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Bickford's (restaurant)
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Bickford's Restaurants and Cafeterias is a chain of cafeteria-style restaurants founded in 1921. From the 1920s through the 1970s, the chain was a mainstay in the New York City area. From the 1970s th
Bickford's Restaurant Rt.1, Saugus, Massachusetts, 2001
Bickford's Restaurant Rt.1, Saugus, Massachusetts, 2001
Former Bickford's, 488 Eighth Avenue, New York
Former Bickford's, 488 Eighth Avenue, New York
A streetcar passing a Foster's in San Francisco in 1970
A streetcar passing a Foster's in San Francisco in 1970
Foster's Cafeteria at Mission and 1st, San Francisco (1968)
Foster's Cafeteria at Mission and 1st, San Francisco (1968)
Jack Kerouac
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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Bickford's (restaurant)
…located in the New England area. As of August 2026, the company operates 1 location in Massachusetts. Bickford's and Foster's Cafeterias influenced Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Woody Allen, Andy Warhol, William Styron, and Herbert Huncke. Samuel Longley Bickford (1885–1959) began his restaurant…
Jack Kerouac's birthplace, 9 Lupine Road, 2nd floor, West Centralville, Lowell, Massachusetts
Jack Kerouac's birthplace, 9 Lupine Road, 2nd floor, West Centralville, Lowell, Massachusetts
His third of several homes growing up in the West Centralville section of Lowell
His third of several homes growing up in the West Centralville section of Lowell
Jack Kerouac lived with his parents for a time above a corner drug store in Ozone Park (now a flower shop), while writing some of his earliest work. T
Jack Kerouac lived with his parents for a time above a corner drug store in Ozone Park (now a flower shop), while writing some of his earliest work. There was no phone in the apartment and they would take calls from a public phone in the drug store downstairs. Kerouac would bring a kettle to the bar across the street to be filled with beer for family meals.
454 West 20th Street
454 West 20th Street