#hells angels
Today’s post comes from Archivist Gwen.
Because we like interesting things and because we love the past, archivists always have their eyes open. For me, this is how it usually goes: while looking in the records for one thing, something else jumps out. This time it was an old civil case file, Conde Nast v. Jean Swartz, et al., which I located while searching the index for a labor case. Publishing meets old Hollywood fashion, I’m in! So up the ladder I scrambled to find the file and, to my eternal joy, entered as an exhibit in the case, a copy of “The Playgoer” for Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
The case was about an article published in the magazine by Swartz that had originally been published in the August 16, 1930, issue of Vogue magazine. Conde Nast, the publishers of Vogue were not amused and sued for $5,000 (of which they recovered $250).
But the magazine was the program for the blockbuster film, Hell’s Angels, which premiered at the theater on May 27, 1930. Published weekly, this edition was for the 14th week of Hell’s Angels run and included lots of great publicity about the production, and fabulous advertisements for cars, furs and all things fashionable.
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New Arrivals: Attractive copy of THE HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE PRESS - VOL.1, NO.1 (1967).
Premiere issue of this short-lived Bay Area underground. Contents include the editor’s thoughts on Haight-Ashbury as the “new Florence,” coverage of the funeral of Hell’s Angel “Chocolate George,” an articles on Joan Baez, the English Hell’s Angels, and panhandling, with a poem by David Gitin.
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Magic Mountain Music Festival, on Mount Tamalpais, California, June 1967. Photo by Henry Diltz
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“The violence… The hate.. The way-out parties… Exactly as it happens!“ HELLS ANGELS ON WHEELS (1967, dir. Richard Rush) plus MOTHER GOOSE A-GO-GO (1966, aka “Unkissed Bride,” dir. Jack H. Harris) at the Strand. Published June 23, 1967.
“The Plundering Marauders” Biker Gang
Buster Keaton’s candid moments…& not ‘Candid Camera’!
Garbage Head of the Hells Angels
