Love, Haight, and Tie Dye

Diane Helentjaris
7 min readMay 20, 2021

A lasting legacy from the ‘60s

Tie-dye fabric, Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

“The heepies lived here.” My Russian landlord paused to make sure I understood.

“What? Oh, the hippies.”

“Yes, the heepies. Crazy colors on everything when we bought this. Psychedelic. My brothers and my father and I had to paint it all.”

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Diane Helentjaris

Writer with a love of the overlooked. Author of the historical fiction novel The Indenture of Ivy O’Neill,.www.DianeHelentjaris.com