1980s runaways (Bay Area and Seattle)

**Colonel Frank Grimes** · 02-20-2019, 01:40 AM

I like documentaries about weird stuff especially from the 70s to early 90s.

One of the chicks (Marian) in the video became a singer for a somewhat famous underground punk band. There was a documentary about her made in 2011. She unfortunately died of heroin in 2001.

Supposedly the kid known as Mad Max went insane and is known to walk the streets of the Bay Area today talking to himself. That really bothered me when I read that. He came across as very intelligent and you know if he hadn't been born into a fucked up family he would have done well for himself.

Streetwise is a 1984 documentary film by director Martin Bell.[1] It followed in the wake of a July 1983 Life magazine article, "Streets of the Lost", by writer Cheryl McCall and photographer Mary Ellen Mark[2][3](Bell's wife).[4]

According to Mark's accompanying 1988 book, eponymously titled Streetwise,[5] McCall and Mark traveled to Seattle Washington specifically to reveal that even in a town that billed itself as America's most livable city, there still existed rampant homelessness and desperation. After making connections with several homeless youth during the writing of the article, Mark convinced Bell that the youth were worthy of his making a documentary based on their lives. McCall and Mark were also instrumental in making the film. Streetwise follows the lives of several homeless teenagers, although it focuses most on 14-year-old Erin Blackwell, a young prostitute who goes by the name of Tiny. Much of the time, Tiny stays at the home of her alcoholic mother, Pat, who seems unfazed by her daughter's prostitution, calling it a "phase".

Bell's follow-up documentary, named Streetwise: Tiny Revisited, was released in 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetwise_(1984_film)