7, 2014. Photographed with a Hipstamatic filter. In this sad little shop so filled with contention, Neal and Maude shared the last year of their pitiful marriage … Although food was short, at least there was always dessert, for in the middle of the next block was the Puritan Pie Company, and on many a Sunday the shop shades were drawn as Neal cut an employee’s hair in exchange for a pie or two.” Puritan Pie (Photo: CPR/Hart Van Denburg) The Puritan Pie Co. “Finally, in last month of this hectic year, Neal got a two-chair shop near the corner of 26th and Champa streets. His father, also named Neal, was a barber by trade and the home doubled as his shop in 1930, Cassady writes: (Photo: CPR/Hart Van Denburg)The squat little brick building at 2558 Champa Street where Cassady and his family once lived still stands, crushed between a much larger, abandoned home on the corner (above) and a rehabbed business. Here are some passages from the book, and photos of a few of the places that still exist. Long before he was Jack Kerouac's muse for "On The Road," the Merry Pranksters' bus driver, and "Cowboy Neal" to the Grateful Dead, Beat literature icon Neal Cassady grew up dirt poor in pre-World War II Denver.Ī new documentary debuting next week explores Cassady's life in Denver. While much of the city Cassady grew up in is long gone, some of the landmarks he mentions in his memoir “ The First Third ” are still standing today. (Photo: Carolyn Cassady) Neal Cassady, left, and Jack Kerouac
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