2010.54.792

Fly Heroin Airlines
1967
20 in HIGH x 13 in WIDE
(50.80 cm HIGH x 33.02 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.792

Bottom edge has: "(c) Esoteric Poster Co., Box 1011 Alhambra, Calif. (1967) gawdawful graphics / Wendell & Klopp"

The poster has an orange background with images and text in blue. The poster has an image of an old airplane flying amidst clouds and banners. The poster reads from top to bottom: "Take a Trip! Fly Easy Credit Plan / Heroin / Fly High... Fly Heroin. .!! / don't fight it, go the way of least... resistance ! / All our Stewardesses Are Heroines / Turn / on to / Snow / today ! / 2 Flights Daily / Mainliner and the Needle / Fly to Euphoria on a Heated Spoon 505; Special Group Trips Arranged... / Airlines". These posters were produced as very early critical parody of the drug culture by the Esoteric Poster Company, but the message was so subtle that they were popular among the very community they sought to mock. Esoteric's founder and owner Howard Moresburg hired graphic artists Roland Crump (a former Disney animator) and Robert Wendell to produce these designs. [LMC]
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