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[[50th Anniversary of 1934 General Strike|Longshoremen]]'s Hall. January 21-23, 1966. Ken Kesey and his Pranksters kicked off the hippie movement by ladling out electric kool-aid to the gathered throngs at the Trips Festival. A band called the Warlocks (later known as the Grateful Dead) provided musical accompaniment. Shortly thereafter America's hair got longer, clothing more colorful, pupils more dilated. Road signs reading "No Left Turn Unstoned" began to pop up, disrupting traffic patterns and forcing the federal government to outlaw LSD later that same year (October 10, 1966). Ironically, it had been that very same federal government, in the guise of the CIA, that had brought LSD to America and introduced it to people like Timothy Leary, Gregory Bateson, and Ken Kesey. The CIA had wanted to use LSD as a mind-control agent; as it turned out, the stuff had the exact opposite effect--it rendered minds utterly uncontrollable.
[[50th Anniversary of 1934 General Strike|Longshoremen]]'s Hall. January 21-23, 1966. Ken Kesey and his Pranksters ladled out electric kool-aid to the gathered throngs at the Trips Festival. A band called the Warlocks (later known as the Grateful Dead) provided musical accompaniment.  
 
<font size=4>'''The Merry Pranksters'''</font size>
 
Can YOU pass the Acid Test? There's no way to think about it or read about it. There's no other way to know than go ahead on it. Can you die to your corpses? Can you metamorphose? Can you pass the 20th Century?
 
What is total dance?
 
We don't know.
 
Participants, beside yourself, are Henry Jacobs (who first carried out the fantasy of turning on an air dome), John Korty (illustrious filmmaker), Gordon Ashby (who designed the Light Matrix for IBM), Bruce Conner (illustrious filmmaker), [[Dancers' Workshop Happening, 1963|Anna Halprin & dancers]], [[Pauline Oliveros: Musical Pioneer|Pauline Oliveros]] (with Elizabeth Harris and the 12-foot light sitar), Chinese New Years Lion Dancers & Drum and Bugle Corps, the Stroboscopic Trampoline, The Grateful Dead, [[Big Brother and the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills|Big Brother and the Holding Company]], The Loading Zone, America Needs Indians, Open Theater, [[San Francisco Tape Music Center|Tape Center]], the Merry Pranksters, and
 
It's prayer, mostly.
 
Festival credits:
 
PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH BILL GRAHAM ENVIRONMENT: OSBORNE AND STEWART ARCHITECTS
 
PUBLICITY: JERRY MANDER/ZEV PUTTERMAN AND ASSOC.
 
SOUND-LIGHT COORDINATION: DON BUCHLA
 
SIDETRIPS: WORSHIP SERVICE AT 321 DIVISADERO ST., SUNDAY, January 23 at 11:00 A.M.
 
Chloe Scott, dancemistress—Lou Harrison, composer
 
Encore Theatre—Mime—Dance—Sound 3:00 P.M. Sunday, Jan. 23
 
The Music
 
The Dance
 
The Bows
 
Elizabeth Harris, Pauline Oliveros and large Mime Troupe Cast The Psychedelic Shop at 1535 Haight Street.
 
Gratitude to Blake, Moffitt and Towne for poster paper. General Radio Corp, Los Altos, for strobes. Comtel Engineering for TV, Harry McCune Sound Service East Wind Printers — Peter Bailey, designer Contact Printing Company — Wes Wilson, design Light Sculpture by Marr Grounds, Charles MacDermond & Don Buchla, Roger Hilliard, Steve Sanders, David Talcott.
 
The Trips Festival notes with approval and great interest the participation in the festival of ''Look, Newsweek, Time'', and ''Life''.
 
[[Image:Acid Test certificate for Jerry Garcia.jpg|720px]]
 
'''Jerry Garcia's Acid Test certificate!'''


''--Dr. Weirde''
[[Image:Acid Test art.jpg]]


[[Image:norbeach$uncle-sam-acid-test.jpg]]
[[Image:norbeach$uncle-sam-acid-test.jpg]]


'''Part of an invitation to an early "Acid Test."'''
'''Part of an invitation to an early "[[THE ACID TEST|Acid Test]]."'''




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Unfinished History

Norbeach$longshoremen s-hall-photo.jpg

Longshoreman's Hall in North Beach

Photo: Brett Reierson

Longshoremen's Hall. January 21-23, 1966. Ken Kesey and his Pranksters ladled out electric kool-aid to the gathered throngs at the Trips Festival. A band called the Warlocks (later known as the Grateful Dead) provided musical accompaniment.

The Merry Pranksters

Can YOU pass the Acid Test? There's no way to think about it or read about it. There's no other way to know than go ahead on it. Can you die to your corpses? Can you metamorphose? Can you pass the 20th Century?

What is total dance?

We don't know.

Participants, beside yourself, are Henry Jacobs (who first carried out the fantasy of turning on an air dome), John Korty (illustrious filmmaker), Gordon Ashby (who designed the Light Matrix for IBM), Bruce Conner (illustrious filmmaker), Anna Halprin & dancers, Pauline Oliveros (with Elizabeth Harris and the 12-foot light sitar), Chinese New Years Lion Dancers & Drum and Bugle Corps, the Stroboscopic Trampoline, The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Loading Zone, America Needs Indians, Open Theater, Tape Center, the Merry Pranksters, and

It's prayer, mostly.

Festival credits:

PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH BILL GRAHAM ENVIRONMENT: OSBORNE AND STEWART ARCHITECTS

PUBLICITY: JERRY MANDER/ZEV PUTTERMAN AND ASSOC.

SOUND-LIGHT COORDINATION: DON BUCHLA

SIDETRIPS: WORSHIP SERVICE AT 321 DIVISADERO ST., SUNDAY, January 23 at 11:00 A.M.

Chloe Scott, dancemistress—Lou Harrison, composer

Encore Theatre—Mime—Dance—Sound 3:00 P.M. Sunday, Jan. 23

The Music

The Dance

The Bows

Elizabeth Harris, Pauline Oliveros and large Mime Troupe Cast The Psychedelic Shop at 1535 Haight Street.

Gratitude to Blake, Moffitt and Towne for poster paper. General Radio Corp, Los Altos, for strobes. Comtel Engineering for TV, Harry McCune Sound Service East Wind Printers — Peter Bailey, designer Contact Printing Company — Wes Wilson, design Light Sculpture by Marr Grounds, Charles MacDermond & Don Buchla, Roger Hilliard, Steve Sanders, David Talcott.

The Trips Festival notes with approval and great interest the participation in the festival of Look, Newsweek, Time, and Life.

Acid Test certificate for Jerry Garcia.jpg

Jerry Garcia's Acid Test certificate!

Acid Test art.jpg

Norbeach$uncle-sam-acid-test.jpg

Part of an invitation to an early "Acid Test."


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