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09/11/2026

New York, I Love You ❤️ 1971. Photos captured by Elizabeth Sunflower.

09/10/2026

Bobby Weir hanging at Mickey Harts Ranch in Novato, CA in 1969 🤠🌟 Photos captured by Rosie McGee, Photographer and Storyteller.

09/09/2026

Leonardo DiCaprio, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg at Burroughs’s art show at LACMA in Los Angeles, California on July 18, 1996.

“In the summer of 1996, I was taking photos of William and Allen Ginsberg at the opening party for Burroughs’s exhibit in Los Angeles. A very young Leo approached me, said he was a big fan of both writers, and asked if I would take his photo with them. I recognized him from Gilbert Grape and asked him about any newer films. He told me that he had just finished Romeo and Juliet and was thinking about being in a new film, Titanic. The rest, of course, is history. I spoke to Allen and William and both were happy to be photographed with him.” - Jerry Aronson

Photos captured by Jerry Aronson 🤠

09/08/2026

Remembering Ron “Pigpen” Mckernan on what would have been is 82nd birthday 🌹 Photos captured by Ron Rakow at 710 Ashbury in San Francisco, 1967.

09/05/2026

John Lennon and Yoko Ono making a surprise appearance in NYC joining Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention live on stage at the Fillmore East on June 6, 1971 🌟 Photos captured by Ben Haller.

09/03/2026

Allman Brothers playing at the Grand Opera House in Macon, Georgia 🍑 The show was recorded for a television broadcast alongside Wet Willie & The Marshal Tucker Band. Photos captured by Herb Kossover.

09/02/2026

Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder along with host Alan Watts participated in the famed “Houseboat Summit” in February 1967 aboard Watts’ converted ferryboat, the Vallejo, moored in Sausalito, CA.

The event was sponsored by the underground paper The San Francisco Oracle and the 90-minute recorded discussion focused on the philosophy of “dropping out,” tribal communal living, and the evolving counterculture shortly after January’s Human Be-In ☮️

Photos captured by Paul Kagan (Paul Kagan)

08/31/2026

Santana playing a free outdoor concert at Provo Park in Berkeley, CA on October 6, 1968 🕊️

08/27/2026

Moments from the legendary Grateful Dead concert on August 27, 1972 at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon 🌞 The concert was a benefit known as “Sunshine Daydream” and raised money for Ken Kesey’s family yogurt business, the Springfield Creamery. Photos captured by Ron Rakow.

08/26/2026

Janis Joplin performing at Monterey Pop Festival on June 16, 1967 🌟 Photos captured by Paul Kagan.

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