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An issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." The column is wide-ranging and associative, moving from a vision of himself as a statue in the Kremlin, through Bukowski in Havana in sunlight, a high-yellow man who reads Rimbaud, the walls of the world, crying when Judy Garland was shot too late, ten years of the telephone and Mary who'd phone again — to a door finally opening and a voice saying come on up.
The front cover leads with coverage of the September 28 Peace and Freedom Party march of 800 demonstrators down the Sunset Strip against the anti-loitering ordinance, in striking blue and black two-color. Interior features a challenge to Andy Warhol by Sam Allen, a review of Ben Van Meter's psychedelic film Acid Mantra, and a full-page Columbia Records advertisement for The Byrds' Sweet Heart of the Rodeo. Also featured is Bob Garcia's review of Donovan at the Hollywood Bowl and a report on the New York Film Festival. Advertisements include Barbarella starring Jane Fonda and David Hemmings, and a Morton Subotnick electronic music performance of selections from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Full broadsheet format, 22.5" x 15.5", blue and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.
Provenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Euclid, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.
Slightly uneven fold leading to some of the bottom pages sticking out on the top and bottom with some folds and tears to the bottom of the rear cover and interior pages. Color is vibrant pages are bright and white with minimal browning.
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