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Above: sk dunn as Winnie and Dan Wordworth as Willie

in Samuel Becket's "Happy Days"

Napa Valley Theater and AAA Productions, 1983.

 

 

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1951 -

          "When I Worked at Finocchios" by Diana Ricci

          World War Two had ended and ...

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1952 -

          backstagewith duke ellington by sk dunn

          when i first met carroll (on my 16th birthday)  ...

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1965 -

          "The New Improved Jook Savages" by Stan Gotlieb

          When we moved to North Beach from ...

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1966 -

          "Viet Nam Times" by Stan Gotlieb

          It was a warm sunny day the likes of which ...

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1970 -

          “Those Wonder Years” by Maria Manhattan

          I arrived in SF in 1970 – the hippies had left for Marin, and Haight Street had the leftovers of the previous very heady three years.  The Greatful Dead were ...

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Right:  Building the float, "Queen Isabela Gives Her Jewels to Columbus," on the night before the parade, Vicksburg Street, 1974.

 

 

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1974 -

          "A hole in his underwear" by Bermuda Schwartz

          Most people don't know, but ...

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1980 -

          “Edie Beale Honored” by Maria Manhattan

          In the winter of 1980-81, I was responsible for a "major art event" ...

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1983 -

          doing samuel becket's happy days by sk dunn

          the only time i ever saw happy days was in france. we were in paris waiting to go to iran and byrd asked me if i wanted to go with him to see a beckett play performed in an atelier at ...

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1987 -

          “How I met my wife” by Joshua Brody

          Did you know the woman I was sitting next to at the Rite Spot ...

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1989 -

          “An Educating Auntie” by Susie Hirschfield

          I had been a volunteer at Gay Mens Health Crisis, the first grass roots AIDS organization,  for eighteen months  ...

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1997 -

          "When Tania Libertad came to town” by Sergio Santamaría

          We were sitting around thinking up names for our condom store when ...

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2004 -

          "Stories from the Garden” by Robert O'Connor

          Our annual garden party is usually around the 23 of June and a few years back a young man, Marc, who was  ...

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2005 -

          “The Gates are Glorious” by Maria Manhattan

          Merry and I have been walking, walking, walking ...

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Above: Southern window, Vicksburg Street

San Francisco, 1972

 

            You can contribute to this growing chronology of an era worth remembering!  Send yours today to:

 

russellellison@billwolf.org

 

 

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