Among those arrested were Beat generation figure Neil Cassady, “Mountain Girl” and several of the Merry Pranksters, famous for their “acid tests.”,Within a few days a Chronicle reporter and photographer sat down with Kesey and his crew at the La Honda compound. A beautiful drive on a windy road through redwood trees. The floor vibrated, everyone danced, the trees kept up the music, there’d been no threats (apart from Cassady’s), no violence, and as the evening turned to night, the members of the Hell’s Angels wandered about, tripping on LSD and discovering, at various points, Kesey’s vast collection of sculptures. He moved to the Chronicle in 1985, just as the library was beginning their digital text archive.Ken Kesey vs. the cops: Looking back at author’s 1965 pot bust.Ken Kesey rides atop the bus Further on April 26, 1967, while holding a flute in San Francisco.Ken Kesey and John Browning re-enact what they were doing at the time of the La Honda narcotics bust in April 1965.Chronicle coverage of the bust at the home of Ken Kesey on April 24, 1965.Sheriff Russell Gropp (from left), Ken Kesey, Lee Quarnstrom and Neal Cassady on April 24, 1965.John Browning and Neal Cassady at the La Honda house in April 1965.Carolyn Addams decorates a sign at Ken Kesey’s La Honda home in April 1965.Ken Kesey, seen Sept. 18, 1967, painted this mural at the Honor Camp.Kesey shows his diary from the time he was locked up on Sept. 18, 1967.Chronicle coverage of Ken Kesey facing jail time.Chronicle coverage of Ken Kesey’s verdict after the marijuana bust at his La Honda home.Chronicle coverage of Ken Kesey’s sentencing after the marijuana bust at his La Honda home.Merry Prankster and writer John Browning with a puppy at Ken Kesey’s La Honda home.Ken Kesey had parties and “acid tests” at his La Honda home in the 1960s.Ken Kesey and other recently arrested Pranksters at the La Honda home in 1965.Recently arrested Merry Pranksters Virginia Jackson (left) and Lee Quarnstrom (center) at the La Honda home in April 1965.Merry Prankster Paula Sundsten at Ken Kesey‘s La Honda ranch in April 1965.Ken Kesey (rear, second from left) with associates during his trial on a marijuana charge.Chronicle coverage of Ken Kesey’s side of the bust at his La Honda home in April 1965.Cliff House: A century of photos of the many lives of an SF icon,When Reagan and Mondale campaigned in Silicon Valley — and Reagan won,Aileen Hernandez, Gloria Steinem and the ERA: Historic photos of women calling for equal rights in SF,S.F.’s Embarcadero could be devastated by earthquakes and rising seas, study warns,Will the cleaner Bay Area air last through the weekend? A mile past Apple Jack’s, the legendary honky-tonk and biker bar, I pull over to the side of the road and park. Ken Kesey's legendary log cabin in La Honda, site of some of the most mind-bending parties of the 1960s, is on the verge of being sold. Lol.I went to a wedding in the area and saw the signs to La Honda. He does research for reporters and editors and manages the photos, negatives and text archives. The Angels, the Pranksters, even some of the children. By the time I reached the stage, it was empty. Oxen used to drag these trees out of the canyons and down to the mills. A breeze sweeps through the clearing and the lush green shivers with life. Others were rigged to live microphones, which had been set to a one-second delay and hidden in squirrels’ nests, bathrooms, bedrooms, even along the bank of the rushing creek. Brutal, backbreaking, dangerous work.Up until World War II, La Honda remained in a fairly pristine state, visited only by weekend and summer vacationers from the Peninsula and San Francisco.