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George Takei 1973 LA City Council Campaign Poster - 17" x 22" - Great Quality For Sale
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George Takei 1973 LA City Council Campaign Poster - 17" x 22" - Great Quality:
$29.95
Taken from "The Trek BBS" website:
Folks may recall that back in 1973, George Takei (“Lieutenant Sulu”) was running for City Councilman in Los Angeles’ 10th City Council district—the City Council district that had become vacant when the City Councilman who had held it previously, Mr. Tom Bradley, was elected Mayor of Los Angeles just a short time earlier; he obviously could no longer be a City Councilman while also being mayor, so Tom Bradley had to vacate the City Council seat. George Takei then ran for Bradley's (now vacant) seat.
In an odd election commission ruling, since the cartoon version of George Takei would be “appearing” in “Beyond the Farthest Star,” right in the middle of the campaign, television station KNBC in Los Angeles would have been obligated to grant “equal time” to all the other candidates running against Mr. Takei in the election. So to circumvent the problem, on September 8, 1973, while the rest of the country saw "Beyond the Farthest Star," KNBC simply aired the episode “Yesteryear” instead—an episode in which, conveniently, Mr. Takei didn't appear. KNBC aired “Yesteryear” again the following Saturday, too—September 15, 1973; Angelenos got the same Star Trek episode two weeks in a row. Fortunately, the City Council election was held on Tuesda,y September 18, 1973 and KNBC didn’t have to do any further episode reshuffling. (By the way: Mr. Takei lost the election to Mr. David Cunningham by 1,675 votes. Cunningham actually had been endorsed for the seat by his predecessor Mayor Tom Bradley--so Cunningham had a bit of an inside track.) It wasn’t until a couple of months later, on December 22, 1973 when “Beyond the Farthest Star” was shown as a re-run for the rest of the country that Angelenos finally got to see that episode. These are technically new posters lying flat since '73 in a controlled environment. Dimensions are 17" x 22" The Main Photo is, of course, the poster without a white border on all edges. The second picture is of the only "tag" on the poster on the lower center "ESSEX 8/73" *** IF YOU DON'T MIND A FEW DINGS VISIT MY PAGE WITH THE TITLE "George Takei 1973 LA City Council Campaign Poster - 17" x 22" - Minor Flaw" and pay $25. Great Quality sent USPS First Class International Customers should know shipping will be handled by Global Shipping Program
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