Cool poster for Supremes fans.

[lakeside]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/5579151...ch_query=diana ross and the supremes&ref=sr_gallery-3-11

[nabob]

I always get a kick out of seeing concert posters from back in the day. Very rarely is a year given. I guess these were temporary items meant to draw attention and die.

[marybrewster]

This would have to have been 1969 based on the Sunday, September 28th date. Ironic that they were playing this gig in a gym; just three months later they'd be saying "farewell" in Las Vegas.

[marybrewster]

Funny too, "Someday" was released just two weeks later on October 14th.

[johnjeb]

This would have to have been 1969 based on the Sunday, September 28th date. Ironic that they were playing this gig in a gym; just three months later they'd be saying "farewell" in Las Vegas.

I also saw them in two college gymnasiums the same week in 1969. College gyms were pretty large holding 2,000-4,000 people.

First, at my school the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. It must have been the night before on Saturday, September 27th. [[There was another concert poster for Brown University in Rhode Island for Friday, September 26th.) I don't know why I never remembered the date other than September 1969. It was my first year at that school and I was beside myself that my favorite group was coming. I had just seen them 3 times the month before at the Carousel Music Tent in Framingham, Massachusetts.

However, I do remember the date October 3, 1969, just 6 days later, at Boston College. I had friends at that university who bought us tickets. One friend "swiped" a large cardboard poster off a wall to give to me. There is a concert poster for this appearance online. However, although the poster graphics are similar, the poster I had was a different picture.

It looks like they were playing two shows a night at each location. One concert poster for Brown University in Rhode Island, that I saw online, actually said Final Tour. I don't think I knew at the time, for certain, that it was a final tour.

They did not sing "Someday..." at the shows I saw that week. Although, as stated above, it hadn't been released yet.

The first time I saw The Supremes was February 12, 1966, also in a gym, at Brandeis University in my hometown of Waltham, Massachusetts. [[Even though "My World..." had been out for over a month they didn't sing that song.)