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:
In Feb 1977, an event appeared in the first Nooseletter: Later, this led to an multi-day actual infiltration of a Moonie encampment. ‘Moonies’ were followers of Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church, which was a well known religious cult of the 1970’s.
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 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 […]
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 […]
Communiversity was a free alternative school that began at SF State in 1969. The Suicide Club was born as a ‘class’ in the 1977 spring catalog.
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 […]
