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==Later years== Helms left the concert business in 1970,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/27/arts.usa|title=Summer of Love's father dies at 62|agency=Associated Press|date=June 26, 2005|access-date=October 24, 2016|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Helms+dies,+aged+62.-a0133560016 |title=Helms dies, aged 62. - Free Online Library |website=Thefreelibrary.com |access-date=October 24, 2016 }}</ref> except for managing a few later events: Tribal Stomp<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G7OBQFK|title=Chet Helms Tribal Stomp by Family Dog|access-date=October 24, 2016|website=Amazon}}</ref> at Berkeley's Greek Theater (1978), Tribal Stomp II at the [[Monterey County Fairgrounds]] (1979), a concert series at San Francisco's Maritime Hall in 1995 under the Family Dog name, and a 30th Anniversary celebration<ref name="auto1"/> of the [[Summer of Love]] in Golden Gate Park (1997),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-03-mn-28329-story.html|title=S.F.'s Summer of Love Going Gray at 30|first=Maria L.|last=La Ganga|date=September 3, 1997|access-date=October 24, 2016|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> a free event attended by 60,000 people.<ref name="chethelmsbio200805052">{{cite web |url=https://chethelmsbio.wordpress.com/2008/05/page/2/ |title=The Chet Helms Chronicles |date=May 5, 2008 |website=Wordpress.com |access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/31/BAGT3FGDR81.DTL/#TL|title="Chet Helms, aka Family Dog, celebrated along with his era"|website=Sfgate.com|access-date=October 20, 2023}}</ref> Helms became an accomplished art dealer,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/60s-era-Promoters-Back-in-the-Limelight-3021267.php|title=60s-era Promoters Back in the Limelight|website=Sfgate.com|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> selling American and European paintings<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ffscat.csail.mit.edu/texts/FFStgall.htm|title=Citations: Art Galleries and Dealers, ...|website=Mit.edu|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> and sculpture at his Atelier Doré<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cwfBAgAAQBAJ&dq=Atelier&pg=PA10|title=San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown|first=Robert J.|last=Chandler|date=January 29, 2014|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=9780806145259|access-date=October 24, 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url =http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/20105419631 | title =Atelier Doré - Poster :''Not A Pretty Picture" - Carl Hoeckner (1883-1972) "The Yes Machine" | last1 =Atelier Doré | last2 =Hoeckner | first2 =Carl | date =July 13, 1984 | publisher =Oakland Museum of California | quote = Poster :''Not A Pretty Picture / Carl Hoeckner (1883-1972) / Social Realism / July 13-July 27" / ... Reception: Friday, July 13, 1984, 6 pm / Atelier Dore Inc. / important American and European art / 771 Bush Street, San Francisco, California 94108 (415) 391-2423 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/9988032/|title=Logansport Pharos-Tribune from Logansport, Indiana|date=October 7, 1983|website=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 20, 2023}}</ref> art gallery on Bush Street in San Francisco, from 1980 until 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.altmanphoto.com/chet_helms.html|title=Chet Helms ~ The Family Dog|website=Altmanphoto.com|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> After suffering a mild stroke he died within days, on June 25, 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/62459/joplin-manager-chet-helms-dies|title=Joplin Manager Chet Helms Dies|website=Billboard.com|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref><ref>Aidin Vaziri and Jim Herron Zamora, "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/26/HELMS.TMP Chet Helms – legendary S.F. rock music producer]," San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 2005.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chet-Helms-celebrated-S-F-rock-music-producer-2659932.php|title=Chet Helms -- celebrated S.F. rock music producer|website=Sfgate.com|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/arts/music/chet-helms-dies-at-62-father-of-san-franciscos-summer-of-love.html?nytmobile=0 |title=Chet Helms Dies at 62; Father of San Francisco's Summer of Love|work=The New York Times |date=June 28, 2005 |agency=The Associated Press|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> Helms is memorialized in a "bright niche decorated with photographs and memorabilia" at the [[Neptune Society Columbarium]].<ref>SF Chronicle, July 25, 2010. "Where to Find Celebrities' Resting Places" by Charlie Wells</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://chethelms.org/|title=Chester Leo Helms 1942-2005|website=Chethelms.org|access-date=October 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512080802/http://chethelms.org/|archive-date=May 12, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/mr-summer-of-love-dies-at-62-1-717754 |title='Mr Summer of Love' dies at 62|website=Scotsman.com |access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2005/06/26/revered-father-of-summer-of-love-dies-in-s-f-at-62/ |title=Revered father of 'Summer of Love' dies in S.F. at 62 |date= 2005-06-26 |work=East Bay Times |access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref>
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