The L.A. Free Clinic, in the heart of L.A., was a communal approach to serving the medical needs and urgencies of young urban drop-outs—a repair station staffed by dozens of doctors willing to donate their time and talents in a tribalized spirit of public service. For those preparing to launch into the land it would be their last chance for a long time to have the attention of a genuine physician.

These images, part of Dennis Stock's 1970 photo book, The Alternative, Communal Life in New America, reflects on his journey though America's radical fringes and the fate most alternative communities...