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Gary Kamiya April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 9:29 am Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Bookstore, led a fight to change the name of Adler Place to Jack Kerouac Alley. City Lights Bookstore is now at Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. Photo: Scott Sommerdorf, The Chronicle 1987 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an essential part of San Francisco’s literary scene from 1953, the year he and Peter Martin opened City Lights Po...

How the hippies’ Seventies search for enlightenment turned sour For many, the journey East – as depicted in new BBC drama ‘The Serpent’ – ended in disillusionment and worse Getting high: hippies on top of a bus in Kabul in 1971 Credit: Garofalo Jack In 1961, the American beat poet Allen Ginsberg, along with his partner Peter Orlovsky, set off for India in search of enlightenment. Travelling to Paris, then Tangier, Israel, and Kenya, they finally set foot in Bombay – Ginsberg having ...