8/26 ~ Sunset Junction Street Fair

1995 USAIDS 5,000 (20th Anniversary Pictorial Tour)  
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[ Excerpts from AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM STORY accompany each photo, edited to show actual names. ]

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Picture # 161

[ The chief financial goal of the Imperial Court of LA was to assist PLWAs needing temporary help with medicine costs and utility bills. They also supplied food baskets twice yearly to all hospices in LA County, which was quite an ambitious undertaking for a small group. . . ] (Autographed Flyer courtesy of Imperial Court of Los Angeles, August 26, 1995)

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Picture #162b

 
[ . . .To further their cause, they (ICoLA) contract for a beer kiosk at the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair near one of the stages. . . ] (Picture from August 26, 1995)
— with Jamie Cole, ICoLA

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Picture #163

[ . . . While I volunteered time selling buckets of brew for the Court, Carl managed to get on stage to promote the bike trip, sell t-shirts for us, and invite the crowd to meet me at the beer tent three doors down. . . . ] (Picture from August 25, 1995)

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Picture #164

 
[ . . . A double-win, for sure—the Court never sold so much beer before then. By day’s end, all the kegs were dry. . . ] (Picture from August 26, 1995)
— with Jamie Cole, ICoLA

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Picture #165

[ . . . Any wet celebration had to be back at Mae West’s place later that evening. Reeking of stale brew, the only wet celebration I wanted was in Mae’s room-sized shower. ] (Picture from August 26, 1995) 
— with Robin (Rubin Fimbres), ICoLA, Bill Richards, ICoLA and Lebman Carl