454 W 2oth Street
Chelsea, New York
Joan Haverty and Jack Kerouac moved into this building in January of 1951, of course things between them couldn’t last so they split up in June when she became pregnant. Famously the scroll version of ‘On The Road’ was written in here during that time.
Retracing Jack Kerouac 
Imagine the cost of living there now versus then!
How much more would that be, you think, I don’t know. Three times more maybe?
Try like 10 or 20 times more!!
the scroll manuscript …!
Saw that scroll at the Civic Center Library in SF, it was “on tour” Haha!…sacred article!..so cool…