Photo via Jerry’s Brokendown Palaces
Former location –
The Family Dog On The Great Highway opened on September 14, 1968 with It’s a Beautiful Day. The site was at the former Edgewater Ballroom, part of the Playland At The Beach complex. In 1972 the building was demolished and replaced by a large condominium complex.
Notable Concerts Held Here Include:
April 19, 1971 – Big Brother & the Holding Company
August 22, 1970 – Quicksilver Messenger Service
July 2, 1970 – The Kinks
April 18, 1970 – Grateful Dead Became an album called “Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70 “
March 18, 1970 – Hot Tuna
February 4, 1970 – Santana
December 13, 1969 – Canned Heat
November 10, 1969 – The Velvet Underground
August 29, 1969 – Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
June 23, 1969 – Jefferson Airplane
The Family Dog On The Great Highway
660 Great Hwy
San Francisco, CA 94121
Went to a Jefferson airplane concert here and somebody handed me a joint with DMT in it and I was lit up for hours and had to get help to get home.
But it was not so bad in those days.People understood.
Enjoyed an amazing Quicksilver Messenger Service and it lives with me forever. Times change but Family Dog was a true treasure until buried.
I remember seeing QMS there, Dino had joined the band at that point and they had a horn section join them (just for the night?). When they played the then current big hit, “Fresh Air”, the baritone sax was out of tune every time… it was painful…
I remember seeing the Grateful Dead and The New Riders of the Purple Sage there in the fall of 1969.
Great concerts!