Chester typed this on the back of CC-221a ("The Pow Wow"). Here, the verso is blank except for this note:
we were going to start a daily newspaper, & this was to be in the first issue, but we ran out of ink. By the time we had more ink, we realized that, both being new to the scene, we didn't have the reportorial staff & community cooperation needed for a daily paper, so we're still going to start one someday. There were more than 25,000 hippies present, turning on & happy at the Human Be-In. The poster for the Be-In, included herewith, is typical Haight/Ashbury poster art. Now very famous, all these hippie posters.
(The mystery sky diver, it turns out, was Owsley Stanley, San Francisco's major manufacturer of black market acid.) |