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The House On Divisadero Street (Part 6 of 6)11 comments

ponderpig wrote 2 weeks ago: Later on, the media distilled my generation of San Francisco-bred, disaffiliated young people into a … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, nathan zakheim

The House On Divisadero Street (Part 1 of 6)12 comments

ponderpig wrote 1 month ago: Here begins, in six parts, the story of the rise and fall of a small student community in San Franci … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, baby beatniks, Haight-Ashbury, North Beach, sf state

Voices From The Haight #1: A Walk Through San Francisco, Dec. 26, 19671 comment

ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Continuing on my theme of recreating the sixties-era Haight-Ashbury as I actually knew it, as oppose … more →

Tags: 1964-1969. The Haight-Ashbury And After, Voices From The Haight, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

Luminaries of the Haight #4: 1090 Page Street17 comments

ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Sometime in the spring or summer of 1964, Rodney Albin’s uncle acquired a twenty-two room Vict … more →

Tags: 1964-1969. The Haight-Ashbury And After, Luminaries of the Haight-Ashbury, 1090 Page Street, big brother and the holding company, Haight-Ashbury, peter kraemer, sf state, Sopwith Camel

Luminaries of the Haight-Ashbury: Rodney Albin11 comments

ponderpig wrote 1 year ago: Part I: The Folk Years I guess of all the friends I had back then, in the halcyon days of my hippie … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, boar's head, College of San Mateo, elizabeth cotton, Folk music, George The Beast, Haight-Ashbury, jerry garcia, Peter Albin

Famous People I Never Knew #3: Jerry Garcia (part 2)2 comments

ponderpig wrote 3 years ago: Back in the redwood forest, people have settled in, dinner is over, and guys start tuning up their  … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, Folk music, Parties, San Mateo, Rock music, bluegrass, David Nelson, palo alto, Blues

Famous People I Never Knew #3: Jerry Garcia (Part 1)4 comments

ponderpig wrote 3 years ago: Today Nathan Zakheim is an art conservator in LA, world renowned, and bald. But in 1963 Nathan was t … more →

Tags: 1959-1964. Freaks and Baby Beatniks, peaceniks, Folk music, Parties, sf state, ban the bomb, Hippies, nathan zakheim, the underground


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