The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 7

Sumhy.S.pt. 5,1965 5CH 8.f3xmUM-$eC.l 5 FIRST OF A SERIES A Neiv Paradise For Beatniks By MICHAEL FALLON Five untroubled youngPT? "hippies," sprawled on floor" mattresses and slouched in an armchair retrieved from a debris box, flipped cigaret ashes at a seashell in their Waller Street flat and pondered their next move. It was 5 in the evening. Dinner was not yet on the stove; the makings for dinner were nowhere in sight. No one appeared worried, though.

Or even interested. The same apathy controll- in ed the discussion of their next pad, a move forced on them by a police marijuana and drinking party raid the week before. "Maybe we'll move to the Fillmore," said Jeff, 21, the oldest. The proposal drew loud snickers and seemed doomed. wi Bttmsi IK: WHERE THE ACTION IS A sort of "West Beach" and acquired fresh paint.

New businesses are moving in to cater to the new bo-hemians. Older shops are enlarging. Yet there are troubles. The threat of urban renewal proj In all likelihood the hippies will drift together, separately or in new combinations to other quarters in the Haight-Ashbury District. Haight Ashbury is the City's new bohemian quarter for serious writers, painters and musicians, civil rights workers, crusaders for all kinds of causes, homosex ects in adjoining districts, or in Haight-Ashbury itself, raises slum fears.

"Planning" is not a kindly-received word, by and large, among uals, lesmans, marijuana users, young working couples of artistic bent and the outer fringe of the bohemian fringe the "hippies, the "heads, the beatniks. It is, in short, Beach." By and large, the Establish ment of Haight Ashbury longtime residents and businessmenare not in the least disturbed by all this. They the 30,000 people who live east of Stanyan Street, south of Fulton, west of Divisadero and north of 17th Street, Upper Terrace and Buena Vista Park. The neighborhood's problems had little importance in the flat at 1446 Waller where a visitor was cautioned by a 4 year old Negro girl playing on the front steps: "Don't go in there. That's the wrong door.

That's the beatnik door." In the previous week's marijuana raid, police had jailed eight tenants and rounded up 14 suburban juveniles, nearly all neat and well-behaved. POT SALES The five survivors in third floor flat said the gathering had been a "rentj are optimistic about the fu i ture of the district, welcome "new blood," and point to commercial growth. Haight Ashbury indeed seems to be experiencing renaissance that will make it a richer, better neighborhood in which to live. LOW RENTS There, too, are hundreds of San Francisco State College students, in flight from Park YTTYfl merced and in close contact party," advertised in the hip world to raise as effortless with the hip world, and more aloof delegations from the ly as possible $125 for another month's rent. A Like many hippies, they de University of California Med' ical Center and the Univer sity of San Francisco.

fended marijuana. "It's not WW They fit into a mosaic of races and nationalities unique habit forming, you know," they said. "To equate it with smack (heroin) is wrong." AS Marijuana sells for about $1 stick (cigaret) or $15 an say it is easily obtained and far healthier than a few shots of whisky. Would the five consider taking jobs to raise bail for comrades unfairly incarcer in the City Negroes, Filipinos, some Japanese, Russians, Czechs, Scandinavians, Armenians, Greeks, Germans and Irish. Newcomers and oldtimers, both are attracted to Haight-Ashbury by the low rents.

A high ceilinged six room apartment worth $250 a month or more elsewhere in San Francisco may be found there for $150, or even for as low as $85. The neighborhood is sprucing itself up. Dozens of splendid pre-earthquake Victorian homes have been refurbished Day ated? "It would be a lot of work." "They wouldn't expect it of us. If they weren't worried about their friends, or their next pad, or anything else, then how about dinner? Where was that next meal coming from? VISIT "A lot of us have 'straight' friends. They bring us food." 0 Without lifting a finger, hip SAN FKAWCtSCO pies share, too, in this age of affluence.

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