tangier as well.rs who come to tangier come with a romantic notion of a tangier they read about in books. do people have a realistic expectation when they come here? are they looking for morocco or are they looking for this phantasm? >> abdelmajid: no, no. it is a phantasm. it is. when you get here, you, uh, if you know morocco, you feel that you're in morocco, but you're not. there's a lot of mediterranean attached to this town. and also the history, people hear a story about tangier that it was. like when i first came in the '60s everybody said to me, you came late. tangier. [ laughter ] >> anthony: it's -- right. >> abdelmajid: now i am saying the same thing as these young now, too. they come and they say "wow." i say, "no." >> anthony: what was better about those days? >> abdelmajid: well, if you see, for me at that time, i was young and it was the boom of hippies. and it was the destination. café baba, you meet bob dylan, you go, you catch dylan, and the parties was going on. i miss these kind of