Bob Donlin (Rob Donnelly, Kerouac's Desolation Angels), Neal Cassady, myself in black corduroy jacket, Bay Area poets’ “court-painter” Robert LaVigne & painter-poet Larry Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Bookshop, Broadway & Columbus North Beach. Donlin worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter & oft drank with jack K., Neal looks good in teashirt, Howl first printing (500 copies) hadn't arrived yet from inexpensive Villiers Press, London, we were just hanging around, Peter Orlovsky stepped back off curb & snapped shot, San Francisco California Spring 1956. (courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)
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