Editing Scotts Valley, California (section)

===The Barn===
In the fall of 1965, [[Eric "Big Daddy" Nord|Eric Nord]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=FOLKART |first1=BURT A. |title=Eric (Big Daddy) Nord; 'Beat Movement' Leader |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-02-mn-2363-story.html |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 2, 1989}}</ref> proprietor of coffee houses including the [[Hungry I]] in San Francisco, and the ''Sticky Wicket''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bratton |first1=Bruce |title=Bruce Bratton's Column |url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.14.02/bratton-0233.html |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=Metro Santa Cruz |publisher=[[Metroactive]] |date=August 14–21, 2002 |quote=Covello & Covello Historical Photo Collection's Photo of: Original Sticky Wicket: This particular art show was held Oct. 6, 1958, at the original Sticky Wicket, a coffee house on Cathcart Street. You can see the stairs going up to the back rooms of the Catalyst. The Wicket later moved to Aptos and is mostly known as the birthplace of what became the Cabrillo Music Festival.}}</ref> in [[Aptos, California|Aptos]], also opened ''The Barn'' (1965–1968), an art gallery and coffee house, with a large area for concerts, on the site of the Frapwell Dairy Barn (1914–1948), in Scotts Valley.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baine |first1=Wallace |title=Santa Cruz County Stories: UCSC's Ralph Abraham keeps alive the memories of Santa Cruz's hip golden era |url=https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2016/07/15/santa-cruz-county-stories-ucscs-ralph-abraham-keeps-alive-the-memories-of-santa-cruzs-hip-golden-era/ |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=July 15, 2016 |quote=Came to Santa Cruz: 1968. Abraham was a professor at Princeton University in his early 30s when a UCSC recruiter visited him. He had developed an interest in psychedelic culture and mystical experience, but had no interest in relocating to California. ‘I accepted the free airline ticket to see friends,’ he said. His interview didn’t go well, he said. But before leaving, he went to find a friend at the Barn in Scotts Valley, where “I saw the musicians playing inside large metal sculptures, psychedelic paintings on the wall and 300 people stoned on LSD dancing to the music.’ Soon after, he changed his thinking: ‘I was interested in Santa Cruz the town, not Santa Cruz the university. But it was a job, so I accepted it.’}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=David Nelson and The New Delhi River Band, Fall 1966 (Nelson II) |url=https://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/03/david-nelson-and-new-delhi-river-band.html |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=Lost Live Dead |date=March 22, 2012 |language=en |quote=The configuration of Highway 17 and Scotts Valley has completely changed, and no trace of The Barn remains. The site is now the parking lot of The Baymonte Christian School}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Arnold |first1=Corry |title=The Barn, Scotts Valley, California 1965-1968 |url=http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/Barn%20Scotts%20History.htm |website=chickenonaunicycle |access-date=May 31, 2021 |date=February 9, 2013}}</ref> [[Janis Joplin]]<ref name="janis" /> and the [[Grateful Dead]] performed at ''The Barn''.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} [[Tom Wolfe]] describes the [[Merry Pranksters]] and [[Ken Kesey]], from [[La Honda]], at ''The Barn'', in the last chapter of [[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]. At Scott's Valley Drive, just off [[California State Route 17|Highway 17]], ''The Barn'' as a nightclub closed by 1968, with the Baymonte Christian School taking control of the property. ''The Barn'' resurrected as a dinner theater in an RV park in the 70s, and eventually a warehouse for Seagate Technologies. The Barn was torn down in 1991.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bobson |first1=Sarah |title=Yesterday Into Today: The Barn in Scotts Valley |url=https://www.independentnews.com/community/yesterday-into-today-the-barn-in-scotts-valley/article_4316efdc-f95c-11e6-a1e8-b739f57b0c0c.html |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=The Independent |date=February 23, 2017 |language=en |quote=The Barn, according to information from the Scotts Valley Historical Society, originally operated as the Frapwell Dairy Barn from 1914 to 1948. After that, it was remodeled as a sort of community center/gymnasium/theater. In the mid-60s, Eric Nord, known as Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, a Beat Generation-era nightclub owner who founded the hungry i in San Francisco, and a poet, actor, and hipster as well, who newspaper columnist Herb Caen called the "king of the Beat Generation," converted the barn into The Barn. But it was a Santa Cruz clinical psychologist named Leon Tabory who took over its operation and later bought it who turned it into the happening place it became for a few short years in the late 60s. With these stories and pictures buzzing in my brain, I set off for Scotts Valley. I didn’t expect to find The Barn because I learned from news clips and from Jay Topping of the Scotts Valley Historical Society that it was torn down in 1991.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=As the owner of the hippie hot spot The Barn, Leon Tabory planted a flag for the counterculture in quiet Scotts Valley |url=https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2009/11/14/as-the-owner-of-the-hippie-hot-spot-the-barn-leon-tabory-planted-a-flag-for-the-counterculture-in-quiet-scotts-valley/ |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=November 14, 2009 |quote=“The Barn was my first experience in Santa Cruz County,” said Ralph Abraham, a longtime friend of Tabory and a leading figure in an online project called the Hip Santa Cruz History Project. “Leon was the reason I moved here.”  Abraham said Tabory used The Barn as a kind of incubator of what was then radical new era values of community and human potential.  “Those light shows, he really took seriously,” he said. “He used psychedelics as therapy.”  Coincidentally, the city of Scotts Valley was first incorporated the same year Tabory took control of The Barn — 1966. The Barn wasn”t the first outpost of the counterculture in the area — the Hip Pocket Bookstore and the old Catalyst in downtown Santa Cruz had opened earlier, providing a welcoming atmosphere for the politically conscious beat-generation vibe that had flourished in San Francisco in the 1950s. He wasn”t even the first to bring a new cultural scene to The Barn. Fabled beat figure Eric “Big Daddy” Nord opened a coffee shop in The Barn in 1964. But it was Tabory who first brought the full-blown hippie aesthetic to the county, and it was Tabory who found himself in a long, draining battle with the newly established city. The Scotts Valley Planning Commission approved Tabory”s first application to open The Barn as a community center, but warned him with a “no beatniks” rule.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Abraham |first1=Ralph |author1-link=Ralph Abraham (mathematician) |title=1964 – The Golden Years Begin |url=https://hipsantacruz.org/timeline/1964/ |website=Hip Santa Cruz History Project |access-date=May 31, 2021 |quote=Leon Tabory hears Eric “Big Daddy” Nord was opening the Loft, a cafe at a barn in Scotts Valley. Leon went there, met Cathy, they married.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=abraham |first1=ralph |title=The Hip Santa Cruz History Project |url=http://www.ralph-abraham.org/1960s/ |website=ralph-abraham.org |access-date=May 31, 2021 |quote=A multimedia website project cooked up over sushi by Judy, Tandy, and Ralph on 06 February 2002. Mission: to document the history of Hip Santa Cruz, ca 1964-1972 or so.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Baine |first1=Wallace |title=Leon Tabory planted a flag for the counterculture in quiet Scotts Valley |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/11/13/leon-tabory-planted-a-flag-for-the-counterculture-in-quiet-scotts-valley/ |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=The Mercury News |date=November 13, 2009 |quote=“The Barn was my first experience in Santa Cruz (County),” said Ralph Abraham, a longtime friend of Tabory and a leading figure in an online project called the Hip Santa Cruz History Project. “(Leon) was the reason I moved here.” Abraham said that Tabory used The Barn as a kind of incubator of what was then radical new-era values of community and human potential.  “Those light shows, he really took seriously,” he said. “He used psychedelics as therapy.” Coincidentally, the city of Scotts Valley was first incorporated the same year Tabory took control of the Barn — 1966. The Barn wasn’t the first outpost of the counterculture in the area — the Hip Pocket Bookstore and the old Catalyst in downtown Santa Cruz had opened earlier, providing a welcoming atmosphere for the politically conscious beat-generation vibe that had flourished in San Francisco in the 1950s. He wasn’t even the first to bring a new cultural scene to the Barn. Fabled beat figure Eric “Big Daddy” Nord opened a coffee shop in the Barn in 1964. But it was Tabory who first brought the full-blown hippie aesthetic to the county, and it was Tabory who found himself in a long, draining battle with the newly established city. The Scotts Valley Planning Commission approved Tabory’s first application to open the Barn as a community center, but warned him with a “no beatniks” rule.}}</ref><ref name="janis">{{cite news |last1=Dilles |first1=Jack Dilles |title=Scotts Valley has a colorful history {{!}} Jack Dilles, mayor's message |url=https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2019/03/23/scotts-valley-has-a-colorful-history-jack-dilles-mayors-message/ |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=March 23, 2019 |quote=Scotts Valley became a city in 1966 at a time when there were concerns about the City of Santa Cruz annexing the Sky Park Airport (site of the currently proposed Town Center) and concerns about a proposed cemetery project. The airport was closed in 1983, two years after Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, crashed his Beechcraft Bonanza at Sky Park, injuring his three passengers. During the 1960s, the Barn at the north end of Scotts Valley was leased to Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, a hipster of the Beat Generation. He opened a coffee shop at the Barn and later a concert hall. Even though the Barn was refused a permit for live music, he held dances, concerts and art shows anyway, complete with lively wall murals and a psychedelic light show. Well known bands, including Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, performed at the Barn. Ken Kesey and his merry band of pranksters attended concerts there and had their colorful bus ticketed by Scotts Valley police for illegal parking.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Wallace |title=SV Planners Fear Beatnik Influx, Defer Barn Ruling |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6011412/santa_cruz_sentinel/ |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=[[Santa Cruz Sentinel]] |publisher=via: [[Newspapers.com]] |date=August 11, 1966 |quote=No "beatniks" and no "dead-beats" in Scotts Valley. This was the aim of...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Wallace |title='Big Daddy' Makes The Scene |url=https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/113453 |website=Santa Cruz Sentinel |publisher=via: SCPL Local History |access-date=May 31, 2021 |date=July 29, 1965 |quote=Clipping: Eric 'Big Daddy' Nord, The Barn, picture}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Morgan |first1=Terri |title=Barn readies for razing with one last concert |url=https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/113454 |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=San Jose Mercury News |publisher=via: SCPL Local History |date=July 22, 1991 |quote=Clipping:}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gaura |first1=Maria |title=Historic barn faces destruction |url=https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/113455 |access-date=May 31, 2021 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |publisher=via: SCPL Local History |date=January 19, 1989}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=COOPER |first1=SCOTT |title=The Doobie Brothers, headlining the Sunday half of this weekend's Fat Fry Festival |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/81319342/ |access-date=June 1, 2021 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |publisher=via: [[Newspapers.com]] |date=September 24, 1999 |location=Santa Cruz, California |page=51 |language=en |quote="I've been coming to Santa Cruz since I was a. kid," says founding Doobie Pat Simmons, who also lived on Branciforte Drive for about 20 years. "I used to go shows at the Cocoanut Grove. They used to have rock shows. I saw the Tikis, Paul Revere &amp; Raiders. I used to go a club in Scotts Valley called the Barn. It was a real popular place. Big Brother &amp; the Holding Company played there. The Dead. You name it, they all played there."}}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=May 2025}}