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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 20, 2013: A poster with a photograph of beat poet Neal Cassady and author Jack Kerouac is framed by books by Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the City Lights Bookstore, an independent bookstore founded in 1953 by Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, the birthplace of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. The landmark bookstore was a hangout of Beat Generation writers and artists, including Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. It continues to be a popular bookstore, specializing in publications of interest to left-leaning readers. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
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