San Francisco’s famous Haight-Ashbury, 1967: Grace Mackenzie, RN, deals with the flood of patients brought to the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic during The Summer of Love. She’s a veteran of... More > life in the Haight, living with several women and FreeBear, their landlord and lover, until that life is shaken by a bleeding young boy appearing in the clinic.
It’s a time of new life, of new concepts, of new music; a time of transition. Grace must deal with dangerous street drugs, gender identity, a murderous cabal, and future epidemics—the new world displacing the old—while trying to stay true to the concept of the hippie lifestyle.
The Haight is a time capsule, historically and socially accurate, with famous musicians mingling with unknown street people as tourists stare while the world changes.< Less
San Francisco’s famous Haight-Ashbury, 1967: Grace Mackenzie, RN, deals with the flood of patients brought to the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic during The Summer of Love. She’s a veteran of... More > life in the Haight, living with several women and FreeBear, their landlord and lover, until that life is shaken by a bleeding young boy appearing in the clinic.
It’s a time of new life, of new concepts, of new music; a time of transition. Grace must deal with dangerous street drugs, gender identity, a murderous cabal, and future epidemics—the new world displacing the old—while trying to stay true to the concept of the hippie lifestyle.
The Haight is a time capsule, historically and socially accurate, with famous musicians mingling with unknown street people as tourists stare while the world changes.< Less
This story is based off of my teenage adventures in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District. Some may view it as a "how to" of Haight Street drug dealing. Not all of it is true...
A young man struggles to find real meaning and good company in his life, amid the social upheaval of the late 1960's in the wildest hip community to ever surface on planet Earth. This book describes... More > the Haight-Ashbury scene during 1966-67 in detail, including scenes from the Fillmore auditorium, the Human Be-in featuring acid guru Timothy Leary, the radical Diggers who wanted to make everything free, and free concerts by all the rock bands of Haight-Ashbury. Contains explicit sexual scenes, some violence, and much substance abuse.< Less
For the first time in her eighty-three year career, Hazel Troxel tells her side of the story in this exciting new autobiography, "Razzle, Dazzle, Hazel." From a small Kansas farm to... More > Hollywood, Paris, Berlin and New York, Hazel's complete life and career are covered in 134 fact-filled pages that are a real treat for any fan of classic film, television or history. Along the way, you'll read about her troublesome first marriage, her time in Hollywood, the time she spent in Berlin with Hitler during World War II, and her encounters with such famous names as Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Picasso, Alexander Woollcott, Andy Warhol, Elvis, Martin and Lewis, Kevin Sorbo and many, many more. This refreshingly honest book is a must-read if you truly want to understand how it all happened in the life of this American icon.< Less
For the first time in her eighty-three year career, Hazel Troxel tells her side of the story in this exciting new autobiography, "Razzle, Dazzle, Hazel." From a small Kansas farm to... More > Hollywood, Paris, Berlin and New York, Hazel's complete life and career are covered in 134 fact-filled pages that are a real treat for any fan of classic film, television or history. Along the way, you'll read about her troublesome first marriage, her time in Hollywood, the time she spent in Berlin with Hitler during World War II, and her encounters with such famous names as Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Picasso, Alexander Woollcott, Andy Warhol, Elvis, Martin and Lewis, Kevin Sorbo and many, many more. This refreshingly honest book is a must-read if you truly want to understand how it all happened in the life of this American icon.< Less
