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Ten Every Two Weeks

Back to school in September with skateboarding, marijuana, graffiti, beer (boycott), along with an African American school commencement program, LGBTQ+, hip hop and more.

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#2 Hip Hop Concert Flyer

[Hip Hop] Hip Hop 2,000 Proudly Presents 2,000 Tour “96” Featuring Mack 10, Foesum, Delinquent Habits, Slow Pain and a Special Appearance Bugzy Concert Flyer. Hip Hop 2,000, presumed publisher. Riverside, CA: 1996. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Pink paper stock. Printed lettering. A flyer for a concert that was supposed to be held on May 24, 1996 at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, California. It appears to have been a line up of primarily hip hop artists from Southern California, including Mack 10 (apparently solo and not part of Westside Connection), Foesum, Delinquent Habits, Slow Pain and Bugzy. Quite a good line up of hip hop artists, in our humble opinion. Our research did not turn up a concert for this date for any of these performers, nor a concert at the Riverside on that date. A hip hop mystery! GOOD condition. Three hole punches along each side edge. Minor wrinkling and creasing. $150.00

#3 LGBTQ+

The Center Presents Women on a Mission. (L.A. Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center) Saturday June 19, 1993 Event Flyer. L.A. Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, Publisher. Los Angeles: 1993. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Yellow paper stock. A flyer advertising a “collage of music, dance, comedy, pathos and healing for a society in crisis.” The event featured six African American women performance and theatre artists, although the flyer does not mention who they are. The Los Angeles LGBT Center was founded in 1969 to provide the LGBTQ+ community with support in health, housing, social services and advocacy. GOOD condition. Two horizontal fold creases present. Minor wrinkling and creasing. $30.00

#4 Skateboarding

[Skateboarding] Sims Skateboards Youth Skateboarding Team (?) Members. No publisher, place or date. Presumed Sims Skateboards, publisher, California circa 1978. 8 by 10 inch photograph. Presumably a promotional photograph for Sims Skateboards, featuring three boys in Sims apparel, along with images of the Sims Superply Model skateboard and the Sims Taperkick, the latter of which first appeared in 1978. Sims skateboards was founded by legendary skater and surfer Tom Sims, whose boards helped moved skateboarding into the modern era of street and pool skating. We could not identify the young men in the picture, nor the happy dog for that matter. Either way, it’s a great image of skateboarding culture. GOOD condition. Minor toning, soiling and creasing. Several tack holes along the edges. It appears someone couldn’t decide the best way to pin this to a wall. $100.00

#5 Drag, Leather, Bondage

Dragstrip 66 Presents “Love Hurts” the S and M Valentine’s Ball. Saturday February 11, 1995 Handbill. Dragstrip 66, Publisher. Silver Lake, CA: 1995. Single sheet, 5 ½ by 4 inches. Pink paper stock. Promo for Dragstrip 66, a LGBTQ+ club founded in 1993, and known for its embrace of the alternative and punk scene, as well as drag. Founded by Paul Vitagliano and his friend Mr. Dan, the bar focused on drag when it was still an outlier even within the gay community. Part of their strategy was to adopt an underground, punk edge to drag, where everything from booger drag to its glamorous counterparts, were welcome. The club closed in 2013 and reopened again in 2023. (see LA ist online article for previous history and information). An advertisement for an S&M Valentine’s Ball, suggesting people, “Butch it up, sweethearts, with any leather, latex or bondage gear!” Reverse of the leaflet advertises the Plush Life, “LA’s Only Weekly Sitcom, Serial, Soap Opera!” NEAR FINE with light edgewear. $50.00

#6 Graffiti, Vernacular Art

[Graffiti, Vernacular Art]. Moss, A.J. (artist). Subway. Book of hand drawn/colored Graffiti Art. A.J. Moss, Publisher. No place or date, presumed early 1990s. 8 leaves, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Side stapled. Printed on single sides only. A self-published collection of color drawings depicting a subway train car marked up with graffiti. The artist, A.J. Moss, uses what appears to be a hand drawn, but reproduced, template of a subway car, with each leaf containing different graffiti art and tags. Hand colored in marker. We could not find any indication as to who A.J. Moss is. GOOD condition. Some curling, creasing and wrinkling along the edges. Minor soiling. Minor ink bleed through on some of the pages. $75.00

#7 LGBTQ+, Anti-Coors

[LGBTQ+] Boycott Coors!—Now More than Ever! Call to Queer Conscience. Informational Packet. Lyon and Lyon, Publisher. (Los Angeles, 1997). 4 sheets, 8 ½ by 11 inches, stapled at the upper left corner. Printed on singles sides only. Appears to be missing the first page. A packet perhaps prepared as a press release, providing facts to the LGBTQ+ community regarding the Coors Brewing Company and its funding of conservative and radical right groups that work against the LGBTQ+ community. The first two leaves reproduce an article from the San Francisco Bay Times that discusses the ongoing boycott and attempts by Coors to end it. The last two leaves addresses those within the LGBTO+ community who are working with Coors marketing or accepting funding from Coors, outlining where Coors donates and spends its money. The leaflet cites The Gay and Lesbian Center and the Outfest/Gay and Lesbian Film Festival as two groups who took funding from Coors. The Boycott originated in the 1960s among labor organizations, and grew to include African American and Hispanic groups, as well as the LGBTQ+ community. According to some, these decades long boycotts cost Coors millions in profits, and kept the company expansion slowed. VERY GOOD condition. Minor wrinkling. Pencil note on the 4^th page. $55.00

#8 Burning Man

[Burning Man] Various Authors. BRC Weekly. Black Rock City’s Independent Newsweekly. August 27-Sept 2., 2018. BRC Weekly, Adrian Roberts, Publisher. Black Rock City, NV: 2018. Single newsprint sheet, folded into eight pages. With a few black and white photos. A newsletter issued for those attending the Burning Man festival. This issue with helpful hints on how not to die at Burning Man; Top 10 Instagram spots in BRC (because if it’s not on Instagram there’s no f**kin’ way you were there, or anywhere. Do you even exist bro?) and other helpful tips. Burning Man started in the late 1980s on a California beach, eventually growing into the large festival it has become. And just think, for about one tenth of the current base level ticket price of this festival of decommodification, you can own someone else’s memory of it! VERY GOOD+ condition. Minor toning and wrinkling. $55.00 nyl

#9 African American

Calvert Colored High School Commencement Exercises Program. Class of 1932. The Senior Class and Faculty of Calvert Colored High School. Calvert Colored High School, Publisher. Calvert, TX: 1932. Single sheet, folded into four pages, 8 ½ by 5 ½ inches. Cover mentions day and location of the commencement, May 23^rd at the W,W.O.W. Temple. Interior lists the names of the senior class students, as well as class officers, Board of Education members and faculty members. The Calvert Colored High School was built in 1929, with aid from the Rosenwald School Fund. It was originally named Calvert County Training School. This school was a step toward providing real education to Black students in the area, as most of the students at that time attended “plantation” schools until they were old enough to work in the fields. The school offered vocational training, although apparently focusing on skills that would not conflict with occupations commonly held by white people (Texas State Historical Landmark text). The school changed its name to the W.D. Spigner High School in 1961, named after its long time headmaster. GOOD condition. Appears to have been removed from a scrapbook or photobook, as there are large areas of black paper adhered to the blank rear page. Horizontal fold crease present. Minor toning, wrinkling and creasing. $125.00

#10 Young Woman's European Travels. 1929-30

Travel Diary of a Young Woman’s trip to Europe, 1929-1930. No publisher or place, circa 1929 to 1930. Written in a limp leatherbound date book. Name withheld for privacy. Approximately 200 pages of entries, each corresponding with a single day of events. The woman’s trip began in Boston on September 28, 1929, and ended back in Boston on April 14, 1930. Rear endpaper decorated with an illustration of a church and a Cunard Line ship, with the HMS Carmania depicted. Front of the book has a few small photos of New York, and an inscription from the author to a friend. The author chronicles her time aboard the Carmania, her time in Paris, Nice, St. Moritz, Rome, London and other places. She mentions her father calling on General Pershing in Paris, gambling in Monte Carlo, playing tennis in Nice, skiing and skating in St. Moritz, meeting many young gentlemen, etc. Of historical note, the HMS Carmania launched as a passenger ship in 1905, and served in World War I, participating in the sinking of a German ship. It continued operating until 1931. We note that no mention of the Wall Street market crash and Black Thursday is mentioned in the journal: the author seems to have been enjoying breakfast chocalat in Paris during that stretch. The writing is well done, somewhat personal, but mostly documents the daily activities of a young woman traveling in Europe. GOOD+ condition. Minor fading, scuffing and edgewear to the covers. $150.00