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Booths and tents housed a wide array of local merchants selling food, jewelry, handmade candles, clothing, bongs and almost any other trinket you could dream up. The Fantasy Fair also played up its theme, with decorations including a giant inflatable Buddha balloon and banners displaying each astrological sign.
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It was totally nonconfrontational, just them being there said, ‘OK, there’s law and order.’” I don’t think it was our intention to use them as security it was just our intention to have them present to be fearsome. “It was their turf and we needed their support. “They were not hired,” festival co-producer Tom Rounds later clarified. Meanwhile, the local Hells Angels motorcycle gang was enlisted to keep the peace. Attendees had to park in nearby Marin and take rented school buses to the event, dubbed the “Trans-Love” bus line. There were still vestiges of the '50s.”Īs America’s first rock fest, the Fantasy Fair would dramatically change the festival blueprint.įor starters, road access to the picturesque festival site was limited. The ‘alternative lifestyle’ – the hipsters, the jazz aficionados – were already drawn to Newport, but things were a little more buttoned-down and straight. Maria Muldaur, who performed at the Fantasy Fair with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, told Rolling Stone that “the portent of things turning into rock festivals was when Dylan first played electric at Newport.