Pictured here with his family: Melanie, (her boyfriend at the time to her right), Carolyn Cassady, John Allen Cassady, Cathy Cassady, Neal, Steven Bornstein (who was travelling with Allen and Peter and Julius in Allen’s VW Microbus) Peter Orlovsky, Julius Orlovsky, and Cassady family friend, Anne-Marie (Maxwell) Murphy, Neal’s significant other at the time. San Jose December 1965. (photo Allen Ginsberg)

Neal Cassady young handsome age 29 checking out North Beach used car lot (with his love of that year Natalie Jackson, Immortalized by Kerouac as Rosie Buchanan in Desolation Angels)  Bay Area Johnny Appleseed of pot from early 1950’s, he work as conductor on Southern Pacific Railroad, averted train crash as brakeman years earlier, braking his ankle, collected insurances, bought his family a ranch-house in Los Gatos down the peninsula, gambled madly--disastrously!--at horse racetrack, worked painfully on “The First Third” his autobiographical manuscript, visited me overnight on Polk and Montgomery Streets.  Sometime March 1955, San Francisco. (photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) • #nealcassady #nataliejackson #rosiebuchanan #jackkerouac #desolationangels #deanmoriarty #ontheroad #sanfrancisco #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #writers #poetrycommunity #poetry (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPB5FkkBHMt/?utm_medium=tumblr

[Neal Cassady, New York City, ca 1946, the year he and Allen met. Allen’s note on back reads: “in his first suit, bought in Chinatown.” courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate]

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“Neal behind the wheel”  with his girlfriend Anne  Murphy, probably driving over to Bolinas in Marin county from San Francisco, where Allen & Neal were roommates that fall of 1963, Allen only having returned from 2 years in  India the previous month. Neal would have been fresh off parole having served two years in San Quentin three years prior for a small amount of marijuana possession. He would soon join Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the cross country psychedelic bus ride. (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) /p>

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