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Ashbury Street, just north of Haight, c. 1966.
Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.
Early morning food and paper recycling, c. 1966.
Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.
Diggers "The Were Immigrants"
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Health Department wants it ... sterilized ... underarm control
Juvenile Department wants it ... turned in ... parent control
Parks Department wants it ... walked allnight ... sleep control
Police Department wants it ... surrounded ... riot control
Board of Supervisors wants it ... employed ... yankee tourist control
STERILIZED / TURNED IN / WALKED ALL NIGHT / SURROUNDED / EMPLOYED
& tourists want to ship some back home again in Indiana
& hip merchants only want to sell enough to charge the Navajos
& Life wants to kill some
& BBC wants some for the London Zoo
& straight merchants see through one-way mirrors to property in Marin
DID YOU COME TO BUY SOMETHING?
DID YOU COME TO SELL SOMETHING?
DID YOU COME TO INTERVIEW SOMEBODY?
DID YOU COME TO BE INTERVIEWED?
who's media-money looney trap is this?
got it anyway who wants haight street this summer any way got it?
(& this summer thousands of un-white un-suburban boppers are going to want to know why you've given up what they can't
get & how you get away with it & how come you not a faggot with hair so long & they want haight street one way or the other)
GOT IT ANYWAY WHO WANTS HAIGHT STREET THIS SUMMER ANY WAY GOT IT?
IF YOU DON'T KNOW,
BY AUGUST
HAIGHT STREET WILL BE
A. CEMETARY
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