Remember the PUNK ROCK scene(?), MABUHAY Gardens, San Francisco. 1978. PHOTOS by JULIE SCHACHTER, from her book (w/THE MUTANTS on cover).

https://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-Area-Punk-Wave/dp/1366269616

All photos excerpted from “San Francisco Bay Area Punk/New Wave Photographs from 1978-1980” by Julie Schachter, copyright ©2013)

Here’s some vintage B&W photographs that celebrate 15 bands that took the stage in San Francisco at the end of the 1970's: Tuxedomoon, Leila & the Snakes, The Mutants, SST, Crispy Baby, Psychotic Pineapple (sic), The Readymades, Liars, Seizure, The Sleepers, Negative Trend, Flipper, The Nuns, The Avengers, The Sex Pistols. Ends with a nod to the late "Pope of Punk", impresario of Mabuhay Gardens, Dirk Dirksen.

THE MUTANTS

FLIPPER

AVENGERS

NEGATIVE TREND

TUXEDOMOON

SST

READYMADES

LIARS

SEX PISTOLS

CRISPY BABY

“San Francisco Bay Area Punk/New Wave Photographs from 1978-1980,” by Julie Schachter, ©2013). (\

More original images are featured here: Vintage 1978 silver gelatin prints by Julie Schachter, March 6th, @PBA Galleries (scroll down).

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