Monday, February 8, 2010

NEAL CASSADY b FEBRUARY 8 1926


"Neal Cassady young & handsome age 29 checking out cars in North Beach used car lot San Francisco 1955. Bay area Johnny Appleseed of pot, he’d gambled madly 1— disastrously ! — at racetrack, working as conductor on Southern Pacific R.R. had averted train crash years before as brakeman, breaking his ankle, collected insurance, bought his family a house in Los Gatos, visited me on Polk Street, worked on his “First Third” autobiographical manuscript."

PICTURE TAKEN & TEXT WRITTEN BY ALLEN GINSBERG

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