Detroit Beatnik Cool c. 1959 - The Minor Key with Win Wells at the mic. Jazz, poetry, coffee and BYO weed. Dress code black turtleneck, dark glasses + frequent finger snapping and head nodding. Patrons included many underage young ladies and On the Road wanna be's. HOWL required reading.
Dorothea Lange in 1936, pictured atop a Ford Model C in California. While best known for her humanizing images of the Great Depression, Lange also recorded the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast while on assignment for the War Relocation Authority. Deeming them too critical,