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It was great to see Bradbury in person, particularly in that kind of setting, but overall I found it to be a somewhat depressing affair.
The fate of Acres seemed to be echoed in Bradbury's own failing health, and I almost felt we were watching two funerals in progress, standing there in that room.
Neither of them seemed to have very long left to live on this Earth.
It was ramshackle and loosely organized, and run by two old ladies. One of the more interesting parts was the large aisle of porn directly opposite the checkout, where creepy guilt worked better than any security system. They lost their lease and I'm not sure where everything eventually was carted off.
But it was a great place to spend idle Sat mornings, wandering the collections and finding things you didn't know you needed. When it cleared out, I was allowed to go in a rummage through the things deemed not worthy of moving, from which I got a collection of pulp paperbacks and 1920s National Geographics.
I still think of those ladies when I look at those paperbacks and magazines, and wonder if anyone ever remembers their book buying experience at a Barnes and Noble.
Long live Acres of Books, but get your memories now.
Long Beach now unfortunately continues its civic history of “brilliant” ideas, namely tearing down The Pike that once made the LBC the place to be in L.A. on the weekends (and, many years later, replacing it with a newer yet tasteless, character-less, glorified strip mall with a fake roller coaster reminiscent of the older, more real one that they tore down, too); building a breakwater that would turn the once-popular beaches into seaside deserts of emptiness (not to mention the infamous distinction of being the oceanic trash tanks of the Southland’s waste); and now bulldozing a bookstore sacred to many.
What great scheme will the city come up with next? Free all the fish in its beloved Aquarium of the Pacific in the name of “fish rights”?
-Bradley Zint
Edgartown, Mass.
I'm surprise I didn't see her here for Bradbury, because it woulda been a great photo op (a la Burt Grimm's). Oh yeah, she DID step foot into our parking lot when they demolished the buildings adjacent to us. How nice.
That or she's in Austria "scoping" builders for the hydrogen-powered monorail to Belmont Shore..
At least we still have Open.
DEATH TO ALL THINGS OLD
i can't wait to see what the RDA has in store for the AOB site when they finally clear the land.
So, City Place was a mistake? The stores or the housing? Oh, I bet he wishes he never said that.
And there's nothing wrong with the "lofts" in the parking lot as long as you don't mind living in a building that looks like a U-Stor-it storage facility.