Cover: Syndic No. 11
Syndic No. 11
June 2014
Compiled/Published by LeRoy Chatfield

Caffe Trieste, the first espresso house on the West Coast was founded 1956 in North Beach, San Francisco, by Giovanni Giotta and soon became the meeting place for such Beat movement writers as: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (still a regular), Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, Gregory Corso and a host of others. / Photo by Mel Solomon