Chester Anderson
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Chester Valentine John Anderson was an American novelist, poet, and editor in the underground press.
Underhound, vol. 1. no. 4 (1960). One of Chester Anderson's early little magazines, satirizing the beatnik coffee house scene in North Beach.
North Beach, San Francisco
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North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically
Chester Anderson
…press. Raised in Florida, he attended the University of Miami from 1952 to 1956, before becoming a beatnik coffee house poet in Greenwich Village and San Francisco's North Beach. As a poet, he wrote under the name C.V.J. Anderson and edited the little magazines Beatitude and Underhound. In journalism, he specialized in rock and…
Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
View of North Beach from Telegraph Hill, 1856
Congressional candidate Edward J. Livernash addresses a meeting of workers at the wire works at North Beach, November 1, 1902
North Beach after the 1906 earthquake