DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-120
title: 154. Gas House entertainment permit hearings, 1959-08; Lipton, Hugh & Blanche discussion, [s.d.]; Lipton poetry reading, [s.d.]

description: Tape 154, side 1, part 1) Collection of 16 television and radio news broadcasts regarding the Los Angeles Police Board of Commissioners hearing to determine whether the Gas House, 1501 Ocean Front, Venice, California, would be granted an entertainment license, 1959 August (0:21, 1:38, 3:44, 5:15, 11:33, 23:55, 28:55, 30:04, 32:07, 32:53, 33:33, 35:07, 35:52, 36:59, 37:42, 42:03). DETAILS: Microphone testing by Lawrence Lipton (0:02). ❧ News program (television or radio) (0:21): on hearing for license to operate the Gas House, Venice, West: mentions Al Matthews (landlord), Board of Police Commissioners, A.S. Roberts (president, Venice Civic Union), Eric Nord (beatnik), Mrs. Robert Swann[?] (witness), noise, immoral actions, A.L. Wirrin (attorney). ❧ News program (television or radio) (1:38) on hearing for entertainment permit to operate the Gas House: mentions beatnik art. ❧ News program, ABC television, 1959, with Clete Roberts, foreign correspondent, and Pat Michaels, local reporter (2:31, 2:52): on China invasion of India (3:01, 4:28), Dwight Eisenhower cold-war talks (3:09), labor reform bill (3:16), permit for the Gas House (3:44), weather (4:23), sports: Dodgers (5:07). Commercial: Mark C. Bloom tire distributor (2:38), Tom Harmon sports authority (2:48), Deborah Kerr on actress May Britt (3:27), John Daly and the news (4:35), ABC's High Road debut (4:49), Pepsi Cola (5:01). ❧ Lew Irwin Reports (television program), KABC Channel 7 Los Angeles, 1959 August 28 (5:15, 6:37): on the beat generation and Venice community distress over Gas House entertainment license (A.L. Wirrin, attorney; Lew Irwin interview of Lawrence Lipton; Michael Kelly, witness; Al Matthews; Eric Nord) (5:15, 11:33), delayed bus strike (Charles Thompson, judge) (7:17), Abraham Lincoln sculptor Dr. Emil Seletz and supervisor Kenneth Hahn (8:47), final rites for William V. O'Connor (attorney) at high mass service, Vibiana's Cathedral, Los Angeles (9:20), 231 U.S. citizens naturalized at Federal Building, Los Angeles (9:31), middleweight boxing match in San Francisco (9:54), baseball at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (10:07). Commercials: Papermate Holiday pens (5:27), Maxwell House instant coffee (6:51), Rex Marshall on Maxwell House instant coffee (7:41), Maxwell House instant coffee (10:27). Public service announcement: radar outposts (19:48). ❧ News program (Ed Fleming, reporter), [CBS KNX-TV?] (television): Russia refrains from testing nuclear weapons (19:55), Richard Dimbleby (BBC) reports on on British royal military event for visiting Dwight Eisenhower (president) mentioning Harold Macmillan (prime minister) and Nikita Khruschev (premier) (20:37), China invasion of India (22:10), transportation strike (23:18), USC coed Linda Martin funeral service (23:27), Chris Albert sued for divorce (23:40), Gas House entertainment license hearing (A.L. Wirrin, attorney; Robert Swann, apartment house manager; Mrs. Gerhart Custo[?], witness; Julie Meredith, folksinger) (23:55), weather (27:17). Commercials: John Harland on Chevrolet dealers (22:33), Tidewater Flying A 100+ gasoline (23:15, 26:15), Arpege perfume (27:39), telephone company (27:45). ❧ Annoucement for upcoming news (television or radio) (28:41). ❧ News (television or radio) (28:55): Gas House entertainment license hearing, Al Matthews (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (hearing examiner), K.A. South (policeman) (28:55); broadcasting officials endicted (29:41). ❧ News (television or radio) (29:50, 31:44): automobiles driving on front lawns. ❧ News (television or radio) (29:56): re Ignacy Paderewski (pianist) (29:56); Gas House entertainment license hearing, Igor Stravinsky (composer), Stan Laurel (actor), Ron Waller (football player), Eric Nord (beatnik), Al Matthews (landlord) (30:04), VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and American Legion (31:44). Commercial: Maxwell House instant coffee (30:34). ❧ News (television or radio) (32:07): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, Al Matthews (landlord), A.L. Wirrin (attorney) (32:07, 32:53), FBI on crime (32:43), Ransom Calicott (councilman) and Edward Roybal (councilman) (32:48), Walter G. Williams, oldest living Civil War survivor (33:22, 34:46), baseball club (34:57). ❧ News (television or radio) (33:33): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, Al Matthews (attorney) (33:33), Jimmy McHugh (composer) honored, Lemoine Blanchard (councilman) (34:25). ❧ News (television or radio) (35:07): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, Lawrence Lipton (writer), A.L. Wirrin (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (judge) (35:07), shooting during robbery in Beverly Hills (35:41). ❧ News (television or radio) (35:52): Gas House entertainment permit hearing, A.L. Wirrin (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (judge), Lawrence Lipton (poet) (35:52). Commercial: George Barclay on Tidewater Flying A 100+ gasoline (36:49). ❧ News (television or radio) (36:59): beatniks, Lawrence Lipton (poet), A.L. Wirrin (attorney), Thomas Mulherin (judge) (36:59). Commercial: Maxwell House instant coffee (37:34). ❧ News (television or radio) (37:42): beatniks, Gas House hearing, Thomas Mulherin (judge), comments by A.L. Wirrin (attorney) and Willis O. Gooden (resident), Lawrence Lipton (poet) reading a poem "Upbeat, downbeat, offbeat" (poem 39:46) (news 37:42), baseball news (41:45). ❧ News (radio), KNX radio (41:54): monorail for mass transit (41:54), Gas House entertainment permit hearing, comments by Lawrence Lipton (witness) and Thomas Mulherin (judge) (42:03), weather (49:44). ❧ Tape 154, side 1, part 2 (0:02); side 2, part 3 (23:56) Lawrence Lipton and teenage? male (Hugh) and teenage? female (Blanche) discussion, re theft from corporations vs. from individuals, church attendance, Presbyterian, Catholic, upbringing and independence, living in night vs. day, watching television, talking and interacting with individuals vs. groups, marijuana, reading the newspaper, listening to television or radio news, Suez crisis, sporting events, parades, hunting or fishing, camping, having children, atomic anihilation and radiation, education, growing old, love. ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 1) Unidentified male reading poetry: "Upon no time other than up and down time" (0:02, 0:26). ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 2A) Lawrence Lipton reads his poetry: "In Africa" (0:43) with music. ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 2B) Lipton reads his poetry: "Newscast for a disconnected microphone" (14:13). ❧ Tape 154, side 2, part 2C) Lipton reads his poetry: "I was a poet for the FBI" (18:08). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.