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The East Village In The 1960s

Imagine a time when a store where everything was free could afford rent in the East Village. When mom and pops were more prevalent than chains. When a new counterculture scene was drawing enough attention that the AP sent photographers and videographers to the area to document the "hippies."

By the late '60s, The Diggers' Free Store was giving it all away from their ground-floor shop at 264 East 10th Street. The Dom (Andy Warhol's club) had a new upstairs neighbor, The Electric Circus nightclub. The East Village Other newspaper was operating out of a storefront next to the Fillmore East.