Custom Tees for Customers offering a "Custom Tease" Coyote! This was an order for custom tees used to promote and raise funds for the first national hookers’ convention in 1974, “The Year of the Whore.” Margot St. James was Coyote (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), our good customer and friend who was advocating for legalized prostitution in California, trying to make her and her “girls” LEGAL. One Halloween (and I did go to this, because I knew it was going to be quite an event), at the Cow Palace in San Francisco with about 15,000 people, Margot makes her magnificent entrance by riding … [Read more...]
The Surreal Fire Door
‘Living on the fringes’ Charging into Hippos' newly leased factory, three fire marshals unannounced, and intent on checking for fire code violations! So "who's in charge here?", they shout, and all fingers point to Jeff. Scanning the factory, they state that no business can operate here without a back fire exit door! Get it done and we’ll return. So nodding my head in agreement with visions of being out on the street, unable to print up the current order for Grateful Dead tour shirts, due in two days! What'll we do, I toss at Barry. Once again ‘living on the fringes’ circling the drain, … [Read more...]
Led Zeppelin Experience
'Livin' on the Fringes' - Our Led Zeppelin Experience Hippo got the call... Our art work had been approved for T-shirts for the "Day on the Green," or as we called it D.O.G. day, to be held at the Oakland Coliseum and produced by Bill Graham Presents. They were amazing events attended by over 55,000 fans who came to see world famous rock groups play on that stage. Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana, Journey, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, and of course the subjects of our Led Zeppelin experience, were but a few of the great bands who held court at this … [Read more...]
Life of a Silk-Screener
Life of a Silk-Screener "Livin' on the fringes" My email to Ken and Pat at Graphic Sportswear a few weeks ago ... "Think we should write a book titled "The Life of a Silk-Screener?!" You know why? Silk-screeners are the first to get the buzz about happening events, rock concerts, and the cool scene. Now we have to get all those T-shirts done before the event, so that usually means the person placing the order has to supply us with tickets for great seats. And great seat usually gets us a lot of new friends ( i.e. tall hot blondes). After we get to the concert we get to go back … [Read more...]
