Manufacturer
The Bindweed Press
The Bindweed Press was the DBA of a printer named Frank Westlake. Westlake personally printed several dozen of the best-known early San Francisco psychedelic posters including many original printings of the most famous early Family Dog images for concerts at the Avalon Ballroom as well as many posters and handbills for other local San Francisco venues such as Winterland. Among these are the world famous, iconic Skeleton and Roses image for the Grateful Dead at the Avalon, Family Dog No. 26, Frankenstein, also for the Dead at the Avalon, Family Dog No. 22 and the Zig-Zag man for Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Avalon, Family Dog No. 14. All of these bear the bottom margin notation “The Bindweed Press“.
