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avalon theater
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The Grateful Dead recorded two live albums, entitled Vintage Dead and Historic Dead, here in the autumn of 1966.
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Built in 1911 as the Colin Traver Academy of Dance, the Avalon Theater was open from 1966 to 1968, and then again in 2003.
In the 60s, bands that played the Avalon included Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Steve Miller Band, Moby Grape, The Doors, 13th Floor Elevators, The Butterfield Blues Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company, which impresario Chet Helms organized around singer and performer Janis Joplin in the spring of 1966.
Joplin traveled to San Francisco to audition with the band at the Avalon on June 10, 1966. Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company were the house band at the Avalon for much of 1966-67.
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Janis Joplin went to high school at this location when it was known as Thomas Jefferson High School (now known as Thomas Edison Middle School).
By most accounts, Joplin was an awkward teenager and used music as an outlet.
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Janis Joplin attended the Woodrow Wilson Junior High school for grades 7-9. The actual building was badly damaged in 2005 when Hurricane Rita struck. One wing was devastated and was closed off to students for safety reasons.
In 2006, it was demolished to make way for the Carl A. Parker Multipurpose Center on the Lamar State College-Port Arthur campus.
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Janis Joplin went to grades 1-6 at this elementary school. In 1950, she joined the Bluebirds- a junior Camp Fire Girls club.
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