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Your photos reminded me how tight men wore their pants in crotch area then. Kind of a male version of Ball/Dick Toe. My Mom used to ask me why I was showing everything with my tight pants?

My primary collection criteria (not cast in stone though) is Bill Graham and Family Dog Posters vintage 60's. Along with the posters where printed other marketing media based on the poster art, such as postcards (sent to members of their mailing list), Handbills (given out at concerts promoting future concerts) and even the tickets were based on the poster. For concert tickets that had multiple days each day would be of only two color printings (black and a single primary color varying for each day. Another interesting concert promotion I was able to purchase along with the poster, was an envelope and invitation for the Rolling Stones (see if you can find it). During the Sixties, the Concert tickets cost from $2.50 to $7.50 (the larger amount being for New Years Eve that went all night and included breakfast at 5:00 AM). Can you imagine seeing The Doors in a small venue for a mere $3.00. Throw in a tab of Orange Sunshine and your evening only cost about $6.00! Postcards and Handbills etc. The 2 Peace Sign double postcards are signed by Bonnie Maclean RIP (below). She started working for Bill Graham and was so good with the Chalkboard Art listing future concerts, she became one of Bill Grahams poster Artist. Prior to this she had become Bill Grahams love interest. If anybody has the Sunday ticket for The Band primary color yellow/gold I may be interested. I believe this poster was made out album cover photos?

Thanks, great info!

Summer Of Love Look Back: The SF Oracle, Newspaper Of The Counterculture Photo of Richard Kuczynski's collection of San Francisco Oracle newspapers. | Photo: Alisa Scerrato/Hoodline By Alisa Scerrato - Published on June 12, 2017. San FranciscoUpper Haight As the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love draws near, we're running a series of stories that look back at some of the people and places most associated with the countercultural movement. As part of our Summer of Love 50th anniversary series, we are flashing back to the San Francisco Oracle, the underground newspaper known for weaving spirituality, poetry and progressive ideas with psychedelic imagery in the mid to late sixties. The publication was only distributed for about two years (from September 1966 to January 1968), but it became well-known around the world for its countercultural vision and unique form during the social and political movements of the time. The San Francisco Oracle was founded and edited by poet Allen Cohen, who was inspired by Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" to drive from New York to San Francisco. After Cohen arrived in North Beach, he got in on the Beat poet scene, developing friendships with Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and other artists before going to the Upper Haight, where the '60s counterculture was taking shape. Photo of Cohen (right) via Allen Cohen In September 1966, Cohen produced the newspaper’s first issue, called "P.O. Frisco," out of a storefront on Frederick Street. It was printed in black-and-white and featured local Beat writer and playwright Michael McClure, along with a review of his controversial play, "The Beard." The issue also advocated for LSD guru Timothy Leary’s message to “turn on, tune in, drop out." The second issue of the newspaper was produced out of offices behind the Print Mint on Haight St., but once the publication developed a need for more space, the Oracle later moved to larger offices at 1371 Haight (near Masonic), where it was open 24 hours a day. "Another session with Timothy Leary." The first “truly psychedelic issue” of the Oracle was the "Human Be-In" (January 1967, issue 5), which marked a sharp increase in readership. It had a color front cover designed by Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley and Michael Bowen that announced “The Gathering of the Tribes" in Golden Gate Park. The event was an influential precursor to the Summer of Love, and credited with introducing the word "psychedelic" to suburbanites. The worker-owned cooperative saw its heyday when Cohen and art director Michael Bowen were at the helm. They guided the Oracle to experiment with printing techniques using a four-unit offset press, which allowed the publication to create ornate, colorful images of mandalas, pyramids and other psychedelic designs. San Francisco Oracle, #7 featured an interview with Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. The interview was accompanied by a colorful psychedelic image. At a Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council meeting on June 8th, longtime Haight area resident Arthur Round spoke about his experiences as a staff member at the Oracle in the '60s. He described how the newspaper's color artist Hetti McGee would stand in front of the giant presses, squirting colored ink onto the rollers with ketchup bottles. “She would put cedar or patchouli oils in the ink so that when issue number six came out, it smelled different than other issues," he recalled. He added that if customers ordered bundles of newspapers, they would emit a strong scent of whatever oil was used on that day. We also reached out to Richard Kuczynski, a collector of San Francisco vintage postcards, advertisements and mailers, who owns almost an entire collection of San Francisco Oracle newspapers, in addition to the Haight Ashbury Maverick, another newspaper created on the Haight around that time. Kuczynski, who has lived in San Francisco since the mid-seventies, told us that “the world of journalism was changed by those 12 newspapers that were issued on the Haight.” “Issues three through nine were the best ones because they gave you the entire visual impact,” he said, calling the the Oracle's evolving color scheme “amazing.” Kuczynski said that he collects the newspapers because he likes to travel back through history as he reads them. “What the San Francisco Oracle did in a very short span of time changed the world,” he said. San Francisco Oracle display at the de Young Museum's Summer of Love exhibit. Throughout the summer, the entire collection of the Oracle's cover artwork can be explored at the de Young Museum’s Summer of Love exhibit, which will run through August 20th.

Who Do You Love? (1973 B&W) - Quicksilver Messenger Service at Winterland. YouTube would not allow embedding of this video. https://youtu.be/olnbwZxjcbI

Wow, I don't recall ever seeing this poster before. Can you give me a little background on the poster, like concert date, poster artist, poster number and promoter (s/b Bill Graham/Winterland)? The Hells Angels held a lot of concerts during the 60's. Often these posters show up in auctions.

Don't feel bad I've never been to the Fillmore, Winterland or The Avalon Ballroom. Monterey Pop happened almost in my backyard. I was stupid enough to tell my mother where I was going, she forbid me from going and I obeyed.

fforest, it all depends on the demand/availability and condition of the poster. There are some posters the 4th prints are going for thousands of dollars. Even today you can buy some first print posters in mint condition that were printed in 1966 for less $100.00. There are some first print posters going for well above $30,000. I have almost complete ticket set for the Last Waltz. I'm missing the Sunday ticket, the day they filmed the movie. The Sunday ticket goes for around $5,000. I do have a complete ticket set for Woodstock.

You got a good one the closing of the Fillmore West and looks great! The BG-287 is one of the true prizes in the BG series. David Singer designed it as a gift to Bill Graham to commemorate the closing of The Fillmore. The poster was actually designed and printed after the shows it advertised, but it is included in most complete BG sets. It is highly desired and expensive as an original because it is one of the most beautiful images in the series, and also because the print run was small - around 1,000. One of the most beautiful images created for the Bill Graham series, this poster was used to promote the last concerts at the Fillmore West. The press run was much smaller than other posters of the time, making it much scarcer today. The original poster was printed on coated index stock and measures approximately 22″ x 27⅞″. The second print poster was printed on thin, uncoated index stock, and folded to fit inside the album recorded during the closing of the Fillmore. Artists: David Singer Performers: Quicksilver Messenger Service Grateful Dead Flamin' Groovies It's a Beautiful Day Santana Creedence Clearwater Revival New Riders of the Purple Sage Hot Tuna Cold Blood Elvin Bishop Group Lamb Boz Scaggs Tower of Power Stoneground Grootna Rowan Brothers Yogi Phlegm San Francisco Music Jam The first printing poster retails for more than $2,000 in mint condition. In looking up the going prices I did come across 2 near mint posters, one signed by the Artist and one not signed going for $1,000 each. Second prints of this poster are going for as much $1,000. Below is an Artist Proof (a test printing before the run) It is number one and signed by the Poster Artist David Singer: Below is my first print of BG287. It is not signed by the Artist.

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Your poster is BG126, it is for a concert June 26, 1968. The poster artist is Lee Conklin, one of my favorites. His most famous poster is Santana's Lions head poster. The Poster: Another Lee Conklin Poster signed by Lee Conklin and Eric Burdon below:

One my favorite Quicksilver songs! Quicksilver one of my favorites!

Your handbill retails for about $180. Postcard is worth about $40/$50 retail. It looks like it is in great shape. Could you maybe please take a current photo of the old Dead Victorian. I may also repost the Owsley video.

I can thank my good olde friend Laz for inspiring this thread. The Owsley post. I was coming of age during this era. I had a keen interest in art and saw myself as an aspiring artist. I grew up in Central Coastal California in that era. Along with the music, the Poster Art of the Music really inspired me. My first 2 posters purchased at a Carmel Psychedelic shop. I also bought another Winterland Ballroom Bill Graham poster and thumb tacked them to my bedroom wall. The Posters above were from a short-lived after-hours venue across the bay in Sausalito called the Ark. The bands of that era would play there after their gigs at Winterland or the Avalon Ballroom. When I went off to college these posters were rolled up in a tube for about 20 years. During my college tenure I left art for more lucrative pursuits. My Art training in the end really helped me out in my final career. I never lost my love for the Bill Graham and Family Dog Venue Concert Posters. I read a newspaper article in 1981 about Psychedelic Poster Art. The article mentioned that original posters were still available for purchase at Ben Friedman's Poster Mat in North Beach. My first trip to the Poster Mat blew me away the walls and ceiling were covered with all the Posters I loved a couple of decades ago. I started monthly visits to the Poster Mat to make poster purchases. Most of these posters would remain packaged as purchased for decades. But the more posters I obtained the more the compulsion grew to obtain more posters. The type of posters I desired was first print posters in mint or near mint condition. Because of the cost of some posters, I had to settle for second print posters. Even now some those are expensive. Well over 90% of my collection is first print pristine condition. Soon I had well over three hundred posters. With so many posters came the challenge/expense framing the posters and displaying them. Five years ago, when I bought my house one of the criteria was a room to display my Posters. The house I purchased had a large bonus room upstairs. I now have only a few posters left to frame. The next challenge is to build a framework that allows to display the posters on the walls and ceiling. Even doing that I may only be allowed to display about 250 posters, and this may not be completed for a couple of years. Here are some photos of my posters and my display room (currently a framing room).

You reap what you sew.

Not being able to sleep all night without getting up to pee a least once. And the morning erection becomes an annual event.

Is your handel related to Sparky and Big John? Welcome!

It looks like Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino front end!

EVA has a flight from NYC and flies across US and stops in Taipei, EVA's hub for most flights. Thus, the rational for not taking EVA.

Butch my 8 year old is just starting to study geography so they had her color/colour a world map. I took her map and drew the flight routes that will take/took on this trip and the previous. To share with her class. The Pacific Route is EVA and the Atlantic/Indian Ocean are Qatar: How many 8 year olds have flown around the world? She was born in Thailand, lived in New Zealand/Australia and now lives the US.