Acres of Books

[Feraud]

For my fellow bibliophiles.

Bookstore clerk Frank Cotten was in his 80s when he departed this dimension some time around when Clinton took office, and he left behind one amazing statistic: the only place he ever worked, for more than 50 years, was Bertrand Smith’s Acres of Books.

Even Jackie Smith, granddaughter-by-marriage of the man who founded Long Beach’s most-revered bookstore in 1934, can’t top that. She married Smith’s grandson, Philip, and she always said that Acres of Books was the only place she ever wanted to work, and she runs the store now. But after college, Smith’s grandfather-in-law made her work somewhere else for five years before she could join the family business.

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[AlanC]

Eminent domain = :rage:

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I wish I had known about this place when I was in Long Beach a couple of weeks ago, I would have checked it out!

 

[Feraud]

I hope it is still there the next time I visit Long Beach.

 

[Tourbillion]

You could spend quite a while in there. I haven't been for a few years, but they are not kidding about the acre part, the place is huge.

The only downside, dust!

Next time I go, I am bringing hand wipes.

 

[HadleyH]

That is Heaven for me!

Please never, never tear Acres of Books down!!!
750.000 books and about six and a half miles of shelves :eusa_clap
If that's not Paradise, I don't know what it is.
I must go there someday...