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Andy Pollack came to San Francisco as a teen in the late 1960s and fell in with the [[San Francisco Diggers|Diggers]] for a time. Later he went to the New College Law School and became an alternative tax lawyer to hundreds. He was a director of [[The Farm|The Farm]] in the early 1980s when it became a storied [[PUNK ROCK|punk rock]] venue, he spent time in the far north of California at the infamous Black Bear compound (a Digger back-to-the-land project), and much more... he has a unique perspective on what being "alternative" in San Francisco has been, and continues to be. | Andy Pollack came to San Francisco as a teen in the late 1960s and fell in with the [[San Francisco Diggers|Diggers]] for a time. Later he went to the New College Law School and became an alternative tax lawyer to hundreds. He was a director of [[The Farm|The Farm]] in the early 1980s when it became a storied [[PUNK ROCK|punk rock]] venue, he spent time in the far north of California at the infamous Black Bear compound (a Digger back-to-the-land project), and much more... he has a unique perspective on what being "alternative" in San Francisco has been, and continues to be. | ||
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Oral History
Interviewed by Chris Carlsson for Shaping San Francisco on January 29, 2019.
Andy Pollack came to San Francisco as a teen in the late 1960s and fell in with the Diggers for a time. Later he went to the New College Law School and became an alternative tax lawyer to hundreds. He was a director of The Farm in the early 1980s when it became a storied punk rock venue, he spent time in the far north of California at the infamous Black Bear compound (a Digger back-to-the-land project), and much more... he has a unique perspective on what being "alternative" in San Francisco has been, and continues to be.
There are seven consecutive clips that play one after another... most are just a few minutes, but the one on Black Bear is 12+ minutes (it's #6 in the sequence)...
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/clip05theparkthefarmap" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>