Jack Duane. This is the entire run of numbered Family Dog concert posters out of San Francisco and Denver, spanning 1966-1968, all in Near Mint or Mint condition. The Avalon Ballroom is a historic 30,000 square feet building located in the heart of San Francisco, in the Polk Street Corridor. San Francisco 1967 Psychedelic Head Shop Poster Near Mint. At a Permit Appeals board hearing, Dame Judith Anderson, considered one of the greatest classical stage actors of the 20th century, testified in support of the club. This arrangement was short-lived and Chet soon moved his shows to San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. Both Chet Helms and Bill Graham employed many of the same artists to produce the posters . Many cards were produced in more than one back style. This article is about the Avalon Ballroom (Regency II) on Sutter Street. But you wont hear much about California Hall from those in the scene, as it simply wasn't a great place to see shows. Regular price $135.00 AUCTION . $150.00, FD-138Steve Miller Muddy Waters1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-135The Youngbloods1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-134Spirit Sir Doug1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-133Bill Haley Flamin' Groovies1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, FD-118Quicksilver Flamin Groovies1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-114The Fugs1968 Poster- Avalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-110Blood, Sweat, and Tears1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, FD-103Country Joe1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, FD-100Youngbloods Ace Of Cups1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, Regular price Family Dog Presents FD-1 Tribal Stomp. On opening night, a publicist convinced local jazz critic Ralph Gleason to come to the show. Dimensions sheet . 5" x 7" cards, featuring art from the original posters used to promote Chet Helm's series of Family Dog rock concerts at the legendary Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. What the hall is remembered more for are non-musical activities. The Hells Angels also once held a party there, and Blue Cheer played A Tribute to J. Edgar Hoover" (not a genuine celebration of the former head of the F.B.I.). Powered by Shopify. In a sense, an oceanic experience of being unified with something larger than yourself, that is essentially ultimately regenerating and renewing and is what the word recreation means in its true sense, Helms said during a 1998 interview. The posters quickly became emblematic of hippie culture. Delivery: Estimated between Fri, Mar 3 and Tue, Mar 7 to 23917. At Classic Posters, we guarantee that every Family Dog poster we sell is correctly attributed according to the current edition of The Collectors Guide to Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters, Postcards and Handbills 1965-1973 by Eric King. Care about whats happening in Bay Area arts? Complaints against noise led to the venue losing its performance licence early in 1969. Great city to grow up in. Postcard Handbill is in near mint conditi (Bonus link: An interview with the singers of The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities on the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive.). I wish I could go back in time to this place. A woman dances in the glow of psychedelic light at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. 1 mailer NM- on front, insignificant tape pull at very upper 1/8" on back, $25.00; 1 VG+ mailer with tack hole top center, $15.00; 2 NM copies . 11/2/69, Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, IIp, CDR, A, SBD>MR>C>DAT>CDR>CDR>CDR, 1 disc, , 12/12/69, Thelma Theater, Los Angeles, partial II, CDR, A, The site was at the former Edgewater Ballroom, part of the Playland At The Beach complex. A complete image set of the Family Dog 'Numbered Series', which begins at number 42 and runs to 147, also including the twelve Denver cards (no D-9 card was ever printed). Within a year, it turned to fundraising concerts to keep the doors open. Stay informed with one email every other weekright to your inbox. The Mantra Rock show was a fundraiser for the San Francisco temple, and the Avalon hall was donated for that night by The Family Dog, who ran the venue. Picture . Of all the locations that I have documented (The Matrix, Fillmore Auditorium, El Patio/Carousel Ballroom/Fillmore West, California Hall, Longshoremen's Hall, Winterland, etc.) the two most elusive are the "Avalon Ballroom," located at 1268 Sutter Street at Van Ness . $15,000.00, FD-122Velvet UndergroundBob Schnepf Signed1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, FD-27Howlin Wolf1966 Poster Avalon BallroomGood, Regular price By 1884, a steam railroad was in place to bring people to the first amusement ride at the Citys ocean side -- a Gravity Railroad roller coaster, and to the Ocean Beach Pavilion for concerts and dancing. Second, the last show as Family Dog was 8/14/70. The Family Dog on the Great Highway. $7,500.00, FD-74Charles Lloyd QuartetRobert Fried1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-690707Wild WestJefferson Airplane Joan Baez1969 PosterFillmore WestCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price FAMILYDOG "The San Francisco Rock and Roll scene was invented by . This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. Other audience members then surrounded the dancers and escorted them off stage. The second building, the larger one, would later become The Family Dog. $850.00, FD-47Steve Miller Blues BandMoscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 8.0, Regular price U2 played there in 1981. Family Dog/Avalon Ballroom Concert Posters - Complete Near-Mint Set of All 161! Chet was a direct competitor of Bill Graham. 1969/10/31 - San Jose State University Student Union Ballroom, San Jose, CA 2 1969/11/1 - Family Dog, San Francisco, CA 4 1969/11/2 - Family Dog, San Francisco, CA 128 The Family Dog was a loose collective of free spirits managed by Chet Helms, a contemporary of Bill Graham, who put on rock dances at the Avalon Ballroom more or less continually from 1965 to 1970. var ANS_customer_id="efdda751-42f9-4333-99a0-38aff150ca9e"; Dennis King / D. King Gallery All Rights Reserved. The recognized Family Dog poster series is 147 posters, comprised of all the Fillmore and Avalon posters, and 3 of the Denver dog posters that were numbered . But the Arks biggest contribution to Bay Area music was serving as the incubator for Moby Grape, the band that couldve ruled the world were it not for bad luck and a host of issues, drugs among them. Chester Leo "Chet" Helms (August 2, 1942 - June 25, 2005), often called the father of San Francisco's 1967 "Summer of Love", was a music promoter and a cultural figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the late Sixties. Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, February 19, Fillmore Auditorium, "Earthquake," Bo Diddley, Big Brother & the Holding Company, August 12 & 13, Avalon Ballroom, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, March 25 - 27, Fillmore Auditorium, "The Head," Grateful Dead, Mother Earth, September 22 & 23, 1601 West Evans St., Denver, Junior Wells, Sons of Champlin, Santana Blues Band, May 17 - 19, Avalon Ballroom, Quicksilver Messenger Service, John Lee Hooker, Miller Blues Band, March 22 - 23, Avalon Ballroom, "Triplets," Jerry Steig & the Satyrs, Sons of Champlin, The 4th Way, Alexander's Timeless Bloozband, March 29 - 31, Avalon Ballroom, "Girl in the Red Circle," Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, January 27 & 28, Avalon Ballroom. Chet Helms used this large rental hall for a few shows, as did many activists raising funds for various causes -- the end of marijuana prohibition, for instance, or sexual liberation. All very interesting. . The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street (or 1268 Sutter, depending on the entrance). Both Chet Helms and Bill Graham employed many of the same artists to produce the posters and handbills. Its why many call Helms the father of the Summer of Love.. [23] Starting in August 2013, the building was used as the residence and principal filming location for The Real World: San Francisco (2014).[24]. Three years later, theyd play Fixin'-To-Die at Woodstock, with a cheer heard 'round the world. Following is a brief history of the Baths and data regarding the building and its contents: Striking as is the first view, familiarity only makes it more striking. of the early posters. It originally housed a dance school, and then served as the galleries of Butterfield & Butterfield auction house. $220.00, FD-138Steve Miller PosterAvalon BallroomNear Mint, Regular price But noise complaints brought the Avalon's fun times to an end. Red Dog Saloon: George Hunter Michael Ferguson : Original Poster: N/A: AOR 2.2: Charlatans. An L-shaped, second-floor balcony surrounded the first-floor along the south and western walls, and the dance area was in front of the elevated stage in the northeast corner where musicians performed. Spooky. [citation needed] In 1969, it reopened as the Regency II Movie Theater, operated by Blumenfeld Enterprises until 2000. Watch on. Skip to main content. Much of the library was destroyed during the fire that followed the Great Earthquake of. Everyone was dancing it was a family atmosphere. [17][18] The neighboring building, known as the Regency I Movie Theater was formerly the Regency Ballroom. Free shipping for many products! In April 1966, Helms began presenting weekly events at the Avalon Ballroom, an old dancehall that was ideal for the spectacular light shows he was known for staging. Some of the early Family Dog . . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In addition, some variations of back print ink color and top to bottom placement of the stamp box also exist. FAMILY DOG FD-75 poster CANNED HEAT Avalon Ballroom MOBY GRAPE / VANILLA FUDGE. (Anderson was also clear that she wasnt a fan of the hippie cult, citing their "sick faces and hideous behavior.). Description. The Avalon Ballroom was my favorite. I saw her in the show but we didn't meet until 1980.lee@cjc.edu. In the 1960s at the Avalon, two bands typically performed two sets during the evening beginning . San Francisco, CA 94121. Housed inside a 1912 building, the hall itself didnt have great acoustics. The "Barn Dance" I remember was not all acoustic. But the Fillmore wasnt the only stage during the Summer of Love. $50. The Family Dog was Chet Helms' successor to his Avalon Ballroom, where the Dead had played many times from 1966 through 1968. Family Dog Productions. That was the worst gig in town, Jordan said. Fred Marti Martinez and Frank McGinnis then bought the Van Damme, cleaned up the boats interior, and by 1965 they had turned it into a plush after-hours nightclub. The refuse water in the main outlet, into which all the tanks ultimately empty, is piped hundreds of feet to the side of the headlands, thence passed into the tidal current away from the Baths. It wasnt long before the place started packing in all the local eccentrics, who would be treated to early performances from the Doors, Grateful Dead and the Steve Miller Blues Band in an intimate setting (the club sat about 100 people). The entrance doors were downstairs, and opened onto Sutter Street. The owners won their permit, and by June of '67, the Straight hosted shows for the Steve Miller Band, Clover (pre-Huey Lewis and the News) and the Grateful Dead, who in the beginning had to bill their concerts as "dancing lessons because the owners didnt yet have the proper permits. 6/21/1965 . Though the theater held memorable shows, it always struggled for money. USA. The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement, from around 1966 to 1969. Skhy, Creedence Clearwater Revival, May 31 - June 2, Avalon Ballroom, Kaleidoscope, Mother Earth, Country Weather, June 21 - 23, Avalon Ballroom, Jefferson Airplane; Great Society, July 22 & 23, Avalon Ballroom, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Miller Blues Band, Daily Flash, March 10 & 11, Avalon Ballroom, The Fugs, Ace of Cups, Allmen Joy, April 12 - 14, Avalon Ballroom, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Electric Train, October 7 & 8, Avalon Ballroom, "Skeleton and Roses," Grateful Dead, Oxford Circle, September 16 & 17, Avalon Ballroom, Moby Grape, Sparrow, Charlatans, January 13 & 14, Avalon Ballroom, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Oxford Circle, February 17 & 18, Avalon Ballroom, Charlatans, Sparrow, Canned Heat, April 7 & 8, Avalon Ballroom, Blues Project, Great Society, April 22 & 23, Avalon Ballroom, "Tribal Stomp." Photos. Even Otis Redding came down to the club when he was living in a Sausalito houseboat and writing his hit, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay.. Art by Raphael (Bob) Schnepf, image is # 122 in the Family Dog/Avalon series. After the Sparrow broke up, Kay moved to Los Angeles and started Steppenwolf, the riff-tastic rockers behind the rebel anthem Born to Be Wild., In 1968, during one of its 2-6am weekend shows, someone set fire to the Ark. But loved going to the cliff house then and sneaking around the Sutro bath ruins at night. Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Charlatans, and the West Coast Pop Experimental Band played there often, and in attendance would sometimes be stars like David Crosby, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. Its size impresses the visitors at once, yet it is not oppressive owing to the lightness and airiness of the structure. All we wanted to do . Post Card Artist: Wes Wilson, Bellmer Wright; Concert Performers: Velvet Underground, Charley Musselwhite</p> . San Francisco, CA 94121. A classic San Francisco psychedelic concert poster from the summer of 1966, featuring the Jefferson Airplane without Grace Slick and the Great Society with Grace Slick. What a place. I moved there in 1971 and just missed Family Dog being open, also playland. This is the entire run of numbered Family Dog concert posters out of San Francisco and Denver, spanning 1966-1968, all in Near Mint or Mint condition. Hosted & presented by Family Dog Productions the concert was held over the 28th and 29th October 1966 and included the bands "Blackburn & Snow" & "Sons of Champlin", with promotion poster by designer Victor Moscoso. 1880's or so. It survived into the "teens." Saw many a show there. (See also: Family Dog postcards and handbills). In June 1966, Stanley Mouse returned from Detroit and joined the FD poster design team, which was led by Family Dog Collective co-founder and poster artist Alton Kelley. Some of the ministers from the event held a press conference the next day and described the police as being like the Gestapo. Helms relocated Family Dog Productions to a space on the Great Highway, and other promoters who tried to book the hall afterward could never recreate the same vibe. A place for lovey-dovey hippie music was expected to make the neighborhoods problems worse, and the San Francisco Police Department denied the Straights application for performance permits. Cliff House, Photo courtesy of National Geographic, August 1956, Cliff House tram (If I stand in this spot I can envision this today), Stairway leading to the ice rink at Sutro Baths. It was operated during the 1960s as a dance/concert hall by Chet Helms' "Family Dog Productions." Family Dog FD 142 Postcard, Avalon Ballroom, 1968, Velvet Underground+. Family Dog was the production company run by Chet Helms. A few months later on September 7, 1907, after extensive remodeling and just prior to reopening, the most resplendent and beloved of all Cliff Houses burned to its foundation. Wes Wilson, Mouse!, Kelley, Moscoso and Rick Griffin created many of their earliest and best known posters for Family Dog shows featuring The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, The Doors and other seminal acts of the era. Two years later, in 1966, five hippie artists had the idea to buy the theater and turn it into a performing arts space. Some approximate idea may be reached by the following numbers. Infamous North Bay restaurateur Juanita Musson housed her late-night diner Juanitas Galley there for three years before taking her famous clientele and irreverent hijinks to Sonoma Valley. The hall now houses fashion classes for the Academy of Art. Big Brother and the Holding Company, Canned Heat Blues Band, June 8 - 11, Avalon Ballroom, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Oxford Circle, Lee Michaels, December 9 & 10, Avalon Ballroom, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ace of Cups, Flamin' Groovies, May 10 - 12, Avalon Ballroom, Quicksilver Messenger Service, John Hammand and His Screaming Nighthawks, Charles Lloyd, April 21 & 22, Avalon Ballroom, Taj Mahal, Dave van Ronk, Family Tree, A.B. Venue used by Chet Helms, a well-known 1960s San Francisco promoter and one-time partner of Bill Graham, for rock concerts; Helms was the leader of the San Francisco hippie commune/music promoters, The Family Dog; he paid $800 a month for the Avalon, from April 1966 until Novemeber 1968, when the City of San Francisco refused to grant sound permits to him; the Avalon and Graham's Fillmore . The site where the Ark once stood is now just a dirt lot, and local houseboat activists continue to care for its paddlewheel. The hay bales, yes. Jerry definitely spent time there as a kid. Santana Dates: Oct or Nov 1966 - March 20, 1968 - May 13, 1968 - May 17/18/19, 1968 - May 28, 1968 - June 28/29/30, 1968 - Aug 9/10/11, 1968 - March 12, 1969 - March 21/22/23, 1969 - March 26, 1969 Originally opened as The Puckett Academy of Dance in 1911, and then renamed the Trianon Ballroom with an opening on April 9, 1926. Those comments led to Joplin and Big Brother And The Holding Company being unofficially banned from Grahams stage for about seven months. . Avalon Poster (19 results) You searched for: Title: avalon poster. News >> General News >> Feasting with the Family Dog, Part Two. Many cards were produced in more than one back style. The Family Dog Numbered Series includes 147 numbered posters that advertised Family Dog showsprimarily at the Avalon Ballroom in San Franciscofrom 1966 to 1968. VENUE Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA) SIZE 13 15/16" x 20" . Many local bands, such as Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Steve Miller Band, served as backup bands, as did the early Moby Grape and headliners such as The Doors, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Butterfield Blues Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company, which Helms organized around singer and performer Janis Joplin in spring 1966. The Family Dog - San Francisco, 1968 . Gavin Newsoms company, the Plumpjack Group. A first printing complete and a second Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for FAMILY DOG FD-66 poster YOUNGBLOODS Avalon Ballroom SIEGEL SCHWALL BAND psych at the best online prices at eBay! (Photo courtesy of Mary Courtwright Collins), This 1920's image has a tea room on the north side of the building. Today, the Regency Ballroom, a live music venue right next door, is often mistaken for the Avalon. 2 tracks of their "Live/Dead" album were also recorded there in early 1969, The Eleven and Turn On Your Love Light. The Family Dog On The Great Highway opened on June 13, 1969 with the Jefferson Airplane. Helms first Avalon concert featured The Blues Project and Great Society (FD-5 Wes Wilson). Daily Flash / Country Joe & The Fish / Grateful Dead / Oxford Circle / Family Dog. Search . Iron Butterfly Indian Head Band Collectors: 7/4-7/68: Avalon Ballroom: . But Mr. Helms lacked both Graham's capitalist drive and his killer instincts. Family Dog numbers from 1 to 41 were printed in two formsposters and handbills. Family Dog shows were initially held at the Fillmore Auditorium where Chet and Bill Graham would promote concerts on alternate weekends. The ballroom was 80 to 100ft (24 to 30m) by 160 to 180 feet (49 to 55m). Soul was simply a melding of two Moby Grape tracks. When that failed, officers stood outside the hall and took pictures of attendees in an attempt to intimidate them. The band playing was cosmic popcorn. Submitted by radha.name on Thu, 09/11/2017 - 09:52 . Poster for a show at the Avalon Ballroom. First printing posters are indicated by a "-1" after the number, second printings by a "-2", etc All of these are original Family Dog posters produced during that time period. $600.00, FD-61-RP-2The DoorsMoscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price The water for these is supplied by an ingenious use of the ocean waves. Its also where Kenneth Anger had 1,500-feet of his famous film Lucifer Rising stolen after a multimedia event called Equinox of the Gods. The theft left Anger so distraught that he announced he was dead in the pages of the Village Voice. 2/12/1967 Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco: . By many accounts, the "San Francisco Sound" came from the Fillmores stage -- and as young people came to San Francisco in droves, Grahams shows were practically tourist attractions. He then found a former pizza place in the Marina, signed a lease, and, before opening, enlisted some friends to paint a gigantic mural of the four horsemen on the wall. Date 1967 Location Not on view. Medium glossy-coated index stock poster is in mint/near mint to near mint (A/A- to A-) condition; an absolutely . Balin later said he opened the Matrix so he could start a band and have a place to play. Ask anybody who was alive back then and theyll tell you the Avalon wasnt appropriating the hippie culture -- it was the real deal. 17 comments. Tier upon tier of seats rise to the galleries, while at their base are the swimming tanks. Family Dog postcards have several different types of backs: Place Stamp Here (PSH), Blank backs and Bulk Rate Permit backs (as well as combinations of these types in the case of double sized cards). The Straight also hosted quite a few nude theater events, one of which took place in the middle of a conference on runaway children. In 1966 to 1968, The Family Dog, under Chet Helms, produced 4 concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium, 140 concerts at the Avalon Ballroom, and 16 concerts in Denver Colorado as the Denver Dog. Ad vertisement from shop oicvintage. (Martinez then started the classy waterfront restaurant Ondine.). On one of the nights I was there they showed The Mad Adventures of Mister Frog. $1,800.00, FD-42Quicksilver MessengerVictor Moscoso1967 Poster Avalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price $160.00, FD-97Siegal Schwall1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 8.5, FD-96Quicksilver MessengerMouse & Kelley1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price The Family Dog's weekly dance hall revues gave the local bands a forum to perform their groundbreaking music. Graphic Artist: Doyle Phillips a.k.a. . Avalon Ballroom ,Longshoreman's Hall 8/6/66, John Hammond and His Screaming Nighthawks. 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