May 18, 1964: 57 years ago, May 17 1964, 5000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden [...]
57 years ago, May 17 1964, 5000 people gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to protest a proposed freeway which would have cut through the park’s panhandle. Later that year, the Golden Gate Freeway was successfully defeated
The event featured a speech by Kenneth Rexroth and music by Malvina Reynolds, who composed a song called “Cement Octopus” for the occasion. The rally was a high point in San Francisco’s largely successful “Freeway Revolt” of the ’50s and ’60s
