Grimes Poznikov, known as "The Human Jukebox," was a fixture of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a street performer, who would wait in a cardboard refrigerator box until a passerby offered him a donation and requested a song. He would then pop out of the box and play the requested song on a trumpet, kazoo, or one of a number of other instruments. Poznikov was arrested several times for selling marijuana. Wikipedia
Now, after years of anonymity, the trumpet-playing, anti-establishment hippie Grimes Poznikov has reappeared -- at a dump in the southeast sector of San Francisco. www.neodygrads.com/pages/poznikov/Jukebox.html
In the days before schizophrenia stole his wits, Grimes Poznikov played music on "The Mike Douglas Show" and was lauded by journalist Charles Kuralt as one of the most popular entertainment attractions in San Francisco. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/01/BAGP...
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Grimes Poznikov was in the news. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that today Grimes will be among the homeless encamped on 3rd Street near the railroad tracks who will be forced to move. The Chronicle reports that Grimes was a celebrity and now lives www.well.com/~mp/MPDec02.html
