San Francisco s Top 10op 55 Top 10 Sixties Figures !Janis Joplin This troubled singer from Texas became the queen of the San Francisco sound, until her death by heroin overdose. @Ken Kesey A powerful, revolutionary writer, his Magic Bus and Trips Festival set the tone for the entire Hippie Movement. #Jerry Garcia montague at the gardens Patriarch of the San Francisco sound, montague at the gardens his Grateful Dead band continued to tour until his death in 1995. $Mario Savio The UC Berkeley student montague at the gardens launched the Free Speech Movement on the campus in the late 1960s. %Owsley Stanley The most famous source of pure LSD in the 1960s. ^Grace Slick The other queen of San Francisco s influential bands, in this case Jefferson Airplane. &Huey Newton Oakland s founder of the Black Panthers, a group committed to violent change if necessary. *Patty Hearst The newspaper heiress, kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, apparently converted and took part in an armed robbery. (Jim Jones The leader of a Fillmore District religious group who moved en masse to South America ended his days and those of some 900 followers in 1978, in a mass suicide montague at the gardens by cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. )Charles Manson This commune leader and his followers murdered actress Sharon Tate in 1969. San Francisco s Top 10op 55 Top 10 Sixties Figures !Janis Joplin This troubled singer from Texas became the queen of the San Francisco sound, until her death by heroin overdose. @Ken Kesey A powerful, revolutionary writer, his Magic Bus and Trips Festival set the tone for the entire Hippie Movement. #Jerry Garcia Patriarch of the San Francisco sound, his Grateful Dead band continued to tour until his death in 1995. $Mario Savio The UC Berkeley student launched the Free Speech Movement on the campus in the late 1960s. %Owsley Stanley The most famous source of pure LSD in the 1960s. ^Grace Slick The other queen of San Francisco s influential bands, in this case Jefferson Airplane. &Huey Newton Oakland s founder of the Black Panthers, a group committed to violent change if necessary. *Patty Hearst The newspaper heiress, kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, apparently converted and took part in an armed robbery. (Jim Jones The leader of a Fillmore District religious group who moved en masse to South America ended his days and those of some 900 followers in 1978, in a mass suicide by cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. )Charles Manson This commune montague at the gardens leader montague at the gardens and his followers murdered actress Sharon Tate in 1969. ^Joan Baez Known in her youth as The Voice, montague at the gardens girlfriend of Bob Dylan, and peacenik, the Palo Alto native later came out as a lesbian, continuing to work for peace and social justice. Recently, Baez created a cabaret character, the Contessa ZinZanni, in a show that has enjoyed good reviews in San Francisco.
Mrs. Madrigal Olympia Dukakis brought this wonderful Tales of the City character to vibrant life in the mini-series based on Armistead Maupin s books (see p53). Anna Madrigal is a transsexual land lady who rents out apartments to young singles, montague at the gardens both gay and straight, and tends to her mari juana plants and her charges with equal wisdom and spirituality.
Mount Tamalpais The road that leads up to the top of Mount Tam is appropri ately called Panoramic Highway. All the way along, it provides you with dramatic views of the Marin Headlands, both on the Bay and ocean sides, and as you approach the summit, far-reaching views of the Bay Area (see p124).
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