That's what church should be like", and to this day I wish it was. It was a true communion...the crowd and the band were solidly linked in ways that transcended eyes and ears. It was amazing! So glad I happened to be there…”[8]

Coleman Memorial Coliseum (University of Alabama), Tuscaloosa, Alabama 

1.)^http://tour.ua.edu/tourstops/coleman.html

2.)^"University of Alabama Chapter of Delta Chi - Roll Tide Roll". Deltachiua.org.

3.)^BamaDead, comments, 2009-05-07, http://archive.org/details/gd77-05-17.sbd.weiner.18554.sbeok.shnf

4.)^Greyfoldedsom, comments, 2009-01-31, http://archive.org/details/gd77-05-17.sbd.weiner.18554.sbeok.shnf

5.)^Wright, Tom, Garcia musical instrument historian, comments, 2014-03-21, email to author.

6.)^http://visittuscaloosaalabama.blogspot.com/2010/07/ronald-reagan-in-tuscaloosa.html

7.)^Ms 332 Ser. 3, Box 3:2, Show Files:East Coast Tour 4/22-5/22/77, Grateful Dead Archives, Special Collections, McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz, CA.

8.)^joeyarata, comment, 2014-04-10, http://www.dead.net/features/may-17-1977/12333featured-show-may-17-1977zzz

9.)^Proposed University of Alabama Field House, The Tuscaloosa News, 1960-10-23, pg. 12.

Barbary Coast Room, International Room, Women's Gym, Commons Lawn, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA

Capacity 375

On May 3, 1993, S.F.S.U. Student Center's Barbary Coast Room was dedicated to Jack Adams and renamed Jack Adams Hall.(1) Jack Adams was a beloved member of the SFSU community for over 20 years and is remembered for his hard work and dedication to both the campus and AIDS community. A year after his graduation he joined SFSU as the properties manager, and later the stage manager for the school of Creative Arts.
In 1982 he was appointed assistant director of the Student Union, a position he would hold until his untimely death nearly ten years later.
Adams resigned in July 1992 because of his declining health due to AIDS-related complications. He passed away on November 21, 1992 at the age of 47.

Jerry performed here on
9/30/66 Grateful Dead
The "Whatever It Is" Trips Festival was held indoors and outdoors, over three days, according to the poster.(2)
Stewart Brand, was the promoter. The S.F.S.C. Acid Test was quite an event and was held in several different places on the campus. Ken Kesey came up from Mexico to attend, escorted by several of the Hell’s Angels, and he made numerous broadcasts from S.F.S.C.’s underground radio broadcast booth. This was the last legal Acid Test; LSD was made a controlled substance on October 6, 1966.(3)
On this night it took place in the International Room, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Light Castle (9:00pm to 3:00am)(4)

10/1/66 Grateful Dead
On this night it was held in the Women's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA: San Andreas Fault Finders, Dino Valenti, Universal Parking Lot, Congress Of Wonders (John Lennon Readings), Ken Kesey (with Freewheelin' Frank on harmonica and Kesey's cousin Dale on violin), Bill Ham Lightshow, Grateful Dead (9:00pm to 5:00am)(4)


10/2/66 Grateful Dead
Common's Lawn, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Committee, Congress Of Wonders (12:00am to 3:00pm)(4)

Stereo Control Room Master (recorded 4:00am - 6:00am)
 October 2, 1966
.
1.)The Head Has Become Fat Rap

2.) A Mexican Story: 25 Bennies

3.) A Tarnished Galahad

4.) Get It Off The Ground Rap >

5.) It's Good To Be God Rap >

6.) Nirvana Army Rap >

7.) The Butcher Is Back

8.) Acid Test Graduation Announcement

9.) Send Me To The Moon >Closing Rap

Credits on 10/2/66:

Voices: Ken Kesey and Hugh Romney

Guitar: Ken Kesey

Violin: Dale Kesey

Organ: Jerry Garcia

Engineering: Steve Newman, Ken Kesey, Mountain Girl

Venues listed in the program are(4):
Common's Lawn
Education 117
Gallery Lounge
International Room
Lowell High School Field
Men's Gym
Sculpture Yard
Women's Gym 125
Women's Gym

The “Whatever It is” performances are as follows(5):  
30 September 1966
Sculpture Yard, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Demon Lover, Anonymous Artists of America, The Infinite Painting & The Universal Structure
4:00pm on

30 September 1966
International Room, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Light Castle
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Gallery Lounge, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Don Garrett (9:00pm), Chloe Schott (10:00pm and 1:00am), Poetry Reading (11:00pm), Paul Robertson Jazz Band (12:00pm), Congress of Wonders (2:00am), Ron Boise Musical Sculpture and Artwork of Dion Wright, Bob Branaman, Bruce Connor and Karen Koslow
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Women's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bill Ham Light Show, Wildflower, Blue House Basement, J Baldwin's Tensed Membrane Screen, Rock Workshop
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Men's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bernie Gunther (of the Esalen Foundation) Sensory Awakening (10:00pm and 1:00am), Robert Baker Cosmic Comic (12:00pm), The Merry Pranksters, Don Buchla
 9:00pm to 3:00am

The Buchla Box

30 September 1966
Women's Gym 125, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bob Beck Light Show
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Education 117, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Film Guild Movies
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Men's Pool, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Water Polo (12:00am), Light Show and Open Swimming (2:00pm)
12:00am on

01 October 1966
Common's Lawn, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Wildflower, Anonymous Artists of America, Blue House Basement (from 12:00am), The Committee (2:30pm), Robert Baker (4:00pm), San Francisco Mimi Troupe perform "Olive Pips" (5:00pm)
12:00am on

01 October 1966
Lowell High School Field, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
SF State v Santa Clara (Football - The Little Big Game)
1:30pm on

01 October 1966
Sculpture Yard, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
The Final Solution, Demon Lover, The Infinate Painting & The Universal Structure
4:00pm on

01 October 1966
International Room, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
??????
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Gallery Lounge, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Don Garrett, Ron Boise Musical Sculpture and Artwork of Dion Wright, Bob Branaman, Bruce Connor and Karen Koslow.
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Women's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
San Andreas Fault Finders, Dino Valenti, Universal Parking Lot, Congress Of Wonders (John Lennon Readings), Ken Kesey (with Freewheelin' Frank on harmonica and Kesey's cousin Dale on violin), Bill Ham Lightshow, Grateful Dead
9:00pm to 5:00am

01 October 1966
Men's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
The Merry Pranksters, Don Buchla. A planned Jefferson Airplane and Paul Butterfield Blues Band after midnight performance was never held due to police intervention intervention.
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Education 117, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Film Guild Movies
Day and Night
02 October 1966
Common's Lawn, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Committee, Congress Of Wonders
12:00am to 3:00pm

01 October 1966
Women's Gym 125, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bob Beck Light Show
9:00pm to 3:00am

02 October 1966
Education 117, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Film Guild Movies


3/3/82 Jerry Garcia Band (Barbary Coast Room)
Afternoon show.

1.)^http://www.sfsustudentcenter.com/about/heroes.php
2.)^http://www.deadlists.com/posters/1960s/19660930a.html
3.)^http://www.classicposters.com/Grateful_Dead/poster/Other_California/SFT.1966.09.30
4.)^The Yellow Shark, comments, 2013-02-07, http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2013/02/barbary-coast-room-and-commons-1650.html

5.)^5.)^Hannan, Ross, email to author, 2013-02-07.

Little Theater, College Of San Mateo, 1700 W. Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo, CA

 

   

Established in 1922, the College of San Mateo is a local community college serving 11,000 students. The campus was designed by internationally recognized architect John Carl Warnecke.

Built in 1962, the CSM Theatre received a generous donation in 2000 which allowed for installation of our THX certified audio system, lighting upgrades and seating upgrades. Since then, CSM's Theatre has been home base for such recognized groups as the Peninsula Symphony and the CSM Panhandlers.

State-of-the-art surround sound, a modern lighting control system, and convenient parking. It has become a popular venue for plays, concerts, dance performances, graduations and lectures.(2)

Black Mountain String Band, San Mateo Times, January 25, 1964

11/10/62 solo, with David Nelson, with Hart Valley Drifters (Norman Van mastrict, Bob Hunter, David Nelson)
1/25/64 Black Mountain Boys(1)

1.)^http://www.landb.com/project%20lists/list-high-ed.html
2.)^http://www.livesv.com/venue/detail/350/College_of_San_Mateo_Theatre
3.)^The Deadhead's Taping Compendium, Volume 1 reviews this band's performances.

Capital Centre (US Air Arena), 1 Harry S. Truman Dr., Landover, Maryland

Capacity 18,756
The Capital Centre (also briefly known as US Airways Arena and USAir Arena) was an indoor arena located in Largo, Landover, Maryland; a suburb of Washington, D.C. completed in 1973.
The Capital Center, which cost $18 million to build, was ahead of its time when the Wizards' majority owner, Abe Pollin, opened it for his N.B.A. and National Hockey League teams on Dec. 2, 1973. The architect was Shaver Partnership.

It was the first arena with luxury sky boxes and featured a four-sided replay screen suspended above the court,  known as the "Telscreen" (or "Telescreen") and predated the DiamondVision video screen at Dodger Stadium by seven years. It is now a standard feature in arenas. It was also the first arena to be built with a computerized turnstile system.

A boxing World Heavyweight Championship bout took place at the venue on April 30, 1976, with Jimmy Young challenging the champion Muhammad Ali. The fight went the full fifteen rounds and was awarded unanimously to Ali.

The Capital Centre was the first indoor arena to have a video replay screen on its center-hung scoreboard. The four-sided video screen was known as the "Telscreen" (or "Telescreen") and predated the DiamondVision video screen at Dodger Stadium by seven years. It was also the first arena to be built with luxury boxes and a computerized turnstile system.

The last time that Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin sang in concert together was at the arena.
Bob Dylan and The Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Levon Helm) played two nights on Dylan's return tour on January 15 and 16, 1974.
Eric Clapton, REM, Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie have also all performed major concerts at the venue.

The Rolling Stones played three sold-out shows at the arena on December 7-9, 1981.
Pop superstar Michael Jackson performed four concerts at Capital Centre on October 13, 17, 18 and 19, 1988 during his Bad Tour.

The Centre also had one of the NBA's most notorious fans, Robin Ficker, who for twelve seasons sat behind the visiting team's bench and heckled opposing players.
t was renamed for corporate sponsor US Airways in 1993, but reverted back to its original name of Capital Centre after the airline dropped its naming rights. The venue's name is also sometimes written as Capital Center, Capitol Center, Capitol Center Arena or Capital Center Arena. The venue closed in 1997.

Acting in his role as part-owner of the Washington Wizards' parent company, Michael Jordan and local officials unveiled plans to tear down the 27-year-old Capital Center and replace it with a retail and entertainment complex.
''I've had some great games in the Capital Center,'' said Jordan, who joined the Wizards front office this season after winning six N.B.A. titles with the Chicago Bulls. ''But obviously it's going to a better use, now that the MCI Center is established.''

It was renamed for corporate sponsor US Airways in 1993, but reverted back to its original name of Capital Centre after the airline dropped its naming rights. The venue's name is also sometimes written as Capital Center, Capitol Center, Capitol Center Arena or Capital Center Arena. The venue closed in 1997 and was demolished. The building was imploded on December 15, 2002 to make way for The Boulevard at the Capital Centre, a town center-style shopping mall.

7/29/74 Grateful Dead
9/25/76 Grateful Dead
11/23/78 Grateful Dead
11/8/79 Grateful Dead
8/31/80 Grateful Dead
9/27/81 Grateful Dead
9/15/82 Grateul Dead
9/11/87 Grateful Dead
9/12/87 Grateful Dead
9/13/87 Grateful Dead
9/2/88 Grateful Dead
9/3/88 Grateful Dead
9/5/88 Grateful Dead
9/6/88 Grateful Dead
3/14/90 Grateful Dead
3/15/90 Grateful Dead (Phil Lesh's 50th birthday)
"I had 1st row on the 16th. I had actually lost my tickets in the parking lot before the show but amazingly found them on the ground 20 min. later surrounded buy a large group of people needing a miracle!The tickets had been run over, stepped on,ground in the dirt,but nobody bothered to look in the envelope."(1)
3/16/90 Grateful Dead
3/17/91 Grateful Dead
3/18/91 Grateful Dead
3/20/91 Grateful Dead
3/21/91 Grateful Dead
11/6/91 Jerry Garcia Band
11/7/91 Jerry Garcia Band
3/8/92 Grateful Dead
3/9/92 Grateful Dead
3/16/93 Grateful Dead
3/17/93 Grateful Dead
3/18/93 Grateful Dead
11/7/93 Jerry Garcia Band (USAir Center)
10/9/94 Grateful Dead (USAir Arena)
10/10/94 Grateful Dead (USAir Arena)
10/11/94 Grateful Dead (USAir Arena)

1.)^DeadCannoneer1861, comments, 2010-09-07, http://archive.org/details/gd1990-03-15.28293.sbeok.shnf

Cinnamon Tree, 900 American Street (Way) , San Carlos, CA 94070

The Cinnamon Tree was in an industrial area with roll up doors and had a cement floor. And it had been converted to a teen club.(2)
The Cinnamon Tree opened in July 1965 as a "teen" club, with no liquor served (though no doubt plenty was consumed). The idea was to give teenagers something to do, particularly on weekends. The club was located on an industrial road between El Camino and the Bayshore Freeway. Since it featured teen audiences, one of the popular bills was a "Battle Of The Bands" were numerous groups played a song or two, hoping to win a cash prize (thus insuring that each band's friends came to the show). (1)
In 2012 a business, Lino Valbusa, is at this location.

8/65 Warlocks
"When I was playing guitar in William Penn & His Pals in 1965-66 a battle of the bands was a frequent thing. There was a club owned by an ex-cop called the Cinnamon Tree in San Carlos that sponsored these events. The audience were aged 12 to 17 about 100 or so. They were all sucking down cokes and eating cookies. At one of these battles we went head to head with The Warlocks. You couldn’t have gotten a more odd combination of combatants. We were dressed like Paul Revere in our tri-cornered hats and The Warlocks were the most wildest assortment of characters you could find.  The Warlocks lineup was Jerry Garcia, Pig Pen, Dana Morgan Jr. on bass, Bill Kreutzman and Bob Weir. The William Penn lineup was Mike Shapiro on lead guitar, Jack Shelton on rhythm guitar, Gregg Rolie on keyboards, Steve Leidenthal on bass, Ron Cox on drums.The Warlocks played a set, William Penn played a set and the crowd judged in favor of the Warlocks. It made no sense to me at all. William Penn played radio hits and the Warlocks played blues jams and made other weird sounds. Jerry understood the English sound but didn’t copy it like we did and the audience responded."(2)

"...and for a short time, the lineup also included a second drummer, Mickey Hart.(3)

1.)^The Illustrated Trip, places, Warlocks gig(s) at The Cinnamon Tree in August.
2.)^Shapiro, Mike, guitarist.
3.)^http://www.allmusic.com/artist/william-penn-and-his-pals-mn0001320652

Coffee Gallery, 1353 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California

Coffee Gallery
1353 Grant Avenue
San Francisco, California
37° 47' N / 122° 24' W

Capacity unknown
This spot was a bohemian hangout, always extremely seedy, and always popular. Originally called Miss Smith's Tea Room, the club then offered Beat entertainment. On weekends you'd hear Pony Poindexter or Bev Kelly, and on weeknights poets. In it's heyday, the Coffee Gallery was full of romantic visionaries, spaced-out poets, and boozing locals.[5]
Bop saxophonist Pony Poindexter ran the house combo in the late fifties, and the joint hosted a benefit one night in 1960 to raise money for a sprinkler system in a nearby club, The Cellar. The six hour jam session featured everything from Jimmy Rushing belting the blues to Duke Ellington reciting poetry.

On 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.
Although an occasional out of towner passed thru the club-comedians Lord Buckley and Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) played here-it was the North Beach music hopefuls who commanded the stage most of the time. The owner was Leo Riegler.[5]
Long before her days with a rock band, Janis Joplin sang country blues, one of thousands of young unknown folkies to play at the Coffee Gallery over the years.[1]
The club changed it's name to Lost and Found when Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and band wandered in on an off night from touring and soon took over the bandstand from the everyday blues band that was booked for the evening, delivering a rocking blues jam, much to the astonishment of the dozen or so customers watching.[1]
John Cippolina, with Thunder and Lightning, performed here on November 3, 1979.[2]
In 2012 it's still called Lost and Found Saloon.

Jerry performed here in
1961 Alan Trist Robert Hunter
"When they had a working car, they often would go up to San Francisco to wander around North Beach and soak up what was left of the Beat scenes at places like City Lights Books and the Coffee Gallery.(7)

1963 Sara Ruppenthal, Marshall Leicester, Suzy Wood
“At least one of these gigs was as an a cappella quartet."[3]

8/63 Wildwood Boys (David Nelson, Ken Frankel)(4)
Jerry plays a nickel plated Weyman 5 string banjo known as "John".
Robert Hunter does not perform.
"I know Jerry used to play at the Coffee Gallery when David Meltzer was hosting Monday night hootenannies."[6]




Coffee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1.)^Selvin, Joel, San Francisco, the Musical History Tour, pg. 33, 34.
2.)^http://www.johncipollina.com/audio.html
3.)^Katz, Sara, 2015-01-26, email to author.
4.)^Grushkin, Paul, Grateful Dead:The Official Book Of The Deadheads, pg. 194.
5.)^Morgan, Bill, The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour, pg. 49, http://books.google.com/books?id=TvLu3q4SEgoC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=garibaldi+hall,+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=mIQm_85VJq&sig=l8kAB6ah0aV4Qaq7C2CXCtsJT3w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KLWEVMWZG4zaoAT_x4LwDg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=garibaldi%20hall%2C%20san%20francisco&f=false
6.)^Garrett, City Lights Bookstore, 2015-04-30, email to author.
7.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia: An American Life, pg.36.

Charger Gymnasium, 300 Boston Post Road, University Of New Haven, New Haven, CT

The University of New Haven was founded in 1920 as the New Haven YMCA Junior College, a division of Northeastern University; it became New Haven College in 1926.^[1]
The Gymnasium wasn't built until the 1960's.
Located on UNH's North Campus, directly across Boston Post Road from the main UNH campus, Charger Gymnasium has long been the game site for the UNH men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams. It houses locker rooms for all of the Chargers' varsity athletic programs, as well as the athletic administration offices, the sports medicine room, equipment room and the Tony Sparano Training Center.

The building has hosted numerous NCAA Regional competitions throughout the years, as well as the Special Olympics, UNH Convocations, a number of musical concerts, and camps & clinics for the surrounding community, among other events.


Jerry performed here on
2/16/80 Jerry Garcia Band




1.)^http://www.newhavenchargers.com/sports/2010/2/22/gen_chargergym.aspx?id=51

Jerry's Mom's vacation house, Austin Creek, Cazadero, CA

Exact address in unknown.

Up on "Austin Creek" is the vacation home Jerry's Mom bought in Cazadero, CA.


Jerry rehearsed here in
Winter 1958  Daniel Garcia
"Up on "Austin Creek", (about 60 miles north of San Francisco), near the "Russian River" town of Cazadero; Daniel & Jerry played guitar for hours in the family room of the vacation home Jerry's mom bought.(2)

"Tiff Garcia, Jerry's brother, said that the house was "rustic but modern". "It had a nice big living room, a lot of windows; it was in a really pretty area."(1)


Cousin Daniel Garcia recalls, "We used to go up to Cazadero and sit in the family room and smoke Bull Durham cigarettes and play our guitars for hours. Hours and hours until my fingers literally bled. We'd play Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, everything".(1)




1.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia: An American Life, pg. 23.
2.)^Allan, Alex,  Robert Greenfield's "Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia, pg. 36, 63-64
3.)^Scully, Rock,  Living With The Dead, pg. 70.

City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, San Francisco, CA

City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.

The site was a tiny storefront in the triangular Artigues Building located at 261 Columbus Avenue, near the intersection of Broadway in North Beach. Built on the ruins of a previous building destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake, the building was designed by Oliver Everett in 1907 and named for its owners.

City Lights originally shared the building with a number of other shops. It gradually gained more space whenever one of the other shops became vacant, and eventually occupied the entire building.
 

Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States, a place where booklovers from across the country and around the world come to browse, read, and just soak in the ambiance of alternative culture's only "Literary Landmark." Although it has been more than fifty years since tour buses with passengers eager to sight "beatniks" began pulling up in front of City Lights, the Beats' legacy of anti-authoritarian politics and insurgent thinking continues to be a strong influence in the store, most evident in the selection of titles.

The nation's first all-paperback bookstore, City Lights has expanded several times over the years; we now offer three floors of both new-release hardcovers and quality paperbacks from all of the major publishing houses, along with an impressive range of titles from smaller, harder-to-find, specialty publishers. The store features an extensive and in-depth selection of poetry, fiction, translations, politics, history, philosophy, music, spirituality, and more, with a staff whose special book interests in many fields contribute to the hand-picked quality of what you see on the shelves.

The City Lights masthead says A Literary Meetingplace since 1953, and this concept includes publishing books as well as selling them. In 1955, Ferlinghetti launched City Lights Publishers with the now-famous Pocket Poets Series; since then the press has gone on to publish a wide range of titles, both poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, international and local authors. Today, City Lights has well over two hundred titles in print, with a dozen new titles being published each year. The press is known and respected for its commitment to innovative and progressive ideas, and its resistance to forces of conservatism and censorship. All City Lights Publications that are currently available are proudly featured in the bookstore and on this website as well.

With this bookstore-publisher combination, "it is as if," says Ferlinghetti, "the public were being invited, in person and in books, to participate in that 'great conversation' between authors of all ages, ancient and modern." City Lights has become world-famous, but it has retained an intimate, casual, anarchic charm. It's a completely unique San Francisco experience, and a must for anyone who appreciates good books.

Both the store and the publishers became widely known following the obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti for publishing Allen Ginsberg's influential poem Howl and Other Poems (City Lights, 1956).  In 2001, City Lights was made an official historic landmark. City Lights is located at the nexus of North Beach and Chinatown in San Francisco.

In 1953, as Ferlinghetti was walking past the Artigues Building, he encountered Martin out front hanging up a sign that announced a "Pocket Book Shop." He introduced himself as a contributor to Martin's magazine City Lights, and told him he had always wanted a bookstore. Before long he and Martin agreed to a partnership. Each man invested $500.

Ferlinghetti in front of his shop

Soon after they opened they hired Shig Murao as a clerk. Murao worked without pay for the first few weeks, but eventually became manager of the store and was a key element in creating the unique feel of City Lights.^[1] In 1955, Martin sold his share of the business to Ferlinghetti for $1000, and moved to New York and started New Yorker Bookstore, which specialized in cinema.

In 1971, Ferlinghetti persuaded Nancy Peters - who was working at the Library of Congress - to join in a project with him, after which she began full-time work at City Lights.^[2] She said:

When I joined City Lights in 1971, and started working with Lawrence, it was clear that it had been very much a center of protest, for people with revolutionary ideas and people who wanted to change society. And when I first began working at the little editorial office up on Filbert and Grant, people that Lawrence had known through the whole decade of the '60s were dropping in all the time, like Paul Krassner, Tim Leary, people who were working with underground presses and trying to provide an alternative to mainstream media. This was a period of persecution, and FBI infiltration of those presses.^[3]

In 1984, the business was in a financial crisis and Peters became a co-owner of it.^[2] Ferlinghetti credits her for the subsequent survival and growing success of the business.^[4] In 1999, with Ferlinghetti, she bought the building they worked in.^[5]

In 2001, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors made City Lights an official historic landmark - the first time this had been granted to a business, rather than a building - citing the organization for "playing a seminal role in the literary and cultural development of San Francisco and the nation." It recognized the bookstore as "a landmark that attracts thousands of book lovers from all over the world because of its strong ambiance of alternative culture and arts", and it acknowledged City Lights Publishers for its "significant contribution to major developments in post-World War II literature."

On the wall at City Lights

The building itself, with its clerestory windows and small mezzanine balcony, also qualified as a city landmark because of its "distinctive characteristics typical of small commercial buildings constructed following the 1906 earthquake and fire." The landmark designation mandates the preservation of certain external features of the building and its immediate surroundings. Peters commented (referring to the effect of dotcom and computer firms), "The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing."^[6]

By 2003, the store had 15 employees.^[7] Peters estimated that the year's profits would be only "maybe a thousand dollars."^[8]

In 2007, after 23 years as executive director, she stepped down from the post, which was filled by Elaine Katzenberger; Peters remained on the board of directors.^[4] Peters said of her work at City Lights:

When I started working here we were in the middle of the Vietnam War, and now it's Iraq. This place has been a beacon, a place of learning and enlightenment.^[4]

As of 2008, City Lights is a general bookstore, specializing in fiction and poetry, cultural studies, world history, and politics. It offers three floors of new-release hardcovers and paperbacks from all major publishers, as well as a large selection of titles from smaller, independent publishers. City Lights is a member of the American Booksellers Association.

Jerry performed here in
??/??/61 Robert Hunter, Alan Trist
"When they had a working car, they often would go up to San Francisco to wander around North Beach and soak up what was left of the Beat scenes at places like City Lights Books and the Coffee Gallery."(11)





1.)^Hubler, Shawn, "City Lights Illuminates the Past," Los Angeles Times, 5/27/03
2.)^Morgan, Bill, http://www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_tour
3.)^And The Beat Goes On, 2003-06-09, http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/AND-THE-BEAT-GOES-ON-City-Lights-and-the-2611121.php
4.)^Lynell, George (2007), "City Lights Books", Los Angeles Times, 22 April 2007.
5.)^"City Lights: 50 candles", Chicago Sun-Times on findarticles.com, 22 June 2003.
6.)^ David, Simon (2001), "'Beat city' fights dotcom gold rush", Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2001
7.)^Lara, Adair (2003), "Literary Light", San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2003.
8.)^Hubler, Shawn (2003), "At 50, City Lights illuminates the past", Oakland Tribune/Los Angeles Times on findarticles.com, 15 June 2003.
9.)^Ferlinghetti, L & Morgan, B "The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour" City Lights Books, 2003
10.)^González, Ray (2003) "Tracing the public surface", The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 23, #2, 2003.
11.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia: An American Life, pg. 36.

Comedia Repertory Theater, Homer and High Streets (Emerson & Hamilton), Palo Alto, CA

Possibly the Comedia Theater, corner of Homer and High, now, in 2012, it's a Peet's Coffee.

Note the address.

Garcia had a job of sorts doing the lighting at a Palo Alto theater group called Commedia Del Arte, around 1962. Possibly on Emerson Street (possibly on the site of the Aquarius Theater).(1)

In March 1961, per Dennis McNally, "Garcia volunteered as a lighting technician for a production of Damn Yankees." This sounds like it was an informal deal for a friend, and Garcia seems not to have had any involvement in theater afterwards.
Dead.net has a new "Celebrating Jerry" clip that's a little conversation with Jerry from 1974. He talks a little about his pre-Dead days:
"I’d scuffle, I’d hustle, I’d scam. I didn’t want to work, I didn’t want to have a job, didn’t want to live that life, and I didn’t care what I did in order to not have to do it... I never felt pressed by that. I’d sleep in the bus depot, theater lobbies behind the ticket booth. I didn't give a fuck - I got into all those trips, because I didn’t want to make myself into somebody..."
Aside from being quite a statement of Jerry's philosophy in itself, this opens up the possibility that Jerry was volunteering as lighting tech at a theater in 1961 in return for being able to sleep there!
We know that at that point, Jerry was living in his car - so sleeping in a theater lobby would actually have been a step up in comfort. When he met Hunter, the two of them would hang out in his car in a parking lot, eating purloined pineapple from tin cans....
It's not often realized just how down & out Jerry was in that post-Army period, but he often remembered those days with fondness.(2)


Jerry rehearsed here on
03/??/61 Robert Hunter
Jerry meets 19 year old Robert Hunter while working an evening lighting job at the Comedia Theater.(3)







1.)^http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/07/warlocks-resumes-1965-pre-grateful-dead.html
2.)^lightintoashes, 2011-07-24, http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/07/warlocks-resumes-1965-pre-grateful-dead.html
3.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia: An American Life, pg. 34.

Country Dance Hall (unknown name), Richmond, CA

a Black Mountain Boys anecdote from Eric Thompson:
"I remember one time [the Black Mountain Boys] went to a real country dance hall in a place like Richmond [California, near Berkeley] and we played some tunes and these guys were very nice to us. They said 'That's a nice bluegrass sound.' They played Ernest Tubbs stuff in those places. You came in and you stamped your hand with a blue fluorescent stamp, and there was a bar in the back and there were fights. It was sawdust on a big wood floor. But we didn't make a lot of contact with that world. That was one of the few times we did. Usually it was more of a folk revival kind of thing and I don't think there were really the venues for it. There was no place like the Ash Grove or the Club 47 in Northern California, so we ended up doing things like playing on Gert Chiarito's program on KPFA and things like that — that was about as public as you could get. And then we'd play at these little tourist places in North Beach."(1)



Jerry performed here in
Late 1963-Spring 1964 Black Mountain Boys


 

 1.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia, An American Life, pg 59

Chet's Bar, 870 North High Street, Columbus, OH

Before or after Chet's Bar, it may have been called Irv-Nells.

It was called "The Box Lunch, a gentlemen's club at some point.(7)

In 2005, the bar was later called "The Full Monty", a Chippendale style bar with male dancers but that closed in 2007.(5)(6)
In 2012, Gallagher Consulting Group Inc. resides here in Suite 19 and the Gypsy Cafe is on the first floor.

Jerry performed here in
Spring 1964 Sandy Rothman, Robby Robinson, Sid Campbell

"In the spring of 1964 Jerry and I drove across the country in his '61 Corvair with our instruments and a reel-to-reel tape recorder to immerse ourselves in bluegrass. Jerry was 22 and I was 18. We visited one of our banjo predecessors from Berkeley, Neil Rosenberg, then getting his folklore degree at Indiana University in Bloomington. He took us to hear the Osborne Brothers at a real Ohio bluegrass bar, where we got a good dose of Sonny Osborne's incisive banjo wit along with the whole bluegrass bar culture. As Neil remembers, "Jerry was working hard on the latest banjo ideas, particularly the tricky melodic and rhythmic styling of Bill Keith. We had a lot of fun picking. Bluegrass jamming then (and now) can be a competitive sort of thing but Jerry wasn't into that stuff. He had confidence in his ability and an eagerness to try things that was very appealing."(3)

"But in Columbus also we did make our way to a bluegrass bar (at times named Chet's and Irv-Nell's; I can't be sure which it was then) and there we were invited to play with the band (Robby Robinson, legendary musician and luthier, with vocalist Sid Campbell and other local notables) onstage. That was clearly a venue, if just sitting in for a few tunes."(1)

Danny Milhon played resonator guitar in the Columbus and Central Ohio area from the early 1960s into the early 1990s.  An excellent musician who was in demand for recording sessions and as a band member, his membership in traveling bands was limited because he kept the same factory day job for 34 years.  He did travel for a short time with fiddler Benny Martin and singer Gene Christian.  Danny played with Sid Campbell’s Country Cutups, an early and excellent bluegrass band in the Columbus area that included Sid, Danny, Ross Branham, Bill Moore, and Chuck Cordle and sometimes John Hickman.  In the early 1960s they held forth at a bar known as Irv-Nells on North High Street in Columbus. (2)





1.)^Rothman, Sandy, 2012-03-18, email to author.
2.)^http://www.ham.muohio.edu/bluegrass/BGI_inviduals_i_m.htm
3.)^Rothman, Sandy, Jerry Garcia's Musical Roots:The Banjo Years - Part 3, http://www.thebestofwebsite.com/Bands/Jerry_Garcia/Misc/Rothman/3_Jerrys_Banjo_Years.htm

The Chateau, 2100 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA

The Chateau was this large house that was probably built in the late 20's or early 30's on this little knoll there," says Laird Grant. "At the time it was owned by a guy named Frank Serratoni, who was an artist.[4]

Lee Adams was the house manager of the Chateau and driver of the car that on February 20, 1961, killed Paul Speegle, a sixteen year-old artist and acquaintance of Garcia.
There were also plenty of games and partying over at a large house on Santa Cruz Avenue, near Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. It was home to various members of the scene, including Garcia and his songwriting collaborator, Robert Hunter, today a lyricist for the Grateful Dead. We used to sit on the front porch of the Chateau and jam. Jerry was always the leader, it was quite the weave," Williams says. "Jerry was the finger man." Vic Lovell remembers the three-story house with lots of rooms as one of the first "hippie-group-living-together" situations. "They had loud, wild parties, and lots of people were drunk. Sometimes somewhat out of hand."[1]

"A rambling, two story red and white house on a rise off Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto.  It was an old two story house, red with grey and white trim.  It had been divided into little studio rooms with a communal bath and kitchen."[2]

"My Mom bought the house at 2100 Santa Cruz Avenue in 1964 as rental property originally and lived there herself until 2002. It was a Victorian style house built in 1910 with shake tiles on the exterior. It was sold in '02, demolished and rebuilt ."[5]
It is now a commercial strip.

Jerry lived, rehearsed and performed here in
October 1961 (moved in)
Jerry Garcia moves into the Chateau - or rather into a car on the grounds. Eventually he takes residence in a dirt-floored space that was once a root cellar. The house’s denizens now also include Robert Hunter, who is working on a novel he plans to title The Silver Snarling Trumpet; Jerry’s old friend Laird Grant is camped out (literally) nearby.[10]
Jerry plays an acoustic guitar.
"No matter who was there in the daytime or the night time, when Jerry was living at the Chateau, he would walk around the house with a guitar on. He would be so intent on what he was doing that he would come and stand in front of people the way you stand in front of somebody your'e going to have a conversation with. But he would be absolutely completely inside himself. He would make no response at all to the person he was standing in front of. He was inside himself playing."How are you doing today? And he wouldn't say a word. His fingers would never stop moving."[1]

11/18/61 (Groovy Conclave)
Matty Grooves;The Long Black Veil;Greenback Dollar
Jerry plays an acoustic guitar.

"A tape made at the Chateau during a party dipped the “Groovy Conclave” includes Garcia performing Matty Grooves, the mournful murder ballad The Long Black Veil, and Hoyt Axton and Ken Ramsey’s Greenback Dollar - a chart hit for the Kingston Trio in 1963. Among the other groovers are Phil Lesh and Tom Constanten."[10]

""Pigpen started going down the wrong path pretty early. I remember back at the Chateau, he would turn up when he was about sixteen or so, with a bottle of Ripple or Thunderbird - no, it was Thunderbird that he drank. He was one of the youngest alcoholics I've ever met, but he was very, very good. He was, I think, the best performer around, the best all-round performer; the only guy who could get up on stage and play blues. The rest of us were into things a lot lighter than that. He could really play the blues, really play harmonica. His father was a disc-jockey on a rhythm & blues station in San Jose, so he had a whole library to draw from."[9]

11/19/61 (Groovy Conclave)
Jerry plays an acoustic guitar.
We used to sit on the front porch of the Chateau and jam. Jerry was always the leader, it was quite the weave," Williams says. "Jerry was the finger man." Vic Lovell remembers the three-story house with lots of rooms as one of the first "hippie-group-living-together" situations. "They had loud, wild parties, and lots of people were drunk. Sometimes somewhat out of hand."(12)

11/20/61 (Groovy Conclave)
Jerry plays an acoustic guitar.
Blair Jackson’s Garcia: An American Life, pg.44 puts Petersen, along with Lesh and Garcia “and about two hundred other people,” at “a giant party dubbed the Groovy Conclave” that began on November 18, 1961, and went on for three days at a rambling Palo Alto “party house” known as the Chateau.[3]

1962[8]

1963 The Chateau was sold and Jerry, Nelson, Hunter and Legate moved into 436 Hamilton Street, just a block away from St. Michael's Alley.[6]

 





Chateau, Menlo Park, CA
1.)^Wood, Suzy, Greenfield, Robert, Dark Star, pg. 30, http://books.google.com/books?id=XJmzvXLJmjoC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=chateau,+garcia&source=bl&ots=B_08shUCVN&sig=DfBvQvl7O1rhauX1o01eSo7qwMM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Fq46UKX1FOiGjAKptoGwCw&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=chateau%2C%20garcia&f=false
2.)^Van Maastricht, Norm, Reflections On The Garcia, pg. 13.
3.)^Mitchner, Stuart, Now's The Time, 2012-09-17, http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2012/08/29/nows-the-time-making-history-with-charlie-parker-and-jerry-garcia/
4.)^McNally, Dennis, A Long Strange Trip:The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, pg. 30.
5.)^Pat, comments, 2012-12-20, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/02/grateful-dead-and-menlo-park.html?showComment=1386778988634#comment-c5236350108207656611
6.)^McNally, Dennis, A Long Strange Trip:The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, pg. 51.
7.)^Troy, Sandy, Captain Trips, pg. 34.
8.)^Shashinda, Lorna Joy, 2014-7-08, This information comes from the original "customer cards" used at Swain's House of Music to record who bought and rented instruments.
9.)^Hunter, Robert, First impression of Pigpen, Light Into Ashes, comments, 2014-06-26, Pigpen Solo, 2011-04-22, Grateful Dead Guide, http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/04/pigpen-solo.html
10.)^Jackson, Blair; McNally, Dennis; Peters, Stephen; Wills, Chuck, Grateful Dead - The Illustrated Trip, pg 22, 23.
11.)^Shashinda, Lorna Joy, 2014-7-08, This information comes from the original "customer cards" used at Swain's House of Music to record who bought and rented instruments.
12.)^2.)^Bothun, Brian and Monica Hayde, Palo Alto Weekly, 1993-05-12, "Dawn of the Dead- A Tour of the Grateful Dead's Midpeninsula roots", http://www.kazart.com/bus_stop/p_alto.htm

Columbus Folk Center, Columbus, OH

"In Columbus, Ohio, Jerry and I sat around and picked some in the Columbus Folk Center, a shop run by Roger & Carol Johnson (who now live somewhere near Boston and have a violin shop); that, too was not a venue but just an informal and typical playing situation."(1)








1.)Rothman, Sandy, 2012-03-18

Columbia Recording, Studio A, 799 7th Ave., New York, NY

Studio A is circled.

799 7th Avenue, New york, NY was one of their earliest recording studios.

The company was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company—successor to the Volta Graphophone Company.^[2] Columbia is the oldest brand name in pre-recorded sound,^[3] being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders.
In 1934 it was known as Robbins Music Corporation. 
Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone was recorded here on June 15+16, 1965.
Before the Equitable, 799 7th was sold to engineer/producer Phil Ramone, who made it into yet another successful NY studio, A&R.
The building was demolished in 1983, and were replaced by the enormous Equitable Building, which now takes up the whole length of the block from 51st to 52nd.

After further research, Jerry never recorded here. It was Columbia Studios, San Francisco.




1.)^http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/10/david-bromberg.html
2.)^Bilton, Lynn. The Columbia Graphophone and Grafonola -A Beginner's Guide. Intertique.com website, 2007
3.)^Billboard, 1955-09-17, pg 36, http://books.google.com/books?id=2CMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22columbia+records%22+%2B+%22oldest+label%22&hl=en&ei=O_BXTITNHo7tnQfZma2bCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22columbia%20records%22%20%2B%20%22oldest%20label%22&f=false 

Hangar Two, USS Carl Vinson, Naval Air Station Alameda, Alameda, CA

Capacity-Unknown

The keel was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding on 11 October 1975, and on 15 March 1980 the ship was launched/christened. Congressman Carl Vinson became the first person in the history of the United States Navy to witness a ship's launching in his honor. After builder sea trials, she was delivered to the Navy on 26 February 1982.

The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is the third United States Navy Nimitz class supercarrier and is named after Carl Vinson, a Congressman from Georgia, in recognition of his contributions to the US Navy. A member of the United States House of Representatives for fifty years, Carl Vinson was, for twenty-nine years, the Chairman of the House Naval Affairs and Armed Services Committee; Vinson was the principal sponsor of the so-called "Vinson Acts," culminating in the Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940, which provided for the massive Naval shipbuilding effort in World War II.

The ship was launched in 1980, undertook her maiden voyage in 1983, Carl Vinson departed Norfolk on March 1, 1983 with Carrier Air Wing Fifteen (CVW-15) embarked for her maiden deployment, an eight-month around the world cruise to her new homeport of Naval Air Station Alameda, California, arriving on 28 Oct. 1983.[2]

On 12 August 1986 the ship departed Alameda for a western Pacific deployment, again with CVW-15 aboard, and in the process became the first modern U.S. aircraft carrier to operate in the Bering Sea. In January 1987, after operating extensively in the Indian Ocean and North Arabian Sea, Carl Vinson transited the Bering Sea once more while returning to NAS Alameda.[3)

1987: After conducting extensive operations in the Indian Ocean and North Arabian Sea, Carl Vinson transited the Bering Sea once again in January. During the transit to NAS Alameda, Carl Vinson received the highest grade ever given to an aircraft carrier during an Operational Reactor Safeguard Examination.

1988: Carl Vinson departed NAS Alameda for its fourth deployment on June 15, 1988

Besides deployments in Operation Desert Strike, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Southern Watch, and Operation Enduring Freedom, the Carl Vinson was involved in a number of notable events. The body of Osama bin Laden was disposed of in 2011 from the deck of the Carl Vinson, and that same year, on November 11, she played host to the first NCAA basketball game on an aircraft carrier, between North Carolina and Michigan State.

The ship underwent Refueling and Overhaul between 2005 and 2009. Carl Vinson's callsign is "Gold Eagle".

Jerry performed on this ship on
3/6/87 JGB
Jerry had to play this show as part of his community service for getting arrested the year before in Golden Gate Park.
If you look at page 18 of the Official "1987 Command History" for the USS Carl Vinson (accessible as a PDF from footnote 4 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carl_Vinson_%28CVN-70%29), there is a list of "1987 Distinguished Visitors and Media Visits In Port."
For 6 Mar 87 it says "Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead, on board to give a daylight concert in Hangar Two."(1)




1.)^Arnold, Corry, 2009-12-10, Jerry garcia's Middle Finger, http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2009/12/jgb-uss-carl-vinson-sf-bay-march-6-1987.html
2.)^"Welcome to USS Carl Vinson CVN 70 Public Site". Cvn70.navy.mil.
3.)^http://www.history.navy.mil/shiphist/c/cvn-70/1987.pdf

Crystal Ballroom, Biltmore Hotel, 515 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA

1920's

When the eleven-story Biltmore Hotel opened on October 2, 1923,  it was the largest hotel west of the Mississippi.
The Biltmore was designed in the Beaux Arts style with some Italian and Spanish Renaissance by the architectural firm Schultze and Weaver.
The hotel opened with 1,500 guest rooms over 11 floors and was decorated with frescoes, marble fountains, columns and crystal chandeliers. Italian Giovanni Smeraldi led a team of artists who hand painted the Greek myth-inspired frescoes that cover the ceiling of the Crystal Ballroom. It took them seven months to complete the job. (Adam Dawson)

As an homage to the Castilian heritage of Los Angeles, the "Biltmore Angel" is heavily incorporated into the design—as a symbol of the city as well as the Biltmore itself. With a thick steel and concrete frame, the structure takes up half a city block and rises over 11 stories.

The interiors of the Biltmore Hotel are decorated with: frescos and murals; carved marble fountains and columns; massive wood-beamed ceilings; travertine and oak paneled walls; lead crystal chandeliers; caste bronze stairwells and doorways; fine artisan marquetry and mill work; and heavily embroidered imported tapestries and draperies.

Most notable are the frescoed mural ceilings in the main Galleria and the Crystal Ballroom, which were hand painted in 1922 by Italian artist Giovanni Smeraldi, known for his work in the Vatican and the White House. Smeraldi and his team famously painted the ballroom's colorful, seamless fresco over a period of seven months, decorating it with figures of Greek and Roman gods, angels, cupids and other mythological creatures. It was meticulously restored in the 1980s by Smeraldi's apprentice, Anthony Heinsbergen. The imported Austrian crystal chandeliers that adorn it are 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter.

Crytal Ballroom ceiling decorated by John Smeraldi.

The Rendezvous Court, once the hotel's lobby but now used primarily for afternoon tea, is decorated with a Moorish Revival styled plaster ceiling painted with 24 Carat Gold accents, two original imported Italian chandeliers from 1923, and a grand Spanish Baroque Revival bronze doorway, whose astrological clock still keeps time today. Two figures appear on the stairwell front—on the left is the Roman goddess of agriculture Ceres, while on the right is the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The current lobby at the hotel's Grand Avenue entrance still has its original travertine walls and oak paneling as well as the large artificial skylighted ceiling, reflected in the custom carpet below.
Each ballroom on the Galleria level is themed either after the rooms’ original function or the hotel's overall California-heritage premise.

The Emerald Room was once the hotel's main guest dining room; its decor features images of hunt and harvest, with hand-painted animals and fish on the cast-plaster ceiling beams.

The Tiffany Room was formerly an open corridor used as a drop-off point for Crystal Ballroom functions. Now enclosed, the elegant space centers around exploration, with relief sculptures and panels depicting Queen Isabella I of Castile, and Christopher Columbus and other Spanish New World explorers.

The split-level Gold Room, once a dining room for elite guests, features Prohibition-era hidden liquor compartments and panels along the ceiling for press photographers to take pictures of the event below. It is decorated with a gold cast-plaster ceiling, hand-oiled wood paneling, and nine mirrored windows along three sides.

The South Galleria is painted with floral friezes inspired by the decor of ancient Roman Pompeii, and features a vaulted ceiling, marble balustrades and heavy Roman piers. Gold-painted wrought iron gates, made famous in Alfred Hitchcock's 1950s film Vertigo, open to a staircase leading down to the Biltmore Bowl.
Also of interest is the hotel's health club and indoor pool, which was modeled after the decks of 1920s luxury cruise-ships such as the Queen Mary. Solid brass trim on windows, doors and railings, teakwood deck chairs and hand-laid Italian mosaic tile on the walls and in the pool are original. All designs are of a nautical theme.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded in the hotel's Crystal Ballroom on May 11, 1927, when guests such as Louis B. Mayer met to discuss plans for the new organization and presenting achievement awards to colleagues in their industry.

Legend has it that MGM art director Cedric Gibbons, who was in attendance, immediately grabbed a linen Biltmore napkin and sketched the design for the Oscar statue on it. Cedric Gibbons won the Oscar 11 times, nominated 37 times.

Eight Oscar ceremonies were held in the Biltmore Bowl during the Academy's early years of 1931, 1935–39, and 1941-42.

Vivian Leigh, 1939

In 1929, Germany's Graf Zeppelin airship soared over the hotel on its round-the-world voyage, sponsored by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Crew and passengers were fed by Biltmore culinary staff, who also replenished their on-board supplies.

In 1952 famous Indian yogi Paramahansa Yogananda died at the Biltmore. During a banquet given for the Indian ambassador to America, Yogananda was reading a poem when he suffered a heart attack. Since then the hotel has become a holy site for his followers who believe it to be the place where his soul left his body.(Adam Dawson)

John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 at the hotel. He also used its Music Room as his campaign headquarters.

Four years later, in 1964, The Beatles made a trip to visit the Presidential Suite during their first U.S. tour. Huge numbers of fans on the sidewalks forced them to get in through an unusual way: The band's helicopter had to land on the hotel roof.(Adam Dawson)

Read more: History of the Biltmore in Los Angeles | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6401588_history-biltmore-los-angeles.html#ixzz1DxpeegWn

 In 1977 Bob Hope hosted the Academy's 50th Anniversary banquet in the same room. Movie industry guests assembled there to discuss the possibility of organizing a new awards ceremony which was to become known as the Academy Awards, or the Oscars. 

Upon purchase by Millenium Hotels and Resorts in 2000, the L.A. landmark became the Millenium Biltmore Hotel.


Jerry performed here on
8/2/89 Benefit for the National Hispanic Arts, Education & Media Institute. Carlos Santana, Reuben Blades, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz and Linda Ronstadt also performed.