Legendary Los Angeles Bookstore Closes.
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.
Yeah, I know I am living in a time where more information is available than ever before in history, but I still am sentimental about physical books.
The city I live in doesn’t have a bookstore of any type and it’s a city of 70,000+ people. I have to go 25 miles to Half-price Books. I order most of my books online, but still enjoy a good bookstore. I still can’t do E-books at least for recreational reading, they are ok for textbooks and instructional texts, but for all else, I prefer the paper versions.
Well at least Caravan Books can say they were never looted in a riot.
Something that goes with this is that many have accumulated quite a collection of books over their lifetimes, and the books now have little value and almost no one wants them, even for free.
Every year I make sure to hit the library book sale and get a bag of books for five bucks.
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.
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.
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.
I remember reading Classics Illustrated as a kid?
