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Whereas at one time the get-togethers on the Cambridge Common were very large--focusing first on the Vietnam War, later shifting gears to the anti-nuclear movement--last weekend's event organizer Dana E. Franzen explained that "over the course of the 1970s, they decreased in size and eventually died out as a continual get together...
...year-old artist--who is frequently seen around the Square sporting a black top hat and smoking a Calabash pipe--said there are still lots of hippies around today. The reason they do not come together more often, Franzen said, is that the coffee houses where they once hung out left Harvard Square as commercial rents soared...
...When the yuppie trend came in, it drove out the coffee houses and turned Harvard Square into a shopping mall," Franzen explained, while hanging up a chain of cloth flags with hand-painted peace symbols...
This fact has limited most area hippies to hanging out at Au Bon Pain during most of the year, said Franzen with disappointment. He added, however, that "now that the yuppie trend has passed and the economy is teetering a bit, maybe things will change...
...Dana E. Franzen of Somerville attended the event to disseminate information about his group, Cambridge Love-In Franzen, who sported a pince-nez, nearly waist-length hair and a top hat, said that the people who attended Earth Day yesterday were "receptive in comparison with the way they usually are, which...