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Come check out the Big Double Header tonight at The Bamboo Room with The Marshall Bros. and Crazy Fingers. While you're there come downstairs to the new Stay Gold Gallery and shoot me a visit. Check out all the awesome gifts and art (including some of my stuff).
Happy Birthday Jerry!
To my friends on Facebook…Celebrate Jerry Week with this selection of 10 Jerry Pins. Offer only good until end of July! $58 includes postage. Paypal. PM for questions!
The best tv ever….Capt Kirk before Star Trek…… do you know where?
Wow! These have been sitting on a shelf in my office and I just looked and saw them!!
It’s kinda late in the current Las Vegas event, but should I make them as pins?
Just was in New York. Way too crazy place to drive, but kinda fun. Also visited Mount Vernon, home of the first American pot farmer, George… and took the train back to Florida.
Just saw the posting that Frank Wakefield died. I'm sad..Not only did Relix Records release many albums with him, he was a friend. Slept at my home in New Hope, and shared many wonderful experiences with Relix. May G-D receive him with open arms!
Here is the real story of where '420' came from
So we all know the number 420, but none of us are really sure where the number came from.
There was a CBS news reporter who said number started in Berkeley, California when students at the University would meet at the quad at 4:20 in the afternoon to get high.
Problem is that that is not the truth!
So we have to think and look at history to find out where that number 420 possibly could’ve come from.
The answer has been in front of us since August 9, 1995.
it just so happens that the lead singer of the Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia died on August 9, 1995 at 4:23 AM.
In 1995 police officers did not have Internet - they did not have cell phones. All they had were walkie-talkies.
Well hippies also had walkie-talkies! When a group of hippies get together in Golden Gate Park with their guitars and herb to party and be mellow, the police in San Francisco had to find a way to notify the fellow police officers that were a bunch of hippies in Golden Gate Park, breaking the law.
They had to do it in such a way that the hippies with their walkie-talkie would have no idea that the police were about to come down on their great evening of hanging out.
So the police will get on the walkie-talkies and say 420 in progress and then fellow officers knew it was time to join up and catch the group of hippies, breaking the law by playing music and getting high.
Of course, this number 420 would go a lot further than just Golden Gate Park! The police and the rest of California started using the number 420 and then it started going east Texas, Arizona, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, New York, every city and state in the nation. The police on the walkie-talkies would use the number 420.
That’s how the number 420 became a national term for being cool and excepting getting high as something that everyone does.
In this day and age using the number for everything and everywhere - go on dating sites 'I’m 420 friendly'. Now, everyone looks at their watch and it’s 4:20 in the afternoon - time to take a break from work to go take a smoke - - time to be cool .
No one would think that from the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia in 1995 iy would be close to 30 years later and a simple word like '420', a simple number 420 is still widely accepted in use today but once again how many people really know that this number came from Jerry Garcia
I know not a good picture, but rare for what it is! photo by (c) les Leslie Kippel
For the life of me.. WHO IS THIS? I'm thinking Commander Cody Band?
just some cool pins. if you are into wholesaling or selling at shows, lets do business!
OK..I know this is gonna sound weird.. I've had a store on eBay for close to 25 years. I'm 7 positve feedbacks away from 30,000.. I've been waiting months to hit that number... doesn't mean that much for money, but I just think it's a milestone! oh well.. (p.s. my account is deadrelix - if you want to visit it! :-))
looking to sell my RELIX neon clock. Perfect condition in its original box. We made about 10 of them for promo and sent 9 to our best customers. Anyone like to make an offer?
It’s crazy…420 is everywhere! Was this done on purpose?
Ya really gotta think about it!
It was easy back then….
WHO IS?
New pin remembering Jerry. $11 incudes shipping. Pm if you want to get!
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