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Fact #158780

When:

Short story:

The Grateful Dead play a memorable free concert in the middle of Haight Street, San Francisco, California, USA.

Full article:

Carolyn 'Mountain Girl' Garcia : It started early in the morning and I think it was Rock's idea.the band kept saying maybe we can do it, maybe we can't, all the way up to the wire.

Rock Scully (Grateful Dead crew) : We did that one without a permit. It was a day when the street was closed to traffic. Haight Street had gotten so crowded with bumper-to-bumper traffic, that the city closed it to vehicles. We thought it would be perfect to slide our trucks across the street and play. We piled all the equipment onto flatbed trucks and pulled up in front of the Straight Theatre and plugged into their electricity. We had two flatbed trucks back to back set up across Haight Street, which we used as our stage. The band played for a couple of hours. The entire length of Haight Street was literally filled up all the way past Divisadero. Immediately the cops were trying to unplug us but we were running off the Straight Theatre and we had that place fortified. The cops couldn't get near the electricity. We were running it right out of the second floor window so the cops couldn't cut us off. It was an amazing day.

Carolyn 'Mountain Girl' Garcia : Everybody we knew was there. It was great to see the street full of people. It was the flowering of that type of event.

Jerry Garcia : That was kinda like our swan-song to Haight Street. To the whole scene. It was the very height of the most highly publicised, highly energised moment … It was a really great day, but that was the end of it.
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