tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14917603.post7336222543933220955..comments2024-02-24T11:10:36.523-08:00Comments on Butch.org: Beyond Chron review of 575 Castro St.Jenni Olsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291059234403515072noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14917603.post-71283561569177878172009-07-07T13:36:13.989-07:002009-07-07T13:36:13.989-07:00In the early 70's, the Castro was in change fr...In the early 70's, the Castro was in change from a sleepy neighborhood in the Eureka Valley. Like Harvey, I was a transplant... except from Chicago. I arrived in the early 60's at the tail-end of the beatnik era and that was followed by Hippies,Flower Children, "the Summer of Love" the peace mongers and war protesters. To start the 1970s, I moved between the Haight and the Castro and made a living as a freelance photographer and publicist that specialized in gay clients and businesses. I used to display my photos in a Castro St. bakery shop...<br />just a short distance from today's Harvey Milk Plaza. I had my film developed at a new camera shop a block away... called Harvey Milk. We became friends. His shop became like a small town's general store... without the potbelly stove. People came in to talk politics, pet Harvey's dog... or comment on the never ending supply of good looking young men who passed in front of his store front window. We didn't know then... that it would become the center of the gay rights movement or become a historical marker as such... thankfully for the "Milk" movie... millions of people, young and old, gay and straight, here in America and around the world now know of him and that era. Somewhere, today there is a new Harvey Milk waiting to be discovered... and the sooner, the better!Jerry Pritikin aka The Bleacher Preacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07540899434941104842noreply@blogger.com