[dougd]

actually, I think the "salad days" were pre '66 - before being splashed all over by Time and Newsweek et al - all it did was start a massive influx of which I was one of the early ones. When I got there - the "diggers" could only provide one meal a day - whereas before I got there - 3 a day was the norm. In another month or two, the "diggers" were no more.

Summer/Fall of '66 was, I think, the last throes of the real "pre-publicity" nature of Haight Asbury. Since I didn't return after my departure in the late fall of '66, I'll defer to your remembrances of the following years.

[claudiustg]

At the end of the summer of ‘67 the word went out that the city was no longer cool and that everyone should head to the hills — and many did. A lot of old hippies are still in the Ben Lomond — Santa Cruz area (at least the non-politicals). Committed politicals got drawn off to Berkeley.

Remember the Berkeley Barb and the Oracle?