This photo was taken on August 5, 1977, in the San Francisco offices of Rolling Stone on the last closing night (issue No. 247) before the magazine relocated to New York. From left to right: Virginia Team, Susan Vermazen, Susan Hemphill, Wendy Stahl, unidentified, Nancy Butkus, Mary Shanahan. I don’t know any of these people (apparently the rank and file of the art and production departments); on the other hand, I feel like I know them all.
I was the Associate Production Manager and Mary Shananhan, far right, was the Production Manager. Mary later became the Art Director at RS, then GQ and French Vogue. I later became the AD at New West magazine, started by Clay Felker of New York Magazine, and The New York Observer. Mary and I are the only ones not stoned here–we had to get the issue out!