Quicksilver
Gene Sculatti, Fusion, April 1972
The once-famous logo, "May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind," has been supplanted by an outsized plastic marquee proclaiming Summer of 42/They Shoot Horses, Don't They? At Sutter and Van Ness, in San Francisco, the Avalon Ballroom is now the Regency II theatre and 1966 is half a decade past.
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