Also though, this was the 1970's. I was eleven years old in 1975 and can remember how much "the Age of Aquarius" had infused so much of culture. Horoscopes, biorhythms, transcendental meditation, "Chariots of the Gods?", etc.…
(And this was from the vantage point of Kansas. Christ, California must have been out of this world in the 70's.)