June 29 — On This Day in Art Rock History

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‹June 29›

FD-68 · Victor Moscoso

Catalog Number

FD-68

Series

Family Dog

Venue

Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco

Date

June 29, 1967

Artists

Victor Moscoso

Nickname

Moscoso's Avalon Run

Performers

Quicksilver Messenger Service
Mount Rushmore
Mance Lipscomb

Moscoso's Avalon Run

Victor Moscoso's FD-68 is one of the posters that made the Avalon Ballroom look like the Avalon Ballroom - vibrating complementary colors, lettering you have to lean into to read, a piece now held in the permanent collections of both the Museum of Modern Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It advertised a four-night Family Dog run, Thursday June 29 through Sunday July 2, 1967, and like a lot of Moscoso's…

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