ghost, I didn't make it through all 17 pages of Gottlieb's LOC photos, but I enjoyed looking at the first part. It struck me how many shots I'd seen before without knowing who was the photographer.
A bit of trivia - Jack Crystal in that photo in the Commodore Record Shop is Billy Crystal's dad.
Also, about the transition from jackets and ties. In college in the early '60s it was common to wear a coat and tie on a date, even when attending football games. Then I dropped out of school, spent three years in the Navy, and returned to finish in 1966. The change over that brief time was astounding. From coats and ties to work shits, denim jackets, or fatigues. The "Summer of Love" and Viet Nam protests were obvious signs of great cultural changes in the mid-'60s. Music in general, and certainly jazz, changed during that time as well. Miles went electric. That may not have generated as much controversy as Dylan doing the same thing, but only because Dylan had a bigger audience.