Mimi Farina, modeling ski fashions

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

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1966 ...

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Mark asked:=20
What year was this=2C Kai?

PS: Sorry for the Sonderzeichen in my first attempt to answer.
'Plain text' alone does not keep them away anymore. (Just take
a look at the archives). Hope this kopieren + einf=FCgen works!


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> ... The Diggers had announced a Halloween event of their own=2C so there
> were three places to go that Monday night=2C October 31. At California Ha=
ll
> there was the Calliope dance with the Dead=2C Quicksilver=2C 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=2C wearing a red brocade Louis
> XIV jacket=2C 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=2C including television
> crews and representatives of VOGUE and WOMEN's WEAR DAILY=2C a total
> of perhaps 200 people under an orange-and-white parachute hanging
> from the ceiling. In the absence of the Dead=2C music was provided
> by the Anonymous Artists of America=2C 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=3B
> it was time to 'move on=3B this doesn't mean to stop taking acid' --
> surprise for the authorities=2C 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=2C it was attended by Hell's Angels as well
> as post-debs=3B Joan Baez was there and so was her sister Mimi Farina=2C
> modeling ski fashions. A few blocks away on another social level=2C
> 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=2C after which the
> topless girls came back for another set of dancing ...
>
> (from Charles Perry's "The Haight-Ashbury. A History" [1984]=2C NY 1985:
> Vintage Books=2C pp. 102-3=2C 106)
>
> Water or Snow?
> KFL
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9b-aVDy6JfQ
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