In "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" there is a scene where Kerouac meets the Merry Pranksters.....and he doesn not like them. Timothy Leary was also leery of the Pranksters at first.
That is interesting, Kerouac's main character was Dean Moriarity (Neal Cassidy) and he was pretty much a prankster...anyway he worked in the Hip Pocket Book Store in Santa Cruz owned by a prankster...Ron Bivert...and Peter Demma.
The bookstore was in a part of the St. George Hotel, and they had the Cold Box in their area...that is where they kept the window panes....lol