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Perry Lane

"Perry Lane" was the nickname of the eight ageing cottages or cabins or shacks on Perry Avenue in unincorporated Menlo Park, California, especially in the 1950s and early 60s. Occupied mainly by Stanford grad students who appreciated the cheap rents, it was known for its extreme bohemian atmosphere, with almost constant partying and sexual experimentation. "Stanford's answer to Greenwich Village" "tribal scene"

In the early Sixties several residents, including especially novelist Ken Kesey, volunteered for a series of paid experiments with hallucinogens like LSD. When the experiments ended Kesey stole the remaining supplies and began hosting an LSD party that followed him when he moved to La Honda in 1963, and financed a legendary cross-country bus odyssey in June 1964.

Several of the young musicians who'd soon form the Grateful Dead lived a few blocks away in a roominghouse called the Chateau, and attended the Perry Lane parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen ? owned a lot

http://versewisconsin.org/Issue108/poems/scott.html

http://inmenlo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/uni_park-map.jpg

http://inmenlo.com/2010/05/29/paul-dicarli-hanging-out-with-ken-kesey-on-perry-lane/

pic of kesey's house

http://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/ken-kesey-perry-lane-ze0z1310zjhar.aspx#axzz2pESfMFEG

'Kesey tree' = 'mattress tree' = 200yo oak in center of street, fell in 2005

Every July 4, longtime Perryites Anne and Paul De Carli host a party, which inevitably encompasses the tree http://weirfreak.blogspot.com/2005/01/music-keeps-us-young-good-gosh-another.html

http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2005/2005_01_19.atree.shtml

Writers

Carl Lehmann-Haupt

Ken Kesey

Sexual experimentation

"wife-swapping"

Psychedelic drugs

pot

1955 Jim Spencer introduces Vic Lovell

peyote

Further bus trip

1956 George Ralph

Robin and Marny White (conservative)

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/26/local/la-me-passings-20101227

Dirk Van Nouhuys, Jim Wolpman & Anita, Roy Kepler?

a block-long row of cottages on the outskirts of a golf course within Menlo Park

Perry Lane Olympics

kicked off with the march of a topless torch-carrier. "Ken was always able to persuade some particularly gorgeous young woman to carry the torch," Lovell said. The torch was a toilet plunger. http://weirfreak.blogspot.com/2005/01/music-keeps-us-young-good-gosh-another.html

demolition of the Perry Lane cabins in August 1963

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpeninsula_Free_University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey Kesey Stanford 1958 Wallace Stegner and Malcolm Cowley Larry McMurty, Robert Stone, and Wendell Berry Ken Babbs

Read more: http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Ka-M/Kesey-Ken.html#ixzz2pEXKgbOp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Babbs

Vic Lovell 1957

http://www.digitalinterviews.com/digitalinterviews/views/kesey.shtml

In popular culture

Journalist Hughes Rudd had already mentioned Perry Lane in a short story in the early Fifties: “What’s wrong with a little sex? That’s what Perry Lane is for, isn’t it?”

Novelist Gwen Davis had to withdraw her fictionalized account of Perry Lane wife-swapping,

http://www.amazon.com/Someones-Kitchen-Dinah-Gwen-Davis/dp/B000TZ3C9W https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Rudd

“What’s wrong with a little sex,” said a female character in Hughes Rudd’s story about the Lane in the early 1950s. “That’s what Perry Lane is for, isn’t it?”

Read more: http://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/ken-kesey-perry-lane-ze0z1310zjhar.aspx#ixzz2pEdwBVwK

Ken Babbs' book store. The Hip Pocket Bookstore in Santa Cruz was financed by Ron Bevirt and run by Peter Demma "1961 I came back to California, saw that my sister had

taken up with a fun-loving crowd that more-or-less was living in Perry Lane area in back

of the Stanford Shopping Center, and it was through her that I met Neal Cassidy, and we

struck up a friendship that I'll never forget... he never really stayed in one place very much at that time, but he'd always light down on Saturday to go out to the horse races...They weren't called pranksters. They were Ken Kesey and friends. And I got to meet everyone that was part of that circle and adjacent circles. 1961. Then I shipped out in the Merchant Marine. While I was sailing on one

of the voyages my sister got arrested. It was the largest dope bust in Woodside." http://www.ralph-abraham.org/1960s/transcripts/PeterDemma.txt

Roy Sebern

Chloe Scott 1956 w/daughter Jennifer $50/month $80

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Fadiman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fadiman

Gwen Davis long ago lost her virginity in this game. Her first book,

``Someone`s in the Kitchen with Dinah,`` was about wife swapping. When novelist Ken Kesey and his wife saw themselves therein, they went after Davis. ``Ken sued me, and the novel was withdrawn and I had to take out everything that was funny and bright and exciting. Then, in 1962, when `One Flew over the Cuckoo`s Nest` appeared, Ken had a Red Cross lady named Gwendolyn (he didn`t even bother to change it) which I thought was libelous. So I sued him and the character was changed in subsequent editions. I got $8,000--what I estimated Ken had cost me for my novel. But you must remember that was a long time ago, and we were children.``

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-06-27/features/8602150916_1_saul-bellow-fiction-sexually-explicit-novels

1959 Lee Anderson gave drum lessons to 13yo Bill Kreutzmann of GD

Chateau a few blocks away at Santa Cruz and Sand Hill

http://www.paloaltohistory.com/the-grateful-dead.php

GDead, Page Browning

feb 20 1961

A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead  By Dennis McNally