A scene from Nacio Jan Brown’s Rag Theater project: a young woman tending to the hair of a young man.
The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
A Scene of Grooming
Date: c. 1970
Citation:
Nacio Jan Brown, photograph from Rag Theater sessions (unpublished in Rag Theater), c. 1970.
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1. Home of "the Sidewalk Stars and Bizarres"
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Telegraph Avenue, the Greatest Freak Show on Earth
–1/1/1967–An archconservative candidate for mayor vilified Telegraph as "a magnet for perverts, dope addicts and degenerates"
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Off-the-Street Fair Here
–6/20/1969–The Telegraph Ave Summer Project brought health clinics, jobs and food to the street
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The Street Scene Outside Rag Theatre
–c. 1970–The motion and life of Telegraph Avenue, in a photograph jammed with contrasts
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A Pair on the Stage of “Rag Theater”
–c. 1970–Flanked by a middle finger and question marks
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Young Man with Drawing on Glasses
–c. 1970–In an altered pair of eyeglasses, a skewed sense of humor
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On the Avenue
–c. 1970–The Telegraph Avenue scene in black and white
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Street Vendors on Telegraph
–c. 1970–In a photo, a window onto the handicrafts revolution
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Three Friends Outside Rag Theatre
–c. 1971–An abbreviated moment of dress-up and dreaming
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Girl Plays with Cat’s Cradle
–c. 1971–Girl? Woman? "Nymphet"?
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Three Card Molly on Telegraph Ave
–c. 1971–In a card game, street hustle and performance art
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Portrait of Kathy Delacour
–c. 1973–"People were just drawn to her"
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Foreword to Rag Theater
–1975–Thomas Farber's poetic and sharply etched portrait of life on Telegraph Ave
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2. Camaraderie on the Avenue
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Three Young Men on the Corner
–c. 1970–A popular place to wile away the hours: on the sidewalk facing Moe's Books
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A Scene of Grooming
–c. 1970–A young woman tends to the hair of a young man
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A Dancing Circle at Night
–c. 1970–A magical moment on Telegraph, captured serendipitously by photographer Nacio Jan Brown
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Two Kids Cruising Down Telegraph on Bicycle
–c. 1970–Two ways of living on the Ave -- on the move, and planted in place
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The View from the Street
–c. 1970–From Nacio Jan Brown, a dog's eye view of Telegraph
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Street Scene Across from Moe’s Books
–c. 1971–An image that asks the eye to roam over it
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A Moment Stolen from Reading Together
–c. 1971–Looking up from an underground comic
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3. The Darker Side of Street Life
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Young Woman with Dog
–c. 1971–On the street, with a dog nestling at her feet
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Girl Rolling Joint
–c. 1971–A moment in the churn of Telegraph Avenue life
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Junk—Above All, a Very Human Problem
–1/29/1971–Addicts, ex-addicts, doctors, and merchants gathered to wipe out heroin on the Ave
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‘Heroin Emergency Life Project’
–2/5/1971–A sign of changing times on the Ave: a new drug treatment project for those ensnared by hard drugs
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An Arm with a Grim Reaper Tattoo
–c. 1971–Death, taking a hit
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A Troubling Smile
–c. 1971–An older man lifting up a woman's shirt, in a jumbled-up moment on the Ave
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4. Police and Politics
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A Telegraph Avenue Bust
–c. 1969–The hammer comes down on a long-haired denizen of the Avenue
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Pigs Get Press, Press Press Back
–5/30/1969–The photographer Nacio Jan Brown found himself at the center of the story
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Police Begin Crackdown on City’s Summer Runaways
–7/17/1970–Many young people were rounded up within five minutes of arriving in Berkeley
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Runaway Roundup—For Revenge?
–7/24/1970–The Barb punched back against police roundups of runaways
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A Rooftop View
–c. 1973–In the aftermath of a Telegraph Ave protest, the crowd disperses
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5. Homelessness and Crash Pads
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Free Church Crashes
–c. 1969–The broader specs on the Berkeley Free Church 'crash pad' program, which housed over 7000 people in its first year
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Crash Pad Procedures
–c. 1970–Berkeley Free Church's careful in-house instructions for the popular crash pad program
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Runaway Crackdown Continues
–7/18/1970–Police rousted 175 runaway teens to push them out of town — and found a telling postcard in one raid
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Down and Out in Berkeley
–5/1974–A sober 80-page study of life on the street, arguing that 'hippies' were not a large fraction of the homeless
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6. A Different Type of Business Owner: Moe, Fred, Pat and Others
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Putting the Street Together
–8/23/1968–Telegraph Avenue's business owners and its "Commune" met for two nights to hash out their difficulties
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Off-the-Street Fair Here
–6/20/1969–The Telegraph Ave Summer Project brought health clinics, jobs and food to the street
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Street Vendors on Telegraph
–c. 1970–In a photo, a window onto the handicrafts revolution
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Accessibility Survey of Telegraph Avenue
–6/1984–A remarkable survey of the accessibility of Telegraph's businesses — complete with beautiful illustrations and smart solutions
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Junk—Above All, a Very Human Problem
–1/29/1971–Addicts, ex-addicts, doctors, and merchants gathered to wipe out heroin on the Ave
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‘Heroin Emergency Life Project’
–2/5/1971–A sign of changing times on the Ave: a new drug treatment project for those ensnared by hard drugs
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