Do you remember the slang use of "the end"?

"A term of extreme approbation: the best, the ultimate." I looked up "end" in the (unlinkable) OED, while writing the previous post (about all the "The End of" book titles), and I got nostalgic for the 1950s/early 60s when "the end" was very common slang. Here are the OED's examples:

1950   Neurotica Autumn 45   Senor this shit [sc. narcotic] is the end!
1954   Time 8 Nov. 70   A term of high approbation in the swing era was ‘out of this world’, in the bop era it was ‘gone’, and today it is ‘the greatest’ or ‘the end’.
1957   J. Kerouac On Road ii. iv. 127   That Rollo Greb is the greatest... Man, he's the end!...
1963   Nugget Feb. 46,   I was blowing some jazz in the student lounge on this end Steinway.

Blowing some jazz on a piano. I would have thought blowing jazz could only be done on wind instruments. I look up the jazz slang "blow," and there's this:

1962   Radio Times 17 May 43/3   A jazz musician never plays an instrument—he blows it, whether it be drums, piano, bass, or horn. Should he ‘blow’ with feeling, or great excitement (‘like wild’) he is either ‘way out’ or ‘wailing’.

The 1960s progressed and The Doors came out with "The End" — This is the end/My only friend, the end — and "the end" lost its soaring, fun-loving feeling. [AND: Bob Dylan sang: "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end?"]

"Blow" acquired a mid-60s slang use: "to blow (a person's) mind, to induce hallucinatory experiences (in a person) by means of drugs, esp. LSD; hence transf., to produce (in a person) a pleasurable (or shocking) sensation." OED examples:

1967   San Francisco Examiner 12 Sept. 26/3   On a hip acid (LSD) trip you can blow your mind sky-high....
1968   J. D. MacDonald Pale Grey for Guilt (1969) xii. 152   They had some new short acid from the Coast that never gives you a down trip and blows your mind for an hour only.
1970   Rolling Stone 30 Jan. 1/2   Blue blazer, grey flannel pants, shirt and a beautiful scarf with a chunky Mexican turquoise/silver bracelet and ring which blew the white-shirted jury's minds.

Can you guess who blew the jury's minds in 1970? "Heroine To The Rescue: Jimi Hendrix Is Innocent/Dope? 'I've outgrown it.'" That was in January. Speaking of the end, Hendrix's end was later that year, in September.

ADDED: Rereading this post, I'm thinking the Oxford English Dictionary editors intended to drop a clue that Jack Kerouac was not as hip as he seemed — that he picked up his slang from Time Magazine. Look at that greatest... the end... combination. 

IN THE COMMENTS: urpower said:

Kerouac's "On the Road" was completed in May 1951 and the recently published 'scroll' version includes the quoted sentence. Time magazine, still not with it! And wonder if "blowjob" came from jazz. Edmund White said it came from blowing, like wind, but ??

Thanks, urpower! I'm glad to see Kerouac vindicated. (Still don't know if the OED-ers did that on purpose.) I will reward you for your assistance by looking up "blow job" in the OED:
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