Eleven residents of 710 Ashbury St., including two band members, two managers and several women living with the band, were handcuffed together and hauled away by police on Oct. 2, 1967.

San Francisco narcotics officers, who took more than a pound or marijuana and hashish from the residence, said they were working off a tip from an informant. Grateful Dead lawyers said the group was unfairly targeted.

The story made the front page of the Chronicle, a band press conference followed and most of the defendants pled guilty to lesser charges and paid a small fine the following year.