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With Neal Cassady,  outside 1403 Gough street, San Francisco, Fall 1963, the very house Allen had met Peter Orlovsky almost a decade earlier. Neal has yet to take the cross country bus trip with Ken Kesey. (courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) 

Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady first meeting in Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster bus driven crosscountry with Kool-aid L.S.D. pitchers for hitch-hikers and local Police, San Francisco to New York to meet Kerouac, then on up to Millbrook's psychedelic commune just before election time 1964, “A Vote For Goldwater is a Vote for Fun” writ large on the FURTHER bus side as trip logo Neal and I tried D.M.T. that visit. Tom Wolfe claims, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, that Leary and Kesey never met,& that Leary refused to even leave his room.  Leary had always claimed otherwise.   While this photo isn’t proof that Leary met Kesey, it is proof that he did get on the bus.

#kenkesey #merrypranksters #deanmoriarty #ontheroad #jackkerouac #beatgeneration #americana #highaways #poetrycommunity #jackkerouac #literary #literature #fayekesey #magictrip #electricacidkoolaidtest #tomwolfe #oneflewoverthecuckoosnest #gratefuldead #acidtests #mkultra #lsd #magictrip #alexgibney (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKX7hohbta/?igshid=gjohu0x80flu

Neal Cassady outside Charles Plymell’s apartment, 1403 Gough street, San Francisco, Fall 1963, where Allen was staying after returning from two years in India, the same apartment where Allen had met Peter Orlovsky almost a decade earlier when painter Robert Lavigne lived there. Neal had yet to take the cross country bus trip with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and become a fixture among the Acid Tests parties in the Bay Area with the Grateful Dead. (Photo: Allen Ginsberg: courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #nealcassady #allenginsberg #queer #gratefuldead #acidtests #kenkesey #charlesplymell #charleyplymell #electrickoolaidacidtest #tomwolfe #themerrypranksters #deanmoriarty #ontheroad #jackerouac #hellsagngels #hunterthompson (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4QLTa_B4gg/?igshid=ba8cualjpqh2

• Ken Kesey & his wife Norma Faye Haxby, ”Faye Kesey”,  New York City, November 1985. Junior high school sweethearts, the two married in 1956. Though Faye didn’t join the Merry Pranksters on the famous 1964 cross country LSD fueled Bus Ride popularized by the “Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test,”  the two remained married till Ken passed away in 2001.  (the films from which  Alex Gibney and Alison Ellswood edited into a semi coherent movie in 2011 “Magic Trip.”)   (photo: Allen Ginsberg)        . • Ken Kesey was an orderly at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital Mental Health Facility where both he and Allen volunteered for the MKULtra LSD research program in 1959,  which turned out to be a CIA Mind Control study. Kesey was writing  “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” that year, which drew heavily on his experiences at the hospital. • #kenkesey #merrypranksters #deanmoriarty #ontheroad #jackkerouac #beatgeneration #americana #highaways #poetrycommunity #jackkerouac #literary #literature #fayekesey #magictrip #electricacidkoolaidtest #tomwolfe #oneflewoverthecuckoosnest #gratefuldead #acidtests #mkultra #lsd #magictrip #alexgibney (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6RQRXnBfvk/?igshid=loxl0l0419r

With Neal Cassady,  outside 1403 Gough street, San Francisco, Fall 1963, the very house Allen had met Peter Orlovsky almost a decade earlier. Neal has yet to take the cross country bus trip with Ken Kesey.   (courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #nealcassady #allenginsberg #queer #kiss #fag #gay #gratefuldead #acidtests #kenkesey https://www.instagram.com/p/B3M6yZ2Bi1h/?igshid=1hp1lyy8rgb2b

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