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LEGENDARY LOS ANGELES BOOKSTORE CLOSES
Norcal.news ^ | March 14 2018 | Bethany Klein

Posted on 03/18/2018 7:02:24 PM PDT by 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.

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To: MarvinStinson

Spent my career as a junior-high history teacher. I do not think “the system” deliberately tries to fail, but have to agree it does fail far too often.


41 posted on 03/19/2018 4:33:36 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: StevieB

2 problems with ebooks: price points are too high, and the downloader doesn’t actually own the book.


42 posted on 03/19/2018 4:37:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: WilliamIII

I was visiting in Los Angeles last summer and went to a bookstore in downtown L.A. It was huge and had a large and eclectic section. I bought three books there. It had two floors and the upstairs had books for sale not for reading, but for decorative purposes and it even had these designs that you could take your picture with. They were like book arches and book made windows. I’m wondering if this is the bookstore.

I have a Kindle, but I still love to read my physical books. Heck, I still have four magazine subscriptions I get. I guess that seems out of the times.

To the person that said we should do away with libraries, I completely disagree. Ours is a community center as well as a library. It’s a central meeting place where speakers come, and the library is very well used. I believe it’s a community asset and worth my taxes, even if I didn’t use it. It’s just like the school system, my kids are long gone from it and have all graduated college even, however, I still want to live in a community with a good school system. It’s these type of community assets that keep your community young, vibrant and not turning into slum area. It keeps your house value up, because young people with families don’t want to move into communities that don’t have good schools or libraries.


43 posted on 03/19/2018 4:44:22 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: WilliamIII

I remember reading Classics Illustrated as a kid?


44 posted on 03/19/2018 5:41:36 AM PDT by Texicanus (GOD Bless Texas and the USA)
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To: StevieB

Same here. Got my first Kindle about 10 years ago, got rid of all my hard copy books soon after. I read now more than ever, have purchased hundreds of books through Kindle, everyone of which is still available and not taking up any physical space. What I love it the fact that virtually any and every book is available to me in just seconds.


45 posted on 03/19/2018 6:08:07 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: logician2u
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.

I suspect something more along the lines of "Weapon Shops of Isher" would be be more effective, heheh.

46 posted on 03/19/2018 7:36:15 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Sounds interesting.


47 posted on 03/19/2018 7:38:24 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: 5th MEB
even if I have to build my own barn just for books.

I'm at the phase of needing my own barn just for books. Probably this year I'm going to pull the lever and digitize most of my library, keeping only the durable books.

48 posted on 03/19/2018 7:39:30 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
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To: hanamizu

You never heard of Saul Alinsky?

Bill Ayers?

Common Core?


49 posted on 03/19/2018 8:31:14 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Cicero

Sadly, it goes the way of many a book store; even the major chain stores. Books are friends that many ignore, preferring video and electronic devises. To hold a solid print in hand is akin to holding a treasure, a ticket to world travel. Alas! Well, Half Price Books and Abe’s Books are still on our streets and become our future destinations.


50 posted on 03/19/2018 8:32:54 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: MarvinStinson

Of course I’ve heard of them. But Saul and Bill had no influence on me or the people I taught with. Common Core, well, that did. But because I taught history, it had no effect on my subject matter, because CC doesn’t (or didn’t) have much to do with history. I was told that I was to encourage reading and math skills in my history classes. Since history is mostly reading, I had that covered–I always chose texts with the highest reading level available. I’d throw in an occasional math problem on my history tests just to watch them struggle with a question like “The Wright brothers flew their plane in 1903—how long ago was that?” And no, they weren’t allowed to use calculators.


51 posted on 03/19/2018 9:04:02 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

Bill Ayers DESIGNED Common Core.


52 posted on 03/19/2018 9:08:49 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

As I said, history, because it is such an unimportant subject, was barely touched by CC. That said, how did things come to pass that a self-admitted terrorist is walking free, let alone setting education policy? (It’s a rhetorical question, I already know the answer).


53 posted on 03/19/2018 9:52:27 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

How did things come to pass that a self-admitted terrorist is walking free, let alone setting education policy?

How did a muslim become president of the US and give $150 billion to the US’ worst enemy, Iran?

Because the Deep State wanted that.


54 posted on 03/19/2018 9:00:55 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: apocalypto
Also with ordering books online is that you don’t get what you ordered.

That happened to me, too. I ordered a book on digital photography but received one on how to get into nursing school.

55 posted on 03/20/2018 6:02:52 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: napscoordinator; Mears
I would imagine if I owned a book store, I would be thanking the Lord daily that it is still open. Book stores is pretty much 20th century. They need to close libraries too. Not needed anymore. Waste of tax payers money.

I assume you're being facetious. I don't know what I would do without libraries. I have about 15 library cards and there's a permanent pile of checked-out books on my living room bookshelf.

56 posted on 03/20/2018 6:05:50 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

I picked up a book at my library today and the parking lot was just about full——at 10:00 AM.

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57 posted on 03/20/2018 6:26:45 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears
I picked up a book at my library today and the parking lot was just about full——at 10:00 AM.

Sounds like my local public library.

58 posted on 03/20/2018 9:40:08 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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