San Francisco Mime Troupe

You have almost $3 million to the Center for the Art of Translation.

$400,000 to the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

And there is another dozen or so dance companies or opera houses that each got half a million to a million dollars in state funding.

And finally, just to name a few others, the UCSF Dyslexia Center got $8.4 million for dyslexia research.

December 10, 1965, Fillmore Auditorium.

That's the second Mime Troupe benefit where they played their first San Francisco show under the new name, though Bill Graham didn't even put them on the poster.

five weeks later at the january fourteenth nineteen sixty six appeal three graham finally billed them as grateful dead formerly the warlocks the first time the name appeared in print advertising four firsts all real all provable none of them clean there's something restful about a question that four people can answer differently and all be right it takes the pressure off Nobody's wrong, so nobody has to win.

Let's go back to the first of those four, because it's the gentlest one, and it happens in a pizza parlor.

They took the vote anyway.

The third answer is, The night we're inside of tonight, the house on South 5th in December, and the fourth is a poster.

the fourth is worth its own moment because it's the one that sounds official and isn't december tenth the fillmore auditorium the second mime troupe benefit the first san francisco show under the new name except bill graham didn't put them on the poster They played the room, and their name wasn't on the paper outside it.

It took another five weeks before Graham finally printed it, and even then he had to explain it, with the old name in parentheses right there beside the new one, because otherwise nobody would know who was being advertised.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, we both saw separately what is an institution in San Francisco since 1965, the SF Mime Troupe performance,

which has been

going on for so fucking long.

But it was fun.

But yeah, I don't know.

What were we talking about? Oh, the SF Mime Troupe.

Yes, go see them, please.