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*Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place) is a one-way alleyway in Chinatown, San Francisco, California that connects Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue, running between "Vesuvio Cafe"
(255 Columbus Ave.) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights Books" (261 Columbus Ave.).
10 Years On Line - A New Decade Begins
"angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to
the starry dynamo in the machinery of night," -Allen Ginsberg
"Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?" -Jack Kerouac
". . . In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and
nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a
gospel for the first time. It was more than a music;
it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a
language and a costume; and these introverted kids...
now felt somewhere at last."
-John Clellon Holmes
"We had gone beyond a point of no return- and we were ready for it, for a point of no return...We wanted voice and we wanted vision." -Michael McClure
"Behind us lay the whole of America and everything I had previously known about life... We had finally found a magic land at the end of the road and we never had dreamed the extent of the magic." -Jack Kerouac
“...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...”
-Jack Kerouac
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”-Allen Ginsberg
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.”-William S. Burroughs
So you want to be hip little girls?
You want to learn to swing?
And you want to be able to dig and take in everything ... ?
" If you want to be hip my cute young lovely hens
then--you must own a copy of Howl--
you must have a copy of Jack (on the road) Kerouac
on your shelf and know thouself." - Ted Joans (Teducation)
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