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Linda Lovely's Journal - January 1966.
Voices from the Haight #2 The original Linda Lovely has given me permission to post portions from her letters and journals of the Haight-Ashbury period. The photo above was taken about a week before t… more →
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Linda Lovely's Journal - January 1966.
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Voices from the Haight #2 The original Linda Lovely has given me permission to post portions from he … more →
Voices From The Haight #1: A Walk Through San Francisco, Dec. 26, 1967
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Continuing on my theme of recreating the sixties-era Haight-Ashbury as I actually knew it, as oppose … more →
Luminaries of the Haight #4: 1090 Page Street
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Sometime in the spring or summer of 1964, Rodney Albin’s uncle acquired a twenty-two room Vict … more →
Glamorpusses of the Haight #4: Linda Lovely
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Photos of the 1966 era Linda Lovely are few and hard to come by. But, I found this rare snapshot ta … more →
Sixties Survivors #6: Signe Anderson
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: This is a rock star? You’ve got to be kidding! She looks like a normal person. Shouldn’ … more →
Glamorpusses Of The Haight #3: Marilyn Jones
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: The Great Lemming Migration to San Francisco was still a few years away in 1965, the year this photo … more →
Glamorpusses of the Haight #2: Lori Helms
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Ah, Lori Hayman Helms. So beautiful she was. And probably still is. Lori was Chet Helm’s wif … more →
Glamorpusses Of The Haight #1: Pigpen
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: We’re starting a new series on The Pig today, but I’m not sure what to call it yet. We … more →
The Sad Story of Everpresent Anxiety
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Continued from last time… Back in ‘66 me and a couple of pals got this idea for a power … more →
I Remember Love
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Did you ever look at an old rock poster and wonder who the acts advertised actually were? Like this … more →
A Birthday Party in the Haight-Ashbury, 1967
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: By 1967, the original hippies were already raising their kids in the Haight. Here’s documentar … more →
On Meeting Chet Helms
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ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: I suspect most readers will recognize the name Chet Helms. He was a seminal figure of Sixties San Fr … more →
It's Too Late, She's Gone
ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I learned Beth died. The beautiful girl whose strings are tied into my heart as fast today … more →
One More Once for The Summer of Love
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ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: Writer and itinerant hipster Greg Hoffman just sent up a few photos he snapped at the Summer Of Love … more →
Sally Go Round The Roses or At The Langley Porter Neurasthenic Day School, 1964.
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ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: “The roses they won’t hurt you…the roses they won’t hurt you.” What we … more →
Last Days of Playland-at-the-Beach
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ponderpig wrote 2 years ago: Note: This is Part 3 of the Playland Story. It’s full of occult hippies and glamorous pop star … more →
Ooh, ooh, ooh, what a little blogging can do...
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ponderpig wrote 3 years ago: Back in February I posted a little story about my life in the Haight-Ashbury in 1966 and how I didn … more →
Famous People I Never Knew #2: Janis Joplin
ponderpig wrote 3 years ago: (Here’s Janis as a normal person, shot by my friend Herb Greene about 1966 and rights owned by … more →
Three Girls Barefoot; Last Day of 1969
ponderpig wrote 3 years ago: Since we’re visiting the Sixties this week, I thought I’d post this little poem I found … more →
