Item #6714 Helix Vol. VII No. 2 March 20, 1969: Second Anniversary Issue Featuring a Montage of Covers to Date; Victor Steinbrueck on Saving the Pike Place Market. JOURNALISM - Underground Press - Seattle, Paul DORPAT, Walt Crowley John Cunnick.
Helix Vol. VII No. 2 March 20, 1969: Second Anniversary Issue Featuring a Montage of Covers to Date; Victor Steinbrueck on Saving the Pike Place Market
Helix Vol. VII No. 2 March 20, 1969: Second Anniversary Issue Featuring a Montage of Covers to Date; Victor Steinbrueck on Saving the Pike Place Market
Helix Vol. VII No. 2 March 20, 1969: Second Anniversary Issue Featuring a Montage of Covers to Date; Victor Steinbrueck on Saving the Pike Place Market

Helix Vol. VII No. 2 March 20, 1969: Second Anniversary Issue Featuring a Montage of Covers to Date; Victor Steinbrueck on Saving the Pike Place Market

Seattle: Helix, 1969. Billy Ward, Victor Steinbrueck, Walt Crowley. First Printing. Tabloid Newspaper. Tabloid printed on newsprint measuring 11.5 x 15 inches. Pp. 28 including covers. Slight age-toning to edges and rubbing to images on front cover. Very Good. Item #6714

A self-referential issue of the Seattle underground bi-weekly (that transitioned to a weekly in September 1969) with articles on its history, including profiles of editorial poobahs Paul Dorpat, John Cunnick, Walt Crowley, Billy Ward, Tim Harvey and Scott White, along with a Victor Steinbrueck article on saving the Pike Place Market from urban renewal. With ads for the Rivoli Cinema, showing blue movies at First and Madison, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.

In late spring 1967, Helix joined a burgeoning underground press then including groundbreaking alternative papers the East Village Other, the Los Angeles Free Press, the Fifth Estate and the Berkeley Barb. Founded by Paul Sawyer, Paul Dorpat and Lorenzo Milam, it sprang from their intellectual fervor at the Free University, an alternative thinktank they also founded. Eventually star-illustrator Walt Crowley assumed editorship.

A pebble in the shoe of Seattle establishment, the "hip rag" brought attention to civic injustice by rallying its youthful readership to activism. The apogee of that effort followed the 1970 killing of students at Kent State: over the course of May 5-8, Helix organized protests that blocked US Interstate 5 while marching between the University District and rallies at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. This issue is housed in a removable, clear sleeve with an acid-free backing.

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Price: $30.00