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San Francisco Diggers, Communication Company, Free City Collective,
Kaliflower Intercommunal Network, Free Print Shop, Planetedge Manifestation,
Earth/Life Defense Commune, &c.
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Cat. No.: CC-194 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 4/28/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Ye Pa. Three-hole punch on left margin.. Collection: SOLA-o(DW). Abstract: Program announcements for a 25-seat theater at 6112 Geary Boulevard, opening 28 Apr 1967.
Cat. No.: DP-017a/b Full record BibCit: By Emmett Grogan. n.d., ca. 4/29/1967. Manuscript. Collation: Handwritten; 2 pages. Collection: SOLA-x(PB). Abstract: This letter from Emmett Grogan to Peter Berg appears to come from the same New Mexico interval described in Ringolevio, when Emmett left San Francisco with Larry Little Bird and spent time at El Rito, hunting, camping, and trying to step outside the escalating pressures of the Haight. Written in Grogan’s compressed, half-mystical, half-mocking style, the letter moves between wilderness observation, self-scrutiny, gossip about Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, and a sharp report on a proposed New Mexico Be-In that he sees as another merchant “shuck.” Its most useful historical detail may be the way it connects Grogan’s absence from San Francisco to continuing Digger strategy: he tells Berg to make the Solstice in the park “more,” to “punch the media in the face,” and to expose the commercialization of the Be-In idea. The letter shows Grogan not as having withdrawn from the Digger scene, exactly, but as thinking from a distance—using New Mexico as a place of testing, estrangement, and renewed tactical imagination.
Note: Mentions the Saturday, April 29, 1967 meeting with the Hopi. See CC-036a/b.
Cat. No.: CC-217 Full record BibCit: 5/1/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: 1/c: Gr.. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Announcing a free dinner at 1010 Gough Street, 7pm, "tonight."
Cat. No.: CC-220 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/1/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-o (DW). Abstract: Title and address [of the Free Store]: COLE & CARL STREETS. Printed over a photo-repro of a man's face (Lenny Bruce?) Trans title is extent of text.
Cat. No.: CC-257 Full record BibCit: 5/1/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COMMUNICATION COMPANY (hdw). Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: Listing of activities at the Straight Theater's Drama Studio, Dance Studio, and Studio III for May to May 7, 1967. Lists names of workshop coordinators, including Kevin, Oscar Criner, Olaf Odegaard, Joe Gostanian, Ama, John Birrell, Caitlin Huggins, Peter Swain, Peggy Mundt, Molly Huggins, Jane Lapiner, and Pat Omirers. Imprint is hand lettered at bottom of first page. Address of Straight Theater: 1748 Haight Street, 387-5074.
Cat. No.: DP-016 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/1/1967. Broadside. Imprint: the diggers. Collection: SOLA-o. Abstract: This tiny sheet may refer to Emmett Grogan’s return from New Mexico in early May 1967. In Ringolevio, Emmett leaves the Haight with Larry Little Bird after the unsettling episode of the anonymous pistol and note left in the Free Food truck, and later describes hitchhiking back to San Francisco after a month away. Seen in that light, “Emmett Grogan / is / Back!” is immediately undercut by the Digger answer: “so what.” The point is not that Emmett’s return was unimportant, but that the Diggers were not Emmett, and the work had not waited for him. The sheet is a small but pointed anti-celebrity gesture, insisting that the Diggers remained collective, anonymous, and in motion.
Cat. No.: CC-259 Full record BibCit: 5/4/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company [presumably]. Imprint: None, presumably ComCo. Collection: SOLA-x(unk). Abstract: A letter from the owner of David L. Rothkop, of the I-Thou Coffe House, 1736 Haight Street, calling for a coming together of the diverse elements among the Haight merchants, including the "old guard" Merchants Association and the new hip merchants. Criticizes the hippies for their naïve belief in "drugs-as-panacea" as well as the reactionary elements of the Merchants Association who blocked Moe's Bookstore's request for a second-hand permit.
Cat. No.: CC-234 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/5/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COM CO. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-020 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC(UPS). Collection: SOLA-o($) | SOLA-x(SS) |SS-oT. Abstract: Collage of newspaper clippings: A Congressional Call to 'Forget U.S. Constitution, Bombs Directed at Civilians, Police Chief Alarmed by Panthers. Cartoon shows cop chasing demonstrators chasing a Black Panther, with two straights looking on.
Note: Title in bold letters, with quotation marks: "Things .. control". Dating source: All three excerpts of news articles appeared in the May 6, 1967, issue of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Cat. No.: CC-033 Full record BibCit: By Anderson, Chester. 5/6/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-L. Abstract: "Last January I asked the I Ching to comment on the subject: 'This summer & the revolution.' Five minutes ago, without knowing what I'd done .. Claude did exactly the same thing. .. Both times .. the Oracle gave the same reading."
Notes on the I Ching hexagrams received - #64 (Before Completion) leading to #1 (The Creative). "This is the reading that, last January, underlay the forming of the communication company.. Be advised."
Note: "printed in awe by the communication (ups) be ye therefore joyful be advised" Hexagram diagrams are typewritten.
Cat. No.: CC-034 Full record BibCit: 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oL. Abstract: Science-fiction like teletype instructions: "A.) All centers. Initiate condition aleph. Foreplay operations in effect, blue zones, cycling. Projective techniques authorized, discouraged. Street consolidation in progress. .."
"retyped and printed 5/8/67 by the communication company (u.p.s.) we're out of vynltronic stencils. be advised. having to retype all this nonsense is a drag."
Cat. No.: CC-048 Full record BibCit: By Cummings, E. E.. 5/8/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (u.p.s.). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-xB. Abstract: Two poems by E. E. Cummings, and a poem about the upcoming summer solstice celebration: ".. merging of the tribes hear the solstice moving through the year miracles are coming with the moon be aware".
Note: "set forth 5/8/67 by the communication company (u.p.s.) be advised"
Cat. No.: CC-035 Full record BibCit: By Bryant, Melvin D.. 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: CC (UPS). Collation: 1/c black ink on green paper. Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-oL. Abstract: Poem. "Through my fingers run sand belonging to, the land -- through which I'm a marching. .. Before us our friends will tell of cities that have fell, without the use of gun or harming anyone, for love is our lord and master - we are growing strong.."
"A song by one of the more than 10,000 brothers now in U.S. prisons because of the drug laws---"
Note: Imprint, note on origin - typewritten. Text - handlettered. Title in block letters.
Cat. No.: CC-037 Full record BibCit: 5/9/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: ComCo (ups). Collection: SOLA-oDW | SS-oL. Abstract: "I'LL RECAPITULATE. BUT FIRST -- BRO. AGAINST BRO., ALMOST, IN USA. (BLOODLESS FOR MOST PART) CIVIL WAR AS RITE RITE CLEANS UP FOR YEAR OR MORE -- I.E. R. REAGAN AS GOVERNOR HAS ALREADY APPOINTED BIG BUSINESS/MAN AS LABOR COMMISIONER.."
"..GET THE IDEA? --THEN, LATE '68 -- NOT SLOW, BUT FAST ADJUSTMENT AS NEW AWAKENING SPREADS THROUGHOUT OUR CULTURE -- MEANTIME, WATCHOUT, FISHES COMING TO THE SURFACE ARE TO BE CAUGHT.."
Note: Grogan in _Ringolevio_ (p. 311) says this was a letter from Cassady (in Mexico) to Ginsberg, reprinted by ComCo.
Cat. No.: CC-038a Full record BibCit: 5/10/1967. Leaflet. Letter size. 2 sht./2 pp.. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: cc (ups). Collection: SOLA-xSS | SS-oT. Abstract: Editorial on the merchants, the Thelins, Council for a Summer of Love, response to "Uncle Tim'$ Children", the diggers, money and greed. Subtitle: "Public Acts Are Public Knowledge | Love Is What You Do Not what you say."
"Money is energy. Energy must flow. If you hold on to it you get burned. .. Moneylust is sickness. It kills perception. Everyone is entitled to make a living, a good living, but everything more than a living is dying."
Cat. No.: CC-226 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/11/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COM CO, UPS, HPS. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-155 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collation: Printed in landscape mode. 2/C (Bl Be on Be Pa). Title in psychedelic lettering. Graphic of face collage depicting various objects and symbols.. Collection: SS-o(TR) | SOLA-o(?). Abstract: Announces an Amerindian happening "Blanket Mask Feather" at John Adams School, sponsored by Haight-Ashbury Happening House.
Cat. No.: CC-263 Full record BibCit: 5/13/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: ComCo. Collection: SOLA-o($). Abstract: Announces a free event at Alamo Park with "R&B - Rock - Blues | Soul" Saturday, May 13. "Bring yourself to it / Let's do it forever".
Cat. No.: CC-230 Full record BibCit: By Doc Stanley. 5/14/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: com co (u.p.s.) do love. Collation: Gr. ink.. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Note: Verso has page number 3, which indicates this is not complete.
Cat. No.: CC-235 Full record BibCit: N.d., ca. 5/15/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: COM CO. Collection: SOLA-x(CSL).
Cat. No.: CC-002 Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/17/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: d./commucomp(UPS). Collation: 1/cGR. Collection: SOLA-o(SS-x)|SS-o(L). Abstract: Photocopy reprint of Charles McCabe's May 17,1967 SF Chron column ("Love and The Buck") decrying the 'merchants of love'. Also a digger commentary on the Love Circus. "..Revolution for $3.50 is an impossibility. Revolution is free because it's yours."
Cat. No.: CC-095a Full record BibCit: By Hayward, Claude. 5/23/1967. Manuscript. Lg. Collation: Tpw, xerox has 3 sheets, 3pp (incomplete). Collection: SS-x(m) | SOLA-x(ss). Abstract: Claude Hayward, one of the co-founders of the Communication Company, writing to Warren Hinckle of Ramparts, offers in this memorandum of May 23, 1967 a hard-eyed assessment of conditions in the Haight as the Summer of Love approached. The memo gives a sharp, unsentimental picture of a scene already straining under the weight of its own publicity. Hayward surveys the working free institutions then in place—Peter Berg’s Free Store at 901 Cole, Roy Ballard’s Black Man’s Free Store, the faltering Free Food operation, free legal and medical aid, and various warehouse and community-center proposals—but his tone is wary rather than celebratory. Again and again, he contrasts the practical labor of feeding, clothing, housing, and treating people with the meetings, press conferences, and vague uplift of what he dismissively as the middle-class “Summer of Love” crowd. The memo is valuable for showing the counterculture not as a unified movement but as a patchwork of projects, factions, and uneasy alliances, some rooted in direct mutual aid, others in publicity and good intentions.
What most distinguishes the piece, however, is its sense of gathering crisis. Hayward insists that the real issue is not hippie theater or even logistical breakdown, but the prospect of racial violence, Black rebellion, and state repression converging in San Francisco and beyond. He describes a widening gulf between white hippies and Black communities, noting both small moments of contact and the deeper forces of resentment, fear, and political incomprehension. The memo predicts that hippies may soon find themselves caught between Black revolt and official repression, and links that prospect to Vietnam, domestic surveillance, and even the specter of internment under federal law. In that light, the free stores, free food projects, and rural farms appear not simply as countercultural experiments but as fragile, improvised preparations for social breakdown. The closing reference to Emmett Grogan’s advice to leave the city and prepare for life on the land gives the document the character of an early warning from within the underground itself, turning attention away from the spectacle of Haight-Ashbury and toward survival, decentralization, and the recognition that something much darker than a “summer of love” was already on the horizon.
Note: Claude and Chester had a complicated relationship with Warren Hinckle, the editor of Ramparts. This memo was written shortly after the Ramparts issue that exposed Emmett Grogan and the Diggers to the kind of publicity that Claude refers to here as "your foul publicity games." See Ringolevio for Grogan's view of Hinckle.
Cat. No.: CC-067a Full record BibCit: 5/24/1967. Broadsheet. Legal size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SS-o(T) | SOLA-x(SS). Abstract: In the main, a reprint of a letter from Sybil Leek
Cat. No.: CC-222 Full record BibCit: By Grogan, Emmet (anon). 5/29/1967. Broadside. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Imprint: comco(ups). Collation: Signature is hand-drawn graphic feathered swastika. Collection: SOLA-o(KP).
Cat. No.: CC-005a Full record BibCit: n.d., ca. 5/31/1967. Broadsheet. Letter size. San Francisco: Communication Company. Collection: SOLA-oPR|SS-oL. Abstract: Title is all this side. Reverse side: "To The people of the Oracle:".
