Vintage TRIDENT Restaurant SF Menu Poster GRooVy Calii HiPPie Psychedelic Art

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Vintage TRIDENT Restaurant SF Menu Poster GRooVy Calii HiPPie Psychedelic Art :
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The Trident : Famous Sausalito Waterfront Restaurant w/ties to The Kingston TrioLate 1960s /Early 1970s era Bohemian Flower Child Hangout
Vintage TRIDENT Restaurant Menu GRooVy HiPPie SF Sausalito RnR Psychedelic Art
A large colorful single page menu printed on both sides from The TRIDENT in Sausalito, California. In very good condition with light wear and an edge tear. Measures 12\" wide x 18\" high with wise sayings written all around and through the menu. The cool, hip San Fran Bay waterfront restaurant in Marin County was once owned by The Kingston Trio and the home of many \"private \" parties. Groovy graphics menu is circa 1972 - 1973. Art is said to be by Larry Noogle or Rick Griffin who designed many Fillmore concert handbills of the time.
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The breakfast / brunch / lunch menu is on one side which has brighter colorswith the night time dinner food offerings on the darker purplish dark blue side.The menu is a perfect example of the psychedelic artwork of the era.The stock is heavy and suitable for framing and features artwork typical of late 1960s and early 1970s Woodstock-era rock concert posters and handbills reminiscent ofThe Fillmore Auditorium, Avalon Ballroom and Winterland.
From a 1990 article in The Marin Independent Journal newspaper:
Sausalito’s Trident was THE Place to Be! It was the archetypical fern bar, the creme de la hip Sausalito saloon that floated on sex, drugs, and Rock and Roll. The Trident was open from 1961 to 1980. Launched as a Jazz Club by the Kingston Trio, it was refurbished in 1968 by the group’s manager Frank Werber, who sought to catch the spontaneous, give peace a chance spirit of the day.
It became a mecca for rock stars, celebrities and hipsters, young and old. “It was like riding a hurricane,” says Werber, now 61 and living in Maui. “The Trident was definitely a manifestation of it’s time and a forerunner and trendsetter for multitudes of restaurants, and its effects are still being felt in the cool 1990s. Staffers were like family members who regarded the place as a chapel. It was a spiritual experience.”
The Trident hosted impromptu concerts by the likes of Mick Jagger and Janis Joplin, and threw legendary parties, providing the setting for a scene from Woody Allen’s “Play It Again Sam.” It’s storied attractions included platoons of attractive waitresses hired as much for their good looks as their ability to charm customers. Robin Williams, then a struggling comedian, worked there for a time as a busboy, getting the job “because of his antics,” Werber said.
Employees were hired after Trident executives reviewed Polaroid pictures of them. A prospect’s persona was also critical. Among the Trident’s hallmarks were handcrafted wood, stained glass, art and music. Organic food laced an eclectic menu. The menu – a psychedelic work of art that now sells for $100 a print – exclaimed: “Welcome to our space. Positive energy projection is the trip.”
Located at 558 Bridgeway beneath the old Ondine’s and now the home of Horizons, the Trident was favored by Woody Allen, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Smothers, Groucho Marx, David Crosby,Steven Stills, Pink Floyd, Allan Watts, and scores of other noted than 3 decades later, reading the food prices on the menu is entertainment in itself: On the breakfast and lunch side of the menu: Vege-burger plate: $2.65, Quiche: $2.25, Trident Health Shake: $1.50, herb teas: 65 cents a pot, whole raw milk: 60 cents a glass. On the dinner side: Palapa Prawns: $3.95, sauteed boneless chicken: $4.35, Perrier Natural Bottled Water: $1.00, espresso: 50 cents. \"Booze\": Jamaican Coffee: $1.75, Beer on tap: 75 cents, house wine - $1.25 a 1/4 litre, Boozy Smoothies anyone? Lots of earthy and organic food fare.This late 1960s - early 1970s style psychedelic artwork is a shining example of the San Franciso Bay Area, back then the center of the hippy universe...and coincidentally was popular at the same time as the now famous - again - Big Eyes paintings of SF artist Margaret Keane. The Trident art features, on the breakfast, brunch & lunch side - a sun at top with new age spiritual symbols - yin yang, peace - nature and earthy themes - magic mushrooms, palms or cannibus sativa leaves, sprouts etc. - mysticism, alternative religions, rainbows, flowers - golden poppies, morning glories -and animals of all kinds. The dinner side of the menu is in darker but vibrant colors and features a starry night sky with a moon and Egyptian, hippies, Native American Indian, Astronomy and Wicca imagery and perhaps a dozen or so subliminal imagery and quotes / messages... an owl for wisdom, Stonehenge, very fine condition with no apparent concerns. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions. !