THE CASTRO STREET FAIR - Page 2 - Uncle Donald's Castro Street

SCENES from 1975 -1979
CASTRO STREET FAIR

UNCLE DONALD'S CASTRO STREET

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FAIR 77

The 1977 Castro Street Fair
as seen from near 19th Street. Harvey Milk's CASTRO CAMERA shop was just out of range behind the tree on the right edge of the picture. The CASTRO STREET GARAGE, an auto repair shop, later became the home of HEADLINES. 18th Street crosses Castro at the low point and Market Street is just beyond the end of the crowd. Castro Street continues north into the residential area known as Duboce Triangle. The picture shows that in 1977 the four year old fair had become an immensely popular annual party but had not yet been taken over by commercialism and a flea market atmosphere.

The following pictures ware taken at the 1975 through 1979 Castro Street Fairs.

An unknown street artist (no pun intended) spent the afternoon of the 1979 fair creating the life-size drawing, above, right, using color chalk on the pavement in the intersection of 18th and Castro.

The man on the left is Keith, better known as Pristine Condition, a member of the COCKETTES and later, the ANGELS OF LIGHT. Both rag-tag drag groups performed outrageous in-your-face street theater of the absurd. The handsome youth on the right is sitting on the roof of a newspaper stand on the sidewalk in front of Star Pharmacy (now Walgreens).

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