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February 24, 2015
For Grateful Dead’s Final Shows, Long, Strange Trip Ends in Sea of Mail
flooding the band’s ticket service here with handcrafted requests rather than clicking online. Since the shows were announced a month ago more than 60,000 envelopes—many painstakingly adorned with the Dead’s typical psychedelic skulls and skeletons—have poured into a post office box in this picturesque Marin County spot a half-hour from the Golden Gate Bridge. The post office usually receives 7,000 letters a week. “It was a big shock to us,” Jim Harvey, the Stinson Beach postmaster, said of the vivid No. 10 envelopes festooned with Magic Marker sketches and fanciful lettering. “It indicated that the Grateful Dead culture is alive and well.” - -- WSJ
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 24, 2015 10:27 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"...the Grateful Dead announced it would mark its 50th anniversary in the summer of 2015 with three final performances.
Had no idea they were still together.
Please tell me this isn't gonn'a be like the Who's "farewell"....going on 26 years...
tim
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at February 24, 2015 12:16 PM
Grooves: "Had no idea they were still together."
In spirit only.
Posted by: Fat Man at February 24, 2015 2:19 PM
Guess where I won't be this summer.
Posted by: ghostsniper at February 24, 2015 6:17 PM