This week, Patterson presents this photo of Marlene Bailey in Tompkins Square Park from 1988. You may know her better as "Hot Dog."
“I think it’s great to see her looking like that,” Patterson said in the feature. “I think it’s a good example of the difficulties and hard life of living on the street. She’s a neighborhood icon to some — a reprobate to others. I think she’s one of the last of the real survivors out there on the street — one of the street warriors.”
Here's a more recent photo of Marlene (with Poet John Lesko) from Bob Arihood's excellent new photo site, Nadie Se Canoce.
wow.
ReplyDeleteMarlene looks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteshe looks so youthful and fresh. but she's still got that smile.
ReplyDeleteI ws=ish Clayton, sorry MR LES, would go right back to Canada and document the scene there...Go away Clayton
ReplyDeleteShe looked so full of life when she was young. It's too bad how life turned out for her. Does anyone know her back story? How she ended up on the streets?
ReplyDeleteBob Arihood has written about Marlene in the past. You can find some of those posts via this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://neithermorenorless.blogspot.com/search?q=Marlene
Why don't you like Clayton ^^??
ReplyDeleteHowdy,
ReplyDeleteSeems you might find this interesting: my 1988 post-police-riot interview with Allen Ginsberg, thrown up on the web this week, inspired by the new film Howl -- which is about the Genii of the City as much as anything else.
http://www.newcombat.net/allen_ginsberg_interview.html
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