#Beatniks

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Beatniks at a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, November 1959.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[undergroundrockpress]

[cochino-devin]

Continental Club. So Congress Ave. Saturday Night Line Up. Aug 10, 2024.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Beat Generation | 1959

[oldshowbiz]

June 1959.

[miedkha]

Young Gods :: Jim Morrison

[excitementshewrote]

[zoomar]

What is a beatnik?

A beatnik is dirty, promiscuous, anti-social, disobedient, inconsiderate, poetic, untrustworthy, sick. -- Motto of the Beatnik Society of America

[rei-ismyname]

Beatniks Worship The Beast's Feet

I have to wonder if Stan Lee has ever met a beatnik. If he saw Allen Ginsberg he'd hurl .

After expressing how uncomfortable he is in the ill fitting shoes he's wearing, he takes them off and the beatniks lose their minds. One guy wants to draw them, another guy thinks Bernhard will write a poem about them, whereas the young lady on the right goes straight to 'let's start a cult.'

Hank is proclaimed leader and carried on shoulders to... somewhere, all the while telling them he thinks they're nuts. Hank clearly doesn't recognise an orgy opportunity. Also, Iceman is there, awkwardly performing heterosexuality.

[weneverlearn]

Gregory Corso, a fave Beat poet of mine.

The world is pretty unstable and vicious right now, time to get poetry’s help again…

[weirdlookindog]

Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi in The Beat Generation (1959).

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg, Fall 1953.

Photo: Allen Ginsberg via Christie's

[cochino-devin]

A 51 Merc and a 39 Lincoln pull up at a bar…

[oldpersonnewspaper]

Bob Dylan credits Jack Kerouac and Gore Vidal with “setting the scene” by having gay sex in the Chelsea Hotel in 1953

[oldshowbiz]

Herb Caen, the man who coined the term “beatnik.”