New format (beta) and a hippie surprise
RATHER than send you many suggested links separately, I thought I would start sending them in one package so you would only get one email from me per day. With luck, you'll get even fewer.
This is how they would arrive (beta):
Fannie, Freddie takeover ‘farcical’|Financial Sense
The ‘board-up' guys|MSNBC
Savers are suckers|Business Week
The Harvard School of Felons|The Trumpet
Prop. 13 bars tax reductions|Lansner
Graphing the rise and fall|Knol
OH, HIPPIE DAYS! Here is a link to the eBay site where one can buy the first three issues of the San Francisco Signal magazine.
Out of the blue I thought, "I wonder what I'd get if I Googled the Signal." And there it was.
The Signal was the monthly journal Ron Jackson and I put out so long ago. That would be the early ‘70s.
I recall we eventually did about 12 issues, 11 maybe, with many modificatons in the format and style. These were the first three. They got larger in format and fatter with content.
Jim Cherry did the cover and art for the first issue and the standing heads for the inside columns. Ron did the China Clipper story, which he later expanded into a book that sold pretty well.
Over the issues we interviewed many famous people in the Bay Area. You can see by the covers we talked to KQED reporter Marilyn Baker before she broke the Patty Hearst/SLA story and to SF Chronicle columnist Art Hoppe, who advised me how to get a job in newspapers. "Go out to the boonies."
We also met, interviewed and wrote about such people as the porn producing brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell (a/k/a ‘the Mitchell Brothers') and some of their stars, including Marilyn Chambers. We covered Chambers and the premier of the classic (and now comparatively tame) movie, Behind the Green Door at the O'Farrell Theatre in 1972.
It's interesting that our 50-cent magazines are now selling on eBay for $69.99 -- Each!
posted by Tom Nadeau at 5:55 AM
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