Police ringed the Fillmore to exclude poorer hippies from free shows

Evidence

Izzy Young strolled over to the East Village to check them out and while he considered the duo to be vapidly hip as well as poor musicians, he was even more perturbed to walk out on the concert into a line of tactical police that ringed the Fillmore “not so nicely keeping out the poorer hippies that had become used to free things on Wednesday nights.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1339

Categorization

• XREF: The police as gatekeeper-for-hipness anticipates the classic gentrification sequence where enforcement of order precedes and enables displacement—the same logic the book traces through artists as unwitting advance guard of real estate.