{"product_id":"open-city-no-17-aug-24-30-1967-bukowski-notes-the-doors-at-the-whisky-jimi-hendrix-experience-griffith-park-love-in","title":"OPEN CITY No. 17, Aug. 24–30, 1967 — Bukowski Notes, The Doors at the Whisky, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Griffith Park Love-In","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47872142016677,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_174752_9aafcec1-106d-4a21-a9a6-bed798f0eaaf.jpg?v=1780328793","url":"https:\/\/thebukshop.com\/products\/open-city-no-17-aug-24-30-1967-bukowski-notes-the-doors-at-the-whisky-jimi-hendrix-experience-griffith-park-love-in","provider":"The Buk Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}