The summer intern was waxing nostalgic about the time in 1960-something there was an opportunity to help lick the whipped cream and strawberries off of a brand new car "It would help my new novel if I could get a photo of that car and that happening at the Longshoreman's Hall Flux Fest".
Most people think that the lost art of photo research has been made simple with the invention of the internet-not so!
The WLJ (World's Laziest Journalist) has encountered one photo of a stunt held in conjunction with the liberation of Paris in WWII.
Have you seen the photos online that appear to show George HW Bush at Dealy Plaza at the same time as the Kennedy Assassination?
Karla is currently marshaling material for an autobiography and would love to locate a snapshot showing the only time Janis Joplin ever performed in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park, at which she was present without a camera. Does anyone have any picture of Belle Starr with Chet Helms? (Bill Graham? )
Even any photos of Belle with Wavy Gravy would be helpful if any such photos exist. (Is anyone old enough to remember Sergeant Sunshine or any photos in the public domain. (R.I.P. Carol Doda)
For that matter, are General Hershey Bar or General WasteMoreLand still alive? How about the guy with the 5 foot pipe who came to all the love-ins?
In the summer of 1966, the WLJ was employed as a photo librarian at the Associated Press Headquarters located in Rockefeller Center. The columnist was told that certain men in suits who borrowed some negatives would take them to a special photo lab where gigantic enlargements could be made so that "They" could see and identify people who were lurking on the periphery of anti Viet Nam War demonstrations.
Suddenly the meaning of events in the sixties are becoming crystal clear to the summer intern who exclaimed "That's my novel."
A Saint Paul's vision is "Better late than never!"
Does the pop culture bookstore need another eyewitness account of the sixties?
There can never be enough of them which is why, eventually, the last living hippie will be a popular late night show guest.
After the viewing of a documentary about the Cockettes, the summer intern exclaimed " No wonder I was not fitting in and my view was from the local not the mainstream media version of the San Francisco scene". (Are any of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence still living after the demise of "Jack" Sister Boom Boom?)
The WLJ added some historical context with the tale of the WWII influx of discharged gay members of the military who were transported back to San Francisco and dumped there.
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