The Buk Shop
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An issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." The column opens with a man named Maxfield breaking his neck in a laundry chute and moves into an extended Camus-inflected dialogue on resistance, rebellion and death, with detours through horse racing results and a brooding meditation on Oswald and Spengler's Decline of the West, closing with Bukowski alone at a washing machine.
The centerpiece of the issue is a dramatic two-page portrait spread of The Doors, coinciding with their residency at the Whisky A Go Go, August 28 to September 3. Also featured is a full-page interview with the Jimi Hendrix Experience by Bob Garcia, conducted in the days before their appearance with the Mamas and the Papas at the Hollywood Bowl. A photo feature documents the weekly Green Power Love-In at Griffith Park. Advertisements include City Lights Publications and Alan Watts. Large tabloid format, 17" x 11", black and white throughout.
Provenance: Pink mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.
This copy is in very good shape with a very slight uneven fold and some light browning. The fold pushes the pages out slight on the right and bottom.
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