do you remember Joe Pope?

[WZLX CHACHI]

The late great Joe Pope, who was a local Beatles Hero...he ran the Beatles Fanzine Strawberry Fields, the Beatles Phone and he put together Boston Beatle Coventions in the 70's....The anniversary of Joe's passing ten years ago was this past week...if you have any recollections of Joe, let us know!!

[BeatleJim]

Yup...Joe was a good man.....I went to his 1st Beatles Convention in Boston in 1974...and one of his last in 1986.....he is missed in the Beatles community...

[BeatleJim]

I also subscribed to his fanzine for years...

[WilloughbyWilbury]

Yes I remember Joe,
First learned of him in the Creem (?) magazine article on the first MMT convention
in 1974. (The first Beatles Convention pre dating Beatlefest by a a month or so) I subscribed to SSF and went to his later MMT beatles conventions. He also
"taught' a course on the Beatles in Boston University's "FREE SCHOOL" program
during my Junior year there (one day he had Jerry Rubin as a guest speaker!).
He briefly had a record/memorabila shop on Commonwealth Ave towards Allston
I went to a book signing there for Jurgen Vollmer's book of early rock images
including the Beatles in Hamburg 1960/1.(I think I was the only one to show up)
I also regularly checked out the Beatlephone as i do Whatgoeson.com and
Abbeyrdbeatles page now. Last i had heard of him before he died , he was working on some Beatles fiction he hoped to publish. I began my Beatles hobby with the Red and Blue
anthologies in 1973 so discovering Joe was a part of the making of a life long
pasttime.I still think of joe occassionally and wish he was still here.

[judeela]

Joe Pope was instrumental in making me who I am. I met him in 1968 at the wedding of mutual friends. I saw him most every day after that, until he left on his first Las Vegas trip in 1969. We "watched" the first lunar landing...via a phone call...he watching in Vegas with me watching from MA.

I visited him in Vegas that summer. We stayed at the Circus-Circus motel. Caesar's palace employees were striking, that summer...so I never saw it. For the next few years he sent me postcards of Caesar's Palace with: "Caesar's Palace...one of the few hotels that people from all over the world come to see." And...in my travels...over 20 years...I sent postcards to him at his parents' address: "Still haven't seen Caesar's!"

It was my 1968 Beetle that brought Joe and me to Woodstock. I typed the first two issues of SFF...and the last time I spoke with Joe was around the time the second issue went on sale at the kiosk in Harvard Square.

Unfortunately, I was out of touch for years. Then I found his webpage. A few weeks after that I logged on to leave a "Caesar's" message, and instead of the cheery orange page, it was black with a flickering flame...he'd passed away.

One of my major "If I could do it over again" moments. If I'd sent him a message, the first time I saw his webpage, I would have been able to chat with him before he left us. He was a very, very special guy and is missed by everyone who knew and loved him.