{"product_id":"open-city-no-63-aug-2-8-1968-bukowski-notes-newport-pop-festival-jefferson-airplane-grateful-dead-the-byrds-canned-heat-heil-humphrey","title":"OPEN CITY No. 63, Aug. 2–8, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Newport Pop Festival, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Heil Humphrey","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" A tailor named Jack keeps sewing while his friend Harry discovers three dead bodies in the apartment: one in the kitchen, one in the closet, one in the bathtub. Harry panics and threatens to call the police while Jack sews on. Jack goes to the phone and slips his penis into the mouthpiece. The column moves through a surreal meditation on murder, masturbation, and dead flies growing drunk on the bodies, closing with Jack alone at the table, the sun going pink, the South African lobster at his left elbow that he never got to eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's investigation into Hubert Humphrey's political record — \"Heil Humphrey\" — with a Nazi swastika superimposed over his photograph, in striking red and black two-color. The back cover carries a full-page advertisement for the Newport Pop Festival at the Orange County Fairgrounds, August 3–4, featuring Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, Canned Heat, Electric Flag, the Butterfield Blues Band, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Blue Cheer. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", red and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Euclid, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSmall hole where the vertical and horizontal folds meet, small tear in same place on back cover. Uneven folds result in pages sticking out from the cover, leading to small tears and folds on the page edges. Color fading a bit and light browning to the covers, spind and page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47887629942949,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_162446_-_Copy.jpg?v=1780668713","url":"https:\/\/thebukshop.com\/products\/open-city-no-63-aug-2-8-1968-bukowski-notes-newport-pop-festival-jefferson-airplane-grateful-dead-the-byrds-canned-heat-heil-humphrey","provider":"The Buk Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}