Downtown is crammed with time-traveling hippies from the 1960s who still think flower power rules, love is all you need, and Lyndon Johnson is president.
Some hippies wander through on foot, but many drive straight through in battered old vans and buses.
Most of them don't realize that the '60s are thirty years gone. Last night was pretty typical. I was eating a donut over by that little red church downtown when an old schoolbus covered with peace signs drove straight out of the Tie-Dye Zone and up onto the curb. Nearly hit me. The door popped open and 20 hippies poured right out.