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...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...
...organization, founded last Spring, rented the Iroquois Club on Mt. Auburn St. for the summer and used it as a hostel where transients could crash free. The group also opened a storefront at 9 Mt. Auburn St. where it operated a medical, legal, and psychiatric referral service, a drug counseling service, and a telephone switchboard for people seeking help...
With the opening of school, however, the Iroquois reclaimed its building, and transients and runaways began coming to the storefront seeking a place to sleep...