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Fillmore Street, with the less "hardcore" Fillmore stretching three blocks west to "Divis" (Divisadero Street). The neighborhood, with its still-considerable African-American population -- the people who had survived the "Redevelopment" phase of the 1950s or 1960s, effectively an eviction of a large number of low-income African-Americans, who apparently flocked to other unenriched areas of San Francisco, like Visitation Valley ("Viz Valley"), Hunter's Point ("HP" or "the Point"), the Bayview, "OMI" (Oceanview-Merced-Ingleside), the Mission ("la Mission"), the Tenderloin ("T.L."), downtown, and Portrero Hill (O.J.'s old neighborhood), or low-rent apartments in the East Bay, primarily "the Town" (Oakland) -- was an incongruous gathering place for the predominantly young, white, middle-class rock-concert-goers. I seem to recall gospel-music events or religious events, and other Soul concerts at Winterland "Auditorium." I saw a James Brown concert there during the Helms era, at a wild, awesome show, which was definitely not a Chet Helms or BGP show. A site named "An Unofficial History of San Francisco's 60's Music Halls"
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Fillmore Auditorium, a few short blocks from each other, were located in San Francisco's Western Addition, a large district west of the commercial, auto-row Van Ness Avenue. A large part of this area south of Sutter Street was loosely called "the Fillmore" and later, "the 'Mo," by
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Apparently Bill Graham liked the larger 5,000 or so audiences he could pack in for shows at
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In a similar situation, I'd heard that Chet Helms had had a copyright contention of sorts with some of the Avalon or Family Dog poster artists. I read Helms went after someone using some of his dance concert poster art, then one or more of the original poster artists themselves came after Helms,
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Winterland shows were at least for a time billed FW. I remember the incongruity of the place never changing its "Winterland" sign even as it
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Sorry everyone, but plowing through the various vendor websites has not been that helpful in finding out where BGP's "Fillmore West" officially began. Poster art may not be definitive unless it has the address, and Mr. Graham could have just arbitrally had the word "Fillmore West" on advertising
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I don't see much of this in the Fillmore/Rock lore, but the Fillmore Auditorium, for a time, in the early-to-mid 1960s, was a Black Muslim temple. The sense of the later-rock hall was entirely different and when the Muslims had it, I seem to remember pews and an immaculate, kept-up interior. I
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