Dick McBride came into contact with a wide variety of writers/artists during his years in San Francisco and City Lights Bookshop. Inevitably, he was privy to a huge amount of humorous happenings along the way. Dick personally witnessed several of these, and friends and colleagues related many others to him. Listed below are the celebrities and friends with whom he shared time - both in work and leisure - and the show will include a selection of tales and anecdotes about several of them, along with his poetry.

Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
William Burroughs
Neal Cassidy
Mike McLure
Arthur Miller
Jack Trevor Story
William Saroyan
Kenneth Patchen
Tennessee Williams
Richard Brautigan
Yevtushenko
Gregory Corso
Gary Snyder
John Montgomery
Robert Duncan
Philip Lamantia
Philip Whalen