The group touched down at a special area near the airport at 6.24pm on Tuesday 18.8.64. They had aimed to greet fans in an area of the airport called 'Beatleville' but this plan was abandoned due to fears caused by the crush of fans. 19 people received first aid treatment in that area, often for fainting, such as shown in the following day's Press-Democrat (Santa Rosa, California), p.2:
Tickets for the concert at Cow Palace were mainly priced at $6.50. The brevity of The Beatles' set (29 minutes plus two interruptions caused by throwing of jelly beans) caused a complaint in the San Francisco Examiner of 20.08.64, p.1:
The Beatles met Shirley Temple Black backstage, the first of many encounters on the tour where celebrities would bring younger family members to meet the group (link); Ringo went out on the town with western actor Dale Robertson (Davis, p.170), where they visited the Rickshaw cocktail lounge, at 27 Ross Alley, operated by Mai Tai Sing (profile here and here), now a sewing factory. The group met Joan Baez for the first time (Davis, p. 167).
Larry Kane's memoir, Ticket To Ride, contains a horrific account of a young woman sustaining a broken leg. However, this does not appear in contemporary press reports, which stated only that "a girl was bruised".
The take was initially estimated at $90,000, later corrected to $91,670 (see this blog page).
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