The Family Dog - San Francisco, 1968 . 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. This performance is from a live concert show at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco. 17 comments. 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. This article is about the Avalon Ballroom (Regency II) on Sutter Street. The area that was Playland began as a 19th Century squatters settlement, Mooneysville-by-the-Sea at the western edge of San Francisco. It was here in June 1966 that Janis Joplin made her first public appearance with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The Avalon Ballroom is a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California at 1268 Sutter Street, on the north side, one building east of the corner of Van Ness Avenue. $850.00, FD-47Steve Miller Blues BandMoscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 8.0, Regular price The space is known as the location of many concerts of the counterculture movement, from around 1966 to 1969. Among the shortest-lived but most beloved was the Jabberwock, a former jazz club on Telegraph Avenue. I moved there in 1971 and just missed Family Dog being open, also playland. Open 13 June 1969 - 1971. Feb 17 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. var ANS_customer_id="efdda751-42f9-4333-99a0-38aff150ca9e"; Dennis King / D. King Gallery All Rights Reserved. [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. Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, The New Peanut Butter Sandwich. The site was at the former Edgewater Ballroom, part of the Playland At The Beach complex. 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 . 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 . 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. It shut down in 1969 and sat empty for over a decade before it was torn down. 1268 Sutter Street. The Family Dog Series is numbered from FD-1 to FD-147, and includes a number of posters from 1601 West Evans, Denver, CO that carry the designation FD-D2 and so on. "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". 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. Dimensions sheet . VENUE Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco, CA) SIZE 13 15/16" x 20" . )^ 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! Skip to main content. As stated, the Baths are filled by the ocean itself. Helms ran the Avalon Ballroom under the name Family Dog, where the real hippies went to dance, and he brought his old pal from Texas, Janis Joplin, out to join the band he was managing, Big . Family Dog Productions, which had offices on Van Ness. For a short time it hosted live bands, but now only DJs provide the tunes. Clear-Com Intercoms(1) The Family Dog(0) . (Anderson was also clear that she wasnt a fan of the hippie cult, citing their "sick faces and hideous behavior.). $600.00, FD-61-RP-2The DoorsMoscoso1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price 415 South Street . Known as FD-17, this Avalon Ballroom Family Dog concert poster was designed by the legendary team of Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley. Not all those places had an impact on the music, but the ones that did have stories worth telling. A woman dances in the glow of psychedelic light at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. [citation needed] In 1969, it reopened as the Regency II Movie Theater, operated by Blumenfeld Enterprises until 2000. Lot 0509, Mar 30, 2023 . 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. Courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library. 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. Acid was given our in the cool aid before Mr Frog was projected on a wall. [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. 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. Unforgettable night. Though the theater held memorable shows, it always struggled for money. An omnipresent light show was created by several local lighting companies.[14][15]. 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. Art by Stanley Mouse* and Alton Kelley, image is # 27 in the Family Dog/Avalon series. Regular price $100.00 AUCTION FD-33 Info. $500.00, FD-37Buffalo Springfield1966 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price Please Note: Some Family Dog posters were printed several times during the 1960s. 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. On opening night, a publicist convinced local jazz critic Ralph Gleason to come to the show. Iron Butterfly Indian Head Band Collectors: 7/4-7/68: Avalon Ballroom: . First printing po. The buyers kept fighting. [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. . Four months later, on August 8, 1898 Adolph Sutro died after a long illness. In fact, for forty years, Playland was the only place you could find It's It. Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger blogged: Having just posted about Garcia's . Post Card Artist: Wes Wilson, Bellmer Wright; Concert Performers: Velvet Underground, Charley Musselwhite</p> Related Items. 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. This arrangement was short-lived and Chet soon moved his shows to San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. In 2002, after learning from psychedelic poster artist Stanley Mouse that the building was available, neo-hippie Steve Shirley (aka Morning Spring Rain) of the Hog Farm commune restored and re-opened the Avalon Ballroom 34 years after it had been closed. Daily Flash / Country Joe & The Fish / Grateful Dead / Oxford Circle / Family Dog. That was the worst gig in town, Jordan said. $550.00, FD-65Big Brother Janis Joplin1967 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.4, Regular price 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. Chet Helms held his dance concerts at the Avalon Ballroom. 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. Looffs Hippodrome at Chutes-at-the-Beach was the first permanently installed concession in 1914. $2,000.00, FD-46Country Joe & the Fish1967 PosterMoscosoAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.2, FD-40The Grateful DeadMoscoso1966 PosterAvalon BallroomCGC Graded 9.8, Regular price Avalon Ballroom's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances. But loved going to the cliff house then and sneaking around the Sutro bath ruins at night. The Family Dog on the Great Highway. [citation needed] Posters advertising each event were produced by psychedelic artists, including Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley and Victor Moscoso. 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