Here is a photo shot by notorious New York photographer, WeeGee, of another busy night at the San Remo bar in Greenwich Village. Among the revelers can be seen Jack Kerouac. Also, toward the rear, his compadre Henri Cru. Kerouac,.at this time, was living with his mother in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. Battling his alcohol addiction, Kerouac’s attempts to use Buddhism as a way of controlling his impulses often failed whenever he caroused in the city., Already having acquired a surly reputation as a drunken rowdy, Kerouac was often expelled from the bars all around the Village. To circumvent this, he went in the company of Cru, who made assurance to the bar keeps that he would and could keep Kerouac reigned in. Should he act up, they would both get expelled. After his wicked binges, Kerouac returned home and repented under his mother’s care. Sick, disgusted, he would lament samsara; the ever-whirling churning gears of his addiction slowly unraveling him in preparation for future On the Road– fame.
At 32 years of age, Kerouac’s best years as a writer were already behind him.
I Am the Revolutionary 