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City Lights Bookstore BUILDING
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 415-362-8193; www.citylights.com ; 261 Columbus Ave; 10am-midnight)
When founder and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and manager Shigeyoshi Murao defen-
ded their right to 'willfully and lewdly print' Allen Ginsberg's magnificent Howl and Oth-
er Poems in 1957, City Lights became a free-speech landmark. Celebrate your freedom to
read freely in the designated Poet's Chair upstairs overlooking Jack Kerouac Alley, load
up on 'zines on the mezzanine and entertain radical ideas downstairs in the Muckracking
and Stolen Continents sections.
Beat Museum MUSEUM
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 1-800-537-6822; www.kerouac.com ; 540 Broadway; adult/student $8/5;
10am-7pm; 10, 12, 30, 41, 45, Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason)
Grab a ramshackle theater seat redolent with the accumulated odors of literary giants, pets
and pot to watch fascinating films about the SF Beat literary scene c 1950-69. Upstairs are
shrines to Beat achievements, including On the Road and other books that expanded
America's outlook to include the margins. Two-hour guided tours at 1pm Wednesday,
Saturday and Sunday cover the museum and Beat hangouts (adult/student $30/25).
Chinese Historical Society of America MUSEUM
(CHSA; MAP GOOGLE MAP ;
415-391-1188; www.chsa.org ; 965 Clay St;
noon-5pm Tue-Fri,
11am-4pm Sat; 1, 30, 45, California St)
Picture what it was like to be Chinese in America during the gold rush, transcontinental
railroad construction or the Beat heyday in this 1932 landmark, built as Chinatown's
YWCA by Julia Morgan (also chief architect of Hearst Castle). The nation's largest
 
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