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Sattva was a collective food serving place - a co-op of sorts, I guess.

It started sometime in early 1975, I think, and was first located in the back of a church hall in the 2100 block of San Antonio. Meals were vegetarian, outrageously cheap, fresh and tasty.

At some point, Sattva moved somewhere further up the Drag, again in some sort of either community or church hall.

Always a friendly atmosphere, and menus often dedicated to particular ethnicities or particular interests of the people who happened to be cooking that day...

Sattva

It was on Guadalupe in 1970, in the basement of a church. Their sign on the sidewalk combined the day's menu with the day's news. I'll never forget the "J. Edgar Hoover is Dead Soup." I thought it was wishful thinking at first, but lo and behold, turned out to be true.

Catholic Student Center Hall

behind the Catholic Church, In the early 70's I would get a giant bowl of lentil soup and a big wad of stickie brown rice for about a dollar. Mmmmmmm ... organic brown rice with black soy sauce ... doh!