KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Musical Festival

The Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival was held in June 1967 at the Cushing Memorial Amphitheater in Mount Tamalpais. It was a rock festival sponsored by KFRC and produced by Top 40 DJs. All proceeds went to the Hunters Point Childcare Center. The concert was intended to draw the Bay Area’s youth, or as the San Rafael Daily Independent Journal notes in anticipation of the event: the concert is “expected to draw 30,000 ‘teenyboppers’ and others to the mountain’s amphitheater.” In the end, some 36,000 people, including those ‘teenyboppers,’ adults, members of the Hell’s Angels, and others, showed up to listen to performances from more than two dozen Bay Area bands. According to The Times Standard, the Sheriff’s deputies testified that, “the crowd behaved ‘like ladies and gentlemen.’”