Last week Julee Morris shut her Long Beach shop, Once upon a Story, and put up a sign, “gone to look at bookstores.” Then Morris and her staff joined an all-day tour of other Southern California indies.
They browsed Vromans in Pasadena and Book’em Mysteries in nearby South Pasadena. Next the bus headed to EsoWon Books in Los Angeles and Village Books in Pacific Palisades before a lunch stop at Dutton’s shiny new Beverly Hills shop. The afternoon featured visits to Children’s Book World near Century City, Skylight Books in Los Angeles and the wonderful bookstore inside the Autry National Center at Griffith Park.
Eight great bookstores in nine hours.
“This city is so spread-out,” says Kerry Slattery of Skylight Books, “and everyone’s so busy, that a tour like this is almost the only way to see and find out about all the different stores around.”
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