San Jose should officially recognize his little but pivot in the history of Grateful Dead, the legendary group of the 1960s which is more often associated with our neighbor in the North.
But as the founder of San Jose Rocks and the former sports columnist of Mercury News, Mark Purdy, Grateful Dead, will say in downtown San Jose. This is where the group occurred for the first time under this name on December 4, 1965.
Before that, the group – Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann and Phil Lesh – had played in the peninsula as a demonists. They changed their names before playing the San Jose concert to one of Ken Kesey’s “acid tests” where the LSD was as part of the scene as music and lights. The rest, as they say, is history.
A committee of the Municipal Council of San Jose signed the idea earlier this year, and Orloff and Purdy launched a campaign to collect $ 35,000 by June 30 for a public celebration to honor the 60th anniversary, as well as a plaque which will be placed on the site of this first Grateful Dead concert.
What can be fair in the position of the town hall of San Jose today.
For years, it has been widely believed and reported that the historic event took place in a Victorian house at 43 S. Fifth St., which was then moved to make room for the construction of the town hall over 20 years ago.
However, an interesting wrinkle was revealed this month which questions the exact location of the show. Heritage Auctions has a poster for an offer that is presented as the very first Gateful Dead concert poster, because it is for the acid test in San Jose on December 4, 1965. But the address of the poster is 38 S. Fifth St. – In front of the house of the house that everyone thought it was the sacred site. The high offer for the poster was $ 25,000 Thursday evening.
No one doubts the authenticity of the poster of 12 by 18 inches, which was saved by two sisters then who lived in the peninsula and were fans of the sorcerer. But the elements of tradition and the circumstantial evidence has always underlined the 43 S. Fifth St. House as THE House. It is possible that the acid test and the show took place in different places or that it was moved after the poster was made.
Purdy gave his journalist’s hat and unearthed that the 38 S. FIFTH St. House – who would have sat on the right square in the city council chambers – was demolished after a fire fire fire fire fire fire fire fire fire was damaged beyond the repair. There may be no way of definitively knowing which house has organized the performance, but Orloff and Purdy argue that the plate will always be in the right place because the two places were so close to each other.
“For a group that has lyrified a” long strange journey “, it is probably appropriate that the precise place of their first performance as Grateful Dead can always remain misty,” wrote Purdy.
If you want to know more or contribute to the fundraising effort, go to www.sanjoserocks.org.
Farmers’ market yields: After a two-year interruption, the downtown San Jose will recover a producer market this Wednesday in a whole new location: Hammer Theater Plaza on the South Second and San Antonio streets. It will take place every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and it is produced by the Farmers Market Association region, which also does the Friday markets in Kaiser Permanent’s Skyport.
The downtown producer market was launched by the San Jose Downtown Association in 1993 and was a big draw on Friday in San Pedro Square for years until it moved from this place after the Pandémic Pandemic restaurants COVVI-19 to use the street to eat. A two-year race on South First Street followed, but she never really got the same things and the afternoon hours made more difficult for sellers.
With more activity around the Paseo de San Antonio these days – thanks to the Spartan Village of San Jose State in the southern tower of the old Signia hotel, as well as the opening of Campus Burgers, Eos & Nyx, the time of the stores of Paseo and the Studio Petall – there could be enough critical mass to make this place work. Get updates from suppliers and other details on Instagram on @downown_farmers_market.
Ready, adjust, grow!: It is still this period of the year when we try to remember – or to imagine – when it was the Valley of the pleasure of the heart. And for those who try to resume these days with their domestic gardens, you have the Masters UC gardeners of the Annual Garden Fair of Santa Clara on April 26 at the Martial Cottle Park in San Jose.
The large draw is perhaps the sale of summer factory, with tomatoes, herbs, peppers and succulents in Gogo, but there are also activities for children, demonstration gardens and educational conferences. Invasive beetles are a big subject this year, and the Gardener Master Pamela Troustine will give at 11 a.m. how they attack trees throughout the valley and what you can do on this subject.
The living room takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and it is free, although parking at the park costs $ 6.
Fine printing: The most common question posed during the 10 years of the Bay and Wayzgoose printers fair is almost certainly “What is a Wayzgoose?” And just to save Jim Gard from San Jose Printers Guild to answer so often, I will share that it is an old term for the party of a printer.
And in this case, it is also a celebration of a decade of engraving, books and typographic printing which takes place on April 26 at the History Park in San Jose. Sellers, artists and printer will be in various parts of the park, but if you visit, make sure to stop at the printing office where the San Jose printers guild has all its types, forms and successions and you will probably go out with a nice memory printed by hand. It takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and you can get a calendar of activities and sellers on www.sjprintersguild.com.
Our beautiful lady: The Stanford Theater follows his “Great Directors” festival by paying tribute to one of the most popular stars on the screen, Audrey Hepburn, over the next month. The series starts on April 25 to 27 with a double functionality of “Roman Holiday” and “Sabrina”, with the 1964 classic “My Fair Lady” from May 2 to 4. May 4 would have been the 96th anniversary of Hepburn, who died in 1993. The party continues with “The Nun’s Story” (May 9-11) before closing with a double function of “Funny Face” and “Charade” (May 16-18). Get the shows on www.stanfordtheatre.org.
You may have noticed the omission of an emblematic role of Hepburn, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” of 1961. In recent years, this film has become “problematic” because of the offensive representation of Mickey Rooney and focused on the stereotypes of a Japanese character. I do not know if this is the reason why the film was put aside this time – the Stanford screened it for the last time in 2017 – but that suits me if it is. Holly Golightly and “Moon River” are missing, but he could use a rest.
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