"KFRC was one of the leading news organizations, so the news guys were friends with a lot of the California legislators and got direction from the politicians on how to obtain a license and do something like this. The Marin County board of supervisors was aghast at the idea of hippies storming across the Golden Gate Bridge to lay waste to their wonderful lifestyle in Marin. They put so much pressure on the state that they revoked the license once, but the major California politicians that held sway over this local community reasoned with them and said, 'Hey, come on guys. This is a nice thing that celebrates all the wonderful values of the Bay Area artistic community and tourism.'"
Jason Newman in Rolling Stone presents an oral history of the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, held in June 1967.
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