The Family Dog On The Great Highway opened on June 13, 1969 with the Jefferson Airplane. Poster for a show at the Avalon Ballroom. 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. [10], The Avalon Ballroom occupied the two top floors of the multi-story building at 1268 Sutter. $750.00, FD-52Big Brother Janis JoplinRick Griffin1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price 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. Mr. Helms continued producing concerts under the name Family Dog at the Avalon Ballroom, an old dance academy at Sutter and Van Ness. 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. Chet Helms of the Family Dog at the Avalon Ballroom, 1968. Lemonado de Sica D. Performers A-Z: Big Brother & The Holding Company, Performers A-Z: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Performers A-Z: Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Performers A-Z: Notes from The Underground, Performers A-Z: Qucksilver Messanger Service, Performers A-Z: Quicksilver Messenger Service, Performers A-Z: West Coast Natuaral Gas Company. Two years later, in 1966, five hippie artists had the idea to buy the theater and turn it into a performing arts space. Please Note: Some Family Dog posters were printed several times during the 1960s. Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library--Dr. Weirde. 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 . USA. 6/21/1965 . The Matrix came to be after Marty Balin convinced three guys he met randomly at a bar to put up $3,000 each for a club he wanted to start. 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. Free shipping for many products! An omnipresent light show was created by several local lighting companies.[14][15]. 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. $60 $40 Jefferson Airplane Poster; The mere emptying of the tanks entails no difficulty, but the emptying of them in such a manner as to prevent the once used water from again entering the tanks requires ingenuity. General News; BY: SUN STAFF - 9.11 2017. 2/12/1967 Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco: . a.whtlinks{color:white !important; text-decoration:underline;}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). Chet Helms was the director of the Family Dog that put on a series of great concerts between April 1966 and November 1968. of the early posters. 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. The Family Dog Numbered Series includes Mouse & Kelley's Zig-Zag Man (FD-14), and their Skull & Roses Grateful Dead poster (FD-26). Dog in early 1966, and after a brief partnership with Bill Graham at the Fillmore, promoted memorable concerts . 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. The "Bindweed Press" credit has been omitted. This same building apparently dated to the 1880s and lasted through the mid-1970s. The Family Dog was the other concert promoter in San Francisco, headed by Chet Helms. Picture . The Family Dog Series includes both posters and handbills. San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, handcuffed to a chair and made to receive a blowjob. I went to the Family Dog as a kid of 12 [1969]. I remember one night hearing conga drums playing in that cave. Couple of quickies. [23] Starting in August 2013, the building was used as the residence and principal filming location for The Real World: San Francisco (2014).[24]. 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. This exquisite building had survived the 1906 earthquake only to succumb to a raging electrical fire that destroyed it in less than two hours. The water for these is supplied by an ingenious use of the ocean waves. 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. In 1965, the "Council on Religion and the Homosexual," which brought together gay men and religious leaders, tried to host a Mardi Gras-themed drag party at the hall to raise funds. 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 . SHOP OVER 4000+ VINTAGE AND MODERN ROCK POSTERS! 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 . A Goodwill is now on Haight St. where the 1,400-seat Straight once stood. This comment has been removed by the author. 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. Like the BG Series, there are many different printings (first prints, second prints, etc.) )^ 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! The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement, from around 1966 to 1969.It also had a reopening 34 years later, from 2003 to 2005. $50. There are Mexican works, relating to the war of independence, from the ancient archives of the Aztec capital; two thousand three hundred Japanese manuscripts were borne from the bright land of the "Morning Calm; " collections of Semitic philology, the chemical literature of the late Secretary Wells, of the English Society of Industrial Chemistry, have furnished about two thousand five hundred volumes. Classics, poems, plays in all languages of the learned, are in those closely packed cases, book-. The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement, from around 1966 to 1969. Regular price $100.00 AUCTION FD-33 Times sure have changed! Locals didnt make the demolition easy, as dozens laid in front of the bulldozers and were arrested. 415 South Street 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 . Avalon Ballroom: San Francisco, California, United States: Photos from 1966 View All 1966 Photos . The Family Dog on The Great Highway was far from downtown. 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.) Sight alone will give a comprehensible idea of Sutro Baths. Picture Information. Care about whats happening in Bay Area arts? Post Card Artist: Wes Wilson, Bellmer Wright; Concert Performers: Velvet Underground, Charley Musselwhite</p> $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 "[7], In the 1960s, at the Avalon, two bands typically performed two sets during the evening beginning at about nine o'clock. Heres just a few. 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. Setlists 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. Browse Avalon Ballroom vintage concert posters and rock memorabilia. I remember there was a room on the mezzanine off the main ballroom that had black lights and trippy fluorescent posters and paint all over the walls; OMG, I'm swooning with nostalgia! Complaints against noise led to the venue losing its performance licence early in 1969. But the Fillmore wasnt the only stage during the Summer of Love. This performance is from a live concert show at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco. . Avalon Ballroom. Acid was given our in the cool aid before Mr Frog was projected on a wall. 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. 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 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 above picture comes from a National Geographic dated August, 1956. Great Highway was once called Ocean Boulevard. We can sort this all out for you. However, the Avalon had the capacity of up to 500. 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). Family Dog Productions, which had offices on Van Ness. That was the worst gig in town, Jordan said. Some of the ministers from the event held a press conference the next day and described the police as being like the Gestapo. 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. [17][18] The neighboring building, known as the Regency I Movie Theater was formerly the Regency Ballroom. What a place. Moby Grape Big Brother and the Holding Company Country Joe 1967 Mar 15 San Francisco Avalon Ballroom Postcard B Kiln ad vertisement by oicvintage. We listened to [our recording] back and three guys were playing the songs one way and the other three were somewhere else, Stephens said. In fact, for forty years, Playland was the only place you could find It's It. "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". Later in the Series, there were postcards and image tickets. San Francisco, CA 94121. a.whtlinks{color:white !important; text-decoration:underline;}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. $2,500.00, FD-38Big Brother Janis Joplin1966 PosterAvalon BallroomExcellent, Regular price 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! That band turned out to be the Jefferson Airplane, and they were the first group to play the club. Other audience members then surrounded the dancers and escorted them off stage. Family Dog Productions 639 Gough St. San Francisco, Calif. 94102" appears in the lower right corner. 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. Among the shortest-lived but most beloved was the Jabberwock, a former jazz club on Telegraph Avenue. The building that housed the Avalon Ballroom was constructed as a commercial building in 1911, designed by architect Alfred Henry Jacobs. On opening night, a publicist convinced local jazz critic Ralph Gleason to come to the show. My birthday parties when I was a kid were always at Playland. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were involved. The Straight also hosted quite a few nude theater events, one of which took place in the middle of a conference on runaway children. Ad vertisement from shop oicvintage. Courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Clear-Com Intercoms(1) The Family Dog(0) . If you have a lingering curiosity about Beatniks and Hippies, entrepreneurship in global enterprise, San Francisco then and now, half-pint steam trains, CAD, or the secrets of modern retirement, go ahead bookmark this site and, by all means, encourage this effort. [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. 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.) . It was here in places like the Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom where the philosophies and ideals of a counterculture revolution found their voice. Submitted by radha.name on Thu, 09/11/2017 - 09:52 . Image: Tim Drescher. The Family Dog - San Francisco, 1968 . I wish I could go back in time to this place. $500.00, FD-37Buffalo Springfield1966 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price Hannan and Corry Arnold created the Chicken on a Unicycle website, a one-stop source for information on the Bay Area's live music scene during the '60s. 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. "Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world!". Grateful Dead Skeleton And Roses Family Dog Avalon Ballroom 1966 Concert Poster | Art, Art Posters | eBay! 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 Family Dog and the Charlatans. Books for free > > > Feasting with the Family Dog, Part Two. Avalon Ballroom's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances. 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. . [22] The entire former ballroom space was renovated. Family moved there the 50's. But noise complaints brought the Avalon's fun times to an end. 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. 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 . 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.). Looffs Hippodrome at Chutes-at-the-Beach was the first permanently installed concession in 1914. (*SIGNED in pencil by Mouse) Medium-thick flat vellum stock poster . True to Anderson's testimony, the hall hosted a wide variety of entertainment, including film screenings like the 5am premiere of the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour. . 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. When completed, as designed, it will be accessible to every disciple of science, that being the special motive of its magnanimous founder. "Libertie," Blood, Sweat and Tears, John Handy, Son House, March 15 - 17, Avalon Ballroom, "It's a Gas," Quicksilver Messenger Service, Charlatans, It's a Beautiful Day, April 26 - 28, Avalon Ballroom, "Dancing Bear," Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ace of Cups, Flamin' Groovies, May 10 - 12, Avalon Ballroom, "Flip Flop," The Fugs, Ace of Cups, Allmen Joy, April 12 - 14, Avalon Ballroom, Chuck Berry, The Sons of Champlin, November 17 & 18, 1601 West Evans St., Denver, "Moby Dragon," Siegel Schwall, Buddy Guy, Hour Glass, Mance Lipsomb, February 9 - 11, Avalon Ballroom, "Pay Attention aka Space Man," Doors, Allmen Joy, Gingerbred Blu, December 29 - 31, 1601 West Evans St., Denver, Soul Survivors, Box Tops, Jimmerfield Legend, December 15 & 16, 1601 West Evans St., Denver, Canned Heat, Siegel Schwall, December 8 - 10, 1601 West Evans St., Denver, "Denver Splash," Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band, Solid Muldoon, December 1 & 2, 1601 West Evans St., Denver, "The Popup Poster," Kaleidascope, Mother Earth, Country Weather, June 21 - 23, Avalon Ballroom, "Rorschach Test II," Frumius Bandersnatch, Clear Light, Buddy Guy, June 14 - 16, Avalon Ballroom, "Iron Butterfly," Iron Butterfly, Velvet Underground, Chrome Cyrcus, June 7 - 9, Avalon Ballroom, "Machanico Mandala," Taj Mahal, Dave van Ronk, Family Tree, A.B. $220.00, FD-138Steve Miller PosterAvalon BallroomNear Mint, Regular price abebooks.com. Another notable song from the Jabberwocks scene was Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent by Berkeley Barb writer Jef Jaison. 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. The space operated from 1966 to 1969, at the height of the counterculture movement. Built in 1916, the Charles Van Damme was a steamboat that shuttled commuters from Richmond to San Rafael for over 20 years. FD115 Family Dog; Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA) April 19-21, 1968 concert card psychedelic hippies 60s ad vertisement by GyanarthiBooks. But noise complaints brought the Avalons fun times to an end. Saw a show there around Christmas 69-or70. The Family Dog Numbered Series includes 147 numbered posters that advertised Family Dog showsprimarily at the Avalon Ballroom in San Franciscofrom 1966 to 1968. Group of 2 signed concert posters. These two guys are sitting right on the spot of the original Cliff House overlooking Seal Rock House. Second, the last show as Family Dog was 8/14/70. He had owned the finest private library in America. Lot 0509, Mar 30, 2023 . [citation needed] In 1969, it reopened as the Regency II Movie Theater, operated by Blumenfeld Enterprises until 2000. The Jabberwock closed in 1967 when Ehlert couldnt afford to bring the club up to code. Packaging still has Playland Carousel and Roller Coaster. San Francisco Ratha Yatra, July 27, 1969 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust . 1880's or so. I'll never forget the feeling of being with a big family. March 12, 1971, the building became the "Friends and Relationships Hall", another short-lived concert venue. In October, Mouse and Kelley were in full swing at the Mouse Studios firehouse when Victor Moscoso returned to the fold to design FD-32. San Francisco. 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. Independence July 4th Quicksilver Messenger Service Avalon BallroomSan Francisco: Family Dog Productions, 1967. Daily Flash / Country Joe & The Fish / Grateful Dead / Oxford Circle / Family Dog. Free shipping for many products! According to the band's Leigh Stephens, the Matrix recording convinced the group that they needed to pare down to a trio. The Ark was born. And they played Jingle Bells. When that failed, officers stood outside the hall and took pictures of attendees in an attempt to intimidate them. When asked why decades later, Martinez said that the muddy lot where the Ark sat clashed with the clubs fancier vibe, keeping it from fulfilling its potential, so they moved on. This site was formerly the Edgewater Ballroom (part of the Playland at the Beach complex) and originally known as the Ocean Beach Pavilion and Casino when it opened in 1884. The long shed adjacent to Seal Rock House was a wind-sheltered stable for the horses of hotel guests. Another band that became an Ark favorite was the Sparrow, a Canadian band featuring a singer named John Kay. $20.00, Copyright 2023, SF Rock Posters & Collectibles. This arrangement was short-lived and Chet soon moved his shows to San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. And here's another's opinion: Chet Helms moved his Family Dog concerts from the Avalon Ballroom to the former slot car racing track in summer 1969, where he operated for only one year as "Family Dog at the Beach" and "Family Dog on the Great Highway." . 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. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. 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