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.
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unclear how much they have, but they also have some oral history by early members recorded in the 90s
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Uh… you know about _Tales of the City_? (or is that archaic?) Fiction, but realistic except for the plot. Set on Telegraph Hill in mid-70s.
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It’s a huge sentimental favorite for aged hippies and queers. (I might possibly be in one or more of those categories.) But that’s because it’s an accurate slice-of-life portrayal of the texture of SF living.
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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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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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