Turn On And Tune In To This Video Of The East Village In The 1960s

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The Electric Circus and The Dom, 1967.

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The corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place in 1968, which they AP said was "a center of Manhattan's East Village hippie society."

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"The main stem of the East Village at St. Mark's Place, where hippies gather to 'do their own thing'" reads the caption, from 1968.

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The caption reads: "East Village youths sling mops and brooms in the middle of the street during a neighborhood clean-up on East 3rd Street." April 1967.

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"Louis Abolafia speaks to a young man outside of the clearing house he operates for runaways in the East Village on . Abolafia offers to act as a go-between for estranged parents and children. 1968."

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The caption reads: "Two young women, or, hippies, dressed in beat attire, take part in a 'sweep-in' on Third St. in the East Village." April 1967.

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