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The Beat Museum, North Beach
During the 1950s while most of America was engaging in a postwar boom, some small groups of disillusioned people started gathering in bars, cafes and bookstores of San Francisco's North Beach to read their poetry and prose which railed against the establishment machine. These people were soon dubbed 'Beatniks' by San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Herb Caen who fashioned the name after the Sputnik satellite. Beatniks created their own language, dress and art forms relying on shocking language and nihilism to try and wake wake people from their consumer-driven slumbers. The Beat Museum on the corner of Columbus and Broadway celebrates the Beat Era and its artist like Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady and Ferlinghetti. Other North Beach Beat attractions include City Lights Bookstore, Cafe Vesuvio, the Co-Existence Bagel Shop, the Coffee Gallery and Allen Ginsberg's apartment at 1010 Montgomery.
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