BG 020

14" x 24-1/2"

This is a very pretty poster with vibrating colors. It's also one of the long Wes Wilson ones, of which he did several.

This is November 1966, and the atmosphere in San Francisco, and the Haight in particular, was electric. What was also nice about it was that the media hadn't yet discovered what was going on (that didn't happen til the summer of '67). When they did, it brought people from all over who just wanted to plug in and be hip, and weren't part of the culture that was developing there. It got diluted and polluted, and fell apart rapidly. I'm amazed that Haight street even today, is still trying to hang on to that ephemeral "thing" that had completely disappeared by 1970.

From the end of '65 to the end of 1968 was the golden period in the psychedelic Haight Ashbury. Such a short time, yet so full of riches. And so full of promise.

 

Staple holes, a little ragged top and bottom, but excellent condition (and will look perfect when mounted and framed).