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- OHIO TAVERN NEWS [Group of 22 Issues with Suite of Letterpress Printed Signage].
OHIO TAVERN NEWS [Group of 22 Issues with Suite of Letterpress Printed Signage].
OHIO TAVERN NEWS [Group of 22 Issues with Suite of Letterpress Printed Signage].
A group of 22 issues from 1967-1970 of OHIO TAVERN NEWS, a trade publication first established in 1938 in Columbus by a Mark Flanagan. Each issue is dense with original reporting on topics of prevalence to distillers, brewers, vinters, bar owners, etc... active in the state of Ohio. An issue from September 9, 1969 (Vol. 31, No. 17) contains an editorial by Flanagan directly addressing the contemporary counterculture titled "Tavern is Answer to Youth Problem":
"Flanagan said that recent youth gatherings and the use of "pot and other drugs" has shocked the nation. "In New York it was said that they appeared like locust out of the ground," he stated. "Since so many of these people operate underground, so to speak, their awareness was not obvious to many law enforcement agencies and so called "do gooder" organizations." [...] "young people between the ages of 18 and 21 have been discouraged from entering, visiting, and drinking in taverns, and this has been all wrong as we can plainly see. When the youth of the country have no place to go, they turn to devious methods of obtaining the many different drugs. [...] There has to be some new thinking all along the line, from top to bottom," according to Flanagan, who sees this as the only way of preventing more extensive occurrences such as "rock festivals." (pp. 1-2)
Surviving issues are scarce and the present group includes a fine group of five letterpress printed card signs issued by the News including one declaring a prohibition on dancing. Flanagan passed away in 1974 though the paper seems to have endured in print into at least 2018. OCLC notes only two institutions with holdings: Western Reserve Historical Society with a 20 issue run from 2011-2018 and the Ohio History Connection with a fairly comprehensive run from 1955-2018 (though seemingly lacking of the final 11 issues in the present lot dating from 1969-1970). A list of specific issues available upon request.
FLANAGAN, Mark F. (editor) : [Newspapers] : [Taverns]. OHIO TAVERN NEWS [Group of 22 Issues with Suite of Letterpress Printed Signage]. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Tavern News Publishing Co., (1967-1970). 22 newsprint issues, each in self-wrappers approximately 16 1/2" x 11 1/2." Various paginations from 12pp. to 52pp. Mild handling wear to issues often with mild dampstaining or toning about contents. [WITH] A suite of five letterpress printed signs on card, each approximatealy 9 1/2" x 4 3/4." Issues about good-plus overall ; signs all fine.
A group of 22 issues from 1967-1970 of OHIO TAVERN NEWS, a trade publication first established in 1938 in Columbus by a Mark Flanagan. Each issue is dense with original reporting on topics of prevalence to distillers, brewers, vinters, bar owners, etc... active in the state of Ohio. An issue from September 9, 1969 (Vol. 31, No. 17) contains an editorial by Flanagan directly addressing the contemporary counterculture titled "Tavern is Answer to Youth Problem":
"Flanagan said that recent youth gatherings and the use of "pot and other drugs" has shocked the nation. "In New York it was said that they appeared like locust out of the ground," he stated. "Since so many of these people operate underground, so to speak, their awareness was not obvious to many law enforcement agencies and so called "do gooder" organizations." [...] "young people between the ages of 18 and 21 have been discouraged from entering, visiting, and drinking in taverns, and this has been all wrong as we can plainly see. When the youth of the country have no place to go, they turn to devious methods of obtaining the many different drugs. [...] There has to be some new thinking all along the line, from top to bottom," according to Flanagan, who sees this as the only way of preventing more extensive occurrences such as "rock festivals." (pp. 1-2)
Surviving issues are scarce and the present group includes a fine group of five letterpress printed card signs issued by the News including one declaring a prohibition on dancing. Flanagan passed away in 1974 though the paper seems to have endured in print into at least 2018. OCLC notes only two institutions with holdings: Western Reserve Historical Society with a 20 issue run from 2011-2018 and the Ohio History Connection with a fairly comprehensive run from 1955-2018 (though seemingly lacking of the final 11 issues in the present lot dating from 1969-1970). A list of specific issues available upon request.
FLANAGAN, Mark F. (editor) : [Newspapers] : [Taverns]. OHIO TAVERN NEWS [Group of 22 Issues with Suite of Letterpress Printed Signage]. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Tavern News Publishing Co., (1967-1970). 22 newsprint issues, each in self-wrappers approximately 16 1/2" x 11 1/2." Various paginations from 12pp. to 52pp. Mild handling wear to issues often with mild dampstaining or toning about contents. [WITH] A suite of five letterpress printed signs on card, each approximatealy 9 1/2" x 4 3/4." Issues about good-plus overall ; signs all fine.