Today, I’m writing from the Bay Area, where I’m set to talk about California music with Jon Pareles, our chief pop music critic, at the San Francisco Public Library.  It’s an event inspired by our California Soundtrack feature. 

We thought it’d be a fun opportunity to take a quick trip through time. 

Our visual editors helped dig up these images of fans at a couple of the Bay’s most famous concerts as well as a cool photo of the Temple of Music in Golden Gate Park from the turn of the 20th century. ( Tomorrow, we’ll have photos from Southern California.)