I picked up a used copy of The Last Puritan there a few years ago when visiting LA. I wish I could say that I remember the bookstore well.
Iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank
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#12Was hoping to see a repurposed vault with the high-end books. Found a picture here...that's pretty cool: https://untappedcities.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/02-DSC...
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#13I lived in LA for a few decades, and one of the few things that kept me sane as a software engineer living in a land of space cadets and celebrity worshiping airheads was the grand plethora of technical bookshops and electronics supply stores that were, once, liberally littered across the landscape from Burbank to Culver City to East LA. I haven't been back to LA in decades, but I sure hope that OpAmp Bookstore is st…
Opamp is gone, Burbank Electronics is gone, Norton Sales is still there but a fraction of what it once was, All Electronics is still going, Apex (best of the best) still going, and Luky's hardware is still open.
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#14One of my favorite hidden (not really hidden, but well, not the most known either) gems in DTLA. A must-visit!
Agreed, I always took my friends and family there when we they visited. It's such a cute and unique little place: the vault, the book tunnel, the book hole to take pictures through (though often with a line heh), the vending machines for little cards and gifts, not to mention the books themselves and comfy chairs to read for a bit.
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#15Reminds me of the one in the UK housed in a disused railway station: https://www.barterbooks.co.uk/html/About%20Us/The%20Bookshop...
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#16I think calling a former/defunct bank location "abandoned" is a stretch.
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#17Love the place, à must visit, BUT, after taking my girlfriend for her birthday, beware leaving there at night. She was very uncomfortable even walking to the car. DTLA in general is quite iffy at night.
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#18What's up with Atlas Obscura? I see several posts a day here, is it a YC-backed blog? Also I don't think the building was abandoned, but it was a bank.
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#19I lived in LA for a few decades, and one of the few things that kept me sane as a software engineer living in a land of space cadets and celebrity worshiping airheads was the grand plethora of technical bookshops and electronics supply stores that were, once, liberally littered across the landscape from Burbank to Culver City to East LA. I haven't been back to LA in decades, but I sure hope that OpAmp Bookstore is st…
Opamp is gone, Burbank Electronics is gone, Norton Sales is still there but a fraction of what it once was, All Electronics is still going, Apex (best of the best) still going, and Luky's hardware is still open.
Fry's Too :(