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-128 Full record BibCit: 2/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus of totem pole at top of page.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Exhorts people to be calm and gentle in the face of harassment. Signed the "Psychedelic Rangers".
Cat. No.: CC-077 Full record BibCit: 2/7/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Communication Company (UPS). Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(M). Abstract: A letter to the people serving on that committee about ideas to improve the neighborhood.
Cat. No.: cc-098a Full record BibCit: 2/7/1967. Broadsheet. Lt. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-o(dw). Abstract: A poem. R.s.:cont.
Cat. No.: CC-025a Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 2/8/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc(u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(T). Abstract: Chester Anderson’s poem turns a deadpan refrain into an ironic account of one of the Haight’s charged marginal spaces. Beginning with “Faggots & dogs” and the blunt observation that “People fuck in the parking lot after dark,” Anderson frames Buena Vista Park as a gay cruising ground, then transforms it into “Middle Earth,” a hilltop landscape of eucalyptus, jacaranda, madrone, darkness, candles, flashlights, incense, music, and communal fantasy. The poem’s repeated claim that “nothing ever happens” is obviously belied by everything that does happen there: sex, wandering, music, enchantment, and the informal queer life of the park. Anderson’s small drawing and caption — “Stacking bricks of acapulco gold in Buena Vista Park” — adds another layer, placing the poem within the drug culture, gay life, and mythic street geography of the Haight in 1967.
Note: Backside reprints two sheets of music: "Nothing [etc.] Faggots + dawgs. Sometimes I play the recorder there."
Cat. No.: CC-025b Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 2/8/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc(u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(T). Abstract: This side reproduces pages from a baroque flute sonata, with Anderson’s handwritten notes repeating the poem’s refrain: “Nothing ever happens in Buena Vista Park. Faggots & dogs. Sometimes I play the recorder there.” Anderson was known as a gay man in the Haight and as a recorder player, so the verso appears to connect the poem directly to his own practice of taking music into the park. The sonata is not just decorative backing; it suggests a performative dimension to the piece, with Buena Vista Park functioning at once as cruising ground, musical setting, and enchanted commons.
Cat. No.: CC-130a Full record BibCit: 2/9/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(?) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Essay by Chester Anderson. R.s.: cont'd.
Cat. No.: CC-142 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 2/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus with logo of S.F. Mime Troupe at top of page.. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS);SOLA-o(SS). Abstract: Announces the show "The Condemned" put on by Mime Troupe. Tickets $2 and $3. Starting Feb. 9.
Cat. No.: CC-x05 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 2/9/1967. Manuscript. Collection: BL/CA-o. Abstract: Dear Thurl, | I did move to San Francisco, 1/7/67. Moved in at this address with Claude & Helene Hayward. | In San Francisco what's happening is a drug-oriented social revolution centered in a neighborhood called Haight/Ashbury (those being the main intersecting streets thereof). A psychedelic community has sprung into existence, based essentially on pot & LSD. (Note: the pill inclosed with this letter is 1000 micrograms of LSD—hereinafter & henceforth called Acid. Divide it in half & share it with thine frau.) The operating principles of this community—more than 20,000 people—are Love & Freedom. ...
Note: Copy of typewritten letter to Thurl from Chester. Thurl was the person Chester called his archivist when I interviewed him in 1976. The letter is dated February 9, 1967. Return address: 406 Duboce Avenue | San Francisco, Calif. [This is a photo of the original in folder 1 (January). A copy of the same one-sheet letter is 1:2/4 in the February folder.] One side.
Cat. No.: CC-163 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 2/11/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(R) | BL/CA-o(1:2/5). Abstract: Invitation to come to Los Angeles for a five-way simultaneous demonstration on 11 Feb 1967. Signed, "The Love Corps."
Note: On the copy at BL/CAP, a note in Chester Anderson's hand: "The only copy I could find of this, which I also didn't write but which explains my Second Notice." See CC-369.
Cat. No.: CC-078 Full record BibCit: 2/16/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Communication Company. Collation: Title is hand-lettered. Two I Ching hexagrams at bottom of page.. Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(M). Abstract: A news "flash" about the U.S. preparing concentration camps for "dangerous elements of the population."
Cat. No.: CC-282 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Lt.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o(BBk). Abstract: A paean to cleanliness amidst a 72-hour event. (Invisible Circus)
Cat. No.: CC-283 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Lt.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o(BBk). Abstract: A hand-drawn map to Playland with squiggles representing waves. (Invisible Circus)
Cat. No.: CC-284 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Lt.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o(BBk). Abstract: A FLASH bulletin at the Invisible Circus.
Cat. No.: CC-290 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Lt.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o(BBk). Abstract: Hand-lelttered announcement. Includes as presenters, also: Lion Priests, The John Dillinger Computor, Clouds, Wind Spinners.
Cat. No.: CC-295 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Glide Churc, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-297 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.s.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: ye pa. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL). Abstract: This typed sheet takes the form of a letter home from “Emil,” who has just arrived in San Francisco and gone to church to please his parents and grandmother. The church turns out to be Glide during the Invisible Circus, and the letter begins to register the event’s strange sacramental theater: the “funny triangular thing” that someone offered Emil as a “blessed sacrament,” elevators, shredded plastic, and other fragments of the happening. As the account proceeds, the words themselves begin to fall apart and drop down the page, echoing the kind of “dropping out” that could follow an LSD experience — not simply leaving school or society, but slipping out of ordinary language, family expectation, and respectable narrative. The page is both a parody of the dutiful letter home and a small performative relic of the Invisible Circus, where the typewriter becomes part of the altered field.
Cat. No.: CC-298 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.s.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: pink pa. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-299 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.s.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: ye pa. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-300 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.s.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: green pa. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-301a Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.S.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: pink pa. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-301b Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.S.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: pink pa. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-302 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.s.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: . Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-303 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. B.s.. Lt.. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: 1/c: pink pa. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
