According to Specs (owner of Specs), "Bohemians were more political in nature. Beatniks were about getting stoned, getting laid and living in some squalid place together. Although, there were a lot of weekend, middle-class beatniks in the day. You'd get a lot of kids from the suburbs who would buy a beret and dark glasses and try to act nutty. The old bohemians who lived in the neighborhood would make fun of these weekend beatniks."

--- Julian Guthrie, SFGate.com