Sacramento Locomotive Works
Sacramento, CA I noticed the Southern Pacific name on the building immediately, as, like I mentioned previously in an older post, Kerouac and Neal well as Al Hinkle, worked for the company for a while, and Kerouac was very much preoccupied with the company and it is mentioned repeatedly throughout his books. As the … Continue reading
… – Wendover, Wells, Elko, Winnemucca, Lovelock, …
… stopping all the time and I walk and dig all over, and it’s deathly cold in Nevady (Visions Of Cody, p 144 Flamingo Modern Classic Edition)
Over Donner Pass And Down To Fogs Of California, Colfax, Auburn, Roseville …
Donner Pass, Sierra Nevada Colfax, CA Roseville, CA The title of this post is taken from Kerouac’s ‘Visions Of Cody’ (page 144, Flamingo Modern Classic Edition)
Truckee, California
‘Home in old Medora, home in old Truckee…’ ‘… up the mountain and home in Truckee, just like Lowell, gingerbread houses and five foot snow…’ (Visions Of Cody, p144)
Kerouac Climbing The Matterhorn in The Dharma Bums
Just had to think about the climbing trip Kerouac describes in ‘The Dharma Bums’ when going from Sacramento towards Truckee on the California Zephyr and watching the magnificent landscape of the Sierra Nevada roll by. The mountain they climbed in the book was called ‘Matterhorn’, but as far as I’m aware that mountain doesn’t actually … Continue reading
Boxcar
I assume I do not have to explain the motivation for including this photo on my blog to anybody who’s read ‘On The Road’ (or a biography about Kerouac), given his well-known love for freight trains and his (and Neal Cassady’s) working for the now defunct Southern Pacific railroad company.
The California Zephyr at Emeryville
Detail shot of the California Zephyr train at Emeryville (Oakland) station. I was about to start the greatest train journey of my life and one of the very best experiences of my life so far – the journey from San Francisco/Emeryville to Denver is absolutely breathtaking. And it’s forever linked in my mind with Kerouac’s … Continue reading
Oakland Bay Bridge
The Bay Bridge is mentioned in a number of Kerouac’s books, but it’s of course very hard not to notice when in San Francisco. I crossed it a short while after I took this photo on a bus which took me to Emeryville (Oakland) train station where I got on board the California Zephyr to … Continue reading
Tosca
After finishing watching Antonelli’s film Kerouac: The Movie (1985) I decided to post a photo of the Tosca, although I don’t know if Kerouac had a connection with it at all, or if it already existed at the time he hung out in San Francisco. In any case it’s located directly opposite the Cafe Vesuvio … Continue reading
Market Street Cinema, San Francisco
Kerouac loved movies and his books are full with mentions of going to see one. He describes going see a movie with Gregory Corso on Market Street in Desolation Angels, although I can’t say if it was this one (or even if this particular cinema existed in Kerouac’s time, but it looks rather worn and … Continue reading
Retracing Jack Kerouac on Facebook
Retracing Jack Kerouac 