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June 24, 2013
Banned books and Beatniks: Happy 60th Birthday City Lights Bookstore!
Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and friends in front of City Lights Books shop, 1956. Photo: Peter Orlovsky This Sunday is the 60th birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's renowned City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. City Lights was founded in North Beach at 261 Columbus Avenue in 1953 by Ferlinghetti and his partner Peter D.