February 4, 1974
Patty Hearst, 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, USA by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She became a bank robber for the SLA, and was pardoned by President Clinton on his last day of office, January 2001, along with his his brother Roger and a former business partner, Susan McDougal and nearly 100 others.
Feb 3, 1967 - Feb 5, 1967
Jefferson Airplane
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Dino Valenti
@ the Fillmore
poster artist
Wes Wilson
Listen to Quicksilver Messenger Late Show set courtesy of Wolfgang's Vault
Feb 3, 1969
Continuous Projections of Films
@ San Francisco Art Institute
Artist:Robert Nelson
February 4, 1846
The ship "Brooklyn" left New York bound for San Francisco with members
of theChurch of Latter-Day Saints aboard. They had been instructed to "flee
Babylon."
They departed for California the same day other Saints left
Navoo, Illinois,following clashes with settlers over polygamy. The party from
Navoo was to meet Brannan's group at Yerba Buena.
February 4, 1965
Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 other protesters arrested in Selma, Alabama for picketing county courthouse to end discrim voting rights
February 4, 1966
Jefferson Airplane
The Mystery Trend
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Peter Bailey Handbill:$20.
Bill Graham's first non-benefit showshow at the Fillmore
February 4, 1974
Patty Hearst, 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, USA by theSymbionese Liberation Army(SLA). She became a bank robber for the SLA, and was pardoned by President Clinton on his last day of office, January 2001, along with his his brother Roger and a former business partner, Susan McDougal and nearly 100 others.
February 5, 1856
Chinese New Year began today. New Year's Eve was celebrated by the Celestials last night with the explosion of millions of firecrackers.
Orphan Asylum Society of San Francisco celebrated its fifth anniversary.
Feb 6, 1967
Neon Rose #5
The Sopwith Camel
@ Matrix (San Francisco, CA)
Artist:Victor Moscoso
Feb 6, 1969 - Feb 9, 1969
Mike Bloomfield
Nick Gravenites
Mark Naftalin
The Byrds
Poster Artist: Randy Tuten and
Peter Pynchon
Hear Mike Bloomfield at this CONCERT courtesy of Wolfgang's Vault
February 6 ,2000
Janice Mirikitani, wife of Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial, was named the poet laureate for San Francisco for 2000
Feb 8, 1968 -
Feb 10, 1968
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
Arlo Guthrie
The Loading Zone
Holy See
@ Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco
Poster Artist:Stanley Mouse
Hear John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers at this concert courtesy of Wolfgang's Vault
February 11, 1854
San Francisco Gas Company turned on first coal gas lamps tonight. The occasion was celebrated at a grand banquet at the Oriental Hotel. The gas illuminated
86 lamps and also the Metropolitan Theatre.
Feb. 12, 1966
Lincoln's Birthday Party
Firehouse Theatre (San Francisco)
Handbill
Size:5 5/8" x 8 5/8"
Price:$835.00
February 12, 1966
Rock For Peace at the Fillmore Auditorium with the The Great Society, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Benefit for Democratic congressional candidates and the Viet Nam Study Group.
February 12, 1967
Abe Lincoln's Birthday Party
Grateful Dead
Moby Grape
Sly & the Family Stone
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Hank Lelo
February 12, 2004
Some 90 gay and lesbian couples wed in San Francisco. Over the next few days some 2,000 took their vows.
Feb 13, 1967
Neon Rose #6
The Blues Project
@ Matrix , San Francisco
Poster Artist:Victor Moscoso
Feb 14, 1819 -- England: Joshua Norton I, Dei Gratia Emperor of the United States & Protector of México lives, London, England. Greatest Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader the US has ever had.
"Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Hardly anybody understands Einstein. & nobody understands Emperor Norton."— Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C.
February 14, 1967
Jim Morrison and The Doors performed at Whisky A-Go-Go, 568 Sacramento St. San Francisco
February 14, 1968
Be Mine
Grateful Dead
Country Joe & the Fish
Carousel Ballroom
Artist: Stanley Mouse
handbill
Feb 14, 1968 -- The Airplane opens at the Carousel Ballroom, Van Ness Ave. & Market Street, San Francisco, California.
February 15, 1849
Goat Island, also known as Sea Bird Island and later as Wood Island,
sold by Nathan Spear to Harbor Master Edward A. King for $1.
February 15, 1968
The Free City Collective holds an event in City Hall to create solidarity with prisoners at San Quentin.
The event started at 10:30am with two flute players circling the rotunda and businessmen and officials in suits watching on. A balloon tied to a rock has
written on it, "Honor the Spirit of Francis of Assissi " and
a sign reads, "Soon this balloon shall be free."
At noon, thirty "Free
City" people march into City Hall and, in typicalDigger fashion, a multi-level
event proceeds to unfold. While flutes and drums played, the balloon was released.
A man sat on a toilet in the middle of the rotunda. A woman holds a palm leaf
standing at the top of main stairway. A banner is unfurled that reads, "Prisoners
of San Francisco | Unite With Prisoners | Of San Quentin".
Later that afternoon, a gathering of hundreds outside San Quentin enjoyed
the Grateful Dead and The Phoenix. The event was in solidarity with prisoners
who had been reported to be planning a strike as reported in the Berkeley Barb.
The strike did not materialize according to the Warden. One Free City spokesperson
said, "People aren't going to know what prison is until they see a lot
of freedom."
February 16, 1935
Stephen Gaskin was born in in Denver, Colorado and served in the United States Marines from 1952 to 1955. In the 1960s, he moved to San Francisco and taught English, creative writing, and general semantics at San Francisco State College, where he was a student of S. I. Hayakawa.His writing class became an open discussion known as Monday Night Class, which involved up to 1500 students.
Feb. 16, 1971 -- Alan Pasaro, the Hell's Angel tried & acquitted for the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, sues the Rolling Stones, for invasion of privacy because the Maysles brothers' film, "Gimmie Shelter", showed the stabbing.
February 16, 1999
Concern was raised over the flock of some 50 wild parrots that lived on Telegraph Hill. Their protector and chronicler, Mark Bittner, was scheduled to move from his cottage and the city's Commission on Animal Control and Welfare asked for ideas on their care.
February 16, 2003
The SF anti-war demonstration cost organizers some $85,000. An estimated 200,000
people participated. Some 1000 protesters clashed with police at the end
of the rally and 46 people were arrested
Feb. 17, 1913 -- US: Pacific Northwest naturalist,
poet Joaquin Miller dies.
Feb 17, 1967 - Feb 18, 1967
Second Annual Tribal Stomp
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Oxford Circle
Ben Van Meter
Roger Hillyard
@ Avalon Ballroom
Artist:Stanley Mouse
Alton Kelley
February 19, 1966
Wildflower
The Sopwith Camel
Firehouse Theatre
February 19, 1966
Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Wes Wilson Poster
The first concert presented by Chet Helms, and because there were only approximately 250 copies printed in this run, the poster is very rare and highly sought after.
February 19, 1967
Port Chicago Vigil Benefit at California Hall.
Feb. 20, 1931 California got the go-ahead by the US Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
February 20, 2004
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger directed the California state attorney general to take immediate legal steps to stop SF from granting marriage licenses to
gay couples.
February 21, 2004
Bill Lockyer, California state Attorney General, rebuffed Gov. Schwarzenegger's demand to force an end to same-sex marriages in SF, calling the directive
political rhetoric.
February 22, 1847
As one of his last official acts, Alcalde Bartlett certified the accuracy of
the new town plan for San Francisco before the County Recorder.
Feb 22, 1968 - Feb 24, 1968
The Who
Cannonball Adderley
The Vagrants
Glenn McKay's Head Lights
@Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco, CA)
Artist:Lee Conklin
Postcard: Size:4 1/2" x 7"
Price:$116.00
February 23, 1887
An act to grant certain Seal Rocks to the city and county of San Francisco,
State of California, in trust for the people of the United States.
Feb, 23, 1904 -- US: William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner begins publishing articles on the menace of Japanese laborers, leading to a resolution of the California Legislature that action be taken against their immigration. Source
February 23, 1905(?) The San Francisco Chronicle front page headline reads: "The Japanese Invasion: The Problem of the Hour." This launches an unrelenting string of editorials against the Japanese which serve to kick the anti-Japanese movement into high gear. Source
Feb 23, 1966
Allen Ginsberg
Poets Theater
Poets Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Feb 23, 1968 - Feb 25, 1968
Buddy Guy
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Son House
@ Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA)
PosterArtist: Paul Zavorskas
Size:14" x 19 1/4"
Price:$65.00
February 23, 2004
The wage minimum in SF rose to $8.50 from $6.75, based on
voter approval in
2003.
Feb 26, 1966
Tour/Show:King Kong Memorial Dance
Great Society
The Grass Roots
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Fillmore Auditorium
Artist: Wes Wilson
Chet Helms
February 27, 1967
Police raided two Digger houses that the were 848 Clayton and 1775 Haight. The next day, a demonstration takes place at Park Station protesting the raids, and police harassment, especially directed toward Patrolman Arthur Gerrans. Lt. John Curran estimated that 40 people stayed at each apartment on a nightly
basis.
The Diggers
Photographer:Gene Anthony
February 27, 1998
Jack Micheline (born as Harvey Martin Silver in NY), Bohemian poet, died at
68 of a heart attack on a BART train between SF and Orinda. His first book
of poetry was "River of Red Wine," and his last was "Sixty
Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints."
Jack Micheline Jack Micheline
Feb, 28, 1970 -- Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for singing the "F word" in an Oklahoma City concert.
Feb, 28, 1970 -- US: Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
www.blazingsaddles.com and while we are on the subject of bicycles,
A History of Bike Messengering in San Francisco
Feb, 28, 1972 -- US: Angela Davis trial starts, San Jose, California.
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Some of these history items were found at the online Virtual San Francisco Museum, Wilson's Book of Days, The Daily Bleed, and The Diggers Archive. Other dates and information are bits and pieces of San Francisco history I have collected during my research into all things San Francisco over the many years I have lived and loved here. ..nicole, sfheart.com
Do you enjoy revisiting the art and music from the dance hall concerts of the late 60's and early 70's? I sure do! Posters and concerts displayed here are for the pleasure of those like me who were solucky to have been here and for those who wish they had been. ~ nicole, sfheart.comJimi Hendrix Experience
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