San Francisco Beat Generation Tour

Fri, Mar 17 - Sat, Mar 18
2 tours each day, 11am and 2pm
$10

SAN FRANCISCO BEAT GENERATION WALKING TOURS, led by Bill Morgan
Friday, March 17th and Saturday, March 18th, 2006
2 tours each day, at 11am and 2pm.
Cost is $10 payable in cash only to Bill Morgan just prior to the tour.
Reservations can be made at , calling (415)
362-8193 or signing up at the front counter at City Lights.

Meet in front of City Lights Bookstore, tour will last 2 hours.

Morning tour (11AM) will see:
Ginsberg's apt. where he wrote Howl
Homes of Corso, Snyder, Whalen, Ferlinghetti, Kaufman, McClure, etc.
Night spots and bars of the Beat Generation
Kerouac Alley and Vesuvios
Caffe Trieste
Grant Avenue haunts, The Place, etc.

Afternoon tour (2PM) will see:
Kerouac's Chinatown
Site of the Howl trial
Foster's cafeteria
Towne & Oller, where Ginsberg worked in market research
Ginsberg's Moloch sighting
Neal Cassady's home where Kerouac visited

Bill Morgan bio:
In the late 1960s, Bill Morgan began working on a bibliography of
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's work. Since them he worked for Allen Ginsberg
as his archivist for 20 years and has also worked with the papers of
Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Philip Lamantia, Gregory Corso and
Anne Waldman. He has written bibliographies of Ferlinghetti,
Ginsberg and Corso an is the author of a new biography about Ginsberg
to be released in the Fall of 2006 from Viking, entitled: I Celebrate
Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg. City Lights has
published two of his walking tour books: The Beat Generation in San
Francisco: A Literary Tour and The Beat Generation in New York: A
Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City.

Venue:

City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave
San Francisco

Additional Info:

415- 362-8193
www.citylights.com