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City Lights Bookstore Review
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City Lights Bookstore 
Books / Stationery, North Beach
Fodor's Review:
The city's most famous bookstore is where the Beat movement of the 1950s was born. Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac hung out in the basement and now regulars and tourists while hours away in this well-worn space. The upstairs room highlights impressive poetry and Beat literature collections. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner, remains active in the workings of this three-story place. Since publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl in 1956, City Lights' press continues to publish a dozen new titles each year.
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- Address: 261 Columbus Ave., at Broadway, North Beach, San Francisco, CA
- Phone: 415/362-8193
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