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Historical
FOUND by Coke Brown Jr
in San Francisco, California
Found this cocktail napkin in a pair of pants at a vintage clothing store in Haight-Ashbury. Guess those pants haven't been washed in a LONG time.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
@Coke, I bet you washed them just as soon as you sent this off to Found, didn't you? Can you fill us non-californians in on these voting issues? When? Why? What were they about? It all sounds familiar.. but my memory is hazy.
It was 1986. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition
WOW!! I'm naming my next child Coke!!!
Holly, i hope your husband has had a vasectomy. Oh god, that poor child. If you had twins, you could call them Coke and Pepsi.
They were basically going to lock up everyone with AIDS in hospitals to keep them from spreading it.
I think there's actually a lawmaker proposed something similar again this year.
Way to make folk go get tested, eh? Not.
As far as the Coke jokes, you cannot possibly come up with one I haven't heard.
Shouldn't that be "Vote No On 69"?
Better URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Propos
Let's try that again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Propos
If it cuts off the last part of the URL again, my apologies. Look it up in Wikipedia -- there are two Prop 64's -- this is the one in 1986.
I thought at first it said "vote noon" and then of course my dirty little mind said "nooner" and snickered quietly to itself.
Very odd that on the first find of the day, I put location "in the historical documents"- then I clicked on the arrow for the 2nd find and ... woah- it's titled Historical. oooweeeooo. Twilight zone-ish. (ok maybe not.)
Alrighty then.
http://tinyurl.com/5z2g9w
TinuURL really works. So there's a good link for the wiki article on the 1986 proposition.
(from wiki:)..It was an initiative statute that would have restored Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to the list of communicable diseases. The measure was defeated by a margin of 71% to 29%.
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Activists associated with Lyndon LaRouche formed the "Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee" (PANIC) to place what became "Proposition 64" on the California state ballot. The initiative was written by Khushro Ghandhi, who was also the president of PANIC. Brian Lantz was vice-president, and Ted Andromidas was treasurer...
In 1988 the text of Proposition 64 was re-introduced in California by the "Prevent AIDS Now In California" (also PANIC) committee and appeared on the June 1988 ballot as "Proposition 69." It was also defeated. (end of clips from Wiki article.)
Very interesting
(that would be TINY url, not tinu. But you knew that.)
Hey, Banjo Man et al: is it slow today at work? :)
Vote NO on 64 and YES on 69!!!
LOL@Puckhot.. I mean PuckhoG.. I just saw you on the Find called Monica... you sly dog, you.
I'd like to know what kind of jeans they were from the Vintage store. I recently got a pair of "vintage" (ca 1985) Levi's 501 (with the buttonfly!) at a local antique store for $10. Nothing in the pockets, though.
They quarentin in Cuba and Michael Moore touts their health care system in "Sick"
that was just before LaRouche went to prison for fraud and tax evasion. Weren't he and Nixon both Quakers?
how appropriate it is on a cocktail napkin.
I always cut a hole in one of my pockets to insure it's never empty. Go ahead... grab some change.
Wow, that red color is really striking!
Remember when AIDS was called GRID? Gay Related Immuno-something? Can you believe that anybody ever believed that you could only catch a disease if you were gay?
LOL @ Cubby. I got your joke.
I'm having trouble classifying clothing from the 80s as "vintage".
this would be cool framed.
MONA- My hubs is a twin! But no more kids for us...
HOLLY>. my kids are twins. i was going to name them Sam and Ella. Cuz they'd probably be spoiled...
@Night in gale
Welcome back!!!
I misssed you.
Thank you, Cubby. I missed you, too.
@ NIGHT- As am I!!! I'm 38 and just can't fathom the 80's as *vintage*? I still own clothes from my High School years...they don't fit, but, I certainly wouldn't call them *vintage*. SHEESH!
@ MONA- You do have twins? That's wonderful! I'd be more than happy to experience that miracle...and the names are perfect! (for being spoiled!) HAHAHA!
What did you name them?
I totally understand if you don't want their names on here...