Literary Locales
Sep 25, 2020
2 minutes
Central City Opera House ? CENTRAL CITY
irst, follow Jack Kerouac from the ballfield at Five Points’ Lawson Park to My Brother’s Bar in LoHi, where he racked up tabs with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady (for proof, see the framed letter that mentions the latter’s debt). Then get, ahem, on the road to Central City: In 1947, Kerouac saw Beethoven’s at the town’s still-in-use opera.
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