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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 15, 2017 - 08:14pm PT
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Anyone know who this might be or what the story might be?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 15, 2017 - 09:38pm PT
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cool little puzzle, maybe someone will recognize him?
apparently they are celebrating the book that the climber dude and the guy in the midground with glasses is holding...
maybe someone recognizes the cover... the resolution isn't all that great...
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Modesto Mutant
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jan 15, 2017 - 09:44pm PT
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Well, that's Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the far right.
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JC Marin
Trad climber
CA
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Jan 15, 2017 - 10:00pm PT
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"Those who know don't tell"
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jan 15, 2017 - 10:25pm PT
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Bought my first three AAJs at City Lights.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 15, 2017 - 11:16pm PT
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3rd guy from the left looks like it could be Shig Murao, the City Lights clerk who was arrested on June 3, 1957, for selling Allen Ginsberg's Howl to an undercover San Francisco police officer. In the trial that followed, Murao was charged with selling the book and Lawrence Ferlinghetti with publishing it. Murao and Ferlinghetti were exonerated and Howl was judged protected under the First Amendment, a decision that paved the way for the publication of Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, William Burroughs, and many other writers who offended puritanical elements of society. from Wikipedia
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 16, 2017 - 04:20am PT
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That is Pete, the youngest droog. He never spoke very much at times.
He preferred to use notes, in fact, when he was very uptight. This may be one of those times.
He also was pretty good with a shillelagh.
The North Face store was in N Beach. Maybe he's from the store?
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Jan 16, 2017 - 09:30am PT
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My friend, the scholar/mountain hermit Sean O'Grady guesses that the occasion here is City Lights' 1968 publication of Rene Daumal's classic Mount Analogue.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 16, 2017 - 09:34am PT
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Very cool thread.
I LOVE CITY LIGHTS!!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 16, 2017 - 09:51am PT
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the cover of the book they're holding doesn't quite look like the cover of Mount Analogue as published by City Lights:
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 16, 2017 - 09:52am PT
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I think it's Blitzo!
"I have seen the best climbers of my generation destroyed by dabs and pink points. Dreams of brown trousers, and oppression by the tool have forced them from the valley of light to the scruffy crags of the front range to Rantoul....
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Jan 16, 2017 - 09:56am PT
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Ferlinghetti is is still with us, in his 90s! Someone ask!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 16, 2017 - 10:13am PT
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ya, Marty(r) just go down there and ask...
the cover doesn't appear in their online catalogue...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 16, 2017 - 10:18am PT
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Ya mean that's not Ron Kauk?
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Jan 16, 2017 - 10:21am PT
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They did another edition in'72~
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Jan 16, 2017 - 10:40am PT
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Marty, where'd you come across the photo?
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 16, 2017 - 11:26am PT
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There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know. . .
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2017 - 01:55pm PT
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A friend posted it on FB. Apparently she'd found it at a classic car gathering and was gassed by the hexed-out hipster.
She later posted this:
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