Too scary for children! How Halloween used to be – in pictures

‘At the time, there was a well-known line about San Francisco: the North American continent was actually tilted, and all the “loose marbles” had rolled to the city by the Bay. There was, in fact, a grain of truth in this: ever since the 1950s, the city had offered a congenial refuge for artists, recreational drug users and nonconformists of all stripes. First came the beat poets and writers, then the hippies, then the gay community’