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...Family Dog first used the Filmore and Avalon auditoriums to put on rock shows. They set up free concerts on the Panhandle, a park near the Golden Gate Bridge. And they ran Monday morning clean-ins in Haight-Ashbury: the city gave them 50 brooms, and they would go down the whole street sweeping...
...with garbage; young toughs from neighboring turf methodically proposition every girl who passes by, while older strangers hunt homosexual action. The night air smells of decay and anger. For all its ugly familiarity, however, this is not just another ghetto. This is the scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, once the citadel of hippiedom and symbol of flower-power love...
What have they left behind? Two U.S. Public Health Service psychiatrists, who surveyed 232 Haight denizens, found three clusters: kids, beards and toughs. The "lost youth" are younger, less adept. Says a free-clinic nurse: "There are more misfits now, more who can't make it." The "Haight types," with beards and beads, were found to have been disenchanted enough to "split to a Zen monastery." As for the "indigenous-leadership cluster," Methedrine addicts have replaced the work-oriented Diggers and driven them...
...City Supervisor Roger Boas warns: "My advice to kids around the country is not to come here. There must be hippie havens other than San Francisco." But flower beds are scarce all over. New York City's East Village scene now seems as loveless as that in the Haight. As Los Angeles' underground newspaper Open City declared: "Hippies are dead-the whole thing went out to lunch...
...courted more mature audiences than the screaming bobby-hoppers that so often greet him. But age made little difference. Visiting an electronics plant near Portland, Ore., Kennedy encountered the same ecstatic squeals-from middle-aged women. Oddly enough, it was at the University of San Francisco, hard by the Haight-Ashbury, that Bobby encountered the most unbridled hostility of his campaign-from heckling hippies...