It started as a West Coast answer to Woodstock: A free concert in Golden Gate Park with the <a href="https://projects.sfchronicle.com/tools/podcasts?show=datebook&id=57aa3d24-f3a5-11e8-98f9-5718f703245c">Rolling Stones</a>, the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/grateful-dead/">Grateful Dead</a> and the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-Jefferson-Airplane-s-1980s-reunion-14447131.php">Jefferson Airplane</a>. It ended in <a href="https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/bill-owens-photographed-the-hells-angels-at-altamont-then-hid-for-49-years">violence and death at Altamont Raceway</a> in Tracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

It started as a West Coast answer to Woodstock: A free concert in Golden Gate Park with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane. It ended in violence and death at Altamont Raceway in Tracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It started as a West Coast answer to Woodstock: A free concert in Golden Gate Park with the <a href="https://projects.sfchronicle.com/tools/podcasts?show=datebook&amp;id=57aa3d24-f3a5-11e8-98f9-5718f703245c" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rolling Stones</a>, the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/grateful-dead/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Grateful Dead</a> and the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-Jefferson-Airplane-s-1980s-reunion-14447131.php" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jefferson Airplane</a>. It ended in <a href="https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/bill-owens-photographed-the-hells-angels-at-altamont-then-hid-for-49-years" rel="noopener noreferrer">violence and death at Altamont Raceway</a> in Tracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

1969: The '60s End at Altamont

On hiatus as of March 2020 because of the coronavirus crisis. Get unlimited access to the Chronicle. | A daily celebration of the news — and the news media — of years gone by. King Kaufman takes you on a quick tour of the Bay Area and the world as it used to be, which often colors the world of your century.

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