1969 Ads: Other Venues and Miscellany, Part 1

A whole mess of '69 Voice ads for some other venues, clubs, bars, and discotheques, plus a few selected examples of non-gig rock & roll advertising that tickled my fancy.




1/2/69 issue. "Dynamite is on Coney Island Avenue off Avenue Z in Brooklyn. They wouldn't allow us any closer to the city!!!"




1/2/69 issue--Earth and the Cafe Wha?




1/2/69 issue--printed regularly through much of the year.



1/16/69 issue. I didn't know Lloyd Price owned a club!

1/30/69 issue.

1/30/69 issue. "Jacket and tie required"--squaresville!

1/30/69 issue--The Ballroom, Statford, Connecticut.

1/30/69 issue--Future site of Bette Midler's starmaking turn, but other types of entertainment were the main attraction at this point.

2/6/69 issue, and many more.

2/6/69 issue.

2/20/69 issue.

2/20 and 3/6/69 issues.

2/20/69 issue.

2/20/69 issue.

2/20 & 3/6/69 issues.

3/6/69 issue.

3/6/69 issue.

3/6/69 issue.

3/20/69 issue.

3/20/69 issue.

4/3/69 issue.

4/3/69 issue. The Group Image moved their regular freak-outs to ABC Stage City at 66 E. 4th Street, but they may have run out of steam shortly after this event. I saw no other ads or mention of them beyond this issue's "Scenes" column.

4/10/69 issue.

1969 Ads: Colleges and Universities

Selected '69 Voice ads for local university gigs.



1/30/69 issue.

1/30/69 issue. The Jeff Beck Group ended up cancelling, but Jethro Tull and Mountain fulfilled their obligations.

2/6/69 issue.

2/6/69 issue.

2/20/69 issue.

3/6/69 issue.

3/6/69 issue.

3/6/69 issue.

4/3/69 issue. The Rush listed as openers for Iron Butterfly in White Plains can't be THEE Rush, can it? They were founded in '68, but I seriously doubt they were playing anywhere outside Toronto by this time.

4/10/69 issue.

4/10/69 issue.

5/1/69 issue--home of WFDU!

5/1/69 issue.

7/17/69 issue.

9/18/69 issue.

10/16/69 issue: The Rascals at St. John's.

10/23/69 issue.

10/30/69 issue.

11/6/69 issue.

11/13/69 issue.

11/20/69 issue.

11/20, 11/27, and 12/4/69 issues.

11/20/69 issue--original home of WFMU!

11/27/69 issue.



UPDATE 3/15/2012:  Here's the revised and improved post on '69 college ads.

1969 Ads: Woodstock and Other Festivals

Selected '69 Voice ads for various festivals--most local, some quite a ways away. Includes a few fine examples of peripheral-to-Woodstock commercialism.

As Howard Smith wrote in his 5/1/69 "Scenes" column, "This summer the magic youth word is 'festival.' There will be rocking sons and daughters of the Monterey Pop Festival all over the country all summer long." [The article also has a report on a discotheque called the Church, located in a deconsecrated Lutheran church at 407 W. 37th Street...and you thought Peter Gatien came up with that idea first!]

5/29/69 issue.

6/12/69 issue.

6/12/69 issue. Kinda ambitious to label this one a fest.

7/3/69 issue.

7/10/69 issue. No mention of actual 7-UP sponsorship though.

7/10/69 issue. A report on the subsequent scramble to find a new location appears in the 7/24/69 "Scenes" column.

7/17/69 issue. I have a radio ad for this, and while searching on youtube to see if anyone had uploaded it, I found this silent footage instead.

7/24/69 issue. "The Original Woodstock Saugerties Sound," lest anyone get confused.

7/31/69 issue. Hey, they didn't know the New York State Thruway would get closed, man!

7/31/69 issue.

7/31 and 8/7/69 issues.

8/7/69 issue.

8/7/69 issue. I cannot look at these bus ads without getting a "Going Up the Country" earworm.

8/7/69 issue.

8/7/69 issue--corrected location.

8/14/69 issue.

8/14/69 issue.

8/14/69 issue.

8/28/69 issue.

Perhaps the single finest eyewitness account of Woodstock I've ever read appears in the 8/21/69 issue. And there are some reports on the fallout from the fest's aftermath in the 9/4/69, 10/2/69, and 10/23/69 issues. Dig this non-prescient excerpt from the 11/6/69 "Scenes" column too, complete with Gainsbourgian bonus.

UPDATE 3/15/2012:  Here is a revised and improved post on 1969 festival ads.