Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they decided to open a coffeehouse and formed a corporation called the Big Ffor (after the initials of each member's last name), and Jo bought them a four-story house and storefront on West 4th Street. From all accounts, including her own, Jo was "in emotional trouble." According to Teddy, she was once found on the roof of a house tossing away checks, had attempted suicide several times, and often spent days cocooned in bed weeping...
...with David, so Teddy took over as his mother, and David grew up believing that Jo was his sister. He was raised by the family's notions of total freedom; he was kept out of school and picked up his education from the people who gravitated to the storefront seeking food and shelter. The storefront, which the group turned into a factory to produce Tiffany-style lampshades rather than into a coffeehouse, overflowed with dogs, vagrants, hanging lamps, plants, glass-cutting equipment, books, rags and grime...
...habeas corpus served on Dolph. After Dolph failed to produce the boy for testing before the question of custody could be settled, he was sent to jail. Teddy also refused to comply with the court order and, before going to jail herself, told Micah and Peter Yee, 15, a storefront regular picked up by the family in a nearby park, to hide David. In October 1973 the three disappeared and were last thought to be somewhere in Connecticut. In desperation, Jo Oppenheimer has offered a $2,500 reward to anyone who can help her find her son. Only...
Another alternative for the middle-income consumer is the cut-rate "legal clinic." One, located amidst a tangle of shops in Van Nuys, Calif., is a storefront law office run by Leonard Jacoby and Stephen Meyers, both 32-year-old lawyers. They sprinkle their office with brochures listing prices and permit customers to pay by credit card. Most important, they charge fees that families earning $8,000 to $18,000 a year can afford. At the clinic, an uncontested divorce goes for $100 instead of the $350 charged by the average law firm; a typical bankruptcy case brings $225 instead...
...years when urban ghettos were exploding and the nation's campuses were shaken by student demonstrations, government officials and members of the legal profession came to see storefront lawyers as contributors to social unrest. In 1966 the president of the Tennessee Bar Association was widely applauded at a conference of state bar leaders when he charged that the Legal Service Program "relates to the fomenting of social unrest in this country. They propose to go out and tell people how to carry out rent and consumer strikes and demonstrate against lending institutions. I do not think this is consistent with...