OPEN CITY No. 35, Dec. 29–Jan. 4, 1967/68 — Bukowski's Love Letter to Liza, Jefferson Airplane, The Fugs, Chambers Bros.

An issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," appearing on page five under the header "A Love Letter to Liza." The column opens with Bukowski going over his old Racing Forms late and depressed, a knock at the door, and a woman standing in the rain — long red hair all down the back, a body that was nothing but sex. She comes in, sits on the chair in front of the fireplace, and the encounter escalates through the apartment in a slow, physical fever — the beerbottle knocked over, her skirt going up, the red hair everywhere. She calls him a diseased gorilla and a troglodyte. He grabs the long red hair and yanks. She calls him an immortal writer. He works at the beer. It is all too late. The column closes with Bukowski at the beer, having worked at it, the whole thing done. The front cover, reprinted from The Seed (UPS), is a striking pink and black comic strip titled "What To Do In 3 Minutes While Waiting For The End" — a response to the news item that US nuclear attack warning time had been reduced from 15 to 3 minutes, with panels advising readers to sign up for unemployment, burn your draft card, write dirty words on walls, dial a prayer, boil a 3-minute egg — the last panel a black square with a single "BEEP." Interior features a two-part jazz feature on the Jefferson Airplane by Frank Kofsky, and a Bob Garcia music column covering the Collectors, a Vancouver pop group. Back cover is a full-page pink and black advertisement for The Fugs' Tenderness Junction on Reprise Records. Mailing label addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Euclid, Ohio. Full broadsheet format, pink and black spot color on front and back covers, black and white interior. Provenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself. This copy is in excellent condition. It has an even fold, the pages are white and the color is vivid. Very slight browning here and there.