Live Fast, Die Young

On September 30, 1955, James Dean died in a head on collision while driving his Porsche Spyder to a race in Salinas, California. He was 24. He'd starred in three films, all made within the previous year, East Of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause, and Giant, for which he received two Oscar nominations. James Dean appears four times in A Book of Ages.

The Merry Pranksters

In 1963, novelist Ken Kesey’s bungalow in the Bohemian neighborhood of Menlo Park, California, was torn down by developers so he moved to a place deep in the redwoods in nearby La Honda, where he'd heard "marijuana grows like a weed." On September 1, 1963, he formed “The Merry Pranksters.” He was 27. Ken Kesey appears twice in A Book of Ages.