The Family Dog Numbered Series includes 147 numbered posters that advertised Family Dog showsprimarily at the Avalon Ballroom in San Franciscofrom 1966 to 1968. 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San Francisco bought the carousel and it is now located off Fourth Street downtown in. It was operated during the 1960s as a dance/concert hall by Chet Helms' "Family Dog Productions." Me and my hippie friend Pat trying to scrounge up ten bucks between us so we could get in AND have enough to buy a couple doobs. Its lack of soundproofing made it sound boomy, which you can hear in a live recording of Big Brother and the Holding Company. . Sign . I'll never forget the feeling of being with a big family. A first printing complete and a second One huge bonus for bands playing the Matrix was the high-quality recording setup used to capture performances. Later in the Series, there were postcards and image tickets. He had owned the finest private library in America. A complete military, architectural and botanical library contributes its golconda of treasure; antique and priceless scrolls from the Orient are preserved with the parchments of Maimonides, author of "Ram Bam," who was called the Light of Israel, the Star of the West, and the Great Eagle. The Family Dog On The Great Highway opened on June 13, 1969 with the Jefferson Airplane. [17][18] The neighboring building, known as the Regency I Movie Theater was formerly the Regency Ballroom. Photos. There are some heaven-sent lineups that happened at the California Hall -- a fundraiser for the Sexual Freedom League is a standout, which featured the Doors, Captain Beefheart and the 13th Floor Elevators. Neil Young and Stephen Stills occasionally jammed with the band on stage, and Young would later say that his song Mr. The Grateful Dead and Country Joe played fundraising concerts at the Avalon, and as many as 20 people supposedly invested in the theater. The Great Highway is the westernmost road in San Francisco, running right along Ocean Beach. var ANS_customer_id="efdda751-42f9-4333-99a0-38aff150ca9e"; Dennis King / D. King Gallery All Rights Reserved. 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.). Avalon Ballroom ,Longshoreman's Hall 8/6/66, John Hammond and His Screaming Nighthawks. But noise complaints brought the Avalons fun times to an end. var ANS_customer_id="efdda751-42f9-4333-99a0-38aff150ca9e"; Dennis King / D. King Gallery All Rights Reserved. It originally housed a dance school, and then served as the galleries of Butterfield & Butterfield auction house. After number 41, the handbills were replaced with postcards. [8], The Grateful Dead played at the Avalon twenty-nine times from 1966 through 1969, and recorded two live albums, entitled Vintage Dead and Historic Dead, in the autumn of 1966. Date 1966 For The Regency Center (Regency I) next-door on the corner of Sutter Street and Van Ness Avenue, see, Live/Dead Booklet 2001 CD reissue, pag.14, "Jacobs (Alfred Henry) papers, 1863-1954", "J. Family moved there the 50's. Search. A 1,000-capacity hall that was once a roller-skating rink, the Fillmore served as training grounds for bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. of the early posters. These two guys are sitting right on the spot of the original Cliff House overlooking Seal Rock House. Throughout the '60s, folk musicians flocked to Berkeley from around the country to clubs like the Blind Lemon, Steppenwolf and the Cabale, and for over a decade it hosted the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, a major event for the genre. The water for these is supplied by an ingenious use of the ocean waves. The Family Dog Numbered Series includes 147 numbered posters that advertised Family Dog showsprimarily at the Avalon Ballroom in San Franciscofrom 1966 to 1968. . This masterpiece was designed by two of the most famous and legendary artists of the era, the late Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse. Another notable song from the Jabberwocks scene was Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent by Berkeley Barb writer Jef Jaison. Graphic Artist: Doyle Phillips a.k.a. Bill Ehlert, a.k.a. That band turned out to be the Jefferson Airplane, and they were the first group to play the club. (See also: Family Dog posters and handbills). 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. Despite never charging a cover and paying the bands with food -- breakfast, usually, since the shows either started or ended at 2am -- many seminal groups came to play the Ark. Family Dog Productions, which had offices on Van Ness. The Avalon was not as large as the Winterland Ballroom or The Fillmore, which had been used by Helms before Bill Graham allegedly violated their partnership agreements. . 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).The space operated from 1966 to 1969, at the height of the counterculture movement.It also had a reopening 34 years later, from 2003 to 2005. Gavin Newsoms company, the Plumpjack Group. 2 tracks of their "Live/Dead" album were also recorded there in early 1969, The Eleven and Turn On Your Love Light. Avalon Ballroom's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances. Now, the building is an ultralounge concept, still called the Matrix, which is owned by Lt. Gov. Unforgettable night. 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. 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. . The Series also contains Rick Griffins FD-D18 poster for the Doors 1967 New Years show in Denver. The Family Dog Numbered Series includes 147 numbered posters that advertised Family Dog showsprimarily at the Avalon Ballroom in San Franciscofrom 1966 to 1968. Saw a show there around Christmas 69-or70. Like early BG posters, the first Family Dog posters were printed on vellum and were subject to damage and wear. [Skhy], Creedence Clearwater Revival, May 31 - June 2, Avalon Ballroom, "The Sorcerer," Steppenwolf, Charley Musselwhite, 4th Way, Indian Head Band, April 19 - 21, Avalon Ballroom, "One Hundred Six," Youngbloods, Mount Rushmore, Phoenix, February 16-18, Avalon Ballroom, "Charlie Chaplin," Siegal Schwall, Kaleidoscope, Savage Resurrection, March 22 - 24, Avalon Ballroom, "Rorschach Test," Blues Project, It's A Beautiful Day, Nazz-Are Blues Band, April 5 - 7, Avalon Ballroom, "Peyote Bud," Blues Project, Genesis, Taj Mahal & the Blue Flames, March 1-3, Avalon Ballroom, "Lovelady," Love, Congress of Wonders, Sons of Champlin, March 8 - 10, Avalon Ballroom, "The Circus in Common," Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buddy Guy, Sun House, February 23 - 25, Avalon Ballroom, Junior Wells, Sons of Champlin, Santana Blues Band, May 17-19, Avalon Ballroom, "Lady with Spaghetti Hair," Youngbloods, Kaleidoscope, Hour Glass, May 24 - 26, Avalon Ballroom, "Giddyap," Junior Wells, Canned Heat, Crome Syrcus, Clover, May 3 - 5, Avalon Ballroom, Van Morrison, Daily Flash, Hair, October 20 - 22, Avalon Ballroom, A Magic Show. As San Francisco was becoming a breeding ground for psychedelic rock, Berkeley was still enjoying its reputation as part of the folk circuit. Lot 0509, Mar 30, 2023 . Grateful Dead - 1/26/69 - Avalon Ballroom - San Francisco, CA-- Set 1 --00:00 Tuning00:46 That's It For The Other One ~16:48 Clementine ~27:44 Death Don't . Open 13 June 1969 - 1971. . But you wont hear much about California Hall from those in the scene, as it simply wasn't a great place to see shows. $300.00, FD-55Big Brother Janis JoplinMoscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, Regular price In 1966, when asked by the Mojo Navigator where would she would rather play -- the Fillmore or the Avalon -- Janis Joplin said the acoustics at the Avalon were better, and that the last time her band played the Fillmore, the audience members werent really into the music and would walk around trying to pick each other up, sailors and all that. 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. 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. During the party, a shy recruit was handcuffed to a chair and made to receive a blowjob from a prostitute. First, Friends and Relations, not Relationships. Its size impresses the visitors at once, yet it is not oppressive owing to the lightness and airiness of the structure. 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. [25] According to Sam Andrew in the documentary Nine Hundred Nights, he wrote Combination of The Two for the San Francisco late 60s scene, and "The Two" were The Fillmore and The Avalon. The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California, at 1244 Sutter Street[1] (or 1268 Sutter,[2] depending on the entrance). A basin scooped out of solid rock receives the water that dashes over the top, thence it is conducted to a settling tank; by numerous small canals it makes its way into the various swimming tanks, of which there are six in all, the largest containing the sea water in its natural state, the others being heated to different temperatures to suit the varying requirements of visitors. San Francisco 1967 Psychedelic Head Shop Poster Near Mint. Books for free > > > Feasting with the Family Dog, Part Two. San Francisco Police attracted more bad press at California Hall decades later in 1984, when they held a graduation party for new recruits at the Rathskeller, a restaurant in the basement. 6/21/1965 . I saw her in the show but we didn't meet until 1980.lee@cjc.edu. The Ark was born. abebooks.com. Medium glossy-coated index stock poster is in mint/near mint to near mint (A/A- to A-) condition; an absolutely . Still, whenever a new music scene popped up in the city, as punk did in the '80s, its bands would hold shows at the California Hall. $250.00, FD-22Grateful DeadStanley Mouse Signed1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price Wes Wilson, Mouse!, Kelley, Moscoso and Rick Griffin created many of their earliest and best known posters for Family Dog shows featuring The . While the Fillmore had a slick . members of the extended Family Dog tribe not only resulted in the 1969 Ratha event at 660 Great Highway and the earlier Avalon Ballroom show, but . Family Dog shows were initially held at the Fillmore Auditorium where Chet and Bill Graham would promote concerts on alternate weekends. 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. FD #74, Charles Lloyd, West Coast Natural Gas Co., 8/3-6/67, Avalon Ballroom; Moscoso design with red sky, pink and blue border, and image of the Family Dog Indian standing in front of the Taj Mahal. Avalon Poster (19 results) You searched for: Title: avalon poster. According to the band's Leigh Stephens, the Matrix recording convinced the group that they needed to pare down to a trio. Packaging still has Playland Carousel and Roller Coaster. Times sure have changed! There were so many dives that popped up out of nowhere, and because the [Grateful] Dead had done one show there, they were the new club on the map, Flamin Groovies guitarist Cyril Jordan said. United States. Your current search criteria is: Artist is "Family Dog". 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. Family Dog/Avalon Ballroom Concert Posters - Complete Near-Mint Set of All 161! For a short time it hosted live bands, but now only DJs provide the tunes. Daily Flash / Country Joe & The Fish / Grateful Dead / Oxford Circle / Family Dog. I moved there in 1971 and just missed Family Dog being open, also playland. And they played Jingle Bells. Avalon Ballroom: San Francisco, California, United States: Nov 04, 1966 . In actuality, the old Avalon is now an office space -- and, for a brief time, the shell of the Avalon served as living quarters for the cast of MTV's The Real World. My birthday parties when I was a kid were always at Playland. The band playing was cosmic popcorn. I remember one night hearing conga drums playing in that cave. Although the Family Dog Productions in 1966 was founded by others, Chet was their most notable promoter. . 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. Special thanks to Ross Hannan for expertise and connections. Should, however, the tides be so low as to necessitate pumping, preparations have been made for this, and the water can be forced in at a rate of 6,000 gallons per minute by means of a large turbine pump placed at sea level in a cave-like excavation hollowed out of the solid cliff and heretofore driven by means of a steam-engine which is now about to be replaced by a 35 horse-. Both Chet Helms and Bill Graham employed many of the same artists to produce the posters and handbills. Grateful Dead Skeleton And Roses Family Dog Avalon Ballroom 1966 Concert Poster | Art, Art Posters | eBay! An early Matrix regular was gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who immortalized the club in his book, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas. After the demolition of Playland in 1972 the ice cream treat was made and sold elsewhere and is now sold in stores and in fifteen states. Not all those places had an impact on the music, but the ones that did have stories worth telling. 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 Family Dog Numbered Series includes Mouse & Kelley's Zig-Zag Man (FD-14), and their Skull & Roses Grateful Dead poster (FD-26). It shut down in 1969 and sat empty for over a decade before it was torn down. The Avalon Ballroom was my favorite. [22] The entire former ballroom space was renovated. The bands that developed in the Jabberwock seemed to embrace a dark sense of humor with their Americana. Great Highway was once called Ocean Boulevard. By 1890, there were three streetcar lines to Ocean Beach: the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad, the Park & Ocean Railroad and the Sutro Railroad. San Francisco, CA 94121. Original 1st printing 141/8 x 20 concert poster for Chicago blues legend Howlin Wolf appearing with Big Brother the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, CA from 9/23-24/1966 (*show was canceled). . The above picture comes from a National Geographic dated August, 1956. There are also numbered posters for shows produced by the Family Dog in Denver and Portland, as well as unnumbered posters and handbills associated with shows produced by the Family Dog in San Francisco in 1969 and 1970. 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. Anyone know anything about this rendition? The Avalon was the hippie's answer to Bill Graham's famous Fillmore. Four months later, on August 8, 1898 Adolph Sutro died after a long illness. In the early '80s it was condemned by local authorities, and after an unsuccessful attempt to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for restoration, it was bulldozed. 9/16-17/66, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, what circulates, CDR, A+, Original Polygram LP master tapes>DAT>CDR>CDR>CDR, 1 disc, . This exquisite building had survived the 1906 earthquake only to succumb to a raging electrical fire that destroyed it in less than two hours. [21] In 2012 it became the headquarters of the internet company Wantful.com. Search . $175.00, FD-147Quicksilver Messenger1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price [23] Starting in August 2013, the building was used as the residence and principal filming location for The Real World: San Francisco (2014).[24]. Locals didnt make the demolition easy, as dozens laid in front of the bulldozers and were arrested. Related Items. Helms first Avalon concert featured The Blues Project and Great Society (FD-5 Wes Wilson). This is the entire run of numbered Family . (Photo courtesy of Dennis O'Rourke). Subsequent repairs forced the club to shut down for a little while, but the owners tried to keep it going for a few months more until closing it for good. FD115 Family Dog; Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA) April 19-21, 1968 concert card psychedelic hippies 60s ad vertisement by GyanarthiBooks. Chet Helms was the director of the Family Dog that put on a series of great concerts between April 1966 and November 1968. It hadn't been long since locals ran out the owners who'd showed a movie about a crossdresser, and now they had a hippie problem on their hands. Opened as the Haight Theater in 1910, it operated as the 'hoods main movie house until it closed in 1964, after two of its owners turned it into an experimental gay theater. In the 1960s, Robert E. Cohen, impresario Chet Helms and his music production company, Family Dog Productions, which had offices on Van Ness, frequently booked bands to perform at the Avalon on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Though the theater held memorable shows, it always struggled for money. 1880's or so. After putting on a few shows with a little help from Bill Graham, Helms broke out on his own and, while working with a local commune called the Family Dog, secured permits to rent the Avalon Ballroom, a former dance hall on Sutter. A woman dances in the glow of psychedelic light at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. Powered by Shopify. The Avalon #204-For Archive: www.oaklanddupree@substack.com. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ORIGINAL 1967 FAMILY DOG POSTER - AVALON BALLROOM at the best online prices at eBay! 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. (See also: Family Dog postcards and handbills). Helms had the phrase "May the baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind painted above the entrance, and went on to book a series of concerts that focused not just on music but an entire experience. RARE ORIGINAL 1968 LOVE, CONGRESS OF WONDERS, SONS OF CHAMPLIN - AT THE AVALON BALLROOM IN SAN FRANCISCO FAMILY DOG CONCERT POSTCARD FD109, STANLEY MOUSE ART. The posters quickly became emblematic of hippie culture. Setlists Built in 1916, the Charles Van Damme was a steamboat that shuttled commuters from Richmond to San Rafael for over 20 years. The Avalon Ballroom. AVALON BALLROOM - 04/14/1967 SAN FRANCISCO, CA - U.S.A. Venue Address: 1268 Sutter St. - San Francisco, CA Promotion: Chet Helms/The Family Dog Presents Event: In Concert . Spooky. Please Note: Some Family Dog posters were printed several times during the 1960s. The Family Dog on The Great Highway, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, CA The Family Dog was a foundation stone in the rise of San Francisco rock, and it was in operation in various forms from Fall 1965 through the Summer of 1970. . Watch on. Delivery: Estimated between Fri, Mar 3 and Tue, Mar 7 to 23917. [3], By 1915, and at least until 1923, it housed a dance academy called "Puckett's College of Dancing",[4][2] which one source described as "the home of refined dancing. "Combination Of The Two", the opening song of Cheap Thrills, the second album by the Big Brother and The Holding Company, was a homage to the rock ballrooms of San Francisco, and there is a direct reference to the Avalon in the lyrics: "Everybody over at the Avalon Ballroom in the San Francisco Bay". Among the rarest tomes and incunabula, may be mentioned duplicates of the early printer's art, from the famous Munich Library, four thousand in number; folios of the classics from the monastery of Boxheim and the Duke of Dahlberg, the Sunderland Library and the confiscated monasteries of Bavaria. FDD-7Canned HeatStanley Mouse Signed1967 PosterFamily Dog DenverCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price Family Dog (San Francisco, California, 1965 - 1979) . U2 played there in 1981. Great city to grow up in. Housed inside a 1912 building, the hall itself didnt have great acoustics. Regular price $100.00 AUCTION FD-33 Like the BG Series, there are many different printings (first prints, second prints, etc.) Those comments led to Joplin and Big Brother And The Holding Company being unofficially banned from Grahams stage for about seven months. Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger blogged: Having just posted about Garcia's . $60 $40 Jefferson Airplane Poster; 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. 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. The "Barn Dance" I remember was not all acoustic. Where Graham built a rock 'n' roll empire before he died in a helicopter crash in 1991, Mr. Helms was forever a hippie zealot with a . Clear-Com Intercoms(1) The Family Dog(0) . Created when Chet Helms' productions relocated from the Avalon Ballroom. The Family Dog On The Great Highway opened on June 13, 1969 with the Jefferson Airplane. Regular price $135.00 AUCTION . $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 $50. $200.00, FD-46Country Joe & the FishMoscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 8.0, FD-19Big Brother Janis JoplinMouse & Kelley SIGNED1966 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 7.0, FDD-7Canned HeatMoon Child1967 PosterFamily Dog DenverCGC Graded 10 Gem Mint, Regular price This column originally appeared in The Chronicle Sept. 14, 1951. Free shipping for many products! Second, the last show as Family Dog was 8/14/70. Edit your search. Family Dog Values: POSTER by Family Dog and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. 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. Care about whats happening in Bay Area arts? In fact, for forty years, Playland was the only place you could find It's It. Family Dog numbers from 1 to 41 were printed in two formsposters and handbills. $450.00, FDD-6Van MorrisonMouse Signed1967 Poster Family Dog DenverCGC Graded 9.8, FD-35Daily FlashMouse Signed1966 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price Three, hundred thousand volumes hadbeen collected by agents stationed in the best Continental book marts, and additions were being constantly made. The buckets of laced KoolAid, not so much. I thought I'd add it because it's something interesting that happened in San Francisco about 37 years before the. 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. Remember Playland, Cliff House with it's Sky Tram, playing congas at Sutro Baths and all along the beach. Group of 2 signed concert posters. Almost every groups set was put to tape, and recordings of Steppenwolf, Santana, the Great Society (Grace Slicks first band) and the Velvet Underground were later released as live albums. $125.00, FD-133Bill Haley Flamin' Groovies1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 8.0, FD-95Jim Kweskin1967 Poster Avalon Ballroom CGC Graded 8.0, FD-110Blood, Sweat, and Tears1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, FD-133Bill Haley Flamin' Groovies1968 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 6.5, FDD-8Allmen Joy1967 PosterFamily Dog DenverCGC Graded 7.5, FDD-10Blue Cheer1967 PosterFamily Dog DenverCGC Graded 9.6, FD-5Blues Project1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomVery Good, Regular price The westernmost road in San Francisco about 37 years before the and Great Society ( FD-5 Wes Wilson ) that. Helms first Avalon Concert featured the Blues Project and Great Society ( FD-5 Wes Wilson ) water these! Humor with their Americana formsposters and handbills ) but we did n't meet until 1980.lee @ cjc.edu Graham #! 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