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Doors in 1943. cafe baba. sweet mint tea in a thick slow moving haze of smoke. it smells like my dorm room, 1972. >> hello. >> i'm george. >> this is george. >> thank you very having me. >> yeah, welcome to cafe baba. >> i have no direct knowledge or awareness of them smoking any illegal substances nor do i have any recollection at this time of me doing anything in their presence because that would be like wrong, dude. >> some tea? >> george is here on a full bright scholarship and she is an artist. others in the room, however, well, don't give me that innocent look you young punks. somebody i...

Moroccan guy at the next table is, like, wait a minute, asshole, you have a flat screen at home. i want one, too. what is wrong with that? >> there are people here who probably have never heard of -- if you follow that, there's no progression, no progress, no change. >> the think about cafe baba, just sitting here, taking in the atmosphere, you begin to appreciate the place. >> there's something different happening here. >> contact high, whoa, i'm hungry. wait until the spanish tortilla dude across the street opens for business. this is abdileh. he specializes in one thing, making an omelette....

>> if you get here, you know morocco you feel that you're in morocco but you're not. there's a lot of mediterranean touch to this town and also the history, people hear story about tangier. when i first came in the 60s everybody said to me you came late. >> right. >> now i'm saying the same thing now. they come and say wow. >> what was better about those days? >> at the time i was young and it was the boom of hippies and it was the destination, you know, cafe baba, bob dillon and the parties was going on. i miss these kind of parties. people fly from everywhere to the party and they make the w...

Where's my omelet because i'm hungry. >> he is just waiting for you right when you come stumbling out of cafe baba? coincidence or not. you be the judge. >> ketchup and mayonnaise. everything. >> ketchup and mayonnaise? sure, why not. condiment options i would be hard pressed to turn down at this precise moment anyway. >> good. >> that's a lot of mayonnaise. >> dude, that's awesome. i'll have 12 more. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but

Morocco, you feel that you are in morocco but you are not. there's a lot of mediterranean attached to this town. also the history, people hear about tangier that it was -- when i first came in the '60s, everybody said you came late. >> right. >> now i'm saying the same thing as the young now. they come and they saw wow, i say -- >> what was better about those days? >> well, for me at that time i was young, and it was the boom of hippies, and it was a destination. you know, cafe baba, meet bob dylan, and the parties was going