Bascule indicates “seesaw” in French, and that is how this bridge operates. With just two 108-horsepower motors, the bridge’s steel and roadway weigh the same as the concrete and steel counterweight. Museum site visitors can entry the bridge’s equipment space to discover this engineering marvel. Over the spring and tumble, scheduled bridge … Read More

In a way the museum does a lot more than celebrate “To the Highway” — it truly is almost an extension of that road. Throughout the street is town Lights Bookstore — co-Started by Mr. Ferlinghetti in 1953. Next to that is Vesuvio, a saloon founded in 1948 and frequented by a lot of the Beats; it now offers a “Jack Kerouac” on its consume… Read More