On This Day in Art Rock History

A DAILY CHRONICLE

SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

The Venues

The rooms where it happened. Some are gone; some still stand. We begin with the places at the heart of the story — the Bay Area ballrooms and the saloon in the Nevada desert where it all started — and widen outward as the archive grows.

Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco, CA
The Avalon stood on the upper floors of a 1911 building at 1268 Sutter Street in Polk Gulch.
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco, CA
The building at 1805 Geary Boulevard long predates the music that made it legendary.
Monterey County Fairgrounds
Monterey, CA
The Monterey County Fairgrounds sits on roughly twenty-two acres in Monterey, California, built in 1936.
Red Dog Saloon
Virginia City, NV
High on the flank of Mount Davidson, in the silver-mining town the Comstock Lode built and then half-abandoned, the Red Dog Saloon occupies a three-st