The psychedelic light show originated in a San Francisco afterhours club

Evidence

After relocating from Washington to Berkeley in the mid-1940s, Smith moved across the Bay in the late 1940s, taking a room upstairs from an afterhours club in the Fillmore district. He painted the club walls with abstract motifs and, to accompany the musicians, developed a mechanism that projected oils mixed on a mirror, thus inventing the light show that twenty years later would be the hallmark of Bill Graham’s Fillmore. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 676

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s larger argument about how the same physical turf — San Francisco’s Fillmore — hosted successive creative scenes.
• CANDY: A great elevator fact: liquid light shows were invented by an eccentric filmmaker living above a jazz club decades before the psychedelic sixties.