... the counterculture lived in groups called communes that were set up in larger cities around the world. Some of the largest and most well known communes are Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, Greenwich Village in New York City, and Old Town in Chicago. Hippies living in these communes shared the majority of things among each other. Communes featured gardens, restaurants, cheap alternative ... of 1967 was the Summer of Love. The Summer of Love drew more than 100,000 youth and hippies from across the country to the Haight-Ashbury district and the San Francisco Bay area. This event was one of...

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... more popular the alternatives became. The lesson was learned in 1955 when a little known poet named Alan Ginsberg was scheduled to read his poem HOWL at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Captain William Hanrahan of the SFPD busted up the reading, confiscated copies of the poem and arrested City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti for obscenity. Ironically, this made HOWL a best-seller ... ...

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