By: Deborah Speer
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Joel SelvinAuther and music journalist Joel Selvin Author and journalist Joel Selvin spent almost 40 years as the pop music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1972 to 2009, giving him a front row seat to one of the most vibrant eras of popular music history and one of its most enigmatic scenes. He co-wrote Sammy Hagar’s acclaimed memoir, “Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock” and collaborated with such figures as L.A. Reid, Randy Bachman, rock photographer Jim Marshall, Ed Hardy, and the author/musicians of the Rock Bottom Remainders. He’s written books on the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the deadly debacle of “Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day”
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To the casual observer, Melrose Avenue on Monday afternoon was back in full swing. The sun shone brightly and throngs of fashionistas decked in edgy streetwear prowled the famed shopping district.
People clacked away on their laptops on the Starbucks patio. Even tattoo parlors and barbershops showed signs of life after a tumultuous
year, with customers waiting on benches outside.
Earlier that morning, the iconic
Pink’s Hot Dogs reopened after a voluntary two-month closure just off the corner of La Brea and Melrose avenues where it began as a pushcart operation 81 years ago. Now that coronavirus case levels are falling and the vaccination effort is underway, Richard Pink, the son of the stand’s founders and its current co-owner, said it was time to kick-start the family business again.
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