Artifacts from San Jose’s Summer of Love

In 1969, mescaline was $1.60 wholesale and Bill Guardino has the newspaper to prove it.

Thanks to Guardino’s new hardback volume of San Jose rock flyers, South Bay Flashback, we get an unprecedented glimpse into the rock scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s, in a town that never got any respect.

Guardino, now 70, has been collecting flyers ever since those days. South Bay Flashback gives us only a small sampling of the volume he’s amassed over the years…

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