San Francisco In Decline: From Flower Children To Masked Children

Mike Caccioppoli
4 min readApr 1, 2021

I was recently speaking to a friend of mine who has really been suffering during the past 13 months. Like many of us who are currently stuck in California, the draconian lockdowns and mask mandates have taken their physical and emotional toll. When I began to talk about the San Francisco of the past, of the 70’s and 80’s and even the 90’s, he began to tear up. It wasn’t long

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