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Bob Donlon (Rob Donnelly, Kerouac’s Desolation Angels), Neal Cassady, myself in black corduroy jacket, Bay Area poets’ “Court Painter” Robert La Vigne & poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Books shop, Broadway & Columbus Avenue North Beach. Donlon worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter & oft drank with Jack K., Neal looks good in tee shirt, Howl first printing hadn’t arrived from England yet (500 copies), we were just hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San Francisco spring 1956.
Bob Donlon (Rob Donnelly, Kerouac’s Desolation Angels), Neal Cassady, myself in black corduroy jacket, Bay Area poets’ “Court Painter” Robert La Vigne & poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Books shop, Broadway & Columbus Avenue North Beach. Donlon worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter & oft drank with Jack K., Neal looks good in tee shirt, Howl first printing hadn’t arrived from England yet (500 copies), we were just hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San Francisco spring 1956.
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1956, printed later
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Peter Orlovsky in my room 1010 Montgomery Street looking tender and mad, hopeful & happy.
Peter Orlovsky in my room 1010 Montgomery Street looking tender and mad, hopeful & happy.
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1955, printed later
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Al Sublette, & Peter Orlovsky as I first knew him 1955 S.F.
Al Sublette, & Peter Orlovsky as I first knew him 1955 S.F.
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Peter’s friend Henry Schlacter from S.F. Community College, Kerouac’s buddy Al Sublette & Peter Orlovsky in Foster’s Cafeteria under Hotel Weatley on Polk & Sutter, “Polk Gulch”, we all rendez-vous’d hours & hours, living in neighborhood. Robert LaVigne made many sketches & group portrait oil tableaux small and large with mirror-reflected tables & visages of ourselves, Cassady, Natalie, etc. that season, San Francisco early 1955.
Peter’s friend Henry Schlacter from S.F. Community College, Kerouac’s buddy Al Sublette & Peter Orlovsky in Foster’s Cafeteria under Hotel Weatley on Polk & Sutter, “Polk Gulch”, we all rendez-vous’d hours & hours, living in neighborhood. Robert LaVigne made many sketches & group portrait oil tableaux small and large with mirror-reflected tables & visages of ourselves, Cassady, Natalie, etc. that season, San Francisco early 1955.
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1955, printed 1994
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Neal Cassady with cigarette young & vigorous age 29 with salesman surveying North Beach used car lot, he needed new wheels. Bay Area Johnny Appleseed of pot from early 1950’s, he worked as conductor on Southern Pacific Railroad, averted train crash as brakeman years earlier, breaking his ankle, collected insurance, bought his family a ranch-house in Los Gatos down the peninsula, gambled madly & disastrously at horse racetrack, wrote painfully in pencil on his “The First Third” autobiographical manuscript, visited me overnight in rooms on Polk and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco, sometime March 1955.
Neal Cassady with cigarette young & vigorous age 29 with salesman surveying North Beach used car lot, he needed new wheels. Bay Area Johnny Appleseed of pot from early 1950’s, he worked as conductor on Southern Pacific Railroad, averted train crash as brakeman years earlier, breaking his ankle, collected insurance, bought his family a ranch-house in Los Gatos down the peninsula, gambled madly & disastrously at horse racetrack, wrote painfully in pencil on his “The First Third” autobiographical manuscript, visited me overnight in rooms on Polk and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco, sometime March 1955.
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1955, printed later
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My front room 1010 Montgomery Street North Beach apartment wherein I wrote Howl Part I, Peter Orlovsky's room down the hall past the kitchen in back, windows overlooking Telegraph Hill's roofs and Oakland Bay. Robert La Vigne's watercolor portrait of me in army-surplus jacket and Cézanne-like landscape pinned to wall above spittoon-shaped woven basket on mantel, fireplace lit. Bollinger books on shelf, letters and Essays of Ezra Pound under bed-table clock, checkered wool blanket hung over alley window first floor, black-painted bureau with victrola-case & Bach on top. "Blessed be the Muses / for their descent / dancing round my desk / Crowning my balding head / With laurel.” I was living on unemployment checks, San Francisco, Summer 1955.
My front room 1010 Montgomery Street North Beach apartment wherein I wrote Howl Part I, Peter Orlovsky's room down the hall past the kitchen in back, windows overlooking Telegraph Hill's roofs and Oakland Bay. Robert La Vigne's watercolor portrait of me in army-surplus jacket and Cézanne-like landscape pinned to wall above spittoon-shaped woven basket on mantel, fireplace lit. Bollinger books on shelf, letters and Essays of Ezra Pound under bed-table clock, checkered wool blanket hung over alley window first floor, black-painted bureau with victrola-case & Bach on top. "Blessed be the Muses / for their descent / dancing round my desk / Crowning my balding head / With laurel.” I was living on unemployment checks, San Francisco, Summer 1955.
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1955, printed 1995
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Peter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broadway Tunnel, Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remittance man was seen by Kerouac (Desolation Angels) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her roof to death a year late. March 1955.
Peter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broadway Tunnel, Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remittance man was seen by Kerouac (Desolation Angels) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her roof to death a year late. March 1955.
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1955, printed 1995
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Robert LaVigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in Desolation Angels, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on Gough Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.
Robert LaVigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in Desolation Angels, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on Gough Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.
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Natalie Jackson, San Francisco
Natalie Jackson, San Francisco
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1955, printed later
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Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in Desolation Angels, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote Howl in this room, S.F. 1955
Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in Desolation Angels, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote Howl in this room, S.F. 1955
Allen Ginsberg
1955, printed later
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