

The event that kicked off the hippie era, and whose cultural reverberations are still echoing today, took place in San Francisco’s Longshoremen’s Hall on the evenings of Jan. Barney Peterson/The Chronicle 1966 Show More Show Less

The Trips Festival Acid Test at Longshoreman’s Hall, where the Grateful Dead performed. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 1967 Show More Show Less 2 of2 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg chats with hippies on a street corner in San Francisco in early summer 1967.
