Deadheads are a community that transcends all walks of life. Where we live, what we do, and what kind of jobs we have. There is a link to one another through the music, lyrics and experiences that is intangible.
“Strangers Stopping Strangers… just to shake their hands” is a community where Deadheads can pop in to listen to the podcasts with the stories and music that share what brought them down this Long Strange Trip and check out what some of our friends in the community are up to.
We are also working with Deadhead friends and family vendors that offer photography, books, clothing, accessories, and jewelry that we have curated together and are available to purchase in their shops.
Please check us out, and let’s enjoy this journey…..
— You just gotta poke around…
Susana Millman is a San Francisco photographer, specializing in Grateful Dead photos, concert photography, music and dance photos, and world travel photos, especially Asian religion – Buddhist, Hindu, Jain. A second edition of Alive with the Dead: A Fly on the wall with a Camera, her well reviewed IPPY award winning coffee table photo memoir, has been published by Last Gasp Press.
Jayli Imports is a small family owned business. Jayli began, as we say, “Out of the Dust of the Dead”.
The journey first started after Jay, from Northern California, met Liora, from Cape Town, South Africa, in India, while both were travelling the world. Soon after, Jayli was born. We started out by selling our wares at farmers markets and Grateful Dead shows. Before we knew it, we had our first wholesale account and we grew from there.
We’ve travelled to Nepal and Thailand every year for 18 years and have worked with the same manufacturers for that time. All the factories with which we work are small family owned and run businesses, just like ours. We have developed great personal and working relationships with our manufacturers, their employees and their families.
While in Nepal and Thailand, we spend hours in the factories, with the master cutters, tailors, embroiderers, tie dyers and packers, to design and manufacture the highest quality, hippie dresses, hippie pants, hippie skirts, patchwork clothing, purses, bags and accessories.
All Jayli garments are Consciously Made and Fairly Traded.
Peace, Love and Jayli
Stella Blue Design was founded in 2008 by Angela Gianfrancesco.
Angela is passionate about all things jewelry, a lover of bohemian and vintage vibes, and a firm believer that music is life. “Angie,” (as many of her friends call her), would say she is dead to the core with “rings on her fingers, and bells on her shoes.”
Stella Blue Design was launched in 2008 and as a trademarked jewelry collection, with a commitment to working with conflict-free and certified stones to create her own one of a kind custom pieces. The pieces in the SBD collection are made with the highest quality gemstones, materials and metals, with an attention to detail and a commitment to produce jewelry that lasts a lifetime. Some of Angela’s favorite gemstones to work with include Labradorite, Moonstone, Druzy, Chrysoprase, Sleeping Beauty Turquoise, Tourmalated Quartz, and Rutilated Quartz. Stella Blue Design is best described as eclectic, sophisticated, natural, and will leave you with nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile…
Angela creates staple pieces that are perfect for everyday ~ as well statement pieces that are wearable art, and for those that are “not like other girls.” Stella Blue Design is now one of the most unique and sought after brands in a variety of Chicago boutiques and retail stores, including Macy’s flagship location on State Street. Angela is grateful for music, friends and family that have fueled her dream.
All the years combine, they melt into a dream…that is Stella Blue Design.
Bob Minkin is a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer.
Bob has photographed thousands of concerts in clubs and arenas across the USA and Europe. His photographs have been featured in many books and publications such as Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Relix Magazine, Marin Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Guitar World, Guitar Player and in music CDs and DVDs. Photographs are available for licensing.
Bob’s latest coffee table photography book, Just Jerry was published in October 2019. His previous books, The Music Never Stopped was published in 2017. His first book Live Dead, The Grateful Dead Photographed by Bob Minkin, was published in 2014.
Bob is also a partner in Minkin Design + Marketing, a web design and marketing company.
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, he lives with his family in Marin County and enjoys hiking on the many trails of Marin and piloting his Piper Cherokee airplane whenever he can, usually with his camera close by.
Linda Kelly experienced her first concert when she was 15 — the Sex Pistols’ very last show at the notorious Winterland — and has been a great lover of music ever since. She majored in journalism at San Francisco State University and has been a writer/editor for the likes of Spin Magazine, Mix Magazine, Quokka Sports, Lucasfilm, Astrology.com/NBC Universal, and even penned lyrics for the Spin Doctors.
After seven years in New York City, she now lives back in her native Bay Area in the Haight-Ashbury district — just blocks away from the Grateful Dead’s home in the ’60s — where she’s busy collecting more experiences and stories to share. As Bob Dylan once told her while on tour in 1989, “You gotta do something!”
Through sweet synchronicity, she had the divine, beautiful, weird, hilarious pleasure of hanging and grooving and dancing and laughing with Jerry and Bobby and a few of their colorful cohorts for a good spell in New York and California. The time spent being in that wildly unique mix of fine folks is the fodder and inspiration for this book — and for which she is infinitely grateful.