re: #64 Dr Lizardo

That’s the sense I got hearing about it later in life from people who were adults when that went down. Practically the whole city was basically freaking out and paranoia went through the roof.

Like I said, it brought an abrupt and violent end to the ’60s. I think Joan Didion later commented “the ’60s died on August 9th, 1969” or something to that effect.

It was also the time when Nixon started cracking down on marijuana smuggling so drug dealers switched to heroin, which was easier to smuggle and offered a much higher profit margin.

That theme comes up in Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, which is also set in that post-hippie era in California.