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  • These photos show the punk scene in San Francisco in the 1970s – The Washington Post

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    These photos show the punk scene in San Francisco in the 1970s – The Washington Post

    Jim Jocoy became a student at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1976, at the threshold of the San Francisco punk scene. It took only one year for him to become entranced by the scene, which included bands like the hardcore punk Dead Kennedys. Jocoy dropped out of school to spend his nights taking photographs that documented a completely different subculture in the city, the Summer of Love just a decade behind it.

  • Bay of punks: remembering when punk rock invaded San Francisco | Music | The Guardian

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    Bay of punks: remembering when punk rock invaded San Francisco | Music | The Guardian

    n early 1979, photographer Jim Jocoy attended an auction at the Peoples Temple in San Francisco. More than 900 of its worshipers had died in a mass suicide-murder which came to be known as the Jonestown massacre, led to their deaths by activist-turned-doomsday cultist Jim Jones. When Jocoy saw some of the followers’ left-behind luggage, he saw a symbol of Jones’ “hollow, empty promise”, and took a picture. “Jonestown, the assassinations – they worked into the fabric of San Francisco, and unraveled its tapestry,” Jocoy says. “It was quite gloomy, that summer of hate, and punk was the soundtrack.”

  • Colorful Photos of 70s Bay Area Punks Partying, Posing, and Passed Out – VICE

    Colorful Photos of 70s Bay Area Punks Partying, Posing, and Passed Out

    Photographer Jim Jocoy’s newest book shows a brightly colored and seldom-shown side to the punk scene.