Vintage Headshop, 1903

‘Roy Smythe in his ‘pool hall and tobacco store’ selling hookahs and pipes on the counter with opium pipes under the counters glass.’  Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada opened in 1903    

Reagan’s Symbolic Raid, 1966

Newly elected California Governor Ronald Reagan ordered a symbolic raid on the ‘Psychedelic Shop’ on Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco to make good on his campaign promise to crack down on the ‘hippie movement’.  Hoping to find drugs none were found Read More …

Fragrant Flower Shop, 1954

Fragrant Flower Shop “FLOWERS AND DOPE: Figuring prominently in yesterday’s major dope arrests was the Fragrant Flower Shop, at 729 Washington-st, San Francisco… The shop was a ‘front’ for dope dealings.” April 5, 1954