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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.
Shakespeare and Company: Perhaps the most famous independent bookstore in the world
Pics include, George Whitman, his daughter Sylvia, Langston Hughes, Ted Joans, Allen Ginsberg, George Plimpton and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." Mark Twain
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'
One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups.
One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you.
One fine day.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Peter and Julian Orlovsky photographed by Ettore Sottsass, San Francisco,1965
Cafe Trieste, San Francisco, 1975. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Minelte Le blanc, Peter Le Blanc, Howard Schrager, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Jack Hirschman & Bob Kaufman by Diana Church.
"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today." Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) Happy Birthday Lawrence, 95 today!
Allen Ginsberg's Committee on Poetry, Inc. farm, Cherry Valley, New York Thanksgiving 1969. From left, standing: Julius Orlovsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gordon Ball, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley. Front, seated: Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky.
The Beats: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco
Ferlinghetti recording Ginsberg with Shakespeare looking on
City Lights Conference in North Dakota, 1974
Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Shig Murau
“I am leading a quiet life outside of Mike’s Place every day, watching the world walk by in its curious shoes.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
