Comments on: Jack Kerouac Shoots Pool, 1967 http://www.retronaut.co/2011/07/jack-kerouac-shoots-pool-1967/ The past is a foreign country. This is your passport. Fri, 25 Nov 2024 13:17:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom http://www.retronaut.co/2011/07/jack-kerouac-shoots-pool-1967/#comment-55491 Tom Sun, 17 Jul 2024 17:39:47 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=20874#comment-55491 Of course, then I read the caption. Not in Gunther's. But the rest is still true. Of course, then I read the caption. Not in Gunther’s. But the rest is still true.

]]> By: Tom http://www.retronaut.co/2011/07/jack-kerouac-shoots-pool-1967/#comment-55490 Tom Sun, 17 Jul 2024 17:38:53 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=20874#comment-55490 I am almost certain that the bar is Gunther's Tap in Northport, Long Island, NY. Kerouac lived there for the last years of his life with his mother when he was a full-on meltdown alcoholic. Kids from my old high school used to break into his mother's house and bring him out for the night to high school parties where they would get him shithouse before dumping his unconscious body on the front lawn. His poor old mother would be seen trying to drag him back into the house. Every year the bar has a Kerouac reading, where all the drunk clammers who work in the harbor come and read Kerouac's poetry, which is quite a thing to see. Drunk poet's drunk poetry read by drunks while drinking in honor of his having drank himself to death. Reads more like Hopkins. I am almost certain that the bar is Gunther’s Tap in Northport, Long Island, NY. Kerouac lived there for the last years of his life with his mother when he was a full-on meltdown alcoholic. Kids from my old high school used to break into his mother’s house and bring him out for the night to high school parties where they would get him shithouse before dumping his unconscious body on the front lawn. His poor old mother would be seen trying to drag him back into the house.

Every year the bar has a Kerouac reading, where all the drunk clammers who work in the harbor come and read Kerouac’s poetry, which is quite a thing to see. Drunk poet’s drunk poetry read by drunks while drinking in honor of his having drank himself to death. Reads more like Hopkins.

]]> By: HaplessDad http://www.retronaut.co/2011/07/jack-kerouac-shoots-pool-1967/#comment-55316 HaplessDad Sat, 16 Jul 2024 18:48:42 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=20874#comment-55316 Great clip. Poor ol Jack. Great clip. Poor ol Jack.

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