Category: Ruth Garcia

  • Alice Kahn Fall 1984 interview annotations

    These are for my purposes, no pretense to completeness. I find his comments about Joe Garcia to be quite revealing. There are a few other good nuggets in here. Man, even in the depths of his Rock Bottom period, he sounds engaged and articulate. What a mind! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Fall 1984 interview by Alice Kahn. Date…

  • Joe and Ruth Garcia: Directory Samples

    1935: no trace of Joe and Ruth Garcia 1940: Jos R (Ruth), restaurant at 399 1st street and home at 121 Amazon 1942: Jos (Ruth) liquors, same addresses 1951: Ruth (wid Jos), bartender, home at 56 Harrington These are neat documents, sitting on shelves next to the world class microfilm scanners on the 5th floor…

  • Darkness, Darkness

    **Fulsomely updated, 11/28/2014 at 12:34 PM, GMT -0700)** **update2: Blogger is making me crazy. Sorry for poor formatting** This post now needs to be completely reconstituted. 1. San Diego papers  I mentioned in my 11/18/73 post that the San Diego State Daily Aztec is digitized and online. Bravo, and thank you, librarians! They have also,…

  • LN19760119 JG interview by Father Miles Riley, KPIX-TV Studios, San Francisco, CA

    Update: looks like a 26 minute recording is available through the GDAO: http://www.gdao.org/items/show/379043 Update2: GD Archive material gives taping date as 1/19/76 Update3: see also “Jerry’s January 1976”. Update4: 26 minute video has finally come into the light! I have now put some slightly more verbatim “viewing notes” below the fold. Not a full transcription,…