The hippie commune from last night's "Mad Men" was the same house Don Draper grew up in. What does it all mean?

During the late 1980s, the biggest dealer of Apple computers in Northern California wasn't a computer megastore. It was a free-love commune in San Francisco's hippie Haight-Ashbury district ...

Among the first to arrive were the Diggers, the radical Haight Ashbury commune that fed famished young hippies who migrated to San Francisco during 1967’s Summer of Love.

IT ALL seems like a loopy and slightly depressing dream. I once lived at Ganas, the Staten Island commune where an apparently deranged former resident shot a respected longtime member this week. I … ...

Adobe home found under Marin hippie commune MARIN COUNTY Adobe structure found under hippie commune artifacts By Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Jan 14, 2009 ...

Finn would love living on a hippie commune, and his appearance there would probably happen by accident. I imagine him just showing up one day and forgetting to leave.

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