The Rooms We Lost: Archive Editions

Some rooms disappear and take a piece of the city with them.

The Rooms We Lost: Archive Editions is a limited series of museum-grade giclée prints documenting the venues that became part of music history before the doors closed for good.

Each edition records the room itself: its address, the years it operated, a short history and selected performances that still follow the place around long after the marquee came down.

Every venue is limited to 50 copies.

Each order also includes a separately mailed CouchLot archive pack with an individually numbered edition placard and a souvenir ticket stub tied to one historic night at the venue.

Printed on archival museum-grade paper with a matte finish.

When all 50 are gone, that edition closes.

First editions: Fillmore East. Wetlands Preserve. Winterland Ballroom.

HOW AN ARCHIVE EDITION WORKS

50 COPIES

Each venue design is released in a strictly limited edition of 50.

The same edition will not be quietly reprinted later.

NUMBERED ARCHIVE PLACARD

The print itself is produced on demand, so the unique edition number lives on a separate CouchLot archive placard.

Your placard is individually numbered from 01/50 through 50/50 and mailed directly by CouchLot.

ONE NIGHT FROM THE ROOM

Every Archive Edition also includes an original CouchLot souvenir ticket tied to one documented historic show at the venue.

A room on the wall.

One night from inside it.

The placard and souvenir ticket are mailed separately from the art print and may arrive at a different time. Print is shipped rolled in a tube, frames not included.

Rooms we lost

FILLMORE EAST

105 SECOND AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY

1968–1971

Three years. One address. An absurd amount of music.

Fillmore East barely made it past its third birthday.

That was enough time for Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Derek and the Dominos, Miles Davis, The Who and plenty of others to pass through the room.

Edition of 50.

Archive pack includes:
Numbered edition placard + Allman Brothers Band souvenir ticket from March 13, 1971.

BUY THE FILLMORE EAST EDITION

Rooms we lost

WETLANDS PRESERVE

161 HUDSON STREET • NEW YORK CITY

1989–2001

Before the scene got bigger, there was 161 Hudson Street.

Wetlands was never just another downtown club.

Larry Bloch opened it in Tribeca as a music venue and environmental activism center, then watched an entire scene begin to gather around the room.

Phish played an early New York show there. Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, God Street Wine, Widespread Panic and The Disco Biscuits became part of its orbit.

Edition of 50.

Archive pack includes:
Numbered edition placard + Phish souvenir ticket from March 4, 1989.

BUY THE WETLANDS EDITION

Rooms we lost

WINTERLAND BALLROOM

2000 POST STREET • SAN FRANCISCO

CLOSED 1978

An old ice rink that became one of rock's great rooms.

Winterland started as a skating rink.

By the late 1960s it had become one of Bill Graham's essential San Francisco concert halls, big enough for major acts but still strange and loose enough to feel like a ballroom rather than an arena.

Edition of 50.

Archive pack includes:
Numbered edition placard + Phish souvenir ticket from March 4, 1989.

BUY THE WINTERLAND EDITION
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$2 from every order goes back to the music community.

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$1 to Unison Fund. $1 to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund.

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