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| The trippy, inauguratory poster for the erstwhile Electric Theater, Aaron Russo’s psychedelic club on N. Clark St. (Chicago 1968). Artist unknown |
By Bob Boldt
“The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.” –Robert Burns
Aaron Russo, the impresario of the Electric Theater, the 60’s psychedelic night club, bottomed out financially when the planned opening week in April 1968 was severely hampered by a curfew due to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that same week. The club limped on under its new name, Kinetic Playground, but finally closed in 1969 due to fire. The Playground had a six-month resurgence minus the famous light show until the sheet was finally pulled over its face in 1973.
