:: Underground Uplift Unlimited, April 1967-May 1968

| Randy Rhody

In 1967, after 8 months on a road more extreme than Kerouac traveled, I lived in the Lower East Side and worked on St Marks Place at Underground Uplift Unlimited. The store and mail order business sold buttons such as Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, Keep the Faith Baby, and We Shall Overcome. It quickly evolved into a head shop.
I would be beholden to anyone who contacts who has or knows of other photos of the Underground Uplift Unlimited, 28 St Marks Place.

  • Underground Uplift Unlimited
    Underground Uplift Unlimited
  • Randy Wicker
    Randy Wicker (aka Charles Hayden), Underground Uplift proprietor
  • Turn On Tune In Drop Out
    One of the buttons sold at UUU
  • Underground Uplift Unlimited
  • Some of the posters, bumper stickers, and buttons inside.
Photo credits: Teenyboppers in front of Underground Uplift Unlimited, https://www.tumblr.com/search/underground%20uplift%20unlimited (accessed January 12, 2018). Randy Wicker http://gaytoday.com/garchive/viewpoint/042400vi.htm (accessed March 27, 2018). Button images from http://www.lancefuhrer.com/60s_Buttons.htm (accessed June 21, 2018, no longer online). Store pictures from personal collection of Randy Wicker.

The poet Tuli Kupferberg dropped in occasionally. Valerie Solanas brought her SCUM magazine in to sell. Abbie Hoffman lived upstairs from the store.

  • Tuli Kupferberg
    Tuli Kupferberg
  • Valerie Solanas
    Valerie Solanas
  • Abbott Hoffman, Yippie
    Abbot Hoffman
Photo credits: Tuli Kupferberg, http://www.azquotes.com/author/20227-Tuli_Kupferberg (accessed March 27, 2018). Valerie Solanas, http://crimefeed.com/2017/06/crime-history-valerie-solanas-shoots-andy-warhol-in-1967 (accessed March 27, 2018). Abbot Hoffman https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-new-york-stock-exchange-gave-abbie-hoffman-his-start-guerrilla-theater-180964612/ (accessed March 27, 2018).

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