November 6, 1850
The Presidio, Goat Island, Angel Island, Black Point and Point San Jose reserved by President Fillmore for military purposes.
November 6,1965
The third Family Dog rock dance concert was held at the Longshoremen's Hall.
It was called "A Tribute to Ming the Merciless." The Mothers [who later added
"of Invention" to their name] played it.Reference/Source: (Charles Perry, The Haight Ashbury: A History (New York: Random House/Rolling Stone Books, 1984), 40-41.)
November 6, 1965
San Francisco Mime Troupe
Benefit for SF Mime Troupe - Appeal I
Jefferson Airplane
The Fugs
Calliope Warehouse (San Francisco, CA)
Handbill
This was Bill Graham's first concert.
The Merry Pranksters
Neal Cassady
Photograph by Gene Anthony
November 6, 1965
Bill Graham's first: San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal party at Graham's Calliope Ballroom, 924 Howard Street. The Jefferson Airplane, the Fugs, Warlocks, Committee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti entertained the benefit to raise money for San Francisco Mime Troupe, busted for performing in a park without a permit.
'When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge'— Tuli Kupferberg, "one of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time," as quoted in "Reader's Digest" (4/87)
I don't know what was more of a sign that the 60s were over... Lawrence Welk owning the Country Joe & the Fish catalog (Welk Music Group bought Vanguard) or one of the Fugs being quoted in "Reader's Digest"...
http://www.sfmt.org/
November 6, 1968
First day of San Francisco State College strike.
Nov 7, 1998
Mayor Brown was hit with 3 pastry pies by the Biotic Baking Brigade in protest for "skyrocketing evictions" and his "collusion with big business to perform an economic cleansing of SF." In Feb 1999 Gerard Livernois, Rahula Janowski and Justin Gross were sentenced to 6 months in County Jail for battery after the 3 refused to accept 3 years probation.
November 7, 2007
The 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill was an oil spill that occurred at San Francisco, California, in which 58,000 gallons (220,000 litres) of IFO-380 bunker fuel[1] were spilled into San Francisco Bay after the container ship COSCO Busan collided with the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in thick fog. Less than half the birds resued survived.
Nov. 8, 1966
Movie and TV actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California, vows to stamp out anti-war protestors and obscene publications. Reagan defeated incumbent Gov. Edmund G. Brown by almost one million votes.
Nov 9, 1968
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Grateful Dead
Fillmore West
Artist: Lee Conklin
Nov. 9, 1969
The occupation of Alcatraz was planned by Richard Oakes, a group of Indian students, and a group of urban Indians from the Bay Area. Since many different tribes were represented, the name "Indians of All Tribes" was adopted for the group. They claimed the island in the name of Indians of all tribes and left the island to return later that same evening. In meetings following the November 9th occupation, Oakes and his fellow American Indian students realized that a prolonged occupation was possible.
Nov.10, 1849
Collector of the Port said 697 ships arrived in port since April 1 of which 401 were American and 296 were foreign.
Nov. 12, 1966
The Hells Angels M.C present Big Brother and the Holding Company and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters at Sokol Hall, 739 Page St.
Nov, 13, 1937
Diamond Dave Whitaker's birthday
Diamond Dave still sparkling
Nov. 13, 1966
Zenefit - Zen Mountain Center Benefit featuring the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service with lights by Bill Ham at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco.
Nov 14, 1968
Ten Years After
Country Weather
Sun Ra
@ Fillmore West (San Francisco, CA)
Artist: Lee Conklin
Nov 14, 2002
Nancy Pelosi became the 1st woman to lead a party in the US Congress after Democrats voted 177-29 in support of the liberal from SF.
Nov. 15, 1851
Sam Brannan and party landed in the Kingdom of Hawaii and asked King Kamehameha III to give them land for a colony. Brannan was forced by the king to return to San Francisco
Nov. 15,1966
Police raid the Psychedelic Shop and arrest Allen Cohen, 26, the store clerk, for selling "The Love Book" by Lenore Kandel, on grounds of obscenity. The subsequent trial of Cohen, Ron Thelin and a City Lights Bookstore clerk becomes the longest criminal trial in San Francisco history to that point. A San Francisco jury convicts all three and finds the Love Book to be obscene.
Nov 15, 1968
Love
Lee Michaels
@ Avalon Ballroom
Artist: San Andreas Fault
Thomas Weir
Nov. 15, 1969
Thousands of people participated in a peace march.
Nov 15, 1997
Amoeba Music, a vinyl record and CD store, opened at 1855 Haight in the former Park Bowl building.
Nov 16, 1967
The Doors
Procol Harum
Mt. Rushmore
Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco, CA)
Artist: Jim Blashfield
Nov.17, 1855
Gambler Charles Cora shot and killed Gen. William H. Richardson, the U.S. Marshal, on Clay near Leidesdorff. Richardson was drunk, and insulted Cora's mistress, Arabella (Belle).
November 17, 1856
Artists’ Liberation Front Free Fair in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
Nov.17,1901
Chinese Telephone Company open for business
November 17, 1967
Bo Diddley
Lee Michaels
Avalon Ballroom
Artist: William Henry
Nov. 18, 1848
Edward Cleveland Kemble resumed publishing the combined "California Star" and the "Californian" as the "Star and Californian"; Both closed when employees quit to rush to the gold fields.
Nov. 18, 1849
John and Amanda Pelton open first tuition-free public school in San Francisco
Nov. 18, 1850
Col. Charles L. Wilson granted concession to build a planked tollroad from San Francisco to Mission Dolores.
Nov. 19, 1966
The Special Events Committee present The Righteous Brothers, April Stevens and Nino Tempo in the USF Gymnasium at the University of San Francisco.
Same night: Beau Brummels at the Carousel Ballroom. Grateful Dead and James Cotton at the Fillmore.
Nov. 20, 1966
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fundraiser at the Fillmore with the James Cotton Chicago Blues Band., Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead and Johnny Talbot & De Thangs. Stokely Carmichael was there too. Jon Hendricks was master of ceremonies
Nov. 20, 1969
American Indians seized and occupied Alcatraz Island
On the morning of November 20, 1969, 79 American Indians, including students, married couples and six children, landed on Alcatraz island (despite an attempted Coast Guard blockade) and began their occupation which lasted for 19 months.
Nov 20,1996
SF began posting signs along its waterfront to warn fisherman of health hazards from fish caught in the Bay.
Nov 20, 2000
The 1915 Albert S. Samuels clock at 856 Market St. was restored following a 10-year respite.
Nov. 22, 1854
Saloon keepers at a mass meeting decided to keep the free lunch, despite the high cost.
Nov 22, 1963
Assassination of President Kennedy.
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas TX. Lyndon Baines Johnson assumes the office of the presidency.
Nov 22, 1968
The Beatles Tour/Show:
Magical Mystery Tour
Straight Theatre
Nov 23, 1996
Actor Woody Harrelson and others clogged traffic for hours on the Golden Gate Bridge in a protest on behalf of the Headwaters forest.
Nov. 26, 1872
The San Francisco Evening Bulletin exposed one of the most notorious mining scandals in US history, The Great Diamond Hoax. Philip Arnold (1829 - 1878) was a confidence trickster from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, who was the brains behind a legendary 1872 scam to fool people into investing in western diamond mining operations. He managed to walk away from the hoax with more than half a million dollars. Clarence King (1842 - 1901) was the geologist who uncovered the swindle.
" Arnold and Slack played their con perfectly. They arrived in San Francisco in 1872 and tried to deposit a bag of uncut diamonds at a bank. When questioned, the two men quickly disappeared, acting as if they were reluctant to talk about their discovery. Intrigued, a bank director named William Ralston tracked down the men. Assuming he was dealing with unsophisticated country bumpkins, he set out to take control of the diamond mine. The two cousins agreed to take a blindfolded mining expert to the site; the expert returned to report that the mine was indeed rich with diamonds and rubies ...
"Back in San Francisco, King exposed the fraud in the newspapers and the Great Diamond Hoax collapsed. Ralston returned $80'000 to each of his investors, but he was never able to recover the $600'000 given to the two cousins. Arnold lived out the few remaining years of his life in luxury in Kentucky before dying of pneumonia in 1878. Slack apparently squandered his share of the money, for he was last reported working as a coffin maker in New Mexico. King's role in exposing the fraud brought him national recognition — he became the first director of the United States Geological Survey." Source wilson's book of days
Nov 26, 1965
San Francisco Mime Troupe
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
David Meltzer
Tour/Show: Benefit For Vietnam Day Committee
Venue: Berkeley Little Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
Artist: Peter Bailey
Nov. 26, 1968
Robert R. Smith, President of San Francisco State College, resigned.
Nov. 26, 1968
S.I. Hayakawa made acting president, San Francisco State College.
Nov 26, 2000
The Sunday SF Examiner and Chronicle became simply the SF Chronicle after 35 years of publishing with separate editorial visions.
Nov. 27,1965
The first Acid Test was staged by the Merry Pranksters at Ken Babbs' book store in Santa Cruz. It featured a light show and projections of some of the forty hours of film shot on the 1964 bus excursion (Augustus Owlsley Stanley III had been introduced to Ken Kesey in September 1965.
Nov. 27, 1978
Dan White shot and killed Mayor George Moscone and also Harvey Milk , San Francisco City Supervisor. A candlelight vigil was held at Market and Castro. Joan Baez (in person) began singing AMAZING GRACE. Tears flowed freely as the crowd joined in. Chills ran down our collective spine.
Nov. 27, 1944] -- US:
San Francisco Digger, anarchist, author Emmett Grogan lives.
Emmett Grogan is the author of Ringolevio (current edition by Canongate, introduced by Peter Coyote, a fellow Digger & one of Emmett Grogan’s closest friends), & the novel Final Score).
Grogan sent Tuesday Weld home ...
A US Defence Department certified schizophrenic who deliberately sent himself amphetamine-crazy on a military bazooka range.
To clarify his philosophy, Grogan attended a Dialectics of Liberation conference where he received an ovation for his speech ...
& then informed the audience the first man to deliver it was AdoIf Hitler...
"Emmett Grogan was a wonderful storyteller, & Ringolevio is a great book."
— Jerry Garcia
http://theband.hiof.no/articles/lw_oui_grogan.html
Daily Bleed Saint, 2003-4
Novelist, founder of San Francisco's "Diggers."
http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/
http://www.diggers.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers_%28theater%29
http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-e09.html
Nov. 28, 1848
"U.S.S. Lexington" departed San Francisco with $500,000 in gold destined for the U.S. Mint in the East.
Nov 28, 1965
Haight Ashbury Vietnam Committee Handbill
Historic first organization
against the Vietnam War
Nov 28, 1968
It's a Beautiful Day
Deep Purple
Cold Blood
Fillmore West (San Francisco, CA)
Artist: Alton Kelley
Rick Griffin
Nov 28, 1998
The Café Babar at 22nd and Guerrero celebrated its final night.
Nov 28, 1999
Finnochio's drag club on Broadway closed after a 63-year run.
November 29, 1850
The Grand Jury condemned gambling in this city as "a crying evil," and urged that something must be done about prize fighting as well as numerous houses of ill-repute.
Nov. 29, 1966
District Attorney John J.Ferdon dropped charges against members of The Diggers, who staged a Halloween puppet show at Haight and Ashbury streets. Released from custody were Emmett Grogen, Peter Berg, Brooks Bucher, Peter Minnault and Robert Morticello.
Emmett Grogan (c.1943-1978) was born Eugene Grogan in Brooklyn, New York. Called a "Superman of the Underground" by The Times (London), he was the founder of the Diggers, a legendary anarchistic group in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s that supplied free food, housing, and medical aid to runaways. On April 6, 1978, the thirty-five-year-old Grogan was found dead on a subway car in New York City, possibly of a drug overdose. Besides his autobiography, "Ringolevio", Grogan was the author of "Final Score", a fictional crime novel.
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 for the pleasure of those lucky to have been here and for those who wish they had been. ~ nicole, sfheartTo be able to sit by window and watch the various birds that stop by for a drink or a nice little bath on my San Francisco fire escape garden is one of the many things for which I am very grateful. Grateful for vision and the birds , the flowers, grateful for my life, and love, friends and family.
Birds of San Francisco and the Bay Area
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Canned Heat
Grateful Dead
Muddy Waters Blues Band
Procol Harum
The Youngbloods 
Donovan
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Sandy Bull
