North end of the Bay would be Seaside? Fort Ord?
I used to hang out at Cannery Row and Asilomar and read deep shit too... Nabakov and Gogol, Lermontov and Dostoevsky... At one time I thought I had it all figured out. Then, the Welt kicked my sorry, infinitessimal ass up and down. :-)
Enquiring minds want to know.