Word: storefront
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SANCTUARY, summer 1970: a storefront drop in center at 9 Mt. Auburn Street; a hostel in the Iroquois Club further down the street at No. 74; administration, education, research offices at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church and the Episcopal Theological School...
...storefront. Open 24 hours a day. With switchboard-hotline. People available, willing to talk. A lot of referrals, both by phone and in person. Where to look for birth control pills, abortions, draft counseling, VD tests, pregnancy tests. For those with chronic ailments, Cambridgeport, the free medical clinic across the street...
FALL, 1970. Hostel closed, but storefront still operating. Administration offices entirely located at Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Research moved to Catholic Student Center on Arrow Street. Storefront crashing about 20 people nightly, late dinners from restaurant at the Orson Welles as well as El Diablo. Fruit and vegetables from the Walden Street Organic Market...
Problems. The difficulty of combining the functions of both hostel and counseling center in one storefront. Lack of room, too much noise, too much music. Scares away those who aren't sure of what questions to ask, what problems they have. Staffers find it harder to make contact with kids...
...Storefront Lawyers (CBS) and The Interns (CBS) both exploit Mod Squad's multihero angle, but neither one is genuinely mod or engrossing. The three attorneys, one a woman, earn their bread by serving a stuffy Los Angeles firm, and their kicks by melodramatically providing legal aid from a ghetto storefront. The five interns, including one female and one black, churn in a centrifuge of subplots as soaperific as any afternoon hospital show...