THE CREAM Original__1968__WINTERLAND__CONCERT TICKET__Fillmore West__EX+

Description

Here is an original
CREAM
ticket
from May,1968 at the Winterland, San Francisco.  BG-110.
The ticket measures roughly 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" and is in really nice condition.  This particular ticket came from the Bill Graham archives and may have been an extra ticket printed that was not used.  Bill kept most everything, all the extra items he had leftover, and especially tickets.  He learned quickly that he could re-purpose the tickets too (by rubber stamping on the back usually) and save time and money for repeat artists.
Purchase with confidence, I deal
only
in original vintage items guaranteed authentic.
T
his was from the period
i
n the late 60's and 70's
when
Bill Graham owned and operated the F
illmore and Winterland
venues in SF.  He
decided to have his
own promotional posters
designed to promote
the co
ncerts.  F
irst, he would choo
se
an artist
to draw a
nd print a poster
custom
ized
for each individual
show
.  The
tickets
were just a reduced
facsimile
of the posters and then typically color-coded to indicate multi
ple
night engagements.
Back then,
t
he Fillmore West and Winterland
were very busy
venues that
constantly held
extended engagements by then
current
and popula
r
performers.
This was p
ro
bably
due to being located in SF, w
hich
became the focal point for psychedelic
music
and
countercultu
re
in genera
l
.  San Francisco was the ultimate
city for rock concerts and
Bill was
both a promoter and own
er of
the venues where they could play.
So that
he
could reconcile sales each night, patrons purchased tickets at the venue box office and handed them right back over at the door, thus most ending up in the archive in EX or NM- condition.  T
oday the original F
illmore
San Francisco
still
operates
with Live Nation
having been leas
ing
it
and it is also expand
ing
the Fillmore 'bran
d' by naming other
venues it owns or leases around the coun
try in cities such as M
i
ami, Phili, Denver, Detroit
, DC & NYC.
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