Author Archive: bob
Golden Gate Bridge Climb
John Law recalls: 16 people went on this climb. This was way too many. Dmitri said to me at one point: “Gee John. I almost passed out back there.” I reassured him & never got outside of arms reach all night. This was the largest group I ever lead on the GGB. Plenty of chills! […]
Enter The Unknown #2
Aug 27, 1977 We ascended as a group of nearly 30 folks to a rooftop under a freeway bilboard, armed with materials required to modify the billboard. A group brainstorm resulted in a plan, and we created the modifications and applied them. We got arrested. “Free the Max Factor 26” !
Exploring a Dead Hospital
Harkness Hospital was a former San Francisco hospital located in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where many of us lived. We adopted it as a frequent destination for events such as dart gun games and climbing expeditions. Peter Field rappelling a wall, and Bob Campbell traversing between wings
Play Dead
John Law recalls: “Play Dead (Steve Mobia) Our first visit to the delectable Mountain View Cemetery in the Piedmont hills high above Oakland. We drove over to East Bay after applying white face and donning all black togs at Circus of the Soul. We parked in a wealthy, tree lined Piedmont neighborhood in our […]
Oakland Bay Bridge
John Law recalls: This event was in part (according to Gary) a welcome home to me upon my return from hitchhiking around the country (and Canada). This was the event where we had to threaten the guy (I forget his name) because he refused on principle to ditch his pot. We had to clandestinely park […]
Summer of Love Reenactment
Many Suicide Club events, particularly the physically dangerous and/or illegal variety were no alcohol, no drugs affairs. Even so, many members would imbibe on occasion. Kathy Hearty’s Summer of Love re-enactment was an event that actually encouraged participants to “get in the spirit” of the original period. Photographer Greg Mancuso caught the faux-hippies in […]
Ghiradelli Square Squirt Gun
John Law recalls: “Roseanne was dressed as a “cigarette girl” with a chest slung tray from which she dispensed squirt guns to about 20 or so people. She looked pretty cute.”
Patchwork Quilt Adventure
This was a repeating event by Peter Field, and featured a collection of mini-events. Here is the announcement for PQ-II in Jan 78
Food Fight
Photographer Greg Mancuso captured the Suicide Club in a massive food fight that took place in a house rented by Pierre Barral in the Glen Park District of S.F. The house was to be torn down later that week; the opportunity to completely trash a house, Three Stooges style, was simply too great for the […]
Kennedy Hotel
The Kennedy Hotel was an abandoned hotel in downtown SF ( ed. note: I helped make that ladder! – Bob ) Photo: John testing the ladder at Dave Warren’s apartment building.
Sewers of Oakland
John Law recalls: The first event I organized. Dave remembered some storm tunnels he had explored as a kid. Dave, Gary and I scoped these tunnels one afternoon. We entered upstream at Mills College (all girl) in one of the tunnel inflows that Dave remembered from 35 years before. We went downstream trying to […]
Union Square Stunt
John Law recalls: “I think the same day as naked cable car we did the Union Square Stunt. We parked on the bottom level of the parking lot (4th level?) in 2 or 3 funky vehicles (Dave’s beanbag seat Ford Galaxy 500, a hippy type van-Bob C’s?) There are 3 elevators. The scenes I recall […]
Naked Cable Car
Scariest thing I ever did. Many of us spent the night at Nancy Prussia’s apt. (I was dating her at the time-2 mos+/-) We got on the very 1st (6AM?) car at the Cable Car Barn. 6-8 blocks later we stripped of all clothing and the grip and brakemen on the cable car just stopped […]
