A boarding house on Ashbury Street, a wall of speakers, a snowy Mother’s Day show that fans copied hand to hand, and three nights by the Sphinx. Pass it on, then go and stand where it happened.
Red and marigold oil on the glass.
In the bubbles: the Kinetic Playground, Chicago, July 1969 (Lvaughn7 · CC BY-SA 4.0); Bill Kreutzmann, Pigpen, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh, 1970 (Herb Greene · public domain); Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, 1 July 1978 (Brian Crawford · CC BY 2.0).
University Avenue and Bryant Street · 31 December 1963 – 5 May 1965
On New Year’s Eve 1963, the 15-year-old Bob Weir heard banjo music from the back of a music store and found Garcia waiting for his pupils. They jammed, and decided to start a jug band.
Garcia taught guitar and banjo at Dana Morgan Music on Bryant Street. The shop is no longer there. The early Warlocks rented their instruments at Swain’s House of Music, 451 University Avenue. Their first bass player, Dana Morgan Jr., came from the Bryant Street shop.
A dictionary on the table at Weir’s apartment.
The Tangent, at 117 University Avenue, was a small folk club upstairs from a pizza parlour.
Public streets, free to walk. The music shops and the folk club have gone; walk University Avenue between Bryant Street and the station.
Ashbury Street, San Francisco · 1966–1968
Boarding house · private home today
A boarding house in the Haight. Ring a bell.
A purple Victorian on Ashbury Street, once a boarding house.
Photographs of the band on the front stoop went round the world. Someone else lives here now; visitors take pictures at the front gate, and Deadhead art turns up on the pavement.
Baron Wolman photographed the household here on 29 September 1967, Pigpen and the manager Rock Scully among them.
A private home. Look from the pavement only; it is not on the map.
Haight Street at Ashbury Street, San Francisco
San Francisco Travel calls the corner the epicentre of the Summer of Love, and nearly the centre of the city. The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin lived within a few blocks of each other here.
A street corner, free at any hour. Golden Gate Park is at the west end of Haight Street.
750 Stanyan Street, San Francisco
A Victorian hotel on the National Register of Historic Places, where Haight Street meets Golden Gate Park. The corner of Haight and Ashbury is a few blocks east.
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An empty stage. Raise a column for each player.
Each instrument had its own column of speakers in the wall, and each player stood in front of his own.
One microphone hears the singer and the whole wall behind him.
In October 1974 the band filmed five shows here with the Wall of Sound. The footage became the heart of The Grateful Dead Movie (1977). The band retired the wall about seven months after it went on tour, as costs climbed in a national fuel crisis.
31 December 1978
Winterland closed on New Year’s Eve 1978 with a show of more than eight hours. The Dead played six of them, with the New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Blues Brothers also on the bill.
Midnight at Winterland, hours still to play.
Built in 1928 as the New Dreamland Auditorium, an exhibition hall and skating rink, on the block between Sutter, Post, Pierce and Steiner Streets. Bill Graham began moving acts here from the Fillmore in 1966. By 1971 it was a full-time music hall with 5,400 seats. It held 59 Grateful Dead shows.
The building was razed in the week of 17 September 1985, for a planned 304-unit apartment complex.
Nothing of Winterland is left. Apartments fill the block at Post and Steiner; there is nothing to go into.
1805 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco · 10 December 1965
In 1952 the promoter Charles Sullivan took over a roller rink here and renamed it the Fillmore Auditorium.
On 10 December 1965 Bill Graham put on a benefit here for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. The Grateful Dead were on the bill, below Jefferson Airplane.
The hall reopened in 1994, after Graham’s death. It still puts on shows most weeks, at 1805 Geary Boulevard.
A working concert hall; buy a ticket for a show to go in. Box office 415 346 3000.
Barton Hall, Cornell University · 8 May 1977
The Dead played Barton Hall on Sunday 8 May 1977, Mother’s Day. Advance tickets were $6.50.
The soundboard master: 1 tape in 1 generation.
The Dead played Barton Hall on Sunday 8 May 1977, Mother’s Day. Advance tickets were $6.50.
A working university field house on Cornell’s campus. The campus is open to walk round; the hall opens for events.
Inside: hot, and packed to the walls.
The band’s own show record gives the general admission price as $7.50.
New York · New Jersey · Colorado · 1970–1987
A white cotton shirt, folded and tied. Dip it.
Raceway Park is 294 km from Barton Hall as the crow flies; Red Rocks is 2,640 km west of Second Avenue.
105 Second Avenue at East 6th Street, New York · 13 February 1970
Bill Graham ran the Fillmore East here from 1968 to 1971, as the sister of his Fillmore West in San Francisco. The Grateful Dead were among its many acts.
Only part of the front survives. See it, and the plaque, from Second Avenue.
230 Pension Road, Englishtown, New Jersey · 3 September 1977
On Saturday 3 September 1977, Labor Day weekend, more than 100,000 people came to see the Dead here.
A private motorsport park, open on event days; check its event directory before you go.
18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, Colorado · 7 July 1978
The Dead first played Red Rocks on 7 July 1978.
The visitor centre opens daily, 7am–7pm from March to October and 8am–4pm from November to February. After 2pm on show days it is for ticket holders only.
13 August 1987
Their last show here was on 13 August 1987, closing a three-night run.
In the Dark had come out the month before. With their new success, venues the size of Red Rocks could no longer hold them. The visitor centre holds the Red Rocks Hall of Fame.
Englishtown Raceway Park still runs motocross, drifting, karting and road-course days. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation put up a plaque at the door in 2014.
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The Sound and Light Theatre, Giza · 14–16 September 1978
Full moon.
The Dead played three nights, 14 to 16 September 1978, at the Sound and Light Theatre, in the shadow of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid.
The plateau opens daily, 8am–4pm. Entry for foreign adults is EGP 700; the pyramids’ interiors cost extra.
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9 July 1995
On 9 July 1995 the Dead played Soldier Field. The band’s archive marks it as Jerry Garcia’s last show. The Band opened, and fireworks followed.
On 3, 4 and 5 July 2015 Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh and Weir came back here with Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti and Bruce Hornsby. It was billed as the original members’ last performance together. Those shows fell nearly 20 years to the day after the last Grateful Dead concert, in the same stadium.
A working stadium, home of the Chicago Bears; go in for a game or a concert.
14 January 1967
On 14 January 1967 at least 20,000 people came to the Polo Fields for the Human Be-In, a free gathering. The Grateful Dead played, with the saxophonist Charles Lloyd as a guest. A photo caption says they played only three songs.
Jerry Garcia died on 9 August 1995. Four days later the band and almost 25,000 fans came to a public memorial in Golden Gate Park.
A portrait in the park. Leave something.
An open field in Golden Gate Park, free to walk on. It is a long walk west from the end of Haight Street.
11 places you can visit. 710 Ashbury Street is a private home and is not on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A street corner, free at any hour. Golden Gate Park is at the west end of Haight Street.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working concert hall; buy a ticket for a show to go in. Box office 415 346 3000.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Nothing of Winterland is left. Apartments fill the block at Post and Steiner; there is nothing to go into.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An open field in Golden Gate Park, free to walk on. It is a long walk west from the end of Haight Street.
Haight Street at Ashbury Street, San Francisco
San Francisco Travel calls the corner the epicentre of the Summer of Love, and nearly the centre of the city.
A street corner, free at any hour. Golden Gate Park is at the west end of Haight Street.
1805 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco
In 1952 the promoter Charles Sullivan took over a roller rink here and renamed it the Fillmore Auditorium.
A working concert hall; buy a ticket for a show to go in. Box office 415 346 3000.
Post Street at Steiner Street, San Francisco
Built in 1928 as the New Dreamland Auditorium, an exhibition hall and skating rink, on the block between Sutter, Post, Pierce and Steiner Streets.
Nothing of Winterland is left. Apartments fill the block at Post and Steiner; there is nothing to go into.
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
On 14 January 1967 at least 20,000 people came to the Polo Fields for the Human Be-In, a free gathering.
An open field in Golden Gate Park, free to walk on. It is a long walk west from the end of Haight Street.
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A Victorian hotel where Haight Street meets Golden Gate Park.
750 Stanyan Street, San Francisco
A Victorian hotel on the National Register of Historic Places, where Haight Street meets Golden Gate Park. The corner of Haight and Ashbury is a few blocks east.
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The Haight on foot, Red Rocks from Denver, and the plateau at Giza.
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An original 1967 Fillmore poster from our store, three books by and about the band, and three live records tied to these places.
An original 1967 Fillmore poster with art by Wes Wilson. 13.5 × 20.6 in, rolled, mint.
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The long history of the band, from Palo Alto onwards.
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The bass player’s memoir; he proposed the trip to Egypt.
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The drummer’s memoir of three decades in the band.
Find the bookGrateful Dead · 3 × CD, Rhino R2 557480, 2017
Barton Hall, mastered from Betty Cantor-Jackson’s soundboard tapes.
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The Raceway Park show, complete.
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Find a copyGrateful Dead · 2 × CD + DVD, Rhino R2 512959, 2008
The best of the last two nights at Giza.
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12 of 12 places · 19 of 19 Moments
University Avenue and Bryant Street, Palo Alto
Bob Weir, 15, finds Garcia waiting for pupils at the back of a music store; they start a jug band.
The Warlocks play their first gig at Magoo’s Pizza in Menlo Park.
Garcia finds the name in a Funk & Wagnalls dictionary.
Haight Street at Ashbury Street, San Francisco
Ashbury Street, San Francisco
The band take over a boarding house on Ashbury Street.
Baron Wolman photographs the household at 710.
1805 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco
The Dead on Bill Graham’s bill at the Fillmore, below Jefferson Airplane.
Post Street at Steiner Street, San Francisco
Five shows filmed with the Wall of Sound for The Grateful Dead Movie.
Winterland closes with an eight-hour show and breakfast at dawn.
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
A free gathering of at least 20,000 on the Polo Fields; the Dead play.
The band and almost 25,000 fans remember Garcia in Golden Gate Park.
105 Second Avenue at East 6th Street, New York
The Dead play the Fillmore East.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Mother’s Day at Cornell; snow outside after the show.
The Library of Congress adds Barton Hall to the National Recording Registry.
230 Pension Road, Englishtown, New Jersey
More than 100,000 at Raceway Park.
18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, Colorado
The Dead’s first show at Red Rocks.
The last of their Red Rocks shows, after In the Dark.
The Giza Plateau, Cairo
Three nights by the Sphinx; a total lunar eclipse on the last.
1410 Special Olympics Drive, Chicago
Jerry Garcia’s last show with the Grateful Dead.
The four surviving original members play together for the last time.
