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When you act threatened by Black Lives Matter, regardless of what you say, all I hear is "Black lives don't matter."

Kerouac in Sedro-Woolley 1956 #7

"Okay, I cut off - back down to the highway, over the tracks, and out on the bend getting traffic three ways" [Sounds like Ferry/ Hwy 17-A (now SR-20)]

Kerouac in Sedro-Woolley 1956 #6

"Squat against a wall and light a cigarette and dig the little afternoon city, there's the hay and grain feed silo outside town, the railroad, the lumberyard" [Probably talking about the Janicki building, but this north side of the Wixson Club/ Mestizo is more colorful than Janicki building.]

Kerouac in Sedro-Woolley 1956 #5

"I go out to buy my shoes - main street, stores, sporting goods, basketballs, footballs for coming Autumn ... I go in a store ... and the kid gives me blue canvas shoes with thick, soft soles ... I buy em, leave the old shoes there, and walk out -" [Likely Al's Sports Shop, 711 Metcalf and Black's Quality Shop, 713 Metcalf, now the Janicki Building]

Kerouac in Sedro-Woolley 1956 #4

"I go out to buy my shoes - main street, stores, sporting goods, basketballs, footballs for coming Autumn ... I go in a store ... and the kid gives me blue canvas shoes with thick, soft soles ... I buy em, leave the old shoes there, and walk out -" [Likely Al's Sports Shop, 711 Metcalf and Black's Quality Shop, 713 Metcalf, now the Janicki Building]

Kerouac in Sedro-Woolley 1956 #3

"My first stop will be the bank, there's a bank ..." [Skagit Valley State Bank, 631 Metcalf, SW corner of Wixson Hotel building, now JC Speedee Tax Services]

Kerouac in Sedro-Woolley 1956 #2

"The three old geezers ball me down to outside Sedro-Woolley ... I walk across the hot road towards the town ... first I comb my hair in a gas station ... then I start off-across the curving road is a factory plant ... I keep moving ... out across tarns and oil-meadow ditches ... and come out and lope ... into Sedro-Woolley proper" [Herb's Chevron, 224 W. Ferry, same building but likely different owner]

Kerouac in Sedro-Woolley 1956 #1

Jack Kerouac wrote in Desolation Angels about a quick stop he made in Sedro-Woolley in 1956. After doing some research, these are the places I think he was writing about, but I could be wrong.