User:I.e.jamie/Haight-Ashbury
On October 6, 1967, those remaining in the Haight staged a mock funeral, Digger happening, "The Death of the Hippie" ceremony in Buena Vista Park, advertised by signs posted around the city.[1] News of the event was released by Ron Thelin on October 4, 1967, two days after the arrest of members of the Grateful Dead. Men shaved their beards and filled caskets to symbolize the dead hippie.[2] Mary Kasper explained the message of the mock funeral as:
We wanted to signal that this was the end of it, don't come out. Stay where you are! Bring the revolution to where you live. Don't come here because it's over and done with.
Ron Thelin stated, "It must all go, a casualty of narcissism and plebeian vanity." He went on to say that Haight-Ashbury was "portioned to us by the media-police, and the tourists came to the zoo to see the captive animals, and we growled fiercely behind the bars we accepted, and now we are no longer hippies and never were."[2]
- ^ Baruch, Ruth-Marion (April 19, 2023). "Funeral Notice (sign)". Digital Exhibits. Retrieved April 19, 2023.
- ^ a b Hartlaub, Peter (June 18, 2022). Zarate, Mozes (ed.). "Death of the Hippies': A 1967 funeral for the Summer of Love". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-04-19.