The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
While in LA, there is time for a little light reading on the beach, so check out this unique bookshop housed inside an abandoned bank. The Last Bookstore is California’s largest new and used book and record store. Owner Josh Spencer took his years of experience selling everything from cars to clothes online and focused instead on his first love, books!
The grand atrium of a forgotten bank was converted into this unique bookstore and offers low-cost and vintage books. Sculptures are made from overstocked or damaged books, hardbacks arranged by color, and every book in the upstairs area is just $1.
6 thoughts on “11 US Places Only Locals Know About”
Once on the Victoria Beach, do you walk north or south along the beach to the tower?
OMG my school, the Fashion Institute of Technology took us here as field trip, I guess. I graduated in 1979. It was an art history course.
Interesting tidbits of information about each of these “finds” for those who travel around our country !
Huell Howser of Calgold once did a whole segment on this. Fascinating!
Discovered this place with a friend and Tourguide colleague, while touring downtown LA. I bought several books then.
During covid, they found a way to remain in business, by going online, which made me feel better, because I love the building and the store. Right across is an old building dating from the beginning of the Cinema, where stars like Charles Chaplin used to stay and they now have a French Restaurant, which I hope remained in business during covid. Too many Los Angelinos, don’t even know that part of Los Angeles where the Movie Industry really took off after escaping the Monopoly of Thomas Edison, with the silent version of the Count of Monte Christo.
An Iconic monument to visit.
I lived in Wilmette in 1966.
Chet Zaneski