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Vesuvio Cafe is a historic bar in San Francisco, California, United States. Located at 255 Columbus Avenue, across an alley from City Lights Bookstore , the building was designed and built in 1913 by Italian architect Italo Zanolini, and remodeled in 1918.
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
Peter Dean Martin (1923 – March 3, 1988) was an American college professor and bookstore owner, known for his founding of the City Lights Bookstore. He was the son of Carlo Tresca and Sabina 'Bina' Flynn, and the nephew of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. [3] [4]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the acclaimed Beat movement champion, poet and publisher who owned the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, has died at age 101.
In a September 2005 Food & Wine story titled "Vietnam à la Cart," writer Laurie Winer noted that Charles Phan's decade-old San Francisco restaurant the Slanted Door was considered by many to be ...
A sample of Ferlinghetti's work in San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley, adjacent to the City Lights Bookstore. In 1987, he was the initiator of the transformation of Jack Kerouac Alley, located at the side of his shop. He presented his idea to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors calling for repavement and renewal. [33]
This street is home to several notable venues, such as Jack Kerouac Alley, named for poet Jack Kerouac, City Lights Bookstore, Vesuvio Cafe, Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (in an alley off Columbus), and Bimbo's 365 Club. The street's original name was Montgomery Avenue, and was built in the 1870s. [1] [2] It was renamed Columbus Avenue in ...
In 2008, USA Today listed nine top bookstore travel destinations in the United States as: Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida; City Lights Books in San Francisco; the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle; Politics and Prose in Washington, DC; Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon; Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa; Tattered Cover in Denver ...