. In the 1960s at the Avalon, two bands typically performed two sets during the evening beginning . Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, Greatful Dead (Grateful Dead, Sopwith Camel.Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California 8/19/66-8/20/66), 1966, color offset lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sidney Lawrence III, 2007.27.17 . 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. Though the theater held memorable shows, it always struggled for money. Chet Helms held his dance concerts at the Avalon Ballroom. . the "Jolly Blue Giant," bought the place in 1965, and Cal students and local musicians regularly packed the place for bills that read today like a Roots Music Hall of Fame; John Fahey, Doc Watson, Skip James and Ramblin Jack Elliott are just a few legends that graced its stage. The Ark was born. 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. The site where the Ark once stood is now just a dirt lot, and local houseboat activists continue to care for its paddlewheel. News >> General News >> Feasting with the Family Dog, Part Two. 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. 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. Second, the last show as Family Dog was 8/14/70. However, the Avalon had the capacity of up to 500. Saw a show there around Christmas 69-or70. San Francisco bought the carousel and it is now located off Fourth Street downtown in. General News; BY: SUN STAFF - 9.11 2017. Avalon Ballroom. After the movie and before the next group someone walked around with a fog machine and filled the hall up with smoke. The Avalon was the hippie's answer to Bill Graham's famous Fillmore. 660 The Great Highway, San Francisco, California, Rock Festival/ Ride The Wind/ Good And Dusty, Family Dog At The Great Highway, San Francisco, June 13th 1969, Bootleg Series, Volume One The Quine Tapes, Been A Long Time Coming, Be A Long Time Gone, Found In The Ozone (Family Dog At The Great Highway San Francisco, California, March 28, 1970), Family Dog At The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA, April 18, 1970, Family Dog At The Great Highway San Francisco, CA, April 18, 1970, Dave's Picks, Volume 43 (San Francisco, 11/2/69 Dallas, 12/26/69), Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen. Daily Flash / Country Joe & The Fish / Grateful Dead / Oxford Circle / Family Dog. Courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Avalon Ballroom's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances. This is known as an "image set," for people who love the posters, the music and the culture, but don't . After being decommissioned and stripped of its parts, the old ferry sat landlocked on Sausalitos waterfront, in the middle of the towns thriving houseboat community, still sporting its paddlewheel. 9/16-17/66, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, what circulates, CDR, A+, Original Polygram LP master tapes>DAT>CDR>CDR>CDR, 1 disc, . He had owned the finest private library in America. var ANS_customer_id="efdda751-42f9-4333-99a0-38aff150ca9e"; Dennis King / D. King Gallery All Rights Reserved. $400.00, FD-9Beefheart LoveWes Wilson Signed1966 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 8.5, Regular price $100.00, AUCTIONFD-39The YoungbloodsStanley Mouse Signed1966 PosterAvalon BallroomNear Mint Minus, AUCTIONFD-35Quicksilver Daily FlashStanley Mouse Signed1966 PosterAvalon BallroomNear Mint, AUCTIONFD-24-RP-213th Floor ElevatorsMouse & Kelley SIGNED1966 PosterAvalon BallroomExcellent, AUCTIONFD-16Sir Douglas QuintetMouse SignedRed Variant1966 PosterAvalon BallroomRough, AUCTIONFD-25Great Society QuicksilverMouse Signed1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomNear Mint Minus, Regular price 2 Family Dog 1967 Handbills John Myers Avalon Ballroom Near Mint Minus. This arrangement was short-lived and Chet soon moved his shows to San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. 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 . Both Chet Helms and Bill Graham employed many of the same artists to produce the posters and handbills. $225.00, FD-94Flatt & Scruggs1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, FD-91The Youngbloods1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-90Canned Heat1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, FD-80South Side Sound System Freedom Highway1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-77Big Brother Janis Joplin1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, FD-52Big Brother Janis JoplinRick Griffin1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price The buckets of laced KoolAid, not so much. The Avalon Ballroom is a historic 30,000 square feet building located in the heart of San Francisco, in the Polk Street Corridor. The Jabberwock closed in 1967 when Ehlert couldnt afford to bring the club up to code. 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. 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). $3,000.00, AUCTIONFD-109Love Arthur LeeStanley Mouse Signed1968 PosterAvalon BallroomNear Mint, Regular price Free shipping for many products! But the neighborhood didnt take kindly to the idea. Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger blogged: Having just posted about Garcia's . The Series also contains Rick Griffins FD-D18 poster for the Doors 1967 New Years show in Denver. Mr. Helms continued producing concerts under the name Family Dog at the Avalon Ballroom, an old dance academy at Sutter and Van Ness. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were involved. [citation needed] In 1969, it reopened as the Regency II Movie Theater, operated by Blumenfeld Enterprises until 2000. Remember Playland, Cliff House with it's Sky Tram, playing congas at Sutro Baths and all along the beach. McDonald, Melton and a few others would end up recording a song McDonald wrote in a matter of minutes called I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag. Released on an EP, the song -- a satire-laden protest of the Vietnam War -- became a regional hit, so McDonald and Melton began playing at the Jabberwock as Country Joe McDonald and the Fish. Classics, poems, plays in all languages of the learned, are in those closely packed cases, book-. 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. The ballroom was 80 to 100ft (24 to 30m) by 160 to 180 feet (49 to 55m). 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. I am conducting research about San Francisco rock & roll venues in the sixties. (Anderson was also clear that she wasnt a fan of the hippie cult, citing their "sick faces and hideous behavior.). Watch on. Photo taken in 1865. Third, the "Poor Richard's" moniker comes in right after that.Great stuff. This exquisite building had survived the 1906 earthquake only to succumb to a raging electrical fire that destroyed it in less than two hours. When Quicksilver played it on 8/22/70, it had no real name - they put the show there on themselves. As San Francisco was becoming a breeding ground for psychedelic rock, Berkeley was still enjoying its reputation as part of the folk circuit. Heres just a few. Together they created a series of psychedelic posters that energized San Franciscos developing counterculture. These almost-nightly events, like those hosted at the Fillmore, were more than conventional concerts; they were social gatherings with plenty of dance, music and light. Everyone was dancing it was a family atmosphere. But loved going to the cliff house then and sneaking around the Sutro bath ruins at night. 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). )^ Guidelines, MacGowan, Gail, Land's End in San Francisco, At the base of the rocks near the Cliff House, the, "National Park Service Issues New Contract to Long-Time Cliff House Concessioner", Long before the Family Dog showed up! $300.00, FD-55Big Brother Janis JoplinMoscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.6, Regular price 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. Both Chet Helms and Bill Graham employed many of the same artists to produce the posters . [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. $250.00, FD-22Grateful DeadStanley Mouse Signed1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price SHOP OVER 4000+ VINTAGE AND MODERN ROCK POSTERS! Mar 30, 2023 JOURNEY and 10CC. Couple of quickies. Two years later, in 1966, five hippie artists had the idea to buy the theater and turn it into a performing arts space. Special thanks to Ross Hannan for expertise and connections. Roock Roots: Avalon Ballroom Posters 1966-1968 2009 Calendar and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. San Francisco Ratha Yatra, July 27, 1969 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust . United States. Family Dog Values: POSTER by Family Dog and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. 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. Its why many call Helms the father of the Summer of Love.. Many cards were produced in more than one back style. 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 . [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. An early Matrix regular was gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who immortalized the club in his book, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas. Bob Cohen, the partner with Chet Helms in the Family which put on concerts at the Avalon Ballroom during the Summer of Love in 1967, is seen on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 in San Francisco, Calif . Among the shortest-lived but most beloved was the Jabberwock, a former jazz club on Telegraph Avenue. Located in: San Rafael, California, United States. Fascinating history of that area of San Francisco, thanks for putting this together. $1,500.00, FD-57The DoorsVictor Moscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price Some approximate idea may be reached by the following numbers. The Family Dog Series includes both posters and handbills. An omnipresent light show was created by several local lighting companies.[14][15]. Browse Avalon Ballroom vintage concert posters and rock memorabilia. . 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! Unforgettable night. $75.00, AUCTIONFD-21Big Brother EarthquakeMouse Signed1966 Handbill Avalon BallroomNear Mint Minus, AUCTIONFD-17ALove Big Brother JanisMouse Signed1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomNear Mint, FD-40The Grateful Dead1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomExcellent, FD-22The Grateful Dead1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomNear Mint, FDD-11Sons Of Champlin1967 PosterFamily Dog DenverCGC Graded 9.8, FDD-8Allmen Joy1967 PosterFamily Dog DenverCGC Graded 9.6, Regular price $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 Your current search criteria is: Artist is "Family Dog". That was the worst gig in town, Jordan said. Wilson created the first eleven of the Family Dog posters (FD 1-11), with Helms usually . Once the San Francisco Sound became mainstream, all kinds of new clubs popped up, providing gigs for groups who werent on that weeks bill at the Fillmore. $350.00, FD-22Grateful DeadStanley Mouse Signed1966 HandbillAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.2, FD-1Jefferson AirplaneBig Brother1966 HandbillFillmore AuditoriumCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price $750.00, FD-52Big Brother Janis JoplinRick Griffin1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price Family Dog (1965-1979) Title "Peacock Ball," Quicksilver Messenger Service, Miller Blues Band, Daily Flash, March 10 & 11, Avalon Ballroom Date 1967 Object Type Prints Medium Color offset lithograph poster Dimensions Sheet: 508 x 355 mm (20 x 14 in.) The Family Dog On The Great Highway opened on June 13, 1969 with the Jefferson Airplane. 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. Family Dog was the production company run by Chet Helms. Feb 17 It arrived in 1914. 415 South Street of the early posters. Two officers accosted the performers but were stopped by the crowd. 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. 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). $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 Please Note: Some Family Dog posters were printed several times during the 1960s. Family Dog (San Francisco, California, 1965 - 1979) . 1880's or so. Saw many a show there. The first multiband rock show was held at the Ark in Sausalito in 1965 and proved so successful that the presenters incorporated their commune as the Family Dog . 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. As the stepmom of one of the five buyers, Anderson told the board that there would be nothing wrong with hippies coming to the theater for rock 'n' roll, since they would be exposed to culture in the process -- the owners had planned to host poetry readings and even Shakespeare. VENUE Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA) SIZE 13 15/16" x 20" . . San Francisco 1967 Psychedelic Head Shop Poster Near Mint. Submitted by radha.name on Thu, 09/11/2017 - 09:52 . The Family Dog Numbered Series includes 147 numbered posters that advertised Family Dog showsprimarily at the Avalon Ballroom in San Franciscofrom 1966 to 1968. Chet was a direct competitor of Bill Graham. 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). I saw It's a Beautiful Day there in late August or early September 1969. Books for free > > > Feasting with the Family Dog, Part Two. The building was used a rock venue between 1966 and 1968 primarily by the Family Dog under the direction of Chet Helms. 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 . Picture Information. Kezar Stadium and Candlestick Park. The most influential of the group became known as the "San Francisco . The carousel was an elegant 68-horse merry-go-round with a $5,000 organ, a staggering amount at that time. [11][12], The Family Dog on the Great Highway, at 2125 Pine Street[13] was a hippie commune, which hosted dances and events,[14][13][15] eight blocks[16] from the Avalon, frequented by Helms and his friends. This poster series is quite large with posters numbered from 1-147. Family moved there the 50's. The building that housed the Avalon Ballroom was built in 1911 and was originally called the Colin Traver Academy of Dance. The Family Dog's weekly dance hall revues gave the local bands a forum to perform their groundbreaking music. Within a year, it turned to fundraising concerts to keep the doors open. Ask anybody who was alive back then and theyll tell you the Avalon wasnt appropriating the hippie culture -- it was the real deal. From 1966 to 1968 The Family Dog produced a series of rock posters used to advertise their weekly concerts at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. A roots-music aficionado from Los Angeles named Joe McDonald lived next to the Jabberwock and was a regular, playing in the house pickup group, the Instant Action Jug Band, with a guitarist named Barry Melton. The Family Dog on the Great Highway. Balins share was eventually bought out by two of the other partners, and after a few different bookers, the club closed in 1972. Date 1966 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. . Like the BG Series, there are many different printings (first prints, second prints, etc.) 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. A Goodwill is now on Haight St. where the 1,400-seat Straight once stood. FDD-7Canned HeatStanley Mouse Signed1967 PosterFamily Dog DenverCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price But the Fillmore wasnt the only stage during the Summer of Love. Avalon Ballroom ,Longshoreman's Hall 8/6/66, John Hammond and His Screaming Nighthawks. Helms was also Joplins earliest supporter, and he believed in her so much that he drove to Texas to bring her back with him to San Francisco -- twice. This is the entire run of numbered Family . 6/21/1965 . The carousel was sold at auction in 1972, and went to, . 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.). But noise complaints brought the Avalons fun times to an end. Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco The Avalon Ballroom at 1268 Sutter Street was built in 1911 and originally called the Puckett Academy of Dance. Tall, bearded, and with hair to his shoulders before it was a hippie standard, Helms was a messiah-like figure with a religious view of music that he was hell-bent on preaching. Dimensions sheet . (Photo courtesy of Dennis O'Rourke). Some of the ministers from the event held a press conference the next day and described the police as being like the Gestapo. Skip to main content. This comment has been removed by the author. 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. Seal Rock House (1858) seen here was the pioneer resort and hotel in the area. We can sort this all out for you. Postcard Handbill is in near mint conditi 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). 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. 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. 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