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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! […]
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 […]
Baby Beautiful Contest
March 11, 1977 Baby Beautiful Contest Here is the announcement in the first SC nooseletter in Feb 1977 John Law recalls: Entered shill baby: Sweet Pea Sheffield: Ron & Shirley as folks, borrowed a real baby from someone. Dave W. Covered in pink Calamine lotion, paper mache head, big lolli-pop. Gary kept laughing so hard […]
Treasure Hunt
Rick Lasky recalls: “I was jogging in the Richmond District near where I lived when I had a flash of inspiration. Wouldn’t it be cool to organize a treasure hunt around the city? I knew just who to take this idea to: Gary Warne. So I went to Gary’s bookstore “Circus of the Soul” and […]
Golden Gate Bridge Dinner
The Golden Gate Bridge Dinner was created by Catherine Baker and became one of signature events that was repeated each year, the other being the Treasure Hunt Announcement in the very first nooseletter in Feb 1977 Here is the announcement a year later for the 2nd annual dinner:
Why I joined the Suicide Club
WHY I JOINED THE SAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE CLUB –David T. Warren As the years slip by and I try to align each day with the passing of my life, I find myself on tenuous ground. After forty years of living, dreaming, and working to build the kind of community that I would like to live […]
The San Francisco Suicide Club Description
THE SAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE CLUB DESCRIPTION Have you ever explored a subterranean sewer at night with forty other people; climbed three stories on a swinging rope ladder to dine on the roof of a condemned building; staged practical jokes you’ve always fantasized about? No…? How about dinner at Rev. Moon’s or talking a policeman into hitting you with a pie? Well… we […]
1st Initiation
Feb 2, 1977 (John Law remembers: Following is a fragment of a story I started about my impressions of this event.) Certain hands, seemingly familiar with the task at hand, were the hands I felt gently guiding me out of the van that I had occupied for the last hour along with six […]
The Beginning
On January 2, 1977 gale warnings were issued in San Francisco, and, at midnight, four friends unexplainedly found themselves holding onto handrails as 20 foot waves broke over them. Afterwards, they agreed they wanted to explore other such experiences in a larger group of friends. The SUICIDE CLUB was chosen as a name, based on […]
