Psychedelic Women Ep 1: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 1: North Beach Babe

In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than 3 Mile Island that was covered up and never cleaned up and its tragic fallout propelled host, Rainbow Valentine’s Future Mom, Kathy Mason Lerner, to flee to San Francisco where she landed in Beatnik Central aka North Beach, SF.  There shemet a Beatnik jeweler to the Jazz greats who had access to LSD made by Stanford University and RV's mom's life on the groundfloor of SF’s psychedelic revolution began.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, secret, illegal, gay bars, black-velvet paintings, the Nazi scientist who Disneyland called a hero and much more… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices