HELIX seattle underground newspaper music 0664

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local estate find, from a seattle estate, local famous underground newspaper published by walt crowely and his buddies, he was also the artist on some pictures.
great find for old music ads
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articles include conspiracy take it to washington, freedom of the c's,  changes,
music ads include john mayall, black oak arkansas john lee hooker,  mike seeger kilby snow
je t amine
The
Helix
was an American biweekly newspaper founded in 1967 after a series of organizational meetings held at the
Free University of Seattle
involving a large and eclectic group including
Paul Dorpat
,
Tom Robbins
and
Lorenzo Milam
A member of both the
Underground Press Syndicate
and the
Liberation News Service
, it published a total of 125 issues (sometimes as a weekly, sometimes as a biweekly) before folding on June 11, 1970.
[1]
The first issue was produced by Paul Dorpat and Walt Crowley with 0 in borrowed capital, out of a rented storefront on Roosevelt Way NE. After being turned down by the first printers they approached, they found a printer in Ken Monson, communications director of the
International Association of Machinists
local, who had recently acquired a printing press. 1500 copies were printed of the first issue. By the fourth biweekly issue sales had reached 11,000 copies. After the first two issues a "split-font" rainbow effect was sometimes used to print psychedelically colorful front covers; issues averaged 24 pages, with illustrations and graphics clipped from old magazines and having little to do with the adjoining copy crammed into the interior pages.
[2]
In September 1967
Helix
was evicted from the office on Roosevelt Way. On October 15 they opened their new office at 3128 Harvard E., where they were to remain for the rest of the paper's existence.
Contents of the paper were a New Left/hippie mélange of underground politics, psychedelic graphics, drug culture, bulletins from the Liberation News Service, and rock music reviews, with much coverage of
rock festivals
in the Pacific Northwest including the
Sky River Rock Festivals
and concerts at
Eagles Auditorium
. Frequent contributors included Tom Robbins, while
Walt Crowley
was responsible for much of the paper's freewheeling design. The
Blue Moon Tavern
and the
Last Exit on Brooklyn
coffee house functioned as the paper's unofficial hangouts. In 1970 Robert Glessing reported that although the paper did not pay salaries it was providing food and housing for 11 full-time staffers.
[3]
After the demise of the
Helix
several former staffers, including Crowley and Roxie Grant, went to work at a new community center called the U District Center, at the corner of NE 56th and University Way.
[4]
Several attempts were made by different groups in Seattle to launch a new paper to take the place of the
Helix
, including the
New Times Journal
,
Puget Sound Partisan
,
Sabot
,
Seattle Flag
,
Seattle Sound
, and the
Sun
, but none succeeded in recapturing the spirit or the success of the
Helix
.
[5]
Crowley and Dorpat later went on to be two of the three founders of
HistoryLink
, along with Crowley's wife Marie McCaffrey.
[1]
[6]
See also
The
Helix
was an American biweekly newspaper founded in 1967 after a series of organizational meetings held at the
Free University of Seattle
involving a large and eclectic group including
Paul Dorpat
,
Tom Robbins
and
Lorenzo Milam
A member of both the
Underground Press Syndicate
and the
Liberation News Service
, it published a total of 125 issues (sometimes as a weekly, sometimes as a biweekly) before folding on June 11, 1970.
[1]
The first issue was produced by Paul Dorpat and Walt Crowley with 0 in borrowed capital, out of a rented storefront on Roosevelt Way NE. After being turned down by the first printers they approached, they found a printer in Ken Monson, communications director of the
International Association of Machinists
local, who had recently acquired a printing press. 1500 copies were printed of the first issue. By the fourth biweekly issue sales had reached 11,000 copies. After the first two issues a "split-font" rainbow effect was sometimes used to print psychedelically colorful front covers; issues averaged 24 pages, with illustrations and graphics clipped from old magazines and having little to do with the adjoining copy crammed into the interior pages.
[2]
In September 1967
Helix
was evicted from the office on Roosevelt Way. On October 15 they opened their new office at 3128 Harvard E., where they were to remain for the rest of the paper's existence.
Contents of the paper were a New Left/hippie mélange of underground politics, psychedelic graphics, drug culture, bulletins from the Liberation News Service, and rock music reviews, with much coverage of
rock festivals
in the Pacific Northwest including the
Sky River Rock Festivals
and concerts at
Eagles Auditorium
. Frequent contributors included Tom Robbins, while
Walt Crowley
was responsible for much of the paper's freewheeling design. The
Blue Moon Tavern
and the
Last Exit on Brooklyn
coffee house functioned as the paper's unofficial hangouts. In 1970 Robert Glessing reported that although the paper did not pay salaries it was providing food and housing for 11 full-time staffers.
[3]
After the demise of the
Helix
several former staffers, including Crowley and Roxie Grant, went to work at a new community center called the U District Center, at the corner of NE 56th and University Way.
[4]
Several attempts were made by different groups in Seattle to launch a new paper to take the place of the
Helix
, including the
New Times Journal
,
Puget Sound Partisan
,
Sabot
,
Seattle Flag
,
Seattle Sound
, and the
Sun
, but none succeeded in recapturing the spirit or the success of the
Helix
.
[5]
Crowley and Dorpat later went on to be two of the three founders of
HistoryLink
, along with Crowley's wife Marie McCaffrey.
[1]
[6]