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Charles Manson Home, The Haight
A few steps from Haight Street and a few blocks from Golden Gate Park this yellow Edwardian flat was the residence of Charles Manson during the Summer of Love. After years of reform school and jail Manson arrived in Berkeley in 1967 and was panhandling and playing guitar on Telegraph Avenue when a street kid handed him a flower and told him of the free love, music, and drugs in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Manson immediately moved across the Bay and into this apartment off Haight Street in April of 1967. The charismatic Manson reveled in the Haight scene and soon attracted a group of female hangers-on. But tiring of the scene and looking for greater kicks, he eventually packed up a school bus with his new followers - Susan Atkins, Squeaky Fromme, and Patricia Krenwinkle and headed down to Los Angeles and infamy. The Tate and LaBianca murders took place less than two years later.
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