Including Ephemera, Broadsides, Posters, Street Sheets, Collections, etc. for the
San Francisco Diggers, Communication Company, Free City Collective,
Kaliflower Intercommunal Network, Free Print Shop, Planetedge Manifestation,
Earth/Life Defense Commune, &c.
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Cat. No.: CC-255 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/23/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Comm Comp. Collation: This page has normal (letter) orientation.. Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: Announces "Free Lawyers (your cases handled free)" with several phone numbers listed, both daytime and nights. Address listed: 901 Cole Street, Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:00 pm. Imprint is lower right corner on this side of B.S. Lettering is hand drawn, with several reverse swastikas as background.
Cat. No.: CC-057 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester and Claude Hayward. N.d., ca. 4/24/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: the com co a member of the Underground Press Syndicate. Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(L). Abstract: Blasts the underground press for not covering the story of the manager of the Committee being set up for a pot bust by two members of the Lovin' Spoonful.
"Either the Underground Press Syndicate means something, in which case we expect to see full coverage of this hypocrisy, or else [it] is nothing more than the same old America shit in a bright new polyethylene extruded psychedelic wrapper."
Note: Letterhead logo of ComCo at top of sheet. Signed by both authors.
Cat. No.: CC-006 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 4/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc.ups.hps.aid.dds. Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(L). Abstract: 'Psychedelic Sexualis' showing at The Movie, 1034 Kearny every 90 minutes. ".. just say, 'Ramparts sent me.' and you'll get in free!!!!!!!! the management requests that you refrain from hissing and booing while the show is in progress."
Note: Dating based on first advertisement of the movie in the San Francisco Chronicle (April 27, 1967, p. 44).
Cat. No.: CC-256 Full record BibCit: 4/27/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Communication Co.. Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: Announcement for a Digger poetry reading featuring Lenore Kandel, Richard Brautigan, William Fritsch, at "Deno and Carlo, 728 Vallejo Street." "Young Digger Poets Bring Your Poems and read them." Imprint is lower right corner. All lettering is hand drawn, mostly in script. Drawing in middle of sheet appears to be similar to William Blake illustrations.
Cat. No.: CC-179 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: A benefit to get the Black House out of jail, to be held 28 Apr 1967 at 1711 Broderick. $2 donation.
Cat. No.: CC-194 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Ye Pa. Three-hole punch on left margin.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Program announcements for a 25-seat theater at 6112 Geary Boulevard, opening 28 Apr 1967.
Cat. No.: DP-017a/b Full record BibCit: By Emmett Grogan. n.d., ca. 4/29/1967. Manuscript. Collation: Handwritten; 2 pages. Collection: SOLA-x(PB). Abstract: This letter from Emmett Grogan to Peter Berg appears to come from the same New Mexico interval described in Ringolevio, when Emmett left San Francisco with Larry Little Bird and spent time at El Rito, hunting, camping, and trying to step outside the escalating pressures of the Haight. Written in Grogan’s compressed, half-mystical, half-mocking style, the letter moves between wilderness observation, self-scrutiny, gossip about Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, and a sharp report on a proposed New Mexico Be-In that he sees as another merchant “shuck.” Its most useful historical detail may be the way it connects Grogan’s absence from San Francisco to continuing Digger strategy: he tells Berg to make the Solstice in the park “more,” to “punch the media in the face,” and to expose the commercialization of the Be-In idea. The letter shows Grogan not as having withdrawn from the Digger scene, exactly, but as thinking from a distance—using New Mexico as a place of testing, estrangement, and renewed tactical imagination.
Note: Mentions the Saturday, April 29, 1967 meeting with the Hopi. See CC-036a/b.
Cat. No.: CC-217 Full record BibCit: 5/1/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: 1/c: Gr.. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Announcing a free dinner at 1010 Gough Street, 7pm, "tonight."
Cat. No.: CC-220 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/1/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Title and address [of the Free Store]: COLE & CARL STREETS. Printed over a photo-repro of a man's face (Lenny Bruce?) Trans title is extent of text.
Cat. No.: CC-257 Full record BibCit: 5/1/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COMMUNICATION COMPANY (hdw). Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: Listing of activities at the Straight Theater's Drama Studio, Dance Studio, and Studio III for May to May 7, 1967. Lists names of workshop coordinators, including Kevin, Oscar Criner, Olaf Odegaard, Joe Gostanian, Ama, John Birrell, Caitlin Huggins, Peter Swain, Peggy Mundt, Molly Huggins, Jane Lapiner, and Pat Omirers. Imprint is hand lettered at bottom of first page. Address of Straight Theater: 1748 Haight Street, 387-5074.
Cat. No.: CC-291 (a-c) Full record BibCit: By Brilliant, Ashleigh E.. n.d., ca. 5/1/1967. Leaflet. Lt.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: 2 sht., 3 pp.. Collection: SOLA-o(SB). Abstract: Presented to the Haight-Ashbury Town Hall Meeting, May 1967. Researched and written by Ashleigh E. Brilliant.
Cat. No.: DP-016 (ComCo?) Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/1/1967. Broadside. Imprint: the diggers. Collection: SOLA-o. Abstract: This tiny sheet may refer to Emmett Grogan’s return from New Mexico in early May 1967. In Ringolevio, Emmett leaves the Haight with Larry Little Bird after the unsettling episode of the anonymous pistol and note left in the Free Food truck, and later describes hitchhiking back to San Francisco after a month away. Seen in that light, “Emmett Grogan / is / Back!” is immediately undercut by the Digger answer: “so what.” The point is not that Emmett’s return was unimportant, but that the Diggers were not Emmett, and the work had not waited for him. The sheet is a small but pointed anti-celebrity gesture, insisting that the Diggers remained collective, anonymous, and in motion.
Note: This sheet appears in the Chester Anderson Papers of Communication Company sheets that he sent his archivist. There is no ComCo imprint which doesn't necessarily mean it was not printed by them.
Cat. No.: CC-259 Full record BibCit: 5/4/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company [presumably]. Imprint: None, presumably ComCo. Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: A letter from the owner of David L. Rothkop, of the I-Thou Coffe House, 1736 Haight Street, calling for a coming together of the diverse elements among the Haight merchants, including the "old guard" Merchants Association and the new hip merchants. Criticizes the hippies for their naïve belief in "drugs-as-panacea" as well as the reactionary elements of the Merchants Association who blocked Moe's Bookstore's request for a second-hand permit.
Cat. No.: CC-234 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/5/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COM CO. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-020 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC(UPS). Collection: SOLA-o($) | SOLA-x(SS) |SS-o(T). Abstract: Collage of newspaper clippings: A Congressional Call to 'Forget U.S. Constitution, Bombs Directed at Civilians, Police Chief Alarmed by Panthers. Cartoon shows cop chasing demonstrators chasing a Black Panther, with two straights looking on.
Note: Title in bold letters, with quotation marks: "Things .. control". Dating source: All three excerpts of news articles appeared in the May 6, 1967, issue of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Cat. No.: CC-033 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 5/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-o(DW) | SS-L. Abstract: "Last January I asked the I Ching to comment on the subject: 'This summer & the revolution.' Five minutes ago, without knowing what I'd done .. Claude did exactly the same thing. .. Both times .. the Oracle gave the same reading."
Notes on the I Ching hexagrams received - #64 (Before Completion) leading to #1 (The Creative). "This is the reading that, last January, underlay the forming of the communication company.. Be advised."
Note: "printed in awe by the communication (ups) be ye therefore joyful be advised" Hexagram diagrams are typewritten.
Cat. No.: CC-034 Full record BibCit: 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(L). Abstract: Science-fiction like teletype instructions: "A.) All centers. Initiate condition aleph. Foreplay operations in effect, blue zones, cycling. Projective techniques authorized, discouraged. Street consolidation in progress. .."
"retyped and printed 5/8/67 by the communication company (u.p.s.) we're out of vynltronic stencils. be advised. having to retype all this nonsense is a drag."
Cat. No.: CC-048 Full record BibCit: By Cummings, E. E.. 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-o(DW) | SS-xB. Abstract: Two poems by E. E. Cummings, and a poem about the upcoming summer solstice celebration: ".. merging of the tribes hear the solstice moving through the year miracles are coming with the moon be aware".
Note: "set forth 5/8/67 by the communication company (u.p.s.) be advised"
Cat. No.: CC-035 Full record BibCit: By Bryant, Melvin D.. 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC (UPS). Collation: 1/c black ink on green paper. Collection: SOLA-o(DW) | SS-o(L). Abstract: Poem. "Through my fingers run sand belonging to, the land -- through which I'm a marching. .. Before us our friends will tell of cities that have fell, without the use of gun or harming anyone, for love is our lord and master - we are growing strong.."
"A song by one of the more than 10,000 brothers now in U.S. prisons because of the drug laws---"
Note: Imprint, note on origin - typewritten. Text - handlettered. Title in block letters.
Cat. No.: CC-037 Full record BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: ComCo (ups). Collection: SOLA-o(DW) | SS-o(L). Abstract: "I'LL RECAPITULATE. BUT FIRST -- BRO. AGAINST BRO., ALMOST, IN USA. (BLOODLESS FOR MOST PART) CIVIL WAR AS RITE RITE CLEANS UP FOR YEAR OR MORE -- I.E. R. REAGAN AS GOVERNOR HAS ALREADY APPOINTED BIG BUSINESS/MAN AS LABOR COMMISIONER.."
"..GET THE IDEA? --THEN, LATE '68 -- NOT SLOW, BUT FAST ADJUSTMENT AS NEW AWAKENING SPREADS THROUGHOUT OUR CULTURE -- MEANTIME, WATCHOUT, FISHES COMING TO THE SURFACE ARE TO BE CAUGHT.."
Note: Grogan in _Ringolevio_ (p. 311) says this was a letter from Cassady (in Mexico) to Ginsberg, reprinted by ComCo.
Cat. No.: CC-038a Full record BibCit: 5/10/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./2 pp.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(T). Abstract: Editorial on the merchants, the Thelins, Council for a Summer of Love, response to "Uncle Tim'$ Children", the diggers, money and greed. Subtitle: "Public Acts Are Public Knowledge | Love Is What You Do Not what you say."
"Money is energy. Energy must flow. If you hold on to it you get burned. .. Moneylust is sickness. It kills perception. Everyone is entitled to make a living, a good living, but everything more than a living is dying."
Cat. No.: CC-038b Full record BibCit: 5/10/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./2 pp.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(T).
Cat. No.: CC-226 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/11/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COM CO, UPS, HPS. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-155 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Printed in landscape mode. 2/C (Bl Be on Be Pa). Title in psychedelic lettering. Graphic of face collage depicting various objects and symbols.. Collection: SS-o(TR) | SOLA-o(?). Abstract: Announces an Amerindian happening "Blanket Mask Feather" at John Adams School, sponsored by Haight-Ashbury Happening House.
Cat. No.: CC-263 Full record BibCit: 5/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: ComCo. Collection: SOLA-o($). Abstract: Announces a free event at Alamo Park with "R&B - Rock - Blues | Soul" Saturday, May 13. "Bring yourself to it / Let's do it forever".
