I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.

Expressing disenchantment with the "Summer of Love" hippies of San Francisco's famous hippie haven i.e., the Haight-Ashbury district, which he visited on August 7, 1967.