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TitleThe Beatles ...
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Date 13/12/1969
Date 2
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MediumBroadside
DimensionLetter
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CatalogDR-004
CollectionSOLA-x
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DR-004
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Notes
Interesting note: Friar Tuck in 1969 was operating under the name "free frame of reference" three years after the first Page Street free store by that name.
Abstract
Friar Tuck is making an appeal to the community (in 1969) to support a letter to the Beatles to allow the showing of four free films at the Straight Theater on the Vernal Equinox. The letter looks back to 1967, when the Haight was still imagined as “a truly beautiful street” and “a very together community,” and describes the intervening collapse into a street whose “energy has been on a downhill slide.”
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MARCH 12, 1969
THE DIGGERS
HAIGHT ASHBURY
PH. 387-3575
SANFRANCISCO
CALIF, 94117
U.S.A.

THE BEATLES c/o
MR PETER BROWN
APPLE CORPS LTD.
#4 SAVILL ROW
LONDON ENGLAND

DEAREST BROTHERS,

THIS LETTER IS IN REFERENCE TO THE VERNAL EQUINOX ON MARCH 21 1969, AND IN REFERENCE TO GETTING YOUR FOUR FILMS TO SHOW FOR FREE AT THE STRAIT THEATRE ON THE EQUINOX.

IN 1967 WE HAD A TRULY BEAUTIFUL STREET, AND A VERY TOGETHER COMMUNITY. SINCE THAT TIME OUR STREET (HAIGHT) HAS BEEN ON A DOWNHILL SLIDE. WE THE DIGGERS OF THE HAIGHT ASHBURY HAVE BEEN EVER AWARE OF THIS TREND. WE HAVE BEEN USING EVERY AVAILABLE METHOD TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING, WE ARE AT OUR WITT’S END. WE CANNOT ACCOMPLISH THIS ALONE, THEREFORE WE AR ASKING YOUR COOPERATION FOR ONE FINAL TRY. W3 MUST BRING THIS COMMUNITY BACK TOGETHER!

IF YOU FIND IT IN YOUR HEARTS TO HELP ACCOMPLISH THIS TASK CONTACT THE DIGGERS VIA THE HAIGHT ASHBU RY SWITCHBOARD PH 387-3575 NI SANFRANCISCO

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

[signature]

Representing the diggers

if you the people of the haight ashbury want this thing to happen clip this letter on the dotted line and mail it if not throw this paper away,, but know that you might also be throwing the haight ashbury away !!!!!

Friar tuck
Free frame of reference

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