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unusual facts about Bob Kaufman


Bob Kaufman

In 1959, Kaufman had a small role in a movie called The Flower Thief, which was shot in North Beach by Ron Rice.


Caffe Trieste

The Caffè Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement writers like Lawrence Ferlinghetti (still a regular), Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, Bob Kaufman, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth and Neeli Cherkovski, who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s.


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