As Psychedelic Shop owner Ron Thelen put it in October of 1967 during the “Death of the Hippies” funeral: “It must all go — a casualty of narcissism and plebei

As Psychedelic Shop owner Ron Thelen put it in October of 1967 during the “Death of the Hippies” funeral: “It must all go — a casualty of narcissism and plebeian vanity. ... (Haight-Ashbury) was portioned to us by the media-police, and the tourists came to the zoo to see the captive animals, and we growled fiercely behind the bars we accepted, and now we are no longer hippies and never were.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/Death-of-the-Hippies-Haight-Ashbury-s-12245473.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/Death-of-the-Hip...