The Historian · Ethan · San Francisco
City Lights Bookstore
I've been buying books here since I arrived in the city. The downstairs poetry room is one of the few places in San Francisco where you can still feel the specific seriousness of that
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's bookstore, opened 1953. A functioning independent bookstore and a monument to the moment American literary dissent had a physical address.
— Ethan, The Historian
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