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  835

  11 months ago

  Easton speaks the truth: "Everything good that ever happened to me has happened as a result of information I’ve gotten from books..."
  What a shame the city is destroying something so positive to so many.
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  B. Albert

  11 months ago

  Once again, we've imported a strident underclass, around 30 million illegal aliens, by some estimates, and now we just can't understand why libraries and bookstores are becoming museums, if not distant memories?
  A typical Mexican immigrant is not going to be reading Bertrand Russell, Mark Twain, or Herman Mellville. They don't care.
  Even if they do graduate high school, and the stats say that's not necessarily likely, they are not going to be reading up on the Civil War, the biography of George Washington, or how the French helped us win the Revolution.
  Even if they could understand it, reading at a sixth grade level, it's not relevant to their culture. It is not relevant to their children, since they will identify with their parents culture, before ours.
  We wanted to establish a high population of an underclass, while the middle-class hightailed it to Oregon, and other states, well now we've got it.
  Stop lamenting over something you asked for, go to Del Taco, and order a cheap burrito. You'll feel better.
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  Andreas

  11 months ago

  "The bureaucratic mentality is the same all over the world. Make a fast buck and get a little tax money."
  
  That about sums it up. I wouldn't say it's the same all over the world, but definitely seems to be the case in downtown LB.
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  lulu

  11 months ago

  I am not the most educated person on earth but I do love to read and the fact that they are closing Acres and now possibly the main library makes me tired with frustration and disallusionment. Long Beach has it's bad qualities (like every city) but it has a ton of history and character, one of the main reasons I don't move somewhere else. I know money talks but isn't there anything we can do to preserve our land marks? Doesn't anyone care? Is nothing sacred?
  
  I will definetly avoid Long Beach bvd while driving so I can avoid the empty spot where my favorite bookstore used to be.....
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  B. Albert

  11 months ago

  Well, lulu, when you've been standing out in the hot sun all day in front of a Home Depot, when you get home you tend to want to listen to some Mariachi, break open a cold one, and gossip with friends. The last thing you're thinking about is going to Acres of Books, to find an out of print collection of essays by James Thurber.
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