A History of Native Nevadans through Photography

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DENVER BEAT TOUR

Denver was the most third important city in the formation of the lives of the men who started the Beat movement after NYC and San Francisco. Neal Cassady grew up here and met his second wife, Carolyn, at the Colburn Hotel. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg spent time in Denver, and Jack bought a house in Lakewood, a Denver suburb. The Five Points area was a Harlem in the West with its jazz clubs.

Here you will find pictures of some of the haunts of Neal Cassady as he was growing up, including known addresses his family had (24 by age 14, many of them repeats.Generally, I did not include addresses with new buildings.) Most of the Larimer street pool halls and flop houses are long gone, gentrified out of existence along with the whorehouses. Kerouac's Lakewood house is still there, and the Colburn stands tall with the popular 74 year old Charlie Brown's Bar & Grill pulling customers in, just like Jack and his friends.

Neal and his family - ten in all at the time,
lived in that little building between the larger ones!
He was five at the time.

  thanks to wood s lot