6/4/2023 0 Comments Off the road carolyn cassady![]() ![]() Carolyn and pal Al Hinkle were passing the camera back and forth so it is unclear who shot what. The pictures were taken with a cheap box camera in 1952 on Russell Street off Hyde Street. ![]() It is reproduced on a poster in the window of City Lights Bookstore, right next to Jack Kerouac Alley, and in a rendering on the wall of the Beat Museum in North Beach. The image, or others on the same roll of film, appeared on the cover of some editions of "On the Road" and on the cover of Neal Cassady's book "The First Third" (1971). But for 35 years before that she lived variously in the Richmond, the Mission and Russian Hill before moving to San Jose and then to the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains, where she raised three children she had with Cassady.Ĭarolyn wrote a memoir, "Off the Road," and is credited with snapping what might be the most famous photograph of the Beat Generation - the picture of her husband in a work shirt and his mate Kerouac in a sweatshirt, their faces seductively shadowed, and looking like they are ready to jump into a car and go, man, go. ![]() Neal followed her and then Kerouac and Ginsberg followed Neal."Ĭarolyn, portrayed as Camille, wife of protagonist Dean Moriarty (Cassady) in Kerouac's novel "On the Road," and widely considered the muse of the Beats, died in England on Sept. "Had it not been for Carolyn Cassady the Beat Generation would have never come to San Francisco," says Jerry Cimino, founder and director of the Beat Museum on Broadway. ![]()
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