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Castro memories

Dear BTL,
Charles Alexander's "Parting Glances: Reruns as metaphor (Pt. 2) https://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=15784" from the Sept. 15 issue of BTL was like boarding the reversible light year train to a time it was just arriving in the Castro.
How lucky I was to be there, too. The fact of the matter, S.F. was still affordable, I was renting a whole two bedroom house between the Castro and Haight-Ashbury with a front and back yard, an in-law apartment and two garages for $250 a month. A lid of pot cost $7 and a pair of Levi's not much more! I played in the first gay softball league in the nation, today there are over 30. Harvey Milk had a camera shop that was 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 good looking people passing in front of the store's window. Every day there were new exiles from America's big and small towns to discover themselves and the new gay mecca. But the future looked bright and far away…I was a pioneer, and a survivor and hopeful then and somewhat now…
Jerry Pritikin
Chicago

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