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Wired illustration from Mark Twain’s Following The Equator (Taken with instagram)

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Good evening: I am looking to purchase an Iron Lung. Is the one in this picture for sale? I am a physician that specializes in lung research. You can contact me by text or call 832-247-3218. Thanks....Michael Riddle, MD

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:01:23 -0400

The iron lung is at Axeman in St. Paul Minnesota

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Does this make you uncomfortable? (Taken with instagram)

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Earth

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Earth

I want one!

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:15:25 -0400

I want one!

Cool, right?

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Cool, right?

I decorated this guitar of Dale Watson’s I had it on...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:13:59 -0400

I decorated this guitar of Dale Watson’s I had it on consignment at rocknrollland in Green Bay

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I’m here

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I’m here

Test

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Test

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3000 BEATNIKS RIOT

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chiseler:

Half a century before Occupy Wall Street, young protesters occupied Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park. Like OWS, they ended up clashing with the police. Unlike OWS so far, their protest produced a small but practical and lasting change.

In the spring of 1961, the Washington Square Association, a community group of homeowners around the square, appealed to New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation to do something about the hundreds of “roving troubadours and their followers” playing music around the square’s turned-off fountain on Sunday afternoons. They were mostly college kids, playing guitars and banjos and singing folk songs. The practice had started in the post-war years, when Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger planted the seeds of the folk musical revival in the Village. By 1961 it had grown enough that both the police and the neighbors found the “troubadours” and the tourists they attracted a nuisance. In his posthumously-published memoir, Dave Van Ronk recalls that there were various cliques in the park: a Zionist group singing and dancing “Hava Nagila,” Stalinists, bluegrass fans, folk traditionalists. Black journalist John A. Williams reported that the locals’ complaints were not really musical but social: “In the ensuing meetings with city officials, it became apparent that what was opposed was not so much folk singing as the increasing presence of mixed couples in the area, mostly Negro men and white women.” In the late 1950s the parks commission began issuing permits to limit the number of musicians, allowing them to “sing and play from two until five as long as they had no drums,” Van Ronk writes. This “kept out the bongo players. The Village had bongo players up the wazoo… and we hated them. So that was some consolation.” He doesn’t mention that those bongo-players were very often black. This racial aspect had an old historical precedent in Greenwich Village. In 1819, white residents of the area complained “of being much annoyed by certain persons of color practising as Musician with Drums and other instruments through the Village.”

In 1961 the parks commissioner responded to the complaints by refusing to issue any permits at all. Izzy Young of the Folklore Center and others organized a peaceful protest demonstration. On Sunday, April 9, 1961, a few hundred young people gathered, attracting a few hundred more spectators. Among the latter was eighteen-year-old Dan Drasin, a mild-mannered kid who liked to hang out in the park. He brought one of the big, boxy film cameras of the era and documented the afternoon in a short black-and-white film, Sunday. The film shows clean-cut college and high school kids, many of the girls in Jackie O hairdos and heels, many of the boys looking like the young Allen Ginsbergs with serious, sensitive, owlish faces behind heavy black-framed glasses. They carry hand-written placards and cardboard guitars and argue with the dozens of beefy, florid-faced cops who’ve shown up. Izzy Young, also bespectacled and in jacket and tie, lectures the cops about the constitutional right to make music as the kids sit in a circle in the dry fountain and sing “This Land Is Your Land” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” As protests go it all looks low-key and polite. Then paddy wagons arrive and the cops haul off one nebbishy young man cradling an autoharp, pushing him into a prowl car. According to Drasin, most of the singers and musicians had left the park, leaving the few hundred spectators loitering around the fountain, when the cops’ tempers finally boiled over. They wade into the crowd, shoving boys and girls to the ground, mauling them, dragging a handful into the paddy wagons. Reportedly they knocked some heads with their clubs, although it’s not shown in the film. The whole event, Drasin says, lasted maybe two hours.

The next day, the New York Daily Mirror, the conservative Hearst tabloid, ran a giant war-is-over front page headline, “3000 BEATNIKS RIOT IN VILLAGE.” Other local papers followed suit. That week’s Voice scoffed at the Mirror’s “hysterical” coverage, wondering if there were three thousand beatniks in the entire country that Sunday, let alone in Washington Square Park. By May, the outrage caused by the cops’ overreaction forced the city to back down and issue permits, a practice that continues to this day.

Among the protesters hauled off that day was the Village character H. L. “Doc” Humes, identified in the Mirror as a “scofflaw” and the “mob leader.” Humes was a gregarious polymath, a novelist and raconteur, co-founder of The Paris Review, designer of cheap housing made from old newspapers, director of a lost film updating the Don Quixote story as Don Peyote, LSD pioneer with Timothy Leary, later helper to Norman Mailer when he ran for mayor in 1969, later still a paranoid drug casualty who believed UFOs, CIA and the Pope in Rome were out to get him. He would not have been a stranger to the cops in the park that day. Just a few months earlier, he’d had a very public spat with Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy.

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Good evening: I am looking to purchase an Iron Lung. Is the one in this picture for sale? I am a physician that specializes in lung research. You can contact me by text or call 832-247-3218. Thanks....Michael Riddle, MD

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Earth

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Cool, right?

I decorated this guitar of Dale Watson’s I had it on...

After (Taken with Instagram)

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Taken with Instagram

I’m here

Test

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3000 BEATNIKS RIOT