They're dancing in Chicago, down in New Orleans

This blog is primarily about the history of the buildings the Grateful Dead played in. Why? I don’t know except I’m a fan of old buildings and especially how they’re transormed over the years for various purposes. These old buildings speak to me of people, places, culture and ideas from long ago. So the Dead are just the springboard for talking about these places.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Hello

This is going to be a place to spotlight some of the old venues where the Grateful Dead once played. Some of the buildings are long gone, some converted to other uses, and some refurbished to their old glory. And maybe there'll be some other stuff, too.
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babbler said...

I went to a couple of dead shows in California, one at a university in San Diego and another in Santa Barbara. Love, Mrs. Slug

December 31, 2009 at 10:06 AM

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I'm fascinated by the evolution of place. Or more precisely how a location has been used by humans and how we've changed a place to fit our needs and fit our needs to meet a place. The older I get the more I feel a connection to people from the not-too-distant past. We walk past a building housing a Rite-Aid and mobile phone store without realizing that once there were people dancing and falling in love there, or laughing at a movie there, or skinning their knees while roller skating there, or dropping acid for the first time and grooving to Hendrix there. So this blog is a weird bit of history/architecture/Grateful Dead arcania. But what's the internet for if not for weird little bits of arcania?

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