The Official Dave Rabbit Sweatshirt
Shortly after Dave
Rabbit
came forward in February 2006 to claim the glory that is his,
he produced the graphical representation below of the design on the
Official Dave Rabbit Sweatshirt. In his autobiography, Dave
explained that he and his partners had about 250 of the sweatshirts
made by local merchants and sold in the streets of Saigon to promote
their underground radio station. The designs on the shirts were
all hand-drawn, so each shirt was a unique piece of art.
Unfortunately, no one has yet to produce an original Official Dave
Rabbit Sweatshirt, so it seems likely that the original ones produced
in 1971 have been lost to the sands of time. The
address to which you were to "send a postcard along with $2.98" to get
your very own Official Dave Rabbit Sweatshirt that Dave gave in the advertisement
for the shirts was completely fabricated, so the only way you could
have bought one of these beauties was on the streets of Saigon while
they lasted.
According to one Vietnam Veteran
and fan of Radio First Termer who visited the Radio First Termer Home
Page many years ago,
In regard to the Dave Rabbit Sweat-shirts, the running story I had was
it was a green skivy with a peace symbol on the back and a playboy bunny
vest pocket emblem - all hand drawn. I think it was supposed to be used
also. Which means of course it would have been rather ripe.
Anyway, here is Dave's
graphical
representation of the design on the Official Dave Rabbit Sweatshirt:
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