I came across this in the South Bay free weekly newspaper, The Metro, and was able to find it on-line. It commemorates the Dead shows this coming weekend at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The South Bay can be defined as spanning from Santa Cruz to Palo Alto, with the one million resident San Jose in between (I live in Campbell but I can walk a block up the street and be in San Jose).
Very interesting stuff, and most of the information came from Dead historian Corry Arnold. Click on each City to find out it's connection to the early days of the Dead. Here's a sample:
Ken Kesey's Cabin
La Honda Road
If you take a short drive from Alice's Restaurant on Skyline Boulevard, down a winding stretch of Highway 84 through the Santa Cruz Mountains, you'll come upon a wooden bridge crossing La Honda Creek, just past the intersection of Pescadero and La Honda roads. On the other side of that bridge lies the sleepy cabin that blew so many minds. Kesey's La Honda cabin was the site of many an Acid Test. Here is the site written about so vividly by Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe -- the former home base of the Merry Pranksters and the school bus named "Further." Garcia and Co. also played here, serving as Kesey's house band when they were The Warlocks and later the Grateful Dead.
[Edited on 6/22/2015 by robslob]
[Edited on 6/22/2015 by robslob]
