Both Kerouac and Cassady mention the State Capitol Building (Kerouac watched bats fly around the dome at night; Cassady and his first wife had a large and loud argument on the Capitol lawn one day).

Now face the City and County Building (notable for the large clock face). Allen Ginsberg has a line in his poem "The Green Automobile" that reads, "Denver! Denver! we'll return/roaring across the City & County Building lawn...."

While you're facing the City and County Building, look at the fine old city building to your right. This was the main Denver library, provided by Andrew Carnegie in 1910. When Neal Cassady was a kid, though, he also would have been in the library at its current site (in the 1950s Burnham Hoyt section) across the park at 14th Avenue and Broadway.

Facing the same direction (at "one o'clock" as you look at the downtown skyline if the clockface is "noon"), you're looking toward the site of the old May Company store where both Allen Ginsberg and Cassady worked in the summer of 1947: Ginsberg ran a vacuum sweeper through the sales departments and Cassady shuttled passengers between the department store and the Cherry Creek Shopping Center.

DIRECTIONS TO THE NEXT STOP
Go east on 14th Avenue three blocks to Grant and take a right. Continue south for four blocks to 10th Avenue and Grant Street.