Archive for the ‘Telegraph Avenue’ Category


The Street Scene Outside Rag Theatre

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

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

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

Free Church Crashes

Archive Entry Date: c. 1969

The broader specs on the Berkeley Free Church 'crash pad' program, which housed over 7000 people in its first year

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

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

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"