To the editor: My favourite version of The Occasions is any wherein a column by Patt Morrison seems. Her works give us true tales about our metropolis’s fascinating (and typically forgotten) historical past – this time it is impartial bookstores. (“Do not let anybody dismiss LA’s studying habits. This was and is a bookstore boomtown,” Nov. 14.)
My favourite line: “Wandering by means of an actual bookstore guarantees the component of shock and allows you to uncover and domesticate pursuits you by no means knew you had.” Bingo!
What a flood of recollections Morrison introduced again to me: Campbell’s in Westwood whereas I used to be at UCLA, Dutton’s Books in Brentwood as a newlywed, Village Books in Pacific Palisades as a younger mom, Bart’s Books in Ojai on weekend journeys with girlfriends, and eventually , distant from LA, just a few gems right here in Santa Barbara – Ebook Den, Chaucer’s Books and Tecolote Ebook Store.
These locations every offered me books, however the experiences at them make up the lasting recollections.
Diane Graham, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I fortunately learn Morrison’s piece in bookstores in Los Angeles. It introduced again the anecdote my father used to inform.
When he was an intern as a younger physician, he liked books however had no cash to purchase them. He would stroll from California Hospital on Hope Road simply south of downtown LA to Fowler Brothers and climb a ladder to the highest cabinets. He stored his present studying there and sat on prime of the ladder studying for hours.
He was positive the homeowners have been onto him, however have been too variety to expel a e-book lover, even a melancholy sufferer.
Meg Quinn Coulter, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The Occasions nonetheless rejoices. Studying Morrison’s historical past of booksellers in Los Angeles introduced again fond recollections of the Fowler Brothers.
I spent the summer season of 1959 between my final two years of highschool working as a freight elevator operator within the Park Central Constructing on West sixth Road, the place Fowler’s was on the bottom ground.
I spent most lunch hours studying books, atlases and different goodies. I used to be all the time warmly welcomed they usually supplied me a reduction on purchases.
To today I learn a e-book every week – sadly totally on my Kindle.
Alan Miller, Santiago, Chile