Chester Anderson
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Chester Valentine John Anderson was an American novelist, poet, and editor in the underground press.
Underhound, vol. 1. no. 4 (1960). One of Chester Anderson's early little magazines, satirizing the beatnik coffee house scene in North Beach.
Haight-Ashbury
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Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called the Haight and the Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known as one
Chester Anderson
…arm of the anarchist guerrilla street theater group The Diggers. Through ComCo, Anderson circulated a number of his own bitter broadside polemics in Haight-Ashbury, including "Uncle Tim's Children," with its infamous, often-quoted line, "Rape is as common as bullshit on Haight Street." Joan Didion described the…
Cole Street, left, and Haight Street, right
Newspaper clipping, April 30, 1967
The Tubes performing at 2012 Haight-Ashbury Street Fair