Today’s story puts us in an office in Haight - Ashbury in the 1960s. Haight- Ashbury is a district in San Francisco, California named for the intersection of those two streets. It’s a name synonymous with the Hippie and counterculture of the 1960s.

Into this environment in 1966, enter Dr. Jolly West on the precipice of the Summer of Love. He was supposedly there to study hippies and LSD. He felt he just had to witness what was happening in Haight-Ashbury first hand. So… he did what researchers do. He secured a grant and took a yearlong sabbatical from the University of Oklahoma saying he was pursuing a fellowship at Stanford.  But... he was setting up a fake Hippie Crash Pad, a place both comical and creepy.

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