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From Alan Sheckter: This image was uncovered while doing research for an article for the local alternative newsweekly in Chico, Calif., called "It was a gas: Looking back 40 years - Chico’s music scene and mind-set in 1968." While it's been known for years that the Grateful Dead played the Silver Dollar Farigrounds in Chico on Nov. 1, 1968, the Wildcat, the student newspaper at Chico State College (now California State University, Chico), contained more facts, including a poster/ad for the show. The opening bands, Friends and Gunge, were long-forgotten local Chico bands. Thanks to Bill DeBlonk for uncovering this image.