In this alley, roughly 60 years ago, Jerry Garcia, playing a banjo, first met Bobby Weir, to form the Grateful Dead:
And here, on Bryant Street in Palo Alto, California, USA, someone painted part of a bike bridge pink, which some other people believe is a tribute to the British rock band Pink Floyd:
Sources:
- Bo Crane; author, “Ticket to Rock: Palo Alto”; (Paly ’69);
- Ken Joye; resident, bicycle activist;
- mayor Tom Dubois; self-described fan of Pink Floyd;
- Elise DeMarzo; City of Palo Alto;
- Steve Cohen; Gunn ’82; Stanford ’86;
- Eric Cohen, MFA;
- realtor Ken Morgan (by phone; per his brochure, website);
- resident at 2951 who built and is selling a $5.3m house “near the Pink Floyd bridge”.
- Sylvie Simmons, author and artist;
- man from Seattle who likes the Dead and was here with his son who attended Stanford baseball camp; although, actually we met in front of Coupa on Ramona, not Bryant;