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Haight Ashbury hippies evolve into Bay Area community
A San Francisco Chronicle excerpt reports hippies, once seen as a fad, spreading across the Bay Area. They pursue alternative schools, free universities, hitchhiking as transport, and hippie communes while facing drugs, poverty, and economic challenges. Steve Gaskin leads a mobile communal lifestyle. Switchboards coordinate lifestyle services. The Whole Earth Catalog signals DIY optimism. Budgets drop to about 150 dollars monthly, with earnings sought by unconventional means.
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Robert. Strand
San
Francisco
San Francisco
Ocean Shore
Sierra
Funkaar
San Francisco Area
India
Bay Area
Santa’ Barbara
New Schools Exchange
Canada
Mentary School
Araucps
Bay
Steve Gaskin
Gaskin
Haight-Ashbury