"City Lights in North Beach?
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Next door for me, at Vesuvio. I ran into him and Ferlinghetti there once. Very odd people for an 18-year-old kid to meet. It made a big impression on me.
Yea, I remember the Vesuvio. We used to get Irish coffee there for some reason. City Lights was a pretty cool place in the early 70's. I remember meeting a writer named Richard Brautigan there. He had a big hit with "Trout Fishing in America", which was about anything but. I gave North Beach a miss the last time I was in SF. I know it has run down, so I'll just remember it the way it was.