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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-354 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-355 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-356 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-357 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-358 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) | BL-o(CAP-F08-74).
Cat. No.: CC-359 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: brown, leather-finish stock. Collection: SOLA-ph(BL).
Cat. No.: CC-361 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-x(MM)-enh. Abstract: Carl Rosenberg is possibly likely the person who introduced tie-dying to the hippie community via the Trip Without A Ticket free store, which itself became a nexus for learning this textile craft that became a standard fashion in the counterculture. Carl's workshop is scheduled to take place at the Invisible Circus on Saturday, the second day of the 72-hour happening.
Cat. No.: CC-362 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collection: SOLA-x(MM)-enh.
Cat. No.: CC-363 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Letter size. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collation: printed landscape. Collection: SOLA-x(MM)-enh.
Cat. No.: CC-364 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Letter size. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collection: SOLA-x(MM)-enh.
Cat. No.: CC-365 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Broadside. Letter size. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collection: SOLA-x(MM)-enh.
Cat. No.: CC-366 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 2/24/1967. Letter size. Glide Church, San Francisco: Communication Company (as The John Dillinger Computer). Collection: SOLA-x(MM)-enh.
Cat. No.: CC-182 Full record BibCit: 2/25/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: ?. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Invisible Circus I Ching reading and announcement of activities taking place in different parts of town. Note: no Com/Co imprint.
Cat. No.: CC-137 Full record BibCit: By Diggers. n.d., ca. 3/1/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: THE D I G G E R S. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS);SOLA-o(KP, PW, $, 3 cop). Abstract: Diatribe against the commodification of hippie culture, attacking paid spectacles like the Love Circus for turning collective experience, style, and “trip” into cash. Contrasting the Diggers’ tradition of free events with commercial exploitation, it warns that buying a ticket means surrendering the spirit of freedom and sharing to the marketplace. "Whose trip are you paying for? How long will you tolerate people (straight or hip) transforming your trip into cash? Suckers buy what lovers get for free." Signed, The Diggers.
Cat. No.: CC-276 Full record BibCit: n.d, ca. 3/1/1967. Broadside. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o(BB). Abstract: Announces ticket sales for upcoming performances by the Mime Troupe.
Cat. No.: CC-296 Full record BibCit: By [Willard Bain, anon.]. (Month of) 3/1/1967. Book. Letter size. 72 leaves (cover + 140 pp.). San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: Manuscript Editions Number One | The ComCo. Collation: Issued as loose sheets in a clear plastic enclosure.. Abstract: Informed Sources is a novel by Willard Bain (not attributed in this first edition) that used a series of Associated Press–style dispatches to expose how language and news media function as instruments of social control, and to imagine their seizure and transformation by revolutionary forces. The book is framed as the internal information network of the Peripheral Underground Movement (PUM), a parody of and challenge to establishment wire services. Its “dispatches” follow multiple stories at once, including sensational, distorted crime items and countervailing bulletins, making visible how the media define reality by selecting, angling, and repeating information in ways that keep people “chained to capitalism and to consumer consciousness.”
Drawing on a "post-Burroughs" and "post-McLuhan" sensibility (as John Sinclair wrote in a review), Bain mimics the cadence, typography, and language of the mainstream press in order to show that whoever controls information flow also controls the limits of possible action. Within the novel’s world, the alternative service Informed Sources initially merely reproduces the “decadent form” of the establishment media, but it is ultimately infiltrated and overthrown by “Green Dreams,” a purer revolutionary current that represents the conscious transformation rather than the continuation of existing media forms.
Note: This is the first edition, with no indication of authorship on the cover nor the imprint page. A second edition with the author's name (Willard Bain) and date of 9/67 appeared, also by The Communication Company, with the notation, "Printed in and around San Francisco ..." In 1969, Doubleday published the third edition in a trade paperback. See John Sinclair's review in: Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969.
Cat. No.: CC-009 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 3/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc.u.p.s. Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-o(L). Abstract: Photo reprint of news clip, "FBI's List of 'Radical Subversives'" tells of plans to round up radicals during a national disaster. ComCo editorial elaborates the implications for "all of us who smoke a little pot & dig a little peace". I Ching reading. "Because dope is political, & don't you forget it. Anything that criticizes the Establishment & its asinine war & power games is political -- subversive! -- and taking dope is an act of criticism."
Note: Dating comes from an SF Examiner article from March 2, 1967, reporting on the meeting of the California Civil Defense and Disaster Directors Association.
Cat. No.: CC-079 Full record BibCit: 3/2-3/67 3/2/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: communication company member of the .... Collection: SOLA-x(SS) | SS-x(M). Abstract: A "flash" about the upcoming First Annual Love Circus which the diggers are threatening to picket.
Cat. No.: CC-138 Full record BibCit: 3/3/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: With phone numbers to call to help out.
Cat. No.: CC-270 Full record BibCit: By Durham, Lewis. 3/3/1967. Broadside. Lt.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o(RS). Abstract: Reproduces a letter of appreciation from the director of the Glide Urban Center for the Invisible Circus.
Cat. No.: CC-132a Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/5/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus. with 3 hexagrams.. Collection: SOLA-o | SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Announces a REAL rock dance directed by Chester Anderson at California Hall for 3/5/67, $2.50. R.s.: cont'd.
Note: From an Ebay auction description: This is a super rare original handbill for "Bedrock One" in a rare variant color (deep gold) - most of the handbills for this event are light green. This was supposed to have been a Digger’s event, however, The Diggers disavowed any connection and as a result many copies of the handbill have text overprinted on the back stating it is not a Digger’s event. This handbill is blank on the back.
Bedrock One which took place on March 5th, 1967 at California Hall in San Francisco, California featured music by Steve Miller Blues Blues Band, Dino Valenti; ceremonies from The Radha Krishna Temple; poetry by Richard Brautigan and The Caped Crusaders; experimental theater, lights, and happenings by the S.F. Mime Troupe. Hosted by Warren Hinkle III, editor of Ramparts Magazine. The artwork is by fabled Underground (Zap and other comix) Comic artist, Robert Crumb - he hardly ever did artwork for concerts so this is a rare R. Crumb piece. 8 1/2 x 11 inches and in Near Mint condition.
Cat. No.: CC-132b Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 3/5/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o | SOLA-x(SS); SS-x(BL). Abstract: Reverse side of "Bedrock One!"
Cat. No.: CC-169 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 3/5/1967. Broadside. 7"x9-7/8". San Francisco: ?. Collection: SS-x(BL) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: Announces an event produced for the Communication Company to be held 5 Mar 1967 at California Hall. Tickets, $2.50. This is different from CC-132. Note: no Com/Co imprint.
Cat. No.: CC-204 Full record BibCit: N.d, ca. 3/5/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Illus with cartoon by R. Crumb of boy and lightbulb head.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: "Sunday March 5 | ... | $2.50".
