Grimes Poznikov, the Automatic Human Jukebox, gets temporary memorial




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Summary: Famous people around these parts get their names on important places. Robin Williams got a tunnel, Willie Brown got a bridge. Grimes Poznikov got a Porta Potti. Perhaps you don’t know who Poznikov was, but he was famous in his time. He was the Automatic Human Jukebox, among the most celebrated of San Francisco’s street characters in the 1970s and ’80s. He was a free spirit who brought music and a kind of zany zest to life on the street.