BRC_97

AUG 24 1997 · 16:00

This year marked the first time that Black Rock City was laid out like a real city, with planned streets, and a semblance of civic structure. The shape of the city map looked more like a giant 'V', instead of the current circular 'C' shape.... Driving and cars and shooting guns were banned, and as much as "old-timers' like to talk about the "good ol' days", this was actually a good thing. You get 10,000 people together, you're bound to have a few assholes, and the previous year definitely proved that. Seeing as that we spent every night in 1995 in fear of being run over in our tents by car speeding across the playa toward the "rave camp", we whole-heartedly welcomed the new "no driving policy".