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Description: Title: Beatniks Eric (Big Daddy) Nord and Julie Meredith at a Police Commission entertainment license hearing for the Gas House, 1959 Published caption:WAY OUT ART-Eric (Big Daddy) Nord displays an item from beatnik exhibit as Julie Meredith plays guitar and sings a ballad during recess in Police Commission hearing on license for beatnik hangout. Publication:Los Angeles Times Publication date:September 3, 1959 http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002qbzw Source:Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library (In 1959, Eric Nord opened the Gas House in Venice, a beat hangout in a former homeless haven, and earlier, a fashionable beachfront drugstore. Nord's artistic center for lost souls existed for three years as a place where writers and musicians could not only live but also entertain, until neighbors complained about the noise, and Nord was forced to seek an entertainment license, which was denied.) (1989-05-02). "Eric (Big Daddy) Nord; 'Beat Movement' Leader". Los Angeles Times. Licensing Note about non-renewal of copyright: [1]
Title: EricNord
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