Dan: That was the year JFK was shot, right? So, yeah, I think so.
Actually, it was around 1982 – 1983. Bijou closed in 1985. Don’t be a hater, man. You were hanging out in downtown Mountain View back then, weren’t you? Over by Colonel Lee’s Mongolian BBQ? Had your Ramones shirt on and driving your big brother’s VW Microbus?[/quote]
Okay, I am from the north bay.
I say San Francisco because if I say I am from an area where people freely wear a hammer-and-sickle next to their confederate flag sticker on their bumper, it makes their heads explode.
For those of you who don’t know, the far north of this state is where a lot of hippie types moved after the whole Haight-ashbury thing started winding down.
The results were mixed.
Generally, if somebody has a hippie name, it means their parents are hippies and they are shit-kicking hicks. Nothing is lamer than explaining that you got beat up by a black toothed illiterate named “Harvest” who drives an old chevy with a gun rack (and who worships crystals).
Further, there is no easy way to explain to somebody that being gay really excludes them from wearing a swastika on their jacket.
I have been to birthday parties as a teenager where booze and red meat were not allowed but mom was baking pot brownies.
The usual associations are all fucked up if you are not from there. EG: the point at which I realized my old coffee shop had become a major exchange and meeting point for people making investments in marijuana ventures. Or, perhaps the point at which I realized the most dangerous gangsters were the ones who wear rasta hats and keep .45’s tucked under their flannel.
Its kind of like “The Wire” and Nirvana and Appalachia had a very confused child.
