Post #15500 by thejab on Thu, Dec 5, 2002 2:52 PM

"Also had a couple drinks at a place that I think was Vesuvio. I remember a very cool place with an upstairs balcony, some poetry readings, and a view of an alley with some murals?"

That was Vesuvio. It has an upstairs where you can sit at tables and look out on Jack Kerouac alley. The murals are painted on the alley side of City Lights bookstore. A place with a lot of beat-era history. Kerouac and friends used to hang out at Vesuvio.