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Drug education is offered by Earth Mother on Wednesdays at the Grace Church, 555 W. Belden. Information and help with bad trips can be obtained through Just Us, 61 N. Parkside (378-7618) or LSD Rescue Service, 7717 N. Sheridan (338-6750). Chicago has a number of good clinics maintained by movement and community groups spread throughout the city for the people that live in the area.
The Black Panther Party runs the Spurgeon “Jake” Winters Free People’s Clinic at 3850 W. 16th St. (522-3220).
The Young Patriots Uptown Health Service located at 4408 N. Sheridan (334-8957) serves the people in that community. The Young Lords maintain the Dr. E.
Betances Free People’s Health Center at Peoples Church, 834 W. Armitage (549-8505). The Latin American Defense Organization has a clinic on 2353 W.
North Avenue, (276-0900). The growing Student Health Organization administers a number of small clinics in various communities. Call them at 493-2741 or drop into their office at 1613 E. 53rd St. At the Holy Covenant Church, on Wilton and Diversey, you can get medical assistance at the Free People’s Clinic as well as help with legal, housing, family planning and nutrition problems. Call 348-6842.
All these clinics provide a variety of services and operate on different schedules.
Call them first to be sure they are open.
LEGAL AID
Chicago has a number of good law schools and you can often get some assistance or referral by calling them and speaking to the editor of the law school paper. You can go to the bathroom for free in the Julius J. Hoffman Room at Northwestern University Law School.
The Law Student Commune, 357 E. Chicago, 649-8462, is a group of young radical lawyers and law students trying to bring legal assistance into the streets.
The People’s Law Office 2156 N. Halsted, 929-1880 operates the same way. For community problems, call the Lincoln Park Rights Center, 525-9775, or the Community Legal Counsel, 726-0157. The ACLU maintains a large chapter in Chicago at 6 S. Clark, 236-5564, and handles cases where civil liberties are affected.
DRAFT COUNSELING
• American Friends Service Committee—407 S. Dearborn St. 427-2533
• Austin Draft Counseling Center—5903 Fulton 626-9385
• Chicago Area Draft Resisters (Cadre)—519 W. North Ave. 664-6895
• Chicago Circle Draft Information Organization University of Illinois, 317 Chicago Circle Center 663-2557
• Hyde Park Draft Information Center—Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Ave. 363-1248
• Kennedy King Draft Counseling Center—7047 S. Stewart—488-0900, ext. 36
• Lawndale Draft Counseling—4049 W. 28th St. 277-3140
• Loyola Draft Counseling Center 6525 N. Sheridan, 274-3000 ext. 378
• Mandel Legal Aid Clinic—6020 S. University Ave. 324-5181
• Ravenswood Draft Counseling—Barry Memorial Methodist Church, 4754 N. Leavitt 784-3272
• Roosevelt Selective Service Counseling Organization—Roosevelt University Student Senate Office, Rm. 204, 430 S. Michigan Ave. 922-3580 ext. 334
• South Side Draft Information (Mt. Carmel Book Dist.) 2355 W. 63rd St. 925-3686
• Uptown Hull House Draft Information Service—4520 N. Beacon St. 561-8033
• Wellington Avenue Congregational Church Draft Counseling Center—615 W. Wellington Ave. 935-0642.
PLAY
Parks
Lincoln Park stretches along Lake Michigan in the Northern section of the city. It has a Conservatory and Zoo, opened 9 AM to 5 PM. Just south of the zoo is the gathering place for free rock concerts, be-ins, and the like. There is also a zoo in the Brookfield section at 8400 W. 31st St. The Morton Arboretium located on Route 53 in Lisle is open every day till sunset. The Shedd Aquarium is located at 1200 South Lake Shore Drive at Roosevelt.
Music
The Auditorium and Opera House sometimes offers free concerts on Sunday and weeknights. Hang around the lobby and claim there are tickets in your name at the box office. Even if it’s a pay concert you can generally bluff your way inside.
The Center for New Music, 2263 N. Lincoln, usually has free concerts on Sunday and Monday at 8 PM. WGLD is the local underground station. The Universal Life Church Coffee House, 1049 W. Polk has free rock and folk music on the weekends. Free City Music sponsors free rock concerts during the spring and summer in Lincoln Park.
Museums
• The Art Institute—Adams and Michigan. Opens daily at 10 AM. Great art museum.
• Chicago Academy of Science-Lincoln Park at 2001 N. Clark. (LI 9-0606) Open daily from 10 AM to 5 PM.
• Field Museum of Natural History-Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive. Time of opening varies from day to day; call 922-9410. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday admission is free.
• Museum of Contemporary Art-237 E. Ontario (943-7755) Open daily.
• Museum of Science and Industry-57th St. in the Hyde Park area. (MU 4-1414) Open daily from 9 AM to 5 PM. Our all-time favorite museum.
• The Oriental Institute-University of Chicago campus, 1155 E. 58th St. (643-0800) Open daily, except Monday, from 10AM to 5 PM.
Poetry
The Other Door Coffee House, 3124 N. Broadway, features nightly poetry readings and music. Call 348-8552. Cafe Pergolesi, 3404 N. Halsted, features poetry readings, baroque music and an art gallery. There is no cover or minimum. Open 6 to 12 PM, and till 1:00 AM on Saturday.
Theater
The Playhouse North, 315 W. North Ave. features free theater. For $1.00, you can see various groups perform at the Harper Theater Coffee House at 5238 S.
Harper. Second City, l616 N. Wells, has free improvisations after their evening performances every evening except Fridays. Free children’s theater can be seen at La Dolores, 1980 North Orchard, Mondays and Wednesdays at 1 PM. Call 664-2352.
Movies
• The Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. shows double bills for $1.25 and has a penny candy counter. John Dillinger got ambushed when he left the place. Free Newsreel films can be seen Wednesdays at 8 PM at the Neighborhood Commons, Wisconsin and Freemart. Newsreel, 2744 N. Lincoln (248-2018) provides movement films for free or law cost to groups.
• Alice’s Revisited, 950 N. Wrightwood, is a restaurant that shows free movies. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM they have free folk-rock-blues music. Saturdays they also have free children’s theater. Tuesdays they have psychodrama, also for free. Call 528-4250 for more info.
INFORMATION
• The Switchboard number is 281-7197.
Underground Papers
• Rising Up Angry—2261 N. Lincoln 472-1791
• Second City—2120 N. Halsted 549-8760
• The Chicago Seed—950 W. Wrightwood 929-0133
The Seed features a column called “Making It,” which deals with survival in the Windy City. It is probably the best of its type in the country.
The Black Panther Party office is located at 2350 W. Madison (243-8276).
COMMUNITY PRINTING
• Agitprop—no office; phone 929-0133
• Chicago Print Co-op.—6710 N. Clark
• J. S. Jordan Memorial Printing Co-op.—6710 N. Clark
• Omega Posters—711 S. Dearborn
• Red Star Press—180 N. Wacher
SCHOOLS
The People’s School, 4409 N. Sheridan (561-6737), offers free courses in many areas of survival and radical politics. The White Panther Party, 787-1962, offers courses in street fighting, history of American radicalism, and dialectic sexism.
FREEBIES
Clothes
The Concerned Citizens Survival Front, 2512 N. Lincoln Ave. has clothes. Try the dry cleaners on Armitage east of Halsted along the south side of the street. They give away unclaimed stuff. Also Brazil Cleaners at 3943 Indiana. The Eugene Blue Jean Store at 7017 Paulina has jeans, old army shirts and other items for less than a dollar.
Furniture
The Lake Shore Drive area on collection days has furniture. Call the bureau of Streets and
Sanitation for a collection schedule.
Free Store
At 727 S. Laflin, you’ll find a genuine free store that gives away everything you can imagine. It has a tendency to be a floating free store though.
Money
Pick up some underground papers at any of the offices listed and hawk them on the streets. You can pull in $6-$10 an hour if you work at it.
3. FUCK LOS ANGELES
HOUSING
There are several crash pads and communes that will put you up for a few nights. Call the Free Clinic at 938-9141. Floor space is available at the Sans Souce Temple on S. Ardmore. Women’s Emergency Lodge at 912 W. 9th St. (627-5571) will put up women without a place to stay or make referrals.
Resistance (386-9645) and Green Power (HQ 9-5184) will be helpful if you have to crash. Sleeping on the beaches is out, but the roofs are cool. The Midnite Mission at 396 S. Los Angeles (624-9258) has room and board for some boarders. The parks and streets are certain bust material. The L.A. pigs are matched in brutality only by their fellow hoggers in Chicago and South Africa.
Every L.A. cop is nine feet of solid chrome. Bite his toes and down he goes.
FOOD
Green Power Feeds Millions is a unique organization serving the nets of people.
They provide food for festivals, cancers, demonstrations, be-ins, sit-ins and similar events for free. In addition they supply a number of communes and serve food every Sunday in Griffith Park, the central get-together spot in Los Angeles.
Call them at HO 9-5184 or 938-9141 for information and also to offer your help.
Free vegetarian lunch can be found at the W. Hollywood Presbyterian Church at Sunset and Martel (874-1816). For supper, try the Midnite Mission, 396 S. Los Angeles Street; God Squas, 1412 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. (near Sunset), and His Place, Sunset and La Cienega.
The Half-Price Bakery at Third and Hill St. gives away free bakery goods late at night and you can always bum a meal in any Clifton’s Cafeteria with a good story.
The Watts Trojan House is a free store that provides not only food, both clothing and a variety of other items and service. They are located at 1822 E. 103rd St.
The County Welfare Department at 2707 S. Grand (near Adams Street) has a liberal food stamp program (746-0522).
MEDICAL CARE
• The Free Clinic at 115 N. Fairfax Ave. (938-9141) is very popular and provides a number of services at various hours such as: o Job Co-ops—Monday thru Friday, 10:00-4:00 PM.
o Medical—Monday thru Friday, 5:30-l0:00 PM. Saturday 12:30-5:00 PM.
o Dental—Monday thru Thursday, 7-10 PM.
o Counseling-Psychiatric, Monday thru Friday, 6-10 PM.
o Legal Monday thru Friday, 7-10 PM
o Draft-Monday thru Thursday, 7:30-10:00 PM.
o Pregnancy and Abortion—Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 7:30. Saturday 1:30 PM
o Birth Control-Monday thru Friday, 6-7 PM. Saturday 2-3 PM.
• The Foothill Clinic, 547 E. Union in Pasadena (795-8088) offers similar services free of charge. Call them for a schedule of hours. Venereal Diseases are treated in the evenings at a clinic maintained by the Committee to Eradicate Syphillis. They are found at 5205 Melrose Ave., Hollywood (870-2524).
• In Venice use the free Youth Clinic at 905 Venice Blvd. (near Lincoln). The services are varied and they are only open evenings. Call 399-7743 and they’ll help you.
• For specialized problems try:
o Drugs—Narcotics Anonymous (463-3123)
o Abortion—The Woman’s Center, 1027 S. Crenshaw (near Olympic Blvd.) Wednesdays at 7:30 PM.
o Mental—Central City Community Mental Health Center, 4272 S. Broadway (232-2441)
o Suicide Prevention Center, 2521 W. Pico (381-5111)
• District Health Centers provide many free services. For exact information, call the center or write to:
o County of Los Angeles Health Department, Public Health Education Division, 220 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, California 90012. Ask for a list and information about their health services.
EAST LOS ANGELES—670 S. Ferris Ave. 261-3191.
SUBCENTER—MARAVILLA—915 N. Bonnie Beach Pl. 264-6910.
HOLLYWOOD-WILSHIRE—5202 Melrose Ave. 464-0121.
SUBCENTER-WEST HOLLYWOOD—621 N. San Vincente Blvd. 652-3090.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD—5300 Tujunga Ave. 766-3981.
SUBCENTERS-PACOIMA—13300 Van Nuys Blvd. 899-0231.
TUJUNGA—7747 Foothill Blvd. 352-1417.
SOUTH—1522 E. 102 St. 564-6801
SUBCENTER—FLORENCE-Firestone-8019 Compton Ave 583-6241.
SOUTHEAST—4920 Avalon Blvd. 231-2161.
SOUTHWEST—3834 S.Western Ave. 731-8541.
LEGAL AID
• The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles at 106 3rd St. (628-9126) provides help in civil matters.
• The ACLU of Southern California is located at 323 W. Fifth St. (MA 6-5156).
DRAFT COUNSELING
• AFSC—980 N. Fair Oaks, Pasadena 91103 (791-1978)
• Black Community Draft Assistance-7228 S. Broadway, LA 90003 (778-0710)
• Catholic Peace Assn.—911 Malcolm Ave., Westwood 90024 (474-2683)
• Counterdraft-PO Box 74881, LA 90004
• East LA Peace Center-409 N. Soto, LA 90033 (261-2047)
• Episcopal Draft Counseling Center-514 W. Adams Blvd., LA 90004 (748-4662)
• Fellowship for Reconciliation 4356½ Melrose, LA 90029 (666-0145)
• First Unitarian Church-2936 W. Eighth St., LA 90005 (389-1356)
• Free Clinic-115 N. Fairfax, LA 90036 (938-9141)
• L.A. Comm. for Defense of Bill of Rights-(MA 5-2169)
• L.A. Draft Help-1018 S. Hill St., LA (RI 7-5461)
• Myra House-191 N. Sunkist, West Covina (338-9636)
• Northeast Peace Center-5682 York Blvd., LA 90042 (257-2004)
• Peace House-724 Morengo, Pasadena 91103 (449-8228)
• Resistance-507 N. Hoover, LA 90004
• The Resistance-11317 Santa Monica Blvd., Westwood 90024 (478-2374)
• SFVSC-Student Service Center, Admissions and Records Office, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge (349-1200, ext. 1181)
• UCLA Draft Counseling Center—UCLA Law School, 405 Hilgard Ave., LA 90024 (746-6092)
• USC Counseling Center-Gould Law School, University Park, Student Union Bldg., Rm. 217 (746-6092)
• Valley Peace Center-7105 Hayvenhurst, Van Nuys 91406 (787-6925). Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
• Venice Draft Info Center—73 Market St., Venice 90291 (399-5812)
• War Resisters League-1046 N. Sweetzer, LA 90069 (654-4491)
• Westside Jewish Community Center-5870 W. Olympic Blvd., LA 90046 (938-2531)
• Women Strike for Peace-5899 W. Pico Blvd., LA 90019 (937-0236)
PLAY
Beaches
Los Angeles has 14 miles of beaches extending from north of Pacific Palisades to Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro.
Will Rogers Beach State Park, 15100 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, extends north three miles from the Santa Monica city limits to a point near Topanga Canyon. This beach has a large, popular surfing area.
Venice Beach, 2100 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, extends from the Santa Monica city limits south to Marina Del Rey. Six acres have been developed into a park with picnic areas, shuffleboard courts and the Venice Beach Pavilion. The huge Venice Fishing Pier is located here, and there is an area for surfing.
Isidore B. Dockweiler Beach State Park, 11401 Vista del Mar Ave. extends from Marina del Ray, south of the city of El Segundo. This beach has 700 fire pits and a surfing area.
Cabrillo Beach, 3720 Stephen White Drive, San Pedro, located at the northern end of Los Angeles Harbor, has picnic areas, fire pits and a section for surfing.
Royal Palms Beach, 1799 Paseo del Mar is equipped with picnic areas and fire pits.
Parks
Griffith Park is the largest park and
the favorite gathering spot of the local hip community. It’s next to the Ventura and State Freeways.
Arroyo Seco Park is located along the Arroyo Seco and has picnic, recreational and bowling-on-the-green facilities. You’ll also find the Los Angeles Zoo at 5333
Zoo Drive in the park.
Brand Park and Memory Garden opposite the old Mission San Fernando is a real strange place to go.
Echo Park has the largest artificial lake in Los Angeles. Fishing programs for kids are conducted each summer and electric boats are available for rent.
Hancock Park, located on Wilshire Blvd, between Odgen and Curson, has the LaBrea Tar Pits with prehistoric animal and plant fossils all over the place.
The Exposition Park Rose Garden on Exposition Blvd. is a seven-acre sunken rose garden that smells great.
Founded by Hubert Eaton as “the first step up to heaven,” Forest Lawn Memorial Park, overlooking beautiful downtown Glendale has to be the wildest spot around. It is pure L.A. with the largest collection of reproduced statuary in the world. Jean Harlow, Sabu, Clark Gable and other loved ones are tucked away here. You can turn on in front of the Jean Hersholt Memorial, fuck in the Aisle of Benevolence located in the Great Mausoleum, and trip out on a stereo sermon emanating from the giant Mystery of Life sculpture. Far-fucking out!
Museums
There are over fifty free museums in the greater Los Angeles area. We are listing those of special interest.