Shows/1967-06-03


June 3, 1967

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Love Street Light Circus
City	Houston, Texas
Tour
Event	Grand opening
Billing	The Red Crayola

Retrospectives

David Adickes

^[1]

I opened Love Street Light Circus and Feel Good Machine in '67—it was the hottest psychedelic club in town. It was down on Allen's Landing in an old white building; a night spot for kids. It was a big room with giant mattresses and hundreds of colored pillows, and everyone would lie horizontal looking at the light show. This was the same year that the whole thing started in San Francisco with the Philmore Auditorium. . .I was out there that New Year's Eve of '66 and just fell in love with that projected light of psychedelic light shows. It was the hottest thing going—it went wildly one summer and we tried to stay open through the next year, but the following summer I opened one just like it in San Antonio for the Hemisfair '68 expo, and it failed. The first band we had in Houston was called The Red Crayola and they were just a bunch of kids from Rice, but we had some of the big bands. Anyone who got close to it will never forget it. There are people I have run into today who remember.

Posters

The first version of the poster features an still of Theda Bara from the 1917 film Cleopatra.^[2]

"It is believed that this was the second version of the handbill that was printed and that it was more widely distributed than the first version. During conversations with the original owner, he indicated that no one could read the first version".^[3]