Tablecloth from night of the Beatles’ last official show is for sale – The Washington Post
After the Beatles played San Francisco’s Candlestick Park in 1966, fans hung around to pick up mementos — tickets stubs, an amplifier cord and even cigarette butts from the stage. It turned out to be the band’s final official concert, imbuing those keepsakes with added meaning.Joe Vilardi, the owner of a catering company in San Francisco, got something more unusual than a cigarette butt. That night, he served the band their preconcert meal — roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, a stuffed baked potato, salad and a French pastry, which the band “devoured” over a white tablecloth they splattered with gravy, the San Francisco Chronicle reported at the time. On the tablecloth, they also drew “doodles of psychedelic persuasion” and signed the impromptu artwork, according to the Chronicle.
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