4/28/70 "Dragon Card" Mailed to the SF Chronicle - Zodiac Discussion Forum

Does the folded card give a clue?

BDHolland — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:05:37 +0000

I was wondering if you fold the card does the Zodiac symbol overlap with writing on the other side? If it underlines or circles a word inside that could be interesting. I don't have high enough resolution of the inside writing to carry it out but I think the fold lines seem quite visible in some scans.

Could be interesting or nothing depending on what might turn up.

May 1st, 1970 Los Angeles Evening Citizen News

Coffee Time — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:44:23 +0000

This was possibly the only newspaper that showed the Dragon Card...? Didn't see it in the Chronicle or Vallejo threads. Clicked all over Newspapers.com. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7307081 ... izen-news/

Melvin Eats Bluber

entropy — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:43:26 +0000

I have no idea why this question popped into my mind but does anyone know anything more about the "Melville Eats Blubber" buttons that Zodiac is referencing here? I know it's a reference to Moby Dick, of course, but what exactly was this button attempting to convey, who the hell would wear it and why? In doing a bit of googling, it seems that the Melville Eats Blubber buttons, like the peace sign and Black Power buttons also mentioned by Z, are described as "Hippie protest buttons", "favored by at least one college English professor" and apparently sold in "underground counterculture stores". They were produced by Irwin Weisfeld's Horatio Button Company, which was known for creating other countercultural slogan buttons in the mid to late 60s, and the ones I saw for sale came from small stores in San Francisco. It just seems like a rather curious and obscure reference from Z, IMO, and why is he focused on these countercultural protest buttons? He indicates that "everyone has these (countercultural protest) buttons and would be "cheered up considerably" if people wore Zodiac buttons instead, which he never elaborates on. I know most folks think he changed the slogan to Melvin as a purposeful reference to Melvin Belli but I honestly wonder if this wasn't just a slip of the pen from somebody who may have already been focused on Belli. If it was intentional, what would this be trying to convey to Belli? He also states that he wants to "see nice Zodiac butons wandering about town", which to me would most likely be referring to San Francisco rather than Vallejo or anywhere else since SF was the center of countercultural protest and he had sent two letters in the past week to the SF Chronicle FROM San Francisco. To me, this seems to indicate that he is spending a good bit of quality time in the town of San Francisco and then complains two months later that he is not seeing anyone wearing his ill-defined "Zodiac buttons". Perhaps I need to go back to read Moby Dick to get the countercultural message here?

4/28/70 "Dragon Card" Mailed to the SF Chronicle PHOTOS

morf13 — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:09:09 +0000

Photos and Discussion

Tahoe27 — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:16:23 +0000

Moved from old mb.

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I don't think I posted this anywhere else. I was lucky enough to come across this other card---same brand and style: I left the handwriting of the sender in there...some similarities, but I don't think it's Zodiac.

7/27/2010

Tahoe, another interesting find. I think I remember you posting that someplace before. There is some similarities in writing, I agree. Did you get it from Ebay?

7/27/2010 [

Yepper! The front of the card, as was Zodiac's, is felt.
Do I dare ask if you know who the seller is, and where they are located?

Montana. I think I have the name somewhere.

Maybe Ted had a garage sale.