Mimi Farina, modeling ski fashions

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

... The Diggers had announced a Halloween event of their own, so there
were three places to go that Monday night, October 31. At California Hall
there was the Calliope dance with the Dead, Quicksilver, Mimi Farina and
'six authentic witches.' It was agreeably spooky. The balconies of the
hall were hung with nets holding plastic baby dolls. A Headless Horseman
with a flashlight shining out of his decapitated neck stalked the hall.
At midnight a Giant Pumpkin wheeled Death, wearing a red brocade Louis
XIV jacket, around the hall in a wheelchair while Quicksilver played
'Bo Diddley.'/ For a faithful few there was the chastened Acid Test
Graduation. Pranksters were joined by reporters, including television
crews and representatives of VOGUE and WOMEN's WEAR DAILY, a total
of perhaps 200 people under an orange-and-white parachute hanging
from the ceiling. In the absence of the Dead, music was provided
by the Anonymous Artists of America, friends from La Honda days
who had inherited the Buchla sound synthesizer and other Acid
Test electronic equipment upon dropping out of Stanford University
and deciding to learn how to play music. (...) Kesey delivered a
commencement address with the same message he had been delivering;
it was time to 'move on; this doesn't mean to stop taking acid' --
surprise for the authorities, who were expecting a denunciation of
drugs -- but to do something besides get stoned and go to rock
and roll dances. (...) Kesey later revealed that he had consulted
the I CHING and the verdict of the coin toss was the hexagram Fu:
the Turning Point. (...) The last week in October a ski shop opened
in North Beach with the Grateful Dead and a light show. According
to the society page story, it was attended by Hell's Angels as well
as post-debs; Joan Baez was there and so was her sister Mimi Farina,
modeling ski fashions. A few blocks away on another social level,
a North Beach topless bar was advertising a show called 'The LSD Trip':
twelve minutes of flashing images from three film projectors with a
soundtrack of rock and roll and heavy breathing, after which the
topless girls came back for another set of dancing ...

(from Charles Perry's "The Haight-Ashbury. A History" [1984], NY 1985:
Vintage Books, pp. 102-3, 106)

Water or Snow?
KFL

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