In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti got the beat & founded City Lights bookstore in this city
[DOC] [TLE] San Francisco's City Lights: the bookshop that brought us the Beats ... [PAR] May 24, 2013 ... City Lights, the San Francisco bookshop that published Allen Ginsberg's Howl ... 
in the US, founded in San Francisco in 1953 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.