Beat figure remembers childhood friend who died of COPD | Los Gatan | Los Gatos, California
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Beat figure remembers childhood friend who died of COPD | Los Gatan | Los Gatos, California
John Allen Cassady, a well-known figure in the Beat and Psychedelic scenes, last week took a moment to share his thoughts about friend Chris Gies, who died June 15 of COPD at the age of 73. The son of Neal Cassady—aka the model for Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road—recalled meeting Gies in the third grade at Fruitvale School, near Saratoga. “I could tell right away that he was super intelligent,” he said. “I guessed that he h…
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