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This is where the notorious Acid Tests were held in the mid 1960’s. The Trips Festival on January 21–23, 1966 was the most attended and advertised of the early Acid Tests which were started in late 1965. Ten thousand people attended this sold-out event, with a thousand more turned away each night.
On Saturday 22 January, Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company came on stage, and 6,000 people arrived to drink punch spiked with LSD and to witness one of the first fully developed light shows of the era
The Family Dog was a loose collective of free spirits managed by Chet Helms, a contemporary of Bill Graham, who put on rock dances here as well as at other venues. The Family Dog put on concerts here in 1965 featuring The Jefferson Airplane, The Charlatans, The Great Society, Lovin’ Spoonful and others.
Other notable Concerts Held At Longshoremen’s Hall
7/15/1976 – Hot Tuna
2/8/1969 – Tim Buckley
2/1/1969 – Steve Miller Band
11/4/1968 – Grateful Dead
4/9/1967 – Big Brother & the Holding Company
3/31/1967 – Quicksilver Messenger Service
9/3/1966 – Them
10/24/1965 – The Charlatans
Longshoremen’s Hall
400 North Point Street
San Francisco CA 94133
Dick Latvala’s first Grateful Dead show was here in 1966.
Daughter: of James McClendon- My father worked for the SF Longshoremen in this 1970s and 1980s.