OPEN CITY No. 9, June 30–July 6, 1967 — Bukowski Notes, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Derek Taylor on Monterey Pop, Century City Riot

An issue of Open City (June 30–July 6), featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." The column opens with two Bukowski epigrams about dirty kitchens and men, then moves into a meditation on the kitchen as a mirror of the mind — confused men have cluttered kitchens, women's dirtiness inversely proportional to how much they care for you. Coming home late from a poetry workshop, his arm nearly useless from pain after nearly crashing into a parked car trying to stick one finger out the window, he makes it home to find a woman in his bed eating chocolates and reading the New Yorker. She is worried about Benny Adimson, who writes funny anti-Catholic stories, has never been published except once in a Canadian magazine, lost his delivery truck job, and can't write unless he has a job. Bukowski barely listens, fills the tub only half full so he won't drown, drags himself to the kitchen for water, the sink stopped up and stinking, then lies still as a frozen dumb stupid fucking fish. The right column introduces Miriam, ten years old, in tight silver toreador pants and a transparent blouse, hustling on the boulevard alongside boys and girls working the street — Bukowski assigned to write the hustler story, meeting Jim and Miriam, watching Miriam's scripture-turning smile. He closes hoping Benny Adimson finds a job, and that meanwhile Bukowski will write about himself and drink too much — but you know that.

The front cover leads with coverage of the Century City anti-war demonstration, documented in a striking two-page photographic collage of the June 23 protest confrontation with police and President Johnson's motorcade. Also featured is a firsthand account of the Monterey Pop Festival by Derek Taylor, press officer for the Beatles. An additional feature reports on Hollywood Boulevard street hustlers. 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 one has a very uneven fold, resulting in pages sticking out on the right and bottom, resulting in small tears to the page edges. Small tears on the left and right horizontal folds. Some light browning.