General Discussion

When I first moved there, we lived in Redwood City, right next door.

Menlo Park was next to that. Palo Alto, where Bob met Jerry, right next to that.

Atherton was an oddity because it was a relatively smaller town. The main drag going through it all was El Camino Real. There used to be a Jack In The Box on the corner of El Camino & 5th Avenue in Redwood City. Cross over El Camino into Atherton and all of a sudden the median home price was one million bucks (and that was in the SEVENTIES).

I respected Bob's tenure in ALL of his post-Dead bands. The final one, Dead & Company, took a measure of critical heat for not being the Grateful Dead, because that's just how "rock journalists" think. They punished the Beatles for years after the breakup for not being Beatles. Bob didn't care. He found musicians he respected who could work with him and keep the Dead's music alive. That's praise-worthy in my book.