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...Slick), the boys sent for Janis to be their lead singer. She began to learn about rock 'n' roll, and to please her, they began to learn about the blues. By the time of the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, after months of hard practicing in Haight-Ashbury, they were ready. The documentary film Monterey Pop is the celluloid affidavit of their triumph...
...long experience with his six sons, aged eight to 28. Jack Hickel, 19, a biology student at the University of San Francisco, defines his relationship with his parents as "super-good." Hickel never indulged in what Jack calls "fairy tale" moralizing. When Jack sampled the "weekend hippie" scene in Haight-Ashbury several years ago, Hickel was troubled but not surprised to learn that the sampling included marijuana. He merely asked his son what it felt like, then suggested that it would be "foolish to take chances with the law and health." Jack quit. Today he has no qualms about criticizing...
...brother were sent to separate boys' homes. He began to sniff glue, drink wine, steal cars. He spent six years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian of the Radha Krishna temple. But the surrounding Hashbury mi lieu disturbed him: "I felt the hip scene was filled with plastic love and plastic peace. Their love was lust and their peace was a finger sign." Finally, Hoyt encountered...
...Living Room. It was the joint creation of three Bay Area evangelical ministers, John MacDonald of First Baptist Church in Mill Valley, John Streater of First Baptist in San Francisco, and Edward Plowman of Park Presidio Baptist Church in the city. To communicate with the hip settlers in Haight-Ashbury, the three hired Ted Wise, now 33, a burly Sausalito sailmaker and former drug user who had been converted through MacDonald. Before long, Wise decided that "to bring them back from sin," he first had to change the environment of his converts. So he and his wife, together with four...
...earliest, seems to have succumbed already. Founder Richard Key and his entourage now tape broadcasts for ten radio stations, publish a newsletter soliciting contributions, and maintain a 24-hour prayer room to forward the petitions of their benefactors. Meanwhile, Clayton House has abandoned the now largely black Haight-Ashbury scene just down the hill. "God has taken us out of the street ministry," explains one member. Of the potential converts still remaining in the Haight, he says: "Their hearts are hardened...