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OPEN CITY No. 11, July 14–20, 1967 — Bukowski at University of Arizona, South LA Love-In
OPEN CITY No. 11, July 14–20, 1967 — Bukowski at University of Arizona, South LA Love-In
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An issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." Written from Tucson where Bukowski was staying at the University of Arizona poets' cottage, the column has him drinking through the desert heat, sizing up a young maid, and getting an unexpected lift to the bus station from his own editor Jon Webb of Loujon Press, whose chance appearance closes the column with characteristic deadpan.
The front cover and four interior pages document the South Los Angeles Love-In of July 9, billed as the first Love-In held in a Black neighborhood since the Watts Riots, with powerful photography by Gene Brownell, Janos Damnavitz, and Tyler S. Thornton. Large tabloid format, 17" x 11", black and white throughout.
Provenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Euclid 23, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.
This copy is in very good shape. Even fold, bright white pages, minuscule tear on right horizontal fold and bump on upper right.
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