California in the 60s After the Summer of Love

FALL 1967 Didion, “Slouching towards Bethlehem,” Saturday Evening Post, September 24 “Death of Hippie” parade, October 10 Psychedelic Shop closes Acid Test Graduation, Winterland Arena, Oct. 31 1968 Tom Wolfe, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, August

Death of Money, December 17, 1966 In general, the hippies were not explicitly political, and the parades and happenings they staged tended to be a bit absurdist, as with the “Death of Money” parade organized by the Diggers, who ran the Free Store described by Peter Coyote (Quote).

Death of Hippie Parade Oct. 10, 1967 By the fall of 1967, many of the people who had been at the center of the countercultural movements in SF felt that a turning point had been reached, and an emblem of that moment was The Death of Hippie Parade 40 second report http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/hippies-parade-through-haight-ashbury-district-in-san-news-footage/450075370 Contrast this with the account of Peter Coyote in Sleeping where I Fall: (Quote) But somehow the media failed to note that the side of the coffin was inscribed with “Hippie, Son of Media”