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Sixties Memorabilia

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Safe Conduct Pass (approx. 6" x 6")

Issued by the hippies in the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Handed out by hippies to straights to provide them with safe passage through Hippie-Land. "Housewives...students...workers...atheletes...doctors...policemen...Have you heard all those wild rumors of sex-crazed women, pot, easy money, community and love among the hippies? What if they are true? Don't waste any time. Find out now--while you are still young. (If they are not true you can always go back to your dull job, boring wife, annoying kids, TV dinners, TV (ugh) & the police force. This is a safe conduct pass to Hippie-Land. Hand this to the first friendly looking, long-haired boy or girl (it doesn't matter if you can't tell them apart. We'll teach you.) you meet. Good luck. This is the first day of the rest of your life. Peace, Music, Love, Revolution, Joy."

One of the rarest pieces of Haight-Ashbury ephemera, and very much evocative of the era.

 

 

"Human Be-In." Stanley Mouse and Michael Bowen. Originally printed by The Bindweed Press, San Francisco.

Handbill announcing "A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In."

This item features a photograph of a holy man with a triangle superimposed over his face adding a "third-eye." It lists Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Jerry Ruben, and others as participants. The Human Be-In took place in Golden Gate Park on January, 14 1967. This watershed event linked the Beat and the '60s subcultures, and catapulted the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene into national prominence. Participants were asked to "Bring food to share, bring flowers, beads, costumes, feathers, bell, cymbals, flags."

 

 

 

Promotional brochure and ticket order form for the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair, 1969.

Single sheet, folded once. "Woodstock Music & Art Fair presents 3 Days of Peace and Music in White Lake, NY." The cover features the bird-on-guitar-neck logo with a list o fthe scheduled performers. Printed inside is information about the "Art-Show," "Crafts Bazaar," and "Work Shops," mentioning that there are "hundreds of acres to roam on...walk around for three days and nights without seeing a skyscraper or traffic light...fly a kite, sun yourself. Cook your own food and breathe unspolied air." Includes a map of the area and a cut-out ticket order form.

 

 

Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Michael Forman, editor. [Philadelphia? : Concert Hall Publications, 1969: [50] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.]

This is a program book for the music festival held at Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 15-17, 1969 with a half-title: Aquarian exposition. The cover simply reads: 3 days of peace & music. Filled with advertisements and images the program also includes directions for a folded paper do-it-yourself Jefferson Airplane.

 

 

The San Francisco Public Library: A Publishing House. Richard Brautigan, Jack Thibeau, Victor Moscoso [Privately published by the authors, 1968]

Three legal-size photographically reproduced sheets, stapled together. Created and xeroxed at the Main Library in the Civic Center using their ten cent Xerox machine on December 5, 1968 by the authors. Brautigan contributes his poem "Mrs. Myrtle Tate Movie Projectionist," which is printed on a page reproducing various movie ads. For his contribution Jack Thibeau xeroxed his belly and Moscoso xeroxed a cat. David Belch, the librarian at the time, remembers Brautigan bumming dimes from passers-by in order to use the xerox machine. According to Belch, they produced about 20 copies. An ephemeral, homemade production, very much in the spirit of the sixties.

 

 

Original silk-screen poster by Chuck Miller announcing Richard Brautigan reading Trout Fishing in America at the Unicorn Book Shop in Goleta, CA, 1967. [24" x 18"]

Features an illustration of Brautigan who was scheduled to read Trout Fishing, in its entirety, during the course of two separate readings. Chuck Miller was a noted artist of the period and his work appears in The Art of Rock. Very few copies of this poster were produced.