Documents Tagged ‘Telegraph Avenue’


Young Man with Drawing on Glasses

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

In an altered pair of eyeglasses, a skewed sense of humor

A Dancing Circle at Night

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

A magical moment on Telegraph, captured serendipitously by photographer Nacio Jan Brown

A Scene of Grooming

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

A young woman tends to the hair of a young man

Three Young Men on the Corner

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

A popular place to wile away the hours: on the sidewalk facing Moe's Books

The Street Scene Outside Rag Theatre

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

The motion and life of Telegraph Avenue, in a photograph jammed with contrasts

Girl with Egg

Archive Entry Date: c. 1969

The portrait that helped 'Rag Theater' click into place

Off-the-Street Fair Here

Archive Entry Date: 6/20/1969

The Telegraph Ave Summer Project brought health clinics, jobs and food to the street

Pigs Get Press, Press Press Back

Archive Entry Date: 5/30/1969

The photographer Nacio Jan Brown found himself at the center of the story

James Rector, Wounded on the Roof of Granma Books

Archive Entry Date: 5/15/1969

During a protest over People's Park, police shot indiscriminately at Telegraph Avenue rooftops

A Telegraph Avenue Bust

Archive Entry Date: c. 1969

The hammer comes down on a long-haired denizen of the Avenue

Putting the Street Together

Archive Entry Date: 8/23/1968

Telegraph Avenue's business owners and its "Commune" met for two nights to hash out their difficulties

The Red Square

Archive Entry Date: 1966-1969

Liane and her boyfriend lived in their apartment turned dress shop, making soup in the hallway and sewing in the bedrooms

Costume Design and Patterns Book

Archive Entry Date: 1967

Liane Chu took fashion inspiration from a broad range of world cultures

Telegraph Avenue, the Greatest Freak Show on Earth

Archive Entry Date: 1/1/1967

An archconservative candidate for mayor vilified Telegraph as "a magnet for perverts, dope addicts and degenerates"