LEGENDARY LOS ANGELES BOOKSTORE CLOSES

Norcal.news ^ | March 14 2018 | Bethany Klein

[WilliamIII]

Booklovers throughout California are lamenting the news that Caravan Book Store shut its doors for good last Tuesday. The shop, owned by 72-year-old Leonard Bernstein, had been a fixture of Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles since it opened in May of 1954.

[Mears]

Public libraries ARE needed-———and they are VERY busy places.

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[bravo whiskey]

Public libraries ARE needed-———and they are VERY busy places.

agreed. my primary one is within walking distance, i search other libraries for books and pick them up there. i also use the meeting rooms for class prep and study. they all have HDMI and a white board.

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[logician2u]

It may have been legendary but I'll lay you odds it was owned and run by a pack of atheist liberals, as most independent book stores are. Did they display any books conservatives might buy, or were those discretely kept under the counter?

The truly legendary book store in LA was right in the middle of Hollyweird, at Hollywood and Vine. Poor Richard's started in business in 1960, played a big part in energizing and educating conservatives who put Barry Goldwater over the top in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, then kept the momentum going for Ronald Reagan's successful campaign for governor in '66.

In that era of American history, you could own a business and support the candidate of your choice financially or otherwise without having to report how much, in what manner or anything else to the state or federal thought police. Imagine that.

Unfortunately, as often happens with family-owned bookstores of this sort, Poor Richard's went out of business before Reagan's presidential runs in '76 and '80.

If somebody with sufficient time and money wanted to make history, they could do a repeat of what Poor Richard's did in the '60s and change California for the better.

[StevieB]

Sorry guys, but this 70-year-old loves his Kindles — both the one I have downstairs and the one I have upstairs. (Don’t need to remember them when I change Floors!) As far as readability, the selection of various fonts and font sizes lets me adjust for my eyesight.

The weak point of a Kindle is illustrations and maps — but I use Google and Wikipedia for those things! (I currently read a lot of non-fiction and history.)

And Amazon has made it too easy to get the books. One-click and it is delivered to my selected Kindle in a minute! Don’t need to get dressed and drive to a bookstore,

[Jeff Chandler]

They need to close libraries too. Not needed anymore.

I was known to all the employees at the downtown Chandler library as one of the "eclectics", those patrons who checked out books on a variety of subjects. I would run across something that piqued my interest and check out books on it. I was there at least twice a week, sometimes more, stopping on the way home from work or taking my daughters with me on the weekends, checking out armfuls of non-fiction books.

Now I use the Internet for acquiring knowledge -- the library is for borrowing fiction. And when I go there I see almost no one among the aisles of books. Around the periphery sit college-aged, Asians mostly, availing themselves of the free wifi. The magazine section has a few people sitting in the comfortable chairs, reading newspapers. and the rows of Internet-connected computers are filled with blacks and Hispanics, checking out their social media.

The children's area upstairs is always full of kids, though. At least for that.

[Jeff Chandler]

Every year I make sure to hit the library book sale and get a bag of books for five bucks.

Thrift stores are also great places to buy books.

[bluejean]

The Tattered Cover was a great bookstore. I could spend hours there. I miss bookstores terribly. I can’t adapt to digital books and don’t want to. I love real books, turning real pages too much. I order real books on Amazon now. But I miss looking for treasures at a book sale. It was a great pastime I’ve been robbed of!

[WilliamIII]

“It may have been legendary but I’ll lay you odds it was owned and run by a pack of atheist liberals”

Actually, it was an antiquarian bookshop that specialized in California history and US history. A lot of old prints on the walls, of Abraham Lincoln and various historical sites and themes. A very atmospheric place. Sad to see it close.

[Jeff Chandler]

Here's a great book you can buy in Kindle OR paperback. (I know the author.)

Collateral Crimes

Collateral Crimes is the best crime thriller I’ve read in years. It’s a riveting, fast-moving, well-crafted page turner that had me hooked from the beginning. I especially enjoyed the geographical settings that take place in rural and the wilderness of Arizona's rugged Sierra Ancha Mountains where the climax of the story takes place. Yochim demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the places he writes about. I've been to those locales many times and the author's accuracy is spot on. Readers should keep in mind Yogi Berra’s sage advice, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”
Marshall Trimble, Arizona State Historian

[Fiji Hill]

Also with ordering books online is that you don’t get what you ordered. That has happened to me.

It's happened to me, too.I once ordered a book on digital photography but received a book on how to get into nursing school.

[sparklite2]

I sought out used book stores everywhere I went. There was a great one in Long Beach named Miles and Miles of Books, or something like that. The ‘shelves’ were like apple boxes and yes, there were miles and miles of them.

[5th MEB]

To me that is just inconceivable! I probably read at least 150 books a year, if not more.
Every thing from poetry, history, and new theoretical information, to mysteries and science fiction.
How can any person go through life without reading for new information and just plain old pleasure.
Books contain much more real information and real entertainment than any movie or television program ever could.
People who don’t read miss out on everything from GOD (the bible), to KIPLING, to HEINLEIN, and all the good stuff in between.

[5th MEB]

Bite your tongue, I use my Public Library at least once a week if not more.
I guess I could look up esoteric information on google or wikipedia, if I trusted 1/10th of the information they put out, WHICH I DON’T.
Any thing on google or wikipedia can be edited by anybody with a keyboard.
The printed word, in BOOKS is the only thing that lifted Humanity out of the dark ages.
It’s not that hard to imagine a new dark ages when the power grid goes down.

[5th MEB]

That’s why I have spent the last 40 years creating my own library.
The information I have gathered there cannot be changed or deleted with a key stroke.

[5th MEB]

I’ll take’m, even if I have to build my own barn just for books.

[MarvinStinson]

Thanks, Hillary.

[MarvinStinson]

Where have you been?