hippies

[Geoffrey Nunberg]

At 3:32 PM -0500 2/21/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
>I don't believe it. I was living in L.A., at the time, and such people
>hanging out on Sunset Boulevard were called "hippies" in the local
>Southland media without reference to Frisco and prior to the
>development of The Haight into a Mecca for the faithful.

"Frisco"? Goodness -- do people still call this city Frisco?

Geoff Nunberg, in 94110

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