Heart Of Garbage: Inside The Manson Family
Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 2001
MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA. June 7, 2001. Take a walk down East Washington Avenue, past the Pontiac workshops, car dealerships, gas stations and establishments with names like Scooter Therapy and Roadway Transmission, and youll come to a squat redbrick building with grey doors. Like most facades that house extraordinary goings on – nuclear fallout shelters for example, or the redneck store in Pulp Fiction – it seems pretty nondescript from the outside. Looking at this anonymous structure, a line from Love Street comes to mind: "I wonder what they do in there?"
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