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City Lights Bookstore

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100% of people who have been to City Lights Bookstore think it's worth visiting. City Lights Bookstore is featured on the lists Everybody Hates a Tourist: San Francisco and Everybody Hates A Tourist: USA.
261 Columbus Ave
(415) 362-8193
http://www.citylights.com/


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Untitled by Tbevilacqua1034

It is one of the best independent bookstores in the country and a literary landmark. While it seems like most literary landmarks exist in Europe, this place is a bonefide landmark and it’s right here the in the US.

over 3 years ago

Untitled by SebastianSplendid

Makes me cry. I’d love to find Kerouac’s ghost (before he got fat) and have a go in the stacks.

over 3 years ago

Untitled by roguebuckeye

Feel the Beat Boy vibe

over 5 years ago

Untitled by expnd

i had some kind of trans generational flashback going up the stairs here.

over 5 years ago

Untitled by biancanichole

i was in San Francisco in April 2006 for a choir tour my high school was doing. I first begged the trip director to make time in our itinerary to stop at the bookstore I’d read about for sooo long! well it was AMAZING. make sure, when you go, to stop at the door that has I Am The Door written on it. It’s nothing prophetic but just standing in front of it, knowing of all the literary genius that surrounds you in the store. just stopping there, aware of all the Beatnik culture San Francisco once thrived on, will haunt you. it was awesome and I want to go back!!

over 5 years ago

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