Editing Northridge, Los Angeles (section)

===Devonshire Downs===
In the late 1960s, [[Devonshire Downs]] was the site of two major [[rock festival|rock music festivals]]. The little-known two-day 1967 ''Fantasy Faire and Magic Music Festival'' (at "Devonshire Meadows") featured [[The Doors]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Country Joe and the Fish]], [[The Grass Roots]], [[Canned Heat]], [[Iron Butterfly]] and several other bands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idafan.com/PriorNews-Reviews.htm |title=Prior News |publisher=Idafan.com |access-date=January 13, 2013}}</ref> The better-known but confusingly named 1969 ''[[Newport Pop Festival#The "Newport 69" Festival|Newport Pop Festival]]'' was a massive three-day event that featured [[Jimi Hendrix]] and many other top acts. It took place in June and was briefly the largest music festival ever held before losing that distinction to [[Woodstock]] the following August. Like its famous successor, it had problems with large numbers of gate-crashers, and some young attendees far from home camped out nearby in sleeping bags. Unlike Woodstock, "nearby" included parts of suburban Northridge, where most of the local residents were horrified to find their neighborhoods invaded by "hippies". A ban on rock music festivals soon followed.<ref>Beardsley, Jim A. [http://www.laobserved.com/visiting/2009/06/newport_69_a_retrospect.php "Newport '69, a retrospect"]. ''LA Observed'', June 17, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2013.</ref>