FYI to any bay area housing twitter folks who are free on weekdays between 1 and 5p: Berkeley has a library with an archive of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers’ newsletter from the 60s. I think it could be… interesting to see what their use of language looks like in that era.
Housing and rent and landlords are a pervasive theme. It’s a series of nine novels running mid-70s to the present, so one might be able to read it as diachronic cultural history. Bearing in mind, of course, that it is fiction.
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My understanding has been that the Dwellers have been a landowner / anti-development group from the start, so my primary interest here is what that sounds like in the late-50s into early 60s
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Ah, I didn’t understand from your original tweet that this was a specific organization, rather than “people who dwell there.”
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The first novel was made into a TV series which was really good. Checking the Wiki, it seems that volumes 2 and 3 were also TVized; I didn’t know that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_City_(1993_miniseries) …
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