Kings Laundry
About This Item
Kings Laundry at 536 Castro Street; From the 1960s to the 1980s or so, the pink triangles on the facade tiles pre-date the adoption by the gay community of the Nazi symbol converting it from a symbol of shame and death to one of pride and life.
- Created by
- Kirkeberg, Max
- Date
- 6/25/1982
- Slide ID
- Castro-Castro-500-W-07
- Type
- Slide
- Format
- TIFF
- Source
- Emeritus Professor Max Kirkeberg, Department of Geography, San Fransisco State University
- San Francisco State University
- Locale
- San Francisco, California
- Rights
- Public
- Views
- 2776
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